A drone simulator over a 3D map of the whole planet. Type a city, a landmark or an address, or paste a Google Maps link, and you take off right there, in anything from a camera drone to an FPV quad.
34 landmarks are one click away, and anywhere else is a search: a place name, coordinates, or a link copied out of Google Maps.
Map data © Google and its data providers; the attribution you see in each frame is part of every photo and video you export from Overfly. Overfly is not affiliated with Google.
Fly anything from a micro drone of a few dozen grams to a rig of over 3 kg, or tune the numbers and fly a build of your own. Rates, field of view, 3D flight: every kind of drone is in here.
A freestyle quad you throw around in Acro, and a GPS camera drone that stops the moment you let go.
Lay a course while you fly it, then race it against your own best time.
Rain on the lens, fog that eats your line of sight, and gusts as often as you set them.
Rates, expo, throttle curve and throttle limit use Betaflight's own formulas. Copy them over and they behave the same.
One key switches between them. Fly in GPS, Angle or Acro mode, and give the FPV quad your own build: weight, KV, cell count and prop.
Press B to drop a gate wherever you are. The first one is the start, the last one is the finish. Press N and the clock starts as you cross the start gate. The next gate glows orange, and an arrow points to it when it is off-screen.
Seven presets, each with its own light, cloud and visibility. Wind is set separately — mean speed, how much stronger it gets with height, turbulence, and how often the gusts come — so you can fly the same conditions as many times as you need.
All eight were taken from the same spot above Tower Bridge; only the preset changed. Turbulence and gusts work in every preset, not only in a storm.
Its position comes from latitude, longitude and date, shown in local time. Pick a December date and London is dark before four; pick June and it is still light after nine. The three frames below look out from above Tower Bridge, with only the time of day changed.
Rates, expo, throttle curve and throttle limit run on Betaflight's own formulas, so values copied from your quad feel the same here. Four screens from the settings panel:
Actual or Betaflight rates per axis, drawn across the full −100 to +100 % stick range. The dot is where your stick is right now.
MID, EXPO and a throttle limit (SCALE or CLIP), as in Betaflight. The graph marks the throttle your quad hovers at and where your stick sits for it.
Weight, cell count, KV and prop size, anywhere from a 31 mm whoop to a 10-inch. Overfly works out thrust, hover throttle and top speed.
Assign and invert each axis, zoom included, and calibrate its ends. Switches can respawn you, drop gates, start recording and more, or turn the tilt control into zoom while they are held. Radios that send switches as axes work too.
The reference build is a 5-inch freestyle quad. Thrust, hover throttle, top speed and drag come from thrust-stand tests, flight reviews and published research.
| Terminal velocity, vertical | ≈ 15 m/s |
|---|---|
| Motor response, spin-up / spin-down | 25 ms / 35 ms |
| Angle-mode levelling, from 30° | < 1° after one second, both axes |
| Thrust at half throttle | ≈ 39 % of full (thrust stands measure 37 %) |
| Top speed, 5-inch 6S freestyle | ≈ 165 km/h |
| Local time and altitude | IANA time zones · EGM96 geoid |
Stills, and clips with the motor sound, recorded straight from the browser. The map attribution and a small Overfly mark are burned into every frame, so you can post them wherever you like.
Record a run and fly against it. Or switch to the camera drone and film your own FPV line as the subject.
Mark points as you fly and the camera drone flies the route by itself, while yaw and gimbal stay in your hands. Or pick a subject in the middle of the frame and it circles it, nose in; roll sets direction and speed.
Your track, the home point, waypoint routes and orbit circles on a live map in the corner of the screen.
The HUD shows height above take-off, above the ground below you, and above sea level. Turn on the altitude limit and you hit an invisible ceiling at the legal height — 150 m in Japan, 400 ft in the US — or at any height you choose.
Planes, aerobatic planes and boats move through the scene. Keep one framed for 60 seconds and you get a score.
One payment. It never renews itself and never asks for your card again.
Sold and billed by Polar Software Inc. Price in USD; local taxes may apply at checkout. See the terms for details.
Chrome or Edge on a desktop or laptop. Bookmark it — this is where you fly every time.
Press Buy a licence. Checkout is run by Polar: enter your email and pay by card. $34, once.
The key appears on the page right after payment. Copy it. Lost it? Open View order in the email from Polar to see it again.
Go to play.getoverfly.com in Chrome or Edge. Nothing to install, no account to make.
Press Start, paste the key into License key and press Apply. The browser remembers it, and one key works on up to three devices at a time.
Choose a landmark or search any place, then press Start flying. Fly with the keyboard (W S and the arrow keys) or your radio over USB. R puts you back at the start.
A desktop or laptop with a recent Chrome or Edge and a GPU that handles WebGL 2 — most machines from the last few years do. Phones and tablets can fly with on-screen sticks too.
Anything the browser sees as a gamepad: FPV radios in USB joystick mode (RadioMaster, BetaFPV, Jumper…), Xbox and PlayStation pads. You assign and invert axes on the start screen and can map switches to actions like recording or mode changes. DJI camera-drone controllers (RC-N1, RC-N2, RC-N3, Smart Controller, RC 2, RC Pro 2) also connect over USB, as an experimental feature.
This is experimental and needs Chrome or Edge on a computer. Turn the controller on and connect it with a USB cable that carries data.
The steps are the same for RC 2 and RC Pro 2. If you put WinUSB on “MTP” by mistake, the controller’s files stop showing up in File Explorer: in Device Manager, uninstall that device with the box to delete its driver ticked, then plug the controller back in.
Both sticks and the camera dial work, and on RC 2 and RC Pro 2 the right dial zooms. The other buttons can’t be read. A DJI update may stop this from working.
No. The scenery streams in from the internet while you fly, so you need a connection. Your licence is also checked online when the game starts.
No. Overfly streams map data that costs real money on every launch, so there is no trial version. Refunds are available within a limited number of launches and a limited period after purchase; the conditions are set out in the terms.
There is no account, and the game never asks for your email; Polar needs one at checkout to send your receipt. Your settings live in your own browser. The details are in the privacy policy linked below.
Short clips and updates also go out on
A quick look at what Overfly can do: a dive down the Empire State Building, the Eiffel Tower to Shibuya Crossing, freestyle FPV over Nishi-Shinjuku, a GPS camera drone circling the Colosseum, and the same flight at three times of day and in three kinds of weather. Every shot was flown in Overfly. More clips are on YouTube, TikTok and Instagram.
Overfly can now read DJI camera-drone controllers over USB: RC-N1, RC-N2, RC-N3, the DJI Smart Controller, RC 2 and RC Pro 2. Turn the controller on, plug it in and press the matching DJI button in the controller settings. Both sticks and the camera dial work, and on RC 2 and RC Pro 2 the right dial zooms. The other buttons can't be read. This support is experimental: it doesn't use an official DJI interface, so a DJI update may stop it working. You need Chrome or Edge on a computer, and on Windows the RC 2 and RC Pro 2 need a one-time driver setup, explained under the button.
In the Display settings you can now pick how your drone looks: a compact camera drone, a cinema drone or an industrial drone, and a 5-inch freestyle quad, a cinewhoop or a micro whoop. It flies the same either way; only the look and the collision size change, so a micro whoop slips through gaps a cinema drone can't. The chase camera distance is adjustable too.
The onboard camera now zooms smoothly up to 7.6×. Press Z to zoom in and X to zoom out, or give zoom its own axis or switch on your radio. Short on switches? Hold one to turn your tilt control into zoom. Zoom out past 120° and the lens changes to the fisheye, with a short pause first so it never happens by accident. Zoom speed and tilt speed are both in the camera settings.