Litchi Reviews

Had three flights with this app now, one fpv and two flight mode flights. Fpv worked just like DJI, orbit caused the craft to fly well below the set altitude causing a crash into a tree instead of an orbit over it. Today I tried track, the main reason I purchased this app. Well after Litchi crashed a few times on my iPad mini I should have went back to using DJI Go but I wanted to test that awesome feature. In short the gimbal kept pointing straight down and saying subject lost then the phantom flew away and rammed into the side of a building nearby before flying off the other direction while descending into the ground. I hear so many great things about Litchi but hate that it seems to crash me every time I use flight modes with it. Never have come close to a crash with the DJI app?

Litchi is great but just wanted one thing. In the map view their should be something that shows which direction the remote is facing instead of just the blue dot, and if its facing the drone. When I get far out I tend to loose signal cause I’m not 100% pointing towards the the drone. Also it would be awesome if there was a toggle switch added on the FPV screen to turn the LED lights on and off instead of having to cycle through the settings to do so. For what I paid for Litchi I don’t think that’s to much to ask.

Setting way points are great first 8 missions great out of contact for 45 seconds or so dji spark continues mission thought was best thing ever. Next time lose connection drone never returns (crash?) look for drone nothing doesn’t really give you accurate location just where your drone drops connection from remote. Drone # 2 dji spark figure maybe a fluke 3rd time flying drone similar mission with waypoints clearly defined, loss of contact drone # 2 lost. Very disappointing since I was under impression that if drone lost contact it would continue mission worst case setup to rth. Very disappointing to lose two drones and worst part is how cool app operates and had made run at least 8 times prior no problems. I would appreciate any insight as to why the sudden failure/loss of drone from what seems like such a promising app. Any insight would be appreciated I still Have waypoint miSsions saved And would be happy to share just to see if it’s user error or application problem. I want to continue to use app but I can’t do it at expense of buying new drone every couple of weeks.

if you are charging 25 bucks the least you can do fix tge screen rotation according to remote. every time I cannect the remote to my iphone and open Litchi its upside down and I have to exit turn on rotation so it tyrns right way and exit again lock rotation. teacking is useless anyways keeps lossing object and the three stars is for follow cause it does follow you, the only thing that I use on Litchi is the follow.

this app is a great app in the sense of it does what it’s supposed to do, but, the tracking is one of the things that almost all this app users got Litchi for; and it needs lots of working on. When I try to track our rzr utv while out in the canyons the tracking square gets bigger and bigger and freaks out when it cant find what it’s supposed to be tracking. Fox the square getting bigger. It’s annoying and there’s literally no reason for it to do that.

While generally a really good app, there a few of things I’d like to see to make it better.
One is that the waypoint editing window covers the waypoint I’m editing. I suggest offsetting the editing window to one side of the interface while showing the waypoint/POI on the opposite side of the interface.
Next is a tripod mode that allows a single point in space to be recorded so I can return the drone to that point. With waypoints, I have to record at least two points, which isn’t always an option. This mode would be useful for still shots that need to be repeatedly recorded from the same perspective.
Would also like to see a partial orbit function with back and forth motion. The purpose is to fly low and center on an object that is partially surrounded by high objects. Flying full orbits is not always an option because of trees or cliffs behind the subject.
Next is an improvement of the panoramic function. The lower rows do not need the massive overlap that results from selecting a decent overlap on the row that covers the horizontal plane.

I got Litchi for the VR mode. I have tried the free ones and they were really bad. So I decided to buy Litchi. The drone doesn’t stop flying. MY DRONE CRASHED(but it’s ok) I don’t know why but sometimes my drone starts to fly somewhere. I had it hovering and all of the sudden it started to fly forward and I couldn’t make it stop. I CRASHED IT AGAIN!!! Maybe it doesn’t work well with the Spark. And add a manual or a help page. There are some settings that I have no idea what they do. I’m ok with the bugs if Litchi was less than $5 but it’s $22!!! Thats crazy for an app that’s so buggy and doesn’t work well. P

I hope that most of the bugs were fixed from the beta version. I still haven't figured out why the maximum speed is limited to 33.6 mph when the Phantom 4 is capable of 45 mph. I also think we should have an option to change the speed once we arrive at the recording location. More review to come soon . . .

UPDATE: I don’t use Litchi often, but the previous update wouldn’t “start recording” when programmed to. I wasted 2 batteries before realizing that it’s was flying the route without recording it 😡

Like so many software developers it appears this app does little to base release functional enhancements on Customer Feedback! When have they sent surveys to ALL registered customers to ask for “Real Users wish lists”, and then Post them and regularly update the list in order of importance? NONE, Autonomous? Yes. Take the DJI QuickShot’s for instance? Why weren’t ALL of these expanded upon by this app? Wouldn’t it be nice if the video capture would NOT stop after completing a single “circle”? Why not rather keep the video recording until the User presses the video button again? Or why not reverse the “Spiral” path and again keep the video recording? Wouldn’t an inward spiral be a very cool path and wouldn’t this seem to be a fairly simple programming change? Where is the Agile methodology in this development cycle? Well, sadly it appears to be the old SDLC software development cycle. And lastly, it’s been a year between software releases. Do we have another year to wait for something substantial?

So we all buy this for the waypoints. In my case, for the Air. In EU, the distance of the remote is 500 meters, in 5ghz mode. That’s the theoretical limit. In reality it is obviously much less.

Enter waypoints and this app.

First of all, the iOS version is lacking elevation height data in waypoint planning mode.

The major issue here is that, if I lose the RC signal to the Mavic Air while it’s flying a mission, all the speed settings you’ve might’ve added on various waypoints will stop functioning. The Mavic Air will use the speed you programmed for the waypoint(s) where the connection between the Air and the RC is lost, this means that the Mavic Air will continue on the same speed it had when the signal was lost. This is plain dangerous. What if planned a very slow POI fly-by, I lose the connection for whatever reasons, that bird won’t make it back.

Automatic gimbal movement will also stop working, which means it won’t center a point of interest, nor will it execute any planned gimbal movements.

Fairly major issues. These things need to be made clear in Litchi info here on the AppStore. And perhaps take a bit of time to comment on said issues, please?

I heard about this app about 3 years ago when I only had a DJI phantom 3 standard I recently just started using Litchi with my spark and I found a bug revolving the sd card. If you format the sd card with the this app app it will corrupt the sd card and the only way to fix it is to pop it into the computer and reformat it that way. I found that after that if you take a pic using Litchi it will format the sd card the way it’s suppose to be. Just a interesting and annoying but but that still doesn’t change the fact that Litchi is incredible it has allows me to do things with my drones that djis own app couldn’t do.

I cannot believe that it took me a year of owning my drone to discover Litchi. Using the waypoint feature of the DJI go app is bananas for what I do. I need to plan a course out in advance and then run it. Unfortunately, the this app app Requires the drone to be within range of the transmitter for gimbal settings to work. Found out the hard way. I am running this on a ranch and at times the drone is out of range of the transmitter was ignoring my gimbal settings. Grrr.

I love using this app and after learning more through some courses, I am using it more and more each day. There is one thing that I wish you guys could add. This is one of the main reasons why I go back and forth between apps while flying my drone.
I’d love it if you guys could create some kind of a mimic to
Tap-Fly. It is so easy to use to create some great cinematic shots. The biggest problem I have is holding the stick at a constant speed. I love setting the speed and not having to think about it. DJI has kind of left the Mavic Pro behind my n this area, as the Mavic Air has enhancements to Tap-fly that I wish we had. They can Tap-fly and fly backwards, and they have a cool feature called “free” which works sort of like course lock and allows you to rotate the drone as it flies in a selected path. All with speed control!!!
Please add something like this to your this app app!!! And it would be even more awesome!!!

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I previously posted the this app app did not work in course lock or take photos. I was trying to use Litchi on an ipad2, which is not powerful enough to run Litchi . I have not found a way to delete the post, so ignore the post.

Course and home lock do not work and will not take pictures with my ipad version with a phantom 3S. I am afraid to use Litchi outside my back yard and it is not worth the price.

I exclusively use this app whenever I fly one of my drones. There is no better way to create smooth flowing HD videos. The missions are extremely easy to create in this app Mission Hub and even easier to fly. The display and options are simpler and easier to use than DJI GO 4. Also I have flown several missions where RC signal was lost and my Mavic continued the mission and returned to home safely. I recently bought a Mavic 2 Pro and it’s great that this app support is already available.

Litchi is wayyy better than DJI 4 in respect to waypoints. I like that I can synchronize all of my waypoint files to all of my devices. The product works flawlessly. Just be sure to use the red LOCK button immediately after editing your waypoints, or you may accidentally touch the screen, which will add waypoints, and you could have a surprise in your route😳

While many flight functions are quite nice, Litchi simply closes out with no user notification whatsoever when stitching a pano... just poof and gone. No message or explanation, and there is no link on the website to notify the developer with an email. I’m hoping a low rating will get some notice. :-(

I’ve been using this app for a few weeks now and I’m very happy with it. So today I decided to try flying with waypoints. I was a bit nervous when I pressed the launch button. I knew what was suppose to happen but I wasn’t convinced. I have to say I’m convinced now. this app flew the waypoints perfectly. My equipment is DJI Mavic Pro and an iPhone 6s Plus.

With several attempts to use Litchi with the Mavic Mini, everything is connected from the remote to the Mini and Phone but there is zero video transmission to the screen. Making it 100% useless!! Not happy at this moment.

Update: DJI apps can’t being running in background. All is good now.

Litchi makes doing waypoint missions so much easier! You can set up a mission offline then run it. Then it is easy to tweak. I run the same mission many times over a period of months and Litchi makes that process so much easier. Litchi is so much more powerful than the DJI native app. Love it.