DroneDeploy Flight App vs Teeeello
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DroneDeploy Flight App
Automate drone flights for advanced aerial data capture. Generate high-quality maps and 3D models directly from your mobile device. Analyze, annotate, and share your data with teams for various professional applications.
- Automated flight planning
- High-resolution map generation
- 3D model creation
- Data analysis and annotation
- Team collaboration
- Support for various DJI drones
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DroneDeploy is the leading flight app for drones with millions of missions flown by over 130,000 pilots. DroneDeploy is the leading cloud software platform for commercial drones, making the power of aerial data accessible and productive for everyone. The free DroneDeploy app provides easy automated flight and data capture, and enables you to create, explore and share high-quality interactive maps, orthomosaics and 3D models directly from your mobile device. Fly your DJI drone autonomously with just two taps on your iOS device. Quickly process your imagery with DroneDeploy to generate accurate, high-resolution maps and 3D models. Analyze, annotate and share your maps with others directly from within the app. Extend your capabilities and take your analysis to the next level with AI reporting and over 80 best-in-class apps available for install within DroneDeploy’s App Market. DroneDeploy is the ultimate app for a wide range of high-accuracy aerial imaging and mapping applications in construction, solar, agriculture, surveying, mining, insurance, inspection and more. DroneDeploy has empowered users to map and analyze over 30 million acres in more than 160 countries. DRONE SUPPORT • Mavic 2 Pro / Zoom / Enterprise / Dual (thermal) • Mavic Air 2 • DJI Air 2S • Phantom 4 Pro V1 / V2 • Phantom 4 • Inspire 2 • Matrice 200 / 210 / 210 RTK V1 / V2 • Matrice 300 RTK Not compatible with the following hardware: • DJI Mavic Mini series HIGHLIGHTS • Easily plan and schedule repeatable flights • Fly and capture massive areas • Disable auto-flight with a single tap • Includes a full featured manual flight mode • Film professional quality video hands-free • Create automated spherical panoramas • Record all your flight logs in one place • Measure elevation, distance, volumes, surface area and roof geometry (roof reports) • Quickly create survey-grade maps and models with ground control points • Collaborate with teams through shared maps, annotations and comments • Wirelessly upload images from the drone • Export data in the format you need - JPG, Geotiff, OBJ, XYZ, LAS • Explore orthomosaic, NDVI, VARI, digital elevation maps and 3D models - - - Find out more at www.dronedeploy.com Please join us in improving and discussing the app at http://forum.dronedeploy.com
Teeeello
Control a toy drone using your iPhone's motion. Features include gesture-based flight, automatic panorama photo creation, and adjustable altitude limits. Capture stunning aerial photos with intuitive controls.
- Gesture-based flight control
- Automatic panorama photo creation
- Fixed throttle mode
- Adjustable altitude limits
- Take off and landing buttons
- Save panorama pieces
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And, you can control Tello just like using an actual flight control stick by moving the iPhone. When you use the fixed throttle mode, you can fly with right and left, up and down operations only. It will gives you a feeling to fly an actual air craft. You can get pictures but cannot get videos at this time. It doesn't support FPV. TELLO is a toy drone made by Ryze Tech. = SELECT STICK TYPE You can select two types of stick. One is the normal type stick, and the other is the gesture type stick. The gesture type can control TELLO just like using an actual flight control stick by moving the iPhone. = USAGE OF PANORAMA Connect to WiFi of TELLO in setting App. To make panorama photos, use "Auto Flight Control" feature. - Take off To take off TELLO, press the take off button. - Landing To land TELLO, press the landing button. - Up and Down Ascend TELLO to the desired altitude using stick. Or, press the "Auto" button and, choose "Ascend to the Maximum Altitude" so that TELLO can ascend to the maximum altitude. If you changed the value, TELLO can ascend to the desired altitude, it is within 30m heigh though. - Start Panorama To make panorama photos, press the "Auto" button. And, choose "Automatic Panorama Photo" . TELLO starts taking pictures for pieces of panorama by rotating 360 degrees. After finished taking pictures, APP generates panorama photo. In case TELLO is blown by wind and tilted the angle, generating panorama may be failed. You can select the way of saving the pieces of panorama pictures by settings button. If you would like to use the other App to make panorama photo, choose saving the pictures all. = TAKE A PHOTO To take a photo, touch the "Shutter Button". The photo which you take will be directly saved to you camera roll (Photo Album). You should enable to access to your camera roll when you shoot the photo first time. = AUTO FLIGHT CONTROL When you press "Auto" button, you can start the auto flight control. There are three types of auto flight controls at this time. -- Automatic Panorama Photo -- Ascend to the Maximum Altitude -- Descend to the Minimum Altitude(1m) If you would like to stop the auto flight control, press the red cross button. = SETTINGS Using settings button, you can change the followings. - Unit - The way of saving panorama pictures - Stick type - Stick mode - Max Height(Altitude) Limit. You can change the max height limit between 1m to 100m. This value saves on the TELLO memory, it keeps when you use the official TELLO controller. = USAGE OF GESTURE STICK When you choose the gesture type stick, operate the following. - Start To use the stick operation, press the start button. - Stop To stop the stick operation, press the stop button. Then, TELLO enters the hovering state. - Rotate clockwise, Rotate counterclockwise To rotate clockwise or counterclockwise, tilt the iPhone left or right. - Up and Down To up and down, tilt the iPhone forward or backward. - Forward To move forward, slide up the left throttle. - Backward To move backward, slide down the right throttle. - Fixed Throttle When you turn on the fixed throttle switch, the throttle will be fixed even if you release the throttle. Then, TELLO moves forward at a constant speed, you can control it as a fixed wing aircraft. - Sports mode When you turn on sports mode, the operation becomes more sensitive. Use it when you fly TELLO outside. - Fast Speed You can switch the speed of flying into fast speed with fast speed switch. = IMPORTANT This app is not an official by Ryze Tech. It may become unusable in the future. If you feel TELLO performs unexpected behavior during flight, land TELLO immediately. When you fly TELLO using this app, consider safety on your responsibility. The app makes no warranty that app will meet or satisfy your requirements The app shall have no responsibility for any damage to your phone, tablet, drone, people or things that results from your use of the app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: DroneDeploy Flight App at 4.7 against Teeeello's 3.2. DroneDeploy Flight App also leads on ratings volume (5.3K vs 10). Teeeello's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.0). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
DroneDeploy Flight App holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DroneDeploy Flight App has 5.3K ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of DroneDeploy Flight App's written reviews are positive against 38% of Teeeello's.
DroneDeploy Flight App ships an update fortnightly, Teeeello every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and August 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DroneDeploy Flight App | Teeeello |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (5.3K ratings) — better | 3.2 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews — better | 38.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5.3K — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 387 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DroneDeploy | Tomohiko Sugimoto |
Customer experience
DroneDeploy Flight App
Teeeello
Bugs and requests
DroneDeploy Flight App
Reported bugs
7 issues- Crashes on iOS 12.5.1 and 12.5.2
- Doesn't work with iOS 14 update
- Login issues, can't create account
- Doesn't work on iPad mini
- Fails to upload and process flight data
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- Loses GPS signal mid-flight
- Camera view doesn't work with Mavic 2 Pro
Requested features
4 requests- Dark mode option
- Exposure control within the app
- Ability to change start position
- Support for more drone models like DJI Mini 2, Mavic Air 2, and Inspire 1
Teeeello
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
DroneDeploy Flight App
No in-app purchases
Teeeello
No in-app purchases
Questions
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