Know if you can fly before you leave. Wind, no-fly zones, stadium TFRs, and live weather — all on one screen.
Don’t waste a trip. Check wind, weather, and airspace before you take off — then find nearby flying sites shared by other pilots.
Trusted by over 1 million pilots. 4.7 stars from 8.4K App Store ratings.
WHAT YOU GET • Go / no-go — a clear fly check for your pin from weather, TFRs, and U.S. Class B/C/D/E • Wind and weather — live wind, gusts, rain radar, and visibility so you know if it’s actually flyable • Best flying windows — the calmest daylight slots, scored for wind, rain, cloud, visibility, and daylight • No-fly reference maps — global airports, U.S. Class B/C/D/E, US / UK / Canada national parks, TFRs, stadium events, and FAA UAS restricted areas. Adjust airport circle range for your certification. These are planning tools, not official clearance, and not a LAANC filing. • Where to fly — crowd-sourced sites with photos and notes from other pilots • Flying Hub — save favorite spots; businesses can post jobs, inspections, surveys, and training • Drone news — regulations, gear, and industry updates
DRONE BUDDY PRO Check any pin first: go / no-go on a searched site, hourly wind, calm flying windows for 10 days, and TFR alerts on the pin you care about. 3-day free trial on the annual plan, then the yearly price shown in-app. Cancel anytime in Apple ID settings. Also available as a 3-month plan or a one-time lifetime purchase.
Subscriptions auto-renew unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the period ends. Payment is charged to your Apple ID. Manage or cancel in Account Settings.
Please cross-check local laws and airspace before every flight. Drone Buddy is not affiliated with the FAA and does not replace B4UFLY or an FAA-listed LAANC app. Maps and community sites can be incomplete — you are responsible for a legal, safe flight.
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I own and run a small production company that specialize in a few different things. We do a lot of videos for real estate company’s to help them advertise their available properties, we also take Aerial photographs and videos of airports and construction sites for civil engineers and architects (I’m about to make my point haha). All of these things involve flying drones! This app has become one of the most important apps for me and my drone crew! Super easy to use, and give us all the available information we need to make sure we have a safe and relatively easy flight every time! If you fly commercially or just for the hell of it I highly recommend this app!
Unique Outstanding Design App!
RLNfirst
I would like to sit down and talk about this Unique 5 Star Design app! For myself this app gives me correct Data information every day! I have found myself using this app on a daily basis because of the correctness of the app! I would like to Thank the Developer for all of His Hard Work devoted time and some love on the coding of this software. That’s what makes it Unique and I believe very special. So with that I Tip my Hat 🎩 to you Mr. Developer for putting this idea out here for all of us to use and benefit from . For me I would like to give you a very special “ Thanks “!!
Developer Response
Hi, thank you so much for the kind review. Make my day:) Have a safe flight, as always!
Needs ad support for free options
JNoonan79
All of the main features are free via many sources. Pro is enticing but to keep me hooked, you should offer the basic weather pulled from free sources with advertising support. Make me use the free portion desiring your pro options. Give me a reason to pay $30. Perhaps a one day free here and there to see what $30 purchases. No metar or ctac live radio to listen near restricted areas. Simple api and would lean me in to having a single source worthy of $50 annually.
Useless without subscription
InZanePain
There is nothing indicating that a purchase must be made before downloading the app. When an app is free to download but has locked features that you pay to unlock then the App Store says “In-app purchase available” which this doesn’t say. It also does say anything about paying for services in the description. I opened the app and it tells me wind speed daylight hours and a map that shows my location with some very limited flight information. It shows me where airports are and that’s it. It doesn’t allow me to search or give any information regarding the current locations flight status. There are other free apps that offer more information like the actual FAA app that provides regulation information flight plans and device registration. What does this app do? Nothing that I can’t do without it
UK pilots asked for real no-fly data. This update adds it.
• UK FRZ — official aerodrome Flight Restriction Zones (Heathrow, Gatwick, and the rest), not just airport circles
• UK NFZ — danger, prohibited, and restricted areas on the map (including central London, palaces, prisons, and similar sites)
• SSSI — England Sites of Special Scientific Interest as a map overlay so you can check bylaws before you fly
• Home Go / Don’t fly uses UK FRZ and NFZ at your pin
• Outside the US, TFR alerts and the TFR list stay hidden — those are FAA-only
Airspace maps are a planning tool. Always confirm local rules before takeoff.
Version 6.9.2
The developer, Kirway LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
Contact Info
Identifiers
Diagnostics
Other Data
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Information
Seller
Kirway LLC
Size
133.4 MB
Category
Utilities
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
Apple Vision Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Languages
English and 8 more
English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
