so ive been using litchi for probably 3 years now and its fine, does what i need, but ive been hearing people talk about dronelink more and more and im genuinely curious if its worth the hassle of switching over. my main use case is real estate and some construction progress stuff, so i do a lot of repeatable waypoint missions where i need the same angles every time.

litchi works but honestly the interface feels pretty dated at this point and i had this weird thing last month where it just lost my mission halfway through and the drone came home early. no idea what caused it, nothing in the logs made sense. anyway that kind of shook my confidence a little.

not asking about djis own app because that thing is basically useless for anything beyond like a casual fly around. just wondering if anyone has actually put serious hours into dronelink and whether the subscription is worth it or if im going to spend two weeks learning a new workflow for marginal gains

switched from litchi to dronelink about 8 months ago and honestly havent looked back. the mission hub stuff is genuinely better for repeatable jobs, like you can set up a template and reuse it with different parameters without rebuilding from scratch every time. for construction progress that alone would probably save you a ton of time.

the learning curve is real though, took me probably a solid weekend of just messing around before i felt comfortable trusting it on a paid job. the interface isnt pretty but once it clicks it clicks. one thing i will say is the support from the developer is weirdly responsive for a one-person operation, posted a bug on their forum and got a reply same day.

the subscription stings a little but if youre billing clients its basically nothing

i tried dronelink for a month and went back to litchi tbh. maybe im just too used to the old workflow but something about the way dronelink handles camera angle adjustments during a mission felt off to me, couldnt get the gimbal timing right on curved paths. could be user error. litchi isnt glamorous but it just works most of the time and i know where everything is