Comparison

The Flying App vs Creality Scan

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

The Flying App

Control bionicbird drones with intuitive gesture commands or an optional joystick. Experience the sensation of flight with flapping-wing ornithopters that can fly over 100 meters and even attract real birds.

Highlights
  • Intuitive gesture controls
  • Optional physical joystick attachment
  • Long-range flight (100+ meters)
  • Flapping wing ornithopter technology
  • Piloting assistance with gyro sensors
  • Attracts real birds
Features
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The Flying App only supports iPhones with Bluetooth 5 and over. Tablets are not adapted to use it. Throughout history man has dreamed of flying. Today, Bionic Bird offers the opportunity to experience that extraordinary sensorial adventure: to fly like a bird, or an insect, with flapping wings. Our ornithopters takes on the heavens with a range of more than100 meters. Even apartment interiors don’t scare them! The Flying App is ultra-sensitive and intuitive: a wave of the hand, the bird obeys. With our newest relase, the X-Fly, you'll get many additional features: a piloting assistance brought by our custom dedicated gyro sensors, and the ability to stick the X-Play, a dedicated physical joystick, on your smartphone and transform it into a real remote controller! In the sky, all our models are the only flying object in the world that does not frighten birds away. On the contrary, it attracts them all! Friends and enemies alike... Have a great flight!

About

Creality Scan

This application enables 3D scanning of various objects, faces, and bodies using compatible hardware. It supports both geometry and texture scanning, with options for fast or high-quality accuracy and color mapping.

Highlights
  • Scan objects, faces, and bodies
  • Geometry and texture scanning
  • Fast and high-quality accuracy modes
  • Color mapping support
  • Supports CR-Scan Ferret Pro
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Creality Scan is the official mobile app built for the Creality 3D scanning ecosystem. It brings device connectivity, real-time scanning, model processing, project management, export, and sharing together on your smartphone—freeing you from the limits of a fixed workstation and giving you a complete, seamless 3D scanning workflow wherever you go. Connect with Your Creality 3D Scanner Connect with a wide range of Creality 3D scanners. With convenient mobile connectivity, you can quickly create scanning projects and check your scanner’s status, model, firmware version, and calibration information directly in the app. Scan Anywhere with Clear, Guided Workflows Choose the scanning mode that best suits your scanner and the object you are capturing. Preview your model in real time on your smartphone and keep track of scanning progress as you work. Creality Scan makes complex 3D data capture more intuitive and easier to control—whether you’re in the studio or on the go. Powerful Mobile Post-Processing Once scanning is complete, use the built-in tools to process and merge your scans, generate meshes, and optimize your models—all directly on your mobile device. With color scanning enabled, you can also generate RGB color textures for a more realistic representation of the object’s shape, details, and colors. Manage, Export, and Share with Ease View and manage your scanning projects in one place. Completed models can be exported in popular formats including PLY, STL, OBJ, and ASC, then shared to social media or storage apps on your phone. You can also transfer projects to your computer and continue working with them for 3D printing, reverse engineering, digital modeling, and other professional workflows. Whether you’re in the studio, working on-site, or scanning on the move, Creality Scan puts professional 3D scanning capabilities in the palm of your hand. *Compatibility Creality Scan requires a compatible Creality 3D scanner. Some scanners require accessories such as a wireless handle or Wi-Fi Scan Bridge for mobile connectivity. Supported scanning modes and features vary by device. Please refer to Creality’s official compatibility information for details.

Screenshots

The Flying App4 screens
Creality Scan3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: The Flying App at 4.3 against Creality Scan's 1.7. The Flying App also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Creality Scan's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 7 months) and ratings volume (106 vs 7). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

The Flying App holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 1.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Creality Scan has 106 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 22% of The Flying App's written reviews are positive against 18% of Creality Scan's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

The Flying App ships an update every 7 months, Creality Scan every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
The Flying App versus Creality Scan: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThe Flying AppCreality Scan
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (7 ratings) — better1.7 (106 ratings)
Positive reviews22.2% of reviews — better18.2% of reviews
Number of ratings7106 — better
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB499 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperXTIM sariCREALITY 3D (HK) TECHNOLOGY LIMITED

Customer experience

The Flying App

All ratings7 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews27 reviews
Positive22.2%
Neutral11.1%
Negative66.7%

Creality Scan

All ratings104 ratings
Positive17.3%
Neutral2.9%
Negative79.8%
Written reviews143 reviews
Positive18.2%
Neutral4.2%
Negative77.6%

In-app purchases

None

The Flying App

No in-app purchases

None

Creality Scan

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is The Flying App free?
The Flying App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Creality Scan free?
Creality Scan is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, The Flying App or Creality Scan?
The Flying App is rated higher. The Flying App averages 4.3 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while Creality Scan averages 1.7 from 106 ratings.
Do The Flying App or Creality Scan have ads?
Neither The Flying App nor Creality Scan shows ads.
Which is updated more often, The Flying App or Creality Scan?
The Flying App ships an update every 7 months, and Creality Scan every 2 months. Most recently, The Flying App was updated on November 1, 2026 and Creality Scan on November 7, 2026.

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