Installation

Installing DroneField takes three steps: register on the portal, download the installer, run it. The whole thing takes less than five minutes.

Step 1 — Account on the portal

Open my.dronefield.app in your browser and click Register. Provide your name, email and a password. You will receive a confirmation email — click the link to activate your account.

See Registration for the full walkthrough.

Step 2 — Download from the portal

Once signed in, go to Downloads in the left menu. On the Latest stable version card you’ll find the installer for your platform:

• macOS Apple Silicon (M1 or newer): .dmg file
• Windows 10/11 64-bit: .exe installer
• Linux x86_64 (Ubuntu 20.04+, Debian 11+, Fedora 36+, RHEL 8+): .AppImage

Click Download. The file is around 200–300 MB.

Onboarding banner

If you’ve just registered and don’t have a subscription yet, a banner at the top of the portal reminds you that Step 2 is to pick a plan. You can install the app first and use it in trial mode.

Step 3 — Install

macOS

Open the downloaded .dmg. A window appears: drag the DroneField icon onto the Applications folder.

On first launch macOS asks:

“DroneField is an application downloaded from the Internet. Are you sure you want to open it?”

Click Open. This is a one-time step.

If macOS blocks the app with “unidentified developer”, open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll to Allow apps downloaded from, and click Open Anyway next to DroneField.

Windows

Double-click the downloaded .exe. Windows SmartScreen may show a warning the first time — click More info → Run anyway.

The installer guides you through standard steps (install location, shortcuts). Default options are fine for most users.

Linux

Ubuntu / Debian

On Ubuntu 22.04 / Debian, the native .deb package is recommended — see Linux installation (.deb). The AppImage below works on any distribution.

Make the AppImage executable, then run it:

chmod +x DroneField-<version>-x86_64.AppImage
./DroneField-<version>-x86_64.AppImage

The first launch creates the configuration directory at ~/.config/DroneField/.

Step 4 — First launch

When the app starts, a sign-in screen appears:

1. Enter the email and password of your portal account.
2. Click Sign in.
3. DroneField automatically registers your device under your account (see Device management).
4. The End User License Agreement (EULA) is shown — read and accept it. This is a one-time step; if the EULA is updated later, acceptance is requested again.

Installation done. From the main screen you can now create your first project — see First project in 10 minutes.

Data and project folder

By default, DroneField stores your projects in ~/Documents/DroneField/ on macOS, in %LOCALAPPDATA% on Windows, or in ~/.local/share/DroneField/ on Linux. The Windows and Linux locations are hidden from regular file browsing.

On first project creation (or later, via Settings → Device → Project folder) you can pick a custom folder — the recommended location is ~/DroneField/, which is visible directly in your home folder.

If you change the location later, DroneField offers to move the existing projects to the new folder (a rename, not a copy — fast and uses no extra disk space).

Uninstall

macOS

Drag the DroneField application from the Applications folder to the Trash. Your projects — in ~/Documents/DroneField/ by default, or in the custom folder you chose (e.g. ~/DroneField/) — are kept intact; delete that folder too if you no longer need the projects. Older, sandboxed versions of DroneField kept their data in ~/Library/Containers/com.dronespot.DroneField/ — remove that folder as well if it exists.

Windows

Control Panel → Programs → Uninstall a program → DroneField. Custom-folder projects are retained.

Linux

Delete the AppImage and the ~/.config/DroneField/ directory.