The Flying App vs PhotoTag
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Intuitive gesture controls
- Optional physical joystick attachment
- Long-range flight (100+ meters)
- Flapping wing ornithopter technology
- Piloting assistance with gyro sensors
- Attracts real birds
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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!
PhotoTag
This utility app assists with screen display devices. It offers a supplementary function for managing and interacting with your device's visual output.
- Screen display assistance
- Supplementary device functions
- Utility for visual output management
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PhotoTag connects to the P30 / P31 / P30+ series smart photo tag devices via Bluetooth, helping users with photo editing and display. It also provides users of the PhotoTag Astrology Edition device (P30+) with localized content services such as birth charts, fortune lots, and astrology dice, delivering an integrated hardware-software experience.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: The Flying App at 4.3 against PhotoTag's 3.0. The Flying App also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). PhotoTag's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 7 months) and review sentiment (33% vs 22%). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
The Flying App holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 14 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 22% of The Flying App's written reviews are positive against 33% of PhotoTag's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
The Flying App ships an update every 7 months, PhotoTag every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Flying App | PhotoTag |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (7 ratings) — better | 3.0 (14 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 22.2% of reviews | 33.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 14 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 100 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | XTIM sari | 金哲 朴 |
Customer experience
The Flying App
PhotoTag
In-app purchases
The Flying App
No in-app purchases
PhotoTag
No in-app purchases
