DJI Flip Review, the Folding Vlog Drone and How It Compares With the DJI Neo 2

The DJI Flip is a drone for filming yourself. It takes off from your palm, follows you, films and lands back in your hand, and its propellers sit inside full guards so it’s hard to hurt anyone. DJI launched it on January 14, 2025, at $439, or $639 with the RC 2 screen controller.

What makes it interesting is the camera. The Flip uses the same 48MP 1/1.3-inch sensor and 24mm f/1.7 lens as the DJI Mini 4 Pro. So it’s a selfie drone with a real drone camera, at under 249 grams and a C0 label in the EU.

Video review: Jake Sloan

What it does well

It records 4K up to 60fps for normal footage and 100fps for slow motion, with D-Log M for grading. Those shots cut together fine with footage from a Mini. Vertical video is a 2.7K crop rather than a rotating gimbal, which is fine for stories and less good for anything you’ll crop again.

The point is how little effort it takes. Palm takeoff, voice control, preset shots like dronies and circles, and follow modes mean you can film a walk or a bike ride without a pilot. It records sound from your phone or a DJI Mic with noise reduction. The battery swaps in seconds, and the arms fold the guards into a flat package that fits in a sling bag.

O4 transmission reaches 13 km under FCC rules. For a drone that mostly films you, that’s more range than you’ll ever use.

Where it struggles

Wind. The big guards act like sails, and reviewers found it slowed right down in moderate breezes. DJI rates it at 10.7 m/s. Near the coast, save it for calm days.

Obstacle sensing is forward-only, using a 3D infrared sensor. Follow it backward through trees and it won’t see them. Flight time is rated at 31 minutes, but testers reported anything from 12 to 28 depending on wind and how much tracking they did. And the aperture is fixed, so daylight video needs ND filters.

The other option, DJI Neo 2

The DJI Neo 2 is DJI’s smaller, cheaper selfie drone. It launched globally in November 2025 at €239 for the drone alone, and it weighs only 151 grams. It added what the first Neo lacked: omnidirectional vision, a forward LiDAR and a two-axis gimbal. It shoots 4K at 60fps and 100fps for slow motion and handles average wind a bit better than the Flip, according to some long-term testers.

The trade-offs are the camera and the battery. The Neo 2 has a 12MP 1/2-inch sensor, no D-Log M, no raw photos and no microSD slot, and one review measured about 10 minutes of real flying from a claimed 19. It wasn’t officially sold in the US, either, while the Flip was.

Which one to buy

Pick the Flip if image quality matters and you want footage that grades and holds up on a big screen. Pick the Neo 2 if you want something tiny, cheap and safer around obstacles, mostly for social clips. If you want to fly a regular camera drone too, skip both and get a Mini. And if you want a small drone you can fly through gaps, look at the DJI Avata 2.

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