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
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Find out more at www.dronedeploy.com
Please join us in improving and discussing the app at http://forum.dronedeploy.com
I’d like to get my drone up in the sky at elevation before I start the flight plan. Put the camera down focus take a picture then start the flight plan. Everything went great today even with 10 mile an hour breeze. Changing batteries on the first landing the drone was off by about 20 feet and landing and some brush. I’m sure it would’ve stopped but, why wait. I took control and brought it over to the landing point manually. Changing batteries was no problem, put the drone up to altitude once again and continue the flight. Now it’s all in the processing.
Automation; be careful.
cliffclof
First time user thoughts. The app is pretty easy to get into. There are some weird bugs with battery swapping. The app gets a brain freeze and there is no on screen notification of what is going on. Some times the drone would just sit there after i selected go fly. At one point i knelt down to pick it up to bring it to the bench and the propellers spun up. So some sort of app feedback on what it is attempting to signal to the drone would be an improvement. Second issue i had, the app would crash or go to my phones home screen during a flight. When this would happen i couldn’t get the app back on and displaying anything. The app would just load to a blank blue screen. One time the app opened and stated asking me survey questions. All while my drone was flying. That was my biggest concern. Once the flight is complete uploading the photos was pretty easy. Seems like patience is key here. Just have to wait a day or so for the terrain model and map to generate after uploading the photos. The result is fabulous. My favorite part of the system is choosing AGL altitude mode where the app automatically flys a set height above the terrain. This is great for hilly areas and avoiding flights that might be too high otherwise. Overall this is a snap, but be very careful with your inputs and keep your finger on the mode switch or you could end up with a automatically crashed drone.
Developer Response
We appreciate you sharing your feedback as we keep making DroneDeploy better with each release. Happy flying!
One start just because there aren’t a lot of other options
Slackeroh
I’ve been using a Mavic 2 and GSPro for a while, but with the recent firmware update with Remote ID, it was no longer supported, so I had to use DroneDeploy. This app fails on numerous fronts…It FAILS to resume a mission if more than one battery is required. When I try to exit automatic landing, it still persists, even if I close the application and disconnect my iPad - PILOTS BE WARNED OF IMPRECISE AND AGGRESSIVE LANDINGS!! Be ready to manually catch a fast descending drone. I attempted to set the camera settings in DJI GO4, but drone deploy overrode the parameters anyway and used a shutter speed WAY too low for mapping that resulted in my imagery having motion blur. It also fails to capture the required images at the preprogrammed overlap, which makes basic mapping unbelievably challenging. I used an iPad Gen6 running the latest iOS, but the app is extremely slow if I’m lucky enough for it not to crash at all.I’m not sure how anybody is having any success with this application. Unfortunately Pix4D capture just doesn’t have a lot of settings to control…
Decent but I have issues
Forester9000
I love the usability of the application and I like the desktop-tablet interface. I like the outputs also as most of them have been pretty high quality.Issues: 1. Application crash while using IPad. I usually have between 10 and 15 minutes of flight time in mission before the application crashes. When Inget it up again it’s doesn’t allow me to jump back into my active mission, which is not as big of an issue as the crashing itself. Due to the application crashing periodically (sometime multiple times in a 20minute window) I have crashed multiple drones. 😡2. The other issue is related to my ability to edit my missions on my iPad out in the field. For whatever reason it 80%of the time it will not let me move my flight mission boundaries. I also find this extremely frustrating as I have also crashed 2 drones because of this. I make make of forest land and if I can’t adjust the boundaries then the likely hood of me flying into branches from trees outside of the boundary is very high. If your are not flying in a forested area, this application seems like it would be amazing. But with the weird things I have run into in my field of work have severely frustrated me. I wish drone deploy would update these issues so that I can have a trustworthy and reputable application to work with.
Developer Response
Hi there. Thank you for sharing your feedback. App crashes are rare on DroneDeploy so we would encourage you to reach out to support@dronedeploy.com to further investigate what may have happened. We're happy to help. Our team is constantly improving the application and all your comments will be reviewed by our product team. We appreciate you trying DroneDeploy and wish you the best!
New Features
- RTK connect in flight — Drones can now connect to RTK mid-flight by pausing at the first waypoint, suspending, then resuming
- Starting waypoint offset slider — New planning UI control to calibrate the starting waypoint position on long flight legs
- Terrain Awareness — Expanded acreage limit for terrain awareness missions
- Flight log timestamps — Timestamps now shown alongside entries in the timeline viewer
Improvements
- Firmware alerts — Only flags firmware that is genuinely older than required, reducing false update prompts
- Camera display names — All supported cameras now show human-readable names throughout the app
- Travel altitude — Resets automatically when switching back to automatic altitude settings
- RTK stability — Consolidated connection paths and prompts drone reset when RTK datum changes mid-connection
- Mission reliability — Flight path changes are now applied synchronously; numeric values in mission JSON rounded to prevent floating-point drift
Bug Fixes
- App startup & navigation — Fixed 60-second startup delay on legacy-auth devices and unsigned sessions; fixed invisible text on the active mobile
nav tab
- Missions & planning — Fixed geofence RTH marked as failed when all waypoints completed; fixed image count using stale data after flight path
changes; fixed non-resumable missions appearing in the queue; fixed approach waypoint heading
- Capture — Fixed pano missions capturing half the expected photos on thermal drones; fixed Progress Video recording before the gimbal reached its
planned angle
- Stand assessment — Fixed markers not loading, gimbal angle on first photo, and PDF reports downloading as 0 bytes
- Map & visualization — Fixed FPV view maximizing to map instead of camera from vertical layout; fixed wrong direction in aircraft detection
messages
Version 5.137.0
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Data Linked to You
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Information
Seller
Infatics, Inc.
Size
406.1 MB
Category
Photo & Video
Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later.
Apple Vision Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Location
This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease device battery life.
