About this app
What SkyGig does
You billed 250 dollars for the real-estate shoot. Then you drove 70 miles, flew two batteries, edited for three hours, and the drone, the insurance, and the recurrent training all quietly took their cut. Was the job actually worth it? SkyGig answers that question in one screen. SkyGig is the job ledger built for solo drone pilots — the Part 107 operators flying real-estate shoots, roof inspections, mapping runs, and events on the side of another life. Enter a job in about thirty seconds: client, type, what you charged, miles driven, flight time, editing time, any hard costs. SkyGig immediately shows the real margin — revenue minus mileage at your rate, minus expenses, minus the amortized cost of every flight hour — and the effective hourly rate you truly earned once travel and editing are counted. The heart of the app is the floor-rate engine. Tell it what your aircraft cost, what you pay in insurance, training, and software each year, and how many hours you realistically fly for money. SkyGig computes your true cost per flight hour and the minimum rate below which you are paying to fly. That single number is the difference between a side business and an expensive hobby — and almost nobody flying today knows theirs. Everything lives on your phone. There is no account, no cloud, and no monthly fee — and no cap of three jobs a month. Client history shows who actually pays well, the season dashboard totals income, miles, hours, and margin, and when tax time comes, one export produces a clean Schedule C-ready summary of the year. Whether you fly five jobs a month or fifty, SkyGig keeps score the way a business should: honestly, privately, and per job. • Thirty-second job entry with revenue, miles, flight and editing time • True per-job margin and effective hourly rate • Floor-rate engine: amortized cost per flight hour and your minimum viable rate • Client history with lifetime revenue and payment status • Quote and invoice PDFs generated from any job • Season dashboard totaling income, mileage, hours, and margin • Schedule C-ready year export — fully offline, no account, no subscription
Features
Built to be useful, not noisy.
Job Ledger
Thirty-second job entry — client, type, revenue, miles driven, flight minutes, editing minutes, hard costs — into a month-grouped ledger where every row shows its status and computed margin.
Margin Engine
Every job gets a waterfall breakdown: revenue minus mileage at your rate, minus expenses, minus amortized flight-hour cost, equals true margin — plus the effective hourly rate across flight, travel, and editing time.
Floor-Rate Engine
Enter aircraft cost, insurance, training, software, and realistic annual billable hours once; SkyGig computes your true cost per flight hour and the minimum quote below which you are paying to fly.
Clients
Client book with lifetime revenue, average margin, job history, and outstanding balances — so you know who actually pays well and who costs you money.
Quotes & Invoices
Turn any job into a clean quote or invoice PDF with your business details, line items, mileage, and payment terms; track issued, due, and paid states.
Season Dashboard & Tax Export
Year-to-date income, mileage, flight hours, and blended margin at a glance, plus a Schedule C-ready CSV and PDF export of the whole year for your preparer.
Why it exists
The problem
Solo drone pilots juggle job details, flight time, mileage, editing hours, and invoices across messy spreadsheets and notebooks, and routinely underprice because they never compute their true cost per flight hour — equipment amortization, insurance, recurrent training — while the dedicated incumbent (Dronedesk) is a c…
What's different
How SkyGig stands out
Dronedesk is a cloud subscription (9 GBP/mo capped at three jobs a month) oriented to airspace and ops planning, not a solo pilot's P&L; DroneInvoice is a free commission marketplace with zero cost, mileage, or margin tracking; QuickBooks Self-Employed and Wave are generic bookkeeping with no concept of a flight hour,…
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FAQ
Questions about SkyGig
How much does SkyGig cost?▾
SkyGig is free. All features are included from day one — no subscription, no in-app purchases, no paid tiers. Everything you see in this listing works the moment you install it.
Where does SkyGig store my data?▾
On your device. SkyGig is built privacy-first: no account is required, no analytics SDKs, no third-party trackers. Nothing is uploaded to a server we control — the app works without one.
What platforms does SkyGig support?▾
iOS, on iPhone and iPad. You can find the latest availability on this page.
How do I get support for SkyGig?▾
Use the Support link on this page, or email support@allthingsn.com. We answer every message and keep responses on the same thread.
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