so ive been using Litchi for like 3 years now and honestly it does what i need but a buddy of mine wont shut up about Dronelink and how its way more flexible for complex missions. im running a Mini 3 Pro mostly for mapping some farmland we lease and occasional real estate stuff.

my main gripe with Litchi lately is the waypoint altitude behavior when the terrain changes ? it just doesnt handle slope transitions as smoothly as id like and ive had a couple shots that were basically unusable because the bird was too low coming over a ridge. terrain following is supposed to work but i feel like it lags or something.

anyway curious if anyone has actually made the switch or uses both. is Dronelink worth the subscription cost on top of everything else we're already paying for. also does it work offline because some of the fields i fly are basically dead zones for data.

switched to Dronelink about 8 months ago and havent looked back honestly. the mission scripting is on another level compared to Litchi ? you can do conditional logic stuff that would be impossible otherwise. for terrain following specifically it pulls elevation data and you can set the buffer height which is way more controllable than Litchi's implementation.

offline works fine, you just need to cache the map tiles and download the elevation data before you head out. i usually do that the night before if im flying somewhere remote. the subscription stings a little but if youre doing actual commercial work its not even a rounding error on your operating costs.

i tried dronelink for a month and went back to litchi tbh. maybe i just didnt spend enough time learning it but the interface felt cluttered to me and i kept having to look stuff up. litchi just makes sense in my head already so switching felt like starting over. probably depends on how your brain works