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4.8

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Drone Desk is without a doubt the best investment made by anyone commencing operations in the uav sector. It enables management of every aspect of your operation from logging and risk assessments to r... See more

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Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Since using Dronedesk I've found it really nice to use overall. Some of the features I haven't needed to use but they look like they could be really useful. It can be slow loading large numbers of job... See more

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

DroneDesk has taken the chaos out of planning and running inspection jobs. Everything sits in one place — flight planning, risk assessments, checklists, logs — and it all just works. It’s made my... See more

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Dronedesk makes drone flight planning an absolute breeze. Back when I was out in the field, planning a flight could take hours. Checking airspace, weather, and compliance requirements (usually with mu... See more

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About Dronedesk

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Dronedesk is how professionals manage their drone operations.

Dronedesk's business admin and flight planning tools help you manage your drone operations more efficiently than you ever thought possible; saving you time and money on every job.

The fully integrated tools includes:

  • CRM
  • Products creation and quoting & invoicing
  • Asset management for drones, batteries and other hardware with maintenance scheduling
  • Team management with certification tracking
  • Flight logging and reporting by pilot, drone or battery
  • And more...

The job management and flight planning component provides access to everything you need to plan a drone flight quickly and safely:

  • Desk-based and onsite survey forms
  • Configurable risk assessments
  • Checklists (there's seven of these!)
  • Method statements and rich text operational notes sections
  • Fly-away zone contacts for all agencies including ATCs, glider clubs, Police, Air Ambulance and other air users
  • Site plan map which shows airspace intelligence layers, ground hazards, RPZs and much more
  • Up-to-date NOTAMs
  • Hourly weather forecasts for your flight location

In all, Dronedesk fetches over 30 datasets for the location you're flying - all in an instant with no effort required on your part at all.

Dronedesk is the #1 rated drone operations platform and over the last year we've helped over 495 companies save almost 10,000 work-hours on their drone operations.

There's a free 30-day trial on all plans so there's no risk to giving us a try and start enjoying "Less admin, more flying".

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Excellent and easy to use service that…

Excellent and easy to use service that allows for stress free flight planning and management of assets.

27 November 2024
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Hey thanks for your review Darren! It's really great to hear that you're finding Dronedesk easy to use; that's genuinely our main objective when designing the system.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Since using Dronedesk our processes…

Since using Dronedesk our processes have become much more streamlined and efficient. It totally pays off to spend time at the start to create all you templates, after that all you need to do is run you reports.
Dorian has spend a lot creating a very good platform with many many short cuts.
A huge well Done

18 November 2024
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Reply from Dronedesk

Thanks so much for taking the time to leave a us a review Gerald.

You're right, spending an hour or so getting everything configured at the start - your risk assessments, chcklists etc. - definitely pays dividends in the long run. Once that's done, planning a flight in Dronedesk can take as little as 10 minutes!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

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Dronedesk makes every step of droneflight much easier and comprehensive. I can reach many information thanks to the platform to make my flight safer. All the paperwork is much easier and comprehensive as required.

11 October 2024
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Hey Onur thank you so much for taking the time to leave us a review. I'm delighted to hear that Dronedesk is helping to make your paperwork much easier.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

This platform has made flying drones so…

This platform has made flying drones so simple, especially for commercial pilots
The platform is really easy to navigate and has some wonderful features including pilot hours ,battery maintenance and all CAA compliance
I have spoken to the owner Dorian an number of times and he is always really helpful and willing to give guidance 10/10 the best drone software out on the market
I alway recommend drone desk to other pilots and business alike

2 October 2024
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Reply from Dronedesk

Thank you for your review Ken, it's great to hear that you're recommending Dronedesk to other drone pilots and businesses; word-of-mouth recommendations by industry professionals like you is our biggest source of new users!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

5 Stars

Dorian and the team, have been amazing. I have used Drone desk for a number of years now with different companies often signing new companies up. Everyone that's seen it loves how easy it is to use and learn.

19 September 2024
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Reply from Dronedesk

Thank you for your 5-star review Mark! It's fantastic to hear that you're recommending Dronedesk to the companies that you work with. Thank you!

The onboarding for new users is usually less than an hour because, as you say, we've tried to make the system as easy as possible to use and learn.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

great system and great customer…

great system and great customer service, can't recommend enough

29 August 2024
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Reply from Dronedesk

Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review Scott. I'm delighted to hear you think we're hitting the spot with customer service!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Invaluable!

An excellent resource which will make your drone flight planning quicker and more thorough. It has every feature I can think of to make my tasks less stressful, and safer. If you run a drone business or fly for pleasure a lot, then this is worth the money.

6 August 2024
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Thank you so much for your kind words Andy! I'm thrilled that Dronedesk is making your tasks less stressful and safer - who wouldn't want that!?

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Best flight planning system

Best flight planning system, easy and fast to use. We at London Search And Rescue rely on this platform to run all our drone search operations.

16 July 2024
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Reply from Dronedesk

Thank you for taking the time to leave a review Tony. I'm delighted you're rating Dronedesk as the best flight planning system!

We're very proud to support a number of volunteer SAR organisations right across the UK by providing their drone teams with access to Dronedesk. If it helps expedite rescue operations then we're hopefully doing something right!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I wish I’d known about DroneDesk when I first set up our search and rescue drone unit. It has everything that you will need and fantastic support.

I was recommended DroneDesk by a colleague in the emergency services. I adopted it as the UAV capability manager for a busy UK mountain rescue team around 12 months ago and it has revolutionised the way we operate and our record keeping.
Everything is kept in one place and the process of creating taskings as well as the level of detail is far superior than doing it on paper. We can quickly and efficiently create incident taskings, which automatically creates notifications to other air users, considers weather limitations and allows us to carry out all our risk assessments, record pilot activities including importing flight track logs & produces all the reports necessary to manage a team of pilots with numerous UAVs and anything required for CAA operation manual submissions.
Dorian has been exceptionally helpful both in the standard setting up of the account and more advanced integration with other software.
I can highly recommend DroneDesk to anyone in the industry or emergency services.

1 July 2024
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Reply from Dronedesk

Than you so much for your amazing review Mark. We're very proud to support the brilliant work of a number of volunteer Search and Rescue team's across the UK.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Does exactly what it says on the tin

Does exactly what it says on the tin, reduces admin, if you fly drones get this software!

4 June 2024
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Reply from Dronedesk

Thank you for your review Daniel. If you're reading this and you fly drones, we think you should take Daniel's advice 😉

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Dronedesk is a well thought-out package…

Dronedesk is a well thought-out package that makes logging, planning, quoting & invoicing all of my drone work quick and simple.
After an initial setup adding all of my drones & ancilliaries, logging and planning jobs is quick and straightforward.
This gives me more time for recreational flying & drinking tea!

19 June 2024
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Reply from Dronedesk

Thank you so much for taking the time to leave a review Peter, I really appreciate it. The main purpose of Dronedesk is to make things quick and simple for drone operators. So, I'm delighted to hear that we've managed to do that for you and, as a happy side-effect, enabled you to find more time for tea-drinking!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great guidance and assistance when…

Great guidance and assistance when needed.

29 May 2024
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Reply from Dronedesk

Thanks for your review Jon. Dronedesk provides all the tools you need but doesn't enforce anything so it does provide just as much guidance as you need.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Very helpful

Drone desk is an effective tool for making sure we in search and rescue are not missing any checks either on the drone or the risk management side of drone flight.

24 May 2024
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Reply from Dronedesk

Thank you for taking the time to leave a review about your experience with Dronedesk as a search and Rescue organisation. We're proud to support a large number of volunteer SAR teams by providing free access to the system to help them manage their drone operations more effectively.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Worth the money in time saved

Good flight planning is important to drone operations and, as we all know, can be time-consuming. Dronedesk steps in and provides a comprehensive suite of tools that can dramatically reduce this time. This alone pays for the cost. In addition to flight planning, there are a host of other features to check out. This platform is clearly not just a developer guessing what we need but a devised and tested platform with pilots' input. Whatever stage of flying, the free trial is worth your time to allow you to see firsthand how Dronedesk can help you.

10 May 2024
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Reply from Dronedesk

Thank you for taking the time to leave us such a glowing review Roydon!

We were lucky enough to get input and feedback from hundreds of professional drone operators when we built Dronedesk. So, you're right, it's got thousands of hours of real-world drone pilots' operational knowledge and experience baked in to its design.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Drone based start up company

As a Drone based start up, Dronedesk has been instrumental in guiding me through what can be a daunting process.
For commercial pilots this is an excellent platform to use. Intuitive and professional, I wouldn’t consider starting a client job without it👍

25 April 2024
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Reply from Dronedesk

Thanks so much for taking the time to leave us a review Andy. We started building Dronedesk when we were a drone startup so supporting startups is baked in. And the great news is that Dronedesk scales with your business. So, when you have 100s of pilots working for you, it'll work just as well and save you 100s of hours of admin!

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Great Drone Management Software.

This a great drone management app to use, if either you’re just starting out or well established in your own business having something like this where the tools you need are in one place makes sense.

I’ve only been using it for a few weeks so I’m still working my way around but already happy to have all I need under the one app rather than grabbing a bunch of third party apps however good! To do the same thing.

Keep up the good work.

Best
Wayne.

19 February 2024
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Reply from Dronedesk

Hi Wayne, thanks so much for taking the time to leave a review, I'm delighted to hear that Dronedesk is giving you everything you need in one app!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Just starting out in a business and…

Just starting out in a business and wanted a software package to deal with every day drone activity. And this has that very well thought out am still learning, all about it up to now but we'll impressed want am seeing

13 February 2024
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Reply from Dronedesk

Thanks for your review Roy, great to hear Dronedesk helping you out in your new business.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Will save you hours

Dronedesk saves hours in flight planning and also flight recording. Keeps you updated on your currency status. User friendly interface. Brilliant and would recommend.

23 January 2024
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Reply from Dronedesk

Thank you for your review Matthys. Our users told us in our latest survey that they save 51 minutes per job on average so it's great to hear that Dronedesk is saving you time too!

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