Last updated on November 30th, 2025 at 12:13 pm
Drone On My Phone – Simulation Game Review
Drone On My Phone is a Simulation/Racing/Sports game from Ben White, first launched in 20th December 2016.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 460+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Drone On My Phone Stand Out
Want to learn how to fly a drone or improve your FPV flying skills? Drone On My Phone has been designed by the makers of Electric RC Sim to help you learn and improve faster. It includes challenges for both FPV (First Person View) and LOS (Line Of Sight). Many challenges are free and there is no third-party advertising.
Drone On My Phone now includes larger open maps if you'd rather just fly and focus on freestyle or doing things your way.
Drone On My Phone includes MFi game controller support. iOS 13 and higher supports PS4 and Xbox controllers. VR mode is available with a game controller and suitable headset, including both 2d view (like FPV goggles) and 3d view options.
Drone On My Phone also includes Bluetooth multiplayer racing. Challenge a nearby friend with Drone On My Phone over bluetooth.
Drone On My Phone uses our realistic physics engine. Beginner challenges are performed with the full physics engine and additional stabilization to simplify flying while you are still learning. This is designed to allow you to learn the skills you need a bit at a time rather than being overwhelmed with too much to remember at once. Skills to practice include hovering, landing and flying through gates.
When you feel you are ready, there are more advanced challenges to try. High and low rates are also available. Start low while you are learning, then switch to high rates when you are ready to go faster.
Drone On My Phone also includes a Games map which consists of a number of obstacle courses to fly. These are fun and will help improve your hovering and maneuvering skills.
Additional maps with more challenges are available as a low cost In-App Purchase (IAP) to help you take your skills to the next level. An Advanced Controller is available as a low cost IAP that allows you extra control over things such as expo, rates, FPV camera tilt, and drone mode. The default drone mode is STAB (also called angle mode), which gives automatic stabilization and is great for learning. It's the mode that most store-bought drones use. ACRO drone mode (also called rates mode) is also available via the Advanced Controller for advanced flying such as loops, flips, barrel rolls and maximum speed flying.
To enable a game controller, first pair your controller under iOS Settings, Bluetooth. Button bindings are shown under the Options menu in Drone On My Phone. Once a controller is paired, you can enable VR mode by pressing the appropriate button on your controller. VR mode requires a suitable headset to view properly, such as a Google Cardboard headset.
To challenge a nearby player over Bluetooth, both players should first start Drone On My Phone and go to the "Challenges" page. One player can then press "Host", and the other player can press "Join". When they are connected, the player who is hosting can select challenges and both players can compete in real time. All the free challenges are available to choose from. Also, if the host has purchased additional challenges, then all those challenges will be available as well. Bluetooth has a range of around 20m (60 feet), so you'll want to be sitting near each other. Perfect for that long bus ride or car trip!
We hope you have as much fun playing Drone On My Phone as we had making it (and playing it!)
Here are some of the great App Store reviews we've been getting:
"This is my favorite drone app by far!! Great for a beginner like me trying to learn the basics of flying a real drone."
"… if you can fly successfully using this app, you'll be able to fly the drone of your choice in the real world. The physics are realistic, and the obstacle course style training – in my opinion – is a really great way to learn to control your quad."
"I've been searching for far too long for a good FPV simulator to practice or just play around when I'm at school. This game's physics are some of the closest to life you will find at the time and the controls are spot on!"
"Hands down the best drone simulator on iOS"
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Drone On My Phone is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 26th December 2022
Recent improvements include:
We are proud to finally announce a new update! It includes some widely requested and long overdue features:
- much bigger maps, no timers, practice freestyle etc
- rework of drone control PIDs, hopefully flies better now
- adjustable screen size for clipped ends and VR on big phones
- minor tweaks and bug fixes
We hope everyone enjoys the new updates as much as we enjoyed creating them. As usual, please keep the feedback and suggestions coming in and all the best for 2023.
Download & Availability
Drone On My Phone is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Drone On My Phone on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Many years later, we still love this app. It was our intro to FPV and opened up a whole world to us, including new friends and creative outlets. Thank you devs.
We know this game not well made and makes you pay for acro but we bought the acro and played this game for 2 years while saving and working for our drone and it boosted our skill so much and helped us lots.
Just getting into fpv flight and we read in some Reddit discussions that simulators are a great way to practice. So far the app is easy to navigate. No ads plus Im using a game controller.
We love this game. Its so fun and you do freestyle stuff. Its like its like a real life drone game.
No Wifi, no problem. Everything about this game is seriously incredible. From some of the (pretty hard) challenges to the just fly mode, we loved it and seriously wish there was more to it. Maybe something like new maps for the just fly mode, but other than that, perfect.
Really cool game but can we get the specs of the drone so we can tune the settings on other games to be the same.
For people who are getting into piloting drones, this is the game for you. It has all the controls you need. Although you need to pay for more maps and more expert level controls this game is 100% worth it!. One thing we hope this game adds in a future update is different camera settings, different wind levels for more realistic gameplay, and more maps with more obstacles. Other than that this game is still so awesome.
This game is insanely fun! We just wish you could turn of the sound of the drone.
This is very fun! (also read the critical reviews, they are hilarious).
Its a ton of fun we just wish it had more support. Its our favorite phone game, maybe new optimization would allow for more expansion. More options such as volume, a lot of challenges maybe drones. It helped us become a better drone pilot, Id just like to see it do even better.
Im a huge fan! Ive tried all of the other fpv simulators on the App Store and this is by far the best. Its allowed us to learn and get used to the fpv control set. We would love more maps like Old Refinery. Thats what we play 99% of the time and we would love more complicated small environments like this with lots of ways to interact and do tricks. The other maps are too empty to spend much time in or practice skills and we havent really touched the challenges. Anyways great job team, thanks for bringing this to the App Store.
Great game, could you guys add a crosshairs possibly? Thats the only problem we have so far. Just add a cross in the center of the camera.
This game is very awesome and we enjoy playing this simulator and we love how it works with controllers.
Edit this game is awesome! As long as you play with your hands and not a controller.
We really like the training challenges on this app for learning to fly drones. Id much rather crash this drone than a real one. It starts out with simple training exercises in hovering and maneuvering and gets more difficult as the training progresses. Its totally worth it to learn to fly in this app vs in real life. We purchased the extra maps and the advanced controller. For the maps, it would be nice to visit that giant city out in the distance on the School map. Maybe thats coming in the future? As for the advanced controls, we must admit theyre a bit difficult at first to navigate through and configure. But after a while you get used to it and can modify the 15 settings easily. The defaults are at jetstripes.com/controller-defaults nice to have when you screw up the settings. Anyway, all in all, its a fun app to learn to fly without destroying your physical drone, especially if you have an FPV headset for your phone and an MFi controller. Those are cheap to get and totally make the experience better. Highly recommended.
The game and its mechanics are amazing and improved our flying but we do wish you could customize the controls more to match your drone. Also it would be fun if you could build up in game credits and get new skins and stuff in shop without spending money.
Its a good game but we dont like that the up and down dont go back to the center so we cant hover which we dont like because when we want to stay at a altitude it just goes up and down when we don't want to but good game overall.
It is very fun but make acro free plz like we play liffoff a lot but we can pay for stuff but we see you doing very well if you make it a fpv game or the acro for free because people like fpv so it would be best choice to.
This is the only app that gets UI steering right. The large area for the thumbs allows for precise controls. But there is no ACRO mode.
This is a good game and the art style is amazing but the game needs a few more maps for the just fly mode.
We just bought this game today and its already convinced us to buy extra maps for like $3. We think that says something. BUT they really should add settings for the drone like how sensitive it is, sport mode, normal mode, manual mode, all that stuff. AND update the maps and make it bigger and add more stuff.
Great app but they should open up all of the maps for competitions to free fly.
Ive always been a fan of drone on our phone, been playing it for years now and its still super fun! The addition of just fly and new maps has made the game even more enjoyable. We think the drone flies a bit better as well which is exciting. Our feedback would be this, Id love to see race challenges for the new maps, especially for school since it has gates etc already in place. Id also love to see an online leaderboard for the best challenge time. Sincerely Captainvanover.
Really good game we would recomend for people who love drones and flying drones bu you have to pay money to get new maps in th just fly mode but overall it's a pretty good game 4 stars.
OK, so we got this app not too long ago and Ive been testing some of the drone physics in the just fly part of the app and we enjoyed just flying around but the other maps cost money. You have to make money off, but we feel like there should be at least two free ones. The challenges are fun, but the games are just really hard and not fun at all. If we were making this app, we would at least make the gaps and some of the challenges a little bit bigger as well as the games. But if you just forget about that part, this is a great app and we totally recommend it.
You should add backbone Support Please, we love this game.
This game is amazing everything about it we love from the basic geometric shapes to the amazing gameplay this game is an awesome single player game that lets you find out just how creative you can be with a drone. Though there is 1 minor problem that just really kills the game for us, its that everything cost money we dont like spending money on games and if you are the same way this game may not be for you this game has 1 free fly map with very little obstacles or places to fly to test your skills although there are a few tutorial missions its not enough for you to just play the game doing the missions we also wish the default layout for your controller wasnt so basic you pretty much only have a forward, back, up, and down we wish we had more freedom for someone who is like us that cant afford or just doesnt like to spend money on games. We hope the developers take our review into consideration.
What we dont like is that when your in or out of free flight its isnt just fast. And we feel it can do better.
Now a lot of the tunable options are not availablepretty sure we bought this app.. Needs refund.
We cant understand how to enable vr.
This game has no music and cannot do properly with our ps4 controller.
So good but the controls are kinda hard to learn but still a good game.
We looked fun but when we played it there was no tutorial and we did not know how to go down.
This is a good game but it really needs a free flight mode and a more open spaced map.
This app is simple and shows all the basics of flying drones. The graphics are not flashy and complex which actually keeps the app from lagging like a lot of the newer apps do. Flying a drone is not like flying a plane, which a lot of people can already do, but this app makes it easy to learn the controls and concepts. It also works offline, so if in a subway or on an airplane, you can still play/practice. 2 player mode over Bluetooth is fun and convenient. We would like to offer a few areas of future improvement: customizing controls more, such as rates of turning, a score board for best run times. The ability to reset the race in 2 player modes. Races with more than 2 players would also be a great upgrade. A method to mute the sound within the app would be nice. Additional drones could be fun. More maps would also be a great bonus. Thank you for putting together this great app. We hope to see more improvements in the future.
Love the app, love the games. But would love a freestyle big open map to fly around without being constrained to games.
We love the work you did on this app. And Playing this simulation actually helps our real life drone skills cause we actually have a drone ourselves. But,we hope you do more updates.
We love all the game styles of this and the drone movement is perfect.
This is a very good overall mobile fpv sim it seems better than anything Ive seen but there are a few problems. We really would like there to be more frequent updates this game has lot of ptential, one of the things that needs updated is multiplayer it just searches forever and never finds our freind. One of them is its too smooth compared to a real quad there needs to be some prop wash and other imperfections to make it more realistic, we would also like more detailed rates and setting like pid tunes and other quads to select, we would also like more maps like abandoned buildings and parks and stuff, also instead of paying individually for maps and settings make the whole app cost 4 dollars and give every thing within the app. Overall this is a very good game and we would recommend to anyone. This needs a lot more frequent updates the last one was almost a year ago.
Why would we need to pay to get maps?!? That is so weird just let it be free. We just want to play them. We are giving a five star because ego be polite but it will or else be a four star. Edit: ok but still eh like your game.
We got really into this game and got both in-game purchases, but it has never been able to restore them even once in the last few years. We keep trying, definitely refuse to buy them again. Edit: developer has since responded and restored purchases! Thank you.
This is a perfect drone sim. The normal mode is like a stability/ beginner mode. If you want Acro we believe that you have to buy it but other than that its great.
It helps us fly our drone and it helps us get better at flying and helps us be a pilot for it so thank yall very much.
As far as we can tell, this is the only acceptable simulator on the iOS store. The speed of the drone is appropriate. The graphics, while basic, dont get in the way of the feel of flying a drone. We just bought a mavic and because of this game we felt way more comfortable taking risks with it.
This simulator is great and it has drastically improved our FPV skills we even bought the other maps and the advanced controller! We have some SUGGESTIONS. First off, we think you should add a few more maps like maybe a big open field and also you could add the ability in options to fully customize the controls and so you could also invert the sticks! We highly recommend this simulator, and if you keep practicing on it, you can easily get so much better at FPV! Thank you and it would be awesome if you added some of our update ideas.
We recently just got a drone but not new to RC as Ive flown RC planes for many years. We wanted something we could practice on before ruining our drone in real life. Ive been downloading many of the drone apps from the Apple Store, and this one by far seems to be one of the better ones. We like that it has learning games to help get used to the controls and differences from planes. There is good spatial feedback to help us perceive where the drone is in relation to obstacles and goals. For us, being a newbie, the flight characteristics seem very real world. Kudos to the developers. We look forward to see what may happen in future updates.
So we love this game soooooo much and we even bought the maps and it just made it better but the only thing that we ask is for another update we see a lot of potential in this game and would highly recommend this to people so yeah great game and please update it.
Its a great game! We have an dualshock 4 and its just amazing but pls add the freeroam mode.
So, we started at 1 star because we couldnt figure out the PIDs and camera tilt after we bought it. It takes a minute sometimes. We currently our fav drone sim app for IPhone. No sim is 100% like the real thing, the skills generally transfer to a real drone. Good job.
Ive been in the Fpv hoody for about 6 months now. But practicing on the full app, allowed us to progress very quickly. Please add more spaces to fly.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.4
- Size: 19.99 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Ben White]()
Last updated: 26th December 2022 | Genre: Simulation, Racing | Developer: Ben White