so ive been using litchi for like 3 years now and its fine but the development feels kinda dead? last meaningful update was ages ago and some of the waypoint stuff still feels clunky when you're trying to do more complex orbital paths or adjust altitude mid-mission without going back to desktop.

been hearing more people mention dronelink lately especially for the mission scripting stuff. does anyone actually use it in the field regularly or is it more of a hobbyist thing people tinker with and never actually fly. i do a fair bit of mapping work so reliability is non-negotiable, i cant afford to have an app hiccup at 60m over someone elses property.

also curious if the android version is actually stable now, last time i tried it maybe a year ago it was crashy on my s21 and i went back to litchi pretty quick

switched to dronelink about 8 months ago and havent looked back honestly. the mission scripting is genuinely more powerful than litchi once you get your head around how it structures things. took me maybe a week of messing around before i felt comfortable planning real jobs with it.

android stability has been way better on recent builds, im on a pixel 7 and it hasnt crashed on me in months. that said i always bring a backup device to jobs just out of habit, nothing to do with dronelink specifically just general paranoia. the offline mode works well which was a dealbreaker for me since a lot of my sites have garbage cell signal.

one thing id say though ? if you do a lot of the quick terrain follow stuff litchi still feels a bit snappier for rapid mission edits on the fly. dronelink is more suited to planned out structured missions imo

i use dronelink for my mini 3 pro and its been solid. not sure about the heavy mapping use case you're describing but for what i do it works. the free tier is pretty limited fyi so factor in the sub cost when comparing