Holy Stone HS440 Foldable FPV Drone with 1080P WiFi Camera for Adult Beginners and Kids; Voice Gesture Control RC Quadcopter with Modular Battery for long flight time, Auto Hover, Carrying Case

I had promised a drone for my son for Christmas, but his grandmother got to that first. However, she got a very cheap low-end drone which didn't work out of the box. Fast forward to now, I picked up the HS440 drone for him based on the reviews which were extremely positive, both for the drone itself, as well as for customer service. Out of the box, the drone was extremely easy to set up. Follow the instructions provided, and you'll be good to go. Turn on the drone, then connect your phone to the wireless. Once that's done, power on the controller (when it beeps you know they're talking to each other) then calibrate (both knobs down the right until it beeps) then start the drone by pulling the left controller down to the right, and the right controller down to the left. There is a button to take off and land the drone, and the controllers respond extremely well without being overly sensitive. I'm not going to retype all the instructions here, but suffice to say that in less than 90 seconds out of the box, you'll be flying the HS440 which is extremely easy to do. I suggest that you tap the joystick until the drone moves, then let go. Think of driving a boat in the water, a small movement goes a long way. I can't speak to flying it outdoors yet, but my takeaway from reading the other reviews (and this is pretty common-sensical) is to not fly it outside when there is significant wind. On calm days I can't see this thing being anything other than amazing. As anyone knows, it's one thing to get a quality device, but it's yet another to have someone you can actually talk to about any issues or problems. Holy Stone is front and center with customer support, I can't praise them highly enough. Finally, my son is 6 1/2, and he is loving this thing! Buy this drone, it's a great product with excellent support and a really good pricepoint.

bought this drone to learn the basics of drone flight. loved it right out of the box. easy to control, easy to learn and easy to fly. camera works great. it’s not professional quality and not mounted on a gimbal but you can’t expect that at this price point. the remote control does a great job of changing the angle of the camera and it all functions great. the camera app was easy to download and figure out. it allows photos and video to be taken. using my smart phone as the viewer helps a lot. wish i had a set of googles but that’s nothing to do with the drone. the remote does a good job of controlling the drone and has a place to mount your cellphone. more range would be great but again at this price what are you expecting. it does a good job and i’ve flown it out of visual site before. it came back fine. it does struggle in wind. best to just keep it away when it’s strong enough to fly a kite. had a great few weeks with it playing and learning. then i had an incident. i took it up to our property to see if i could get an aerial view of the land. it did great going out and flew against the wind. as the remote battery failed the drone veered off course and crashed into a tall pine tree. i couldn’t climb up and couldn’t even tell which tree it was in. i had written this off as i couldn’t climb the tree and couldn’t recover the drone. fast forward 2 months. it’s a really windy day. i go to the base of the trees and actually see the drone sitting upside down on the ground. i couldn’t believe it. i removed the battery. cleaned the corrosion off the contacts and took it inside. i changed remote batteries, charged up the spare battery and took the drone outside. it still works!!! 2 months in a tree and this thing still functions great. i am currently charging the battery that was outside and all appears to be good to go. i can’t believe this drone still functions after all i’ve put it through. i will definitely stick with this company in the future.

I am actually just trying it out. It has been raining so just tried it today. The packaging is very good. The case it comes in is pretty good quality. Being brand new to drones or any remote controlled vehicle this was very easy to open up and get flying. The Information in the package was easy to understand and use. The spare parts were a nice bonus. Have yet to shoot any videos, just learning how to control it. Two things that were not good or bad. I use an Otterbox on my iPhone 14 pro max. It would not fit into the controller with the case on. So that will be kind of a pain to rénover the case every time. The second is I watched a couple of you tube video’s reviewing this model and they mentioned two batteries. It has one. It is my fault for not reading the product description 100%, but with two batteries I could be charging one while flying with the other. Other than that, I am very happy with this drone and look forward to learning how to fly and make videos with this basic drone before jumping into a bigger one with more bells and whistles. If I lose it, I won’t be that pissed at myself.

This is Absolutely a Great Little Drone it Looks Like the "Mini-Me" of the HS720(E) it is super easy to set up and I was really impressed the storage case it comes with and how quiet it is but the 2 things that really impressed me was the SD Card Slot (up to 32GB) on the Drone and you can adjust the Camera up and down From the Controller that really blew my mind because I have never seen that feature on a small Drone, it's not really a mini Drone it's more like a mid-sized but it truly preforms like a full size Drone, the App is laid out so it is very easy to understand and use, the FPV is great too I sat in my Recliner and was able to fly it through my house using the FPV, the Videos are really clear and they are stored to your cellphone (720P) and the SD Card (1080p) the Controller range is 330ft and the FPV range is also 330ft, the auto take off button on the controller makes this Drone perfect for beginners, when you press it the Drone takes off nice and easy and will hover at like 4 or 5ft, it may drift a little (especially in a little wind) but setting the trim was really easy and once you have it trimmed the altitude hold is great it hovers so well you have plenty of time to use the features on the App (circle fly, tap to fly ect.) or even take a drink lol! I would absolutely recommend this Drone to anyone wanting to learn how to fly Drones or anyone just wanting a super fun Drone to fly indoors on a rainy day or in there backyard (with no wind) bottom line this is another really great Drone from Holy Stone not to mention they have Great Customer Service.

TL;DR: see pros and cons. Read the entire review for details. PROS Small and compact, it travels well Flight controls are fairly easy Good video feed and the photos were good - not professional quality, but good. durable after several crashes Good instruction manual The company has very helpful instructional videos You can shop on the Holy Stone website, and still check out on Amazon Quiet operation The Holy Stone App is functional and registers flight time, number of flights, and has helpful links. The app keeps a gallery of your photos. You can share the photos directly from the app to email or messages. Extremely handy. CONS Frequent reset and reconnection are required A tedious multiple-step process to reconnect The steps must be completed in the exact order as instructed and often repeated to register with the device. Very limited radius You need a spotter when flying or risk losing the drone. Phone screen often freezes or goes black, meaning you lose visual -- very bad unless you maintain visual on the drone itself. If you lose the drone in high grass or rough terrain, it is very difficult to find. No GPS. Not for children under 14 without supervision. - This may not be a con. You will need to register on the app, and it does not remember your login or password. Very annoying to have to remember. This drone is a notch above a toy model - and while not a toy per se, it is not a drone that you could do much with other than have fun with. It may be a good starting drone to learn controls and get the hang of flight before investing in a more expensive drone. This may be a good drone for a roofer to look at a high-pitch roof, or a real estate agent to take aerials of a house, but I suspect its use in a professional setting is limited. If you have a mid-sized open area where you can fly with no trees, like a soccer field, football field, or even an open park, it may be a good drone for beginners. The wifi connectivity is the biggest issue for me. We have large farm fields, which I thought would be perfect for flying this drone. However, this drone only has an effective range (radius) of about 300 feet or one football field. At about 200 feet, the picture freezes, then at 300ish feet, the connection drops with the drone itself, and it will go wonky and fall out of the sky. If you are flying it using the camera, once you lose camera feed, losing visual with the drone is highly possible unless there are two people. One flying and one spotting the location of the drone. We spent as much time recovering it as we did flying it, until we got the functional radius nailed down. It is small (which is fine) and has no bright markings to assist in finding it. This is easily remedied with some model paint and neon stickers. It has no GPS locator--You are on your own if you lose it. For the price of $70-$100, I guess you get what you pay for. Once it is flying, the controls are fairly easy, and a 12-year-old could fly it with a slight learning curve. The compatibility with the cell phone was quite finicky at first, but it works once you get the steps down. You WILL have to reset the drone and repeat the steps every time it crashes or you get too far out of range. The aforementioned 12-year-old gave up as it was a tedious process. The adults hung in for a little longer, but it did cease to be fun having to go through the startup and reconnect device steps so often. Battery life was ok. I did invest in a second battery, but we never flew it long enough to need it. I do not recommend the expense of a second battery unless you fly this often and you find you need one. I bought the second battery directly from the Holy Stone website, and it was half the price of the batteries on Amazon. The Holy Stone website allows you to check out using your Amazon account, which is nice. I am not giving up on this drone, as I think it has some potential. It depends on your expectations whether or not this would work for you. I uploaded some aerial pics. I will be doing a video on an actual flight process.

Holy Stone HS440 Foldable FPV Drone Is not worth buying. I bought two so I could have a spare battery. The cost of buying a spare battery is almost as much as the price of an entire drone, so buying a second drone, battery included made sense to me. The first drone was very unstable and trying to trim it was so difficult tat by the time it did sort of fly correctly the battery was dead. This is flying in ZERO wind with a properly paired and calibrated drone. After landing on its own in the grass, one of the prop motors gave out (stripped gear). Not because the batteries were low but because it decided to just go down. Enter drone number two. For the first few flights the second drone seemed better than the first one. It still took FOREVER to get it trimmed correctly and it never ever hovered without drifting in which ever direction it wants to. Again by the time its trimmed as well as it can be, the battery is close to dead so flight time is a few minutes at best. Now, while it is flying as good as it will get, once you activate the camera in video mode, the drone immediately goes out of trim again and is even more difficult to correct with trimming. I can't figure that out. Trying to take a video is futile. You will never get a smooth stable video with this drone since you are constantly trying to correct its flight or trying to get it to hover in one spot. Your video ends up looking like you were bobbing for apples while recording. Finally after several flights where drone two seemed to work so so, today it decided to start behaving like drone one. It does what it wants when it wants with no regard to commands. Properly paired and calibrated and batteries all fully charged with no indication by the lights or beeps that any batteries were weak. I might add that all of these flights are no further than 25 feet or so in any direction since I don't trust it at further distances, but I digress. Back to today...the drone was acting unstable more so than usual and finally came down from about five feet, into the grass. Sure enough one prop motor, even though it spins, is now stripped (you can hear it as it spins) and the drone will no longer fly without drifting quickly to the left. It's now toast, just like the first one. I don't write negative reviews often, if ever, but this drone is not worth purchasing. Look elsewhere, even if it means paying more. This drone is just not worth the frustration and/or cost. Look for a better quality drone.

The drone is pretty good--VERY solid for the money. The short version is: be careful flying it in anything more than a light breeze, but understand that the customer service is really stellar. I used to do aerial photography and videography as a hobby with a buddy of mine, and I've used quite a few higher-end commercial drones. I hadn't really done this sort of thing since my kids were born, so I thought I'd try this just to get back into it a bit. I fired the drone up inside and flew it around my house a bit. Setup was easy, the controls were simple, and the device was quite responsive. Long story short I then took the drone outside into a light breeze and when I took it up to altitude to try to get some picture of my house and grounds, the wind carried it away before I could bring it back down. I left a review here stating as much--I didn't directly contact Holy Stone or request a refund or replacement. I've flown drones enough to understand that losing the machine is a risk you always take (we've lost MUCH more expensive machines due to wind or equipment error). But within a day, Holy Stone contacted me and offered me a refund or replacement... and I'm well outside of the replacement window, and I stated that it wasn't manufacturer's defect that caused the loss in the first place. Anyway, seriously, great customer service, and the drone is VERY solid for what it costs. If you're looking for an inexpensive way to get into aerial photography/videography, this is a great place to start. Just, seriously, don't take it up high in strong winds :)

Great Drone to learn on so give it a try if your new to flying

I liked everything about this drone. Best, cheapest, easy to use quad copter out there. Lots of fun and doesn't crash into my living room walls or ceiling like the last drone I had did. I only have problems in strong winds. But that's the same for most drones anyway. Enjoy

Great little drone - should have bought the HS440S but not sure what to buy for my first drone. Had problem with it drifting on lift off - couldn't get it to just hover. Also wanted to know what would happen if it happen to fly out of range. So I contacted Holystone and received an answer 2 day later (was over a weekend). Answer was quick and to the point. The drift problem took a while to solve. According to the instructions, hold down the Trimmer button until a beep and then move the right joystick in opposite direction to the drift. Took a while to figure out that you can't leave the joystick to the side but need to move it back and forth from the center position. Each time you do this a beep occurs indicating that a position has been locked in so to speak. Anyway - to adjust drift follow the instructions but move the joystick from the center and back several times to stabilise the drone. Once that was done, I had a play - great for height and remained stable. Already considering buying another with GPS Purchased a second battery Takes great pictures. Love it

Super lightweight. Good for a day with no wind at all. Slightest wind means unstable flying.

I recently purchased the Holy Stone HS440 Drone as my son's very first drone, and I couldn't be happier with my choice! As a beginner, he was looking for a drone that would be easy to operate and help him learn the ropes of piloting without breaking the bank. The HS440 delivered on all fronts. One minor hiccup I encountered was getting the drone connected to the app. However, I must highlight the outstanding customer service I received from Holy Stone's support team. After a quick email, they guided me through the troubleshooting process patiently and professionally. Thanks to their assistance, I was able to get the app working perfectly, giving me access to the drone's live camera feed and various flight modes. To sum it up, the Holy Stone HS440 Drone is an excellent choice for beginners like my teen son. Its durability, ease of use, and responsive controls made his learning curve smooth. The minor setback with the app connection was quickly overshadowed by the exceptional customer service I received. If you're a first-time drone pilot looking for an affordable yet reliable entry-level drone, the HS440 is definitely worth considering!

The drone is perfect for beginners!! I am having a blast learning how to fly the HolyStone 440 drone. There is no gps so the skill you develop for stability is all your own. I think that flying my next one will be so easy. I had a problem with one of the motors and their customer service was very polite and quick in getting me the replacement part. Thank you guys, you deserve a raise.