8 Best Hubsan Drones: One for Every Occasion! (Fall 2024)

The Hubsan Zino Pro Plus is the first option on our list, offering a sturdy, lightweight, and compact foldable design that allows you to carry it anywhere with you. With a flight time of 40 minutes in windless conditions, the Zino Pro Plus is a must-have on your travel. It has a brushless motor and 8KM video transmission for top quality.

The Hubsan Zino Pro Plus is best suited for those who are new to using drones. It is designed with no controller or spare parts, making it easy to use. With just one button, you can take off or land. The drone also has GPS auto return to home and one button operation. You can easily take shots with the 4K UHD camera mounted on the 3-axis gimbal camera stabilizer if you’re a beginner. This ensures that you take stable and smooth footage.

The Hubsan Zino Mini Pro is a superior drone built for speed and flight endurance. This drone can stay in the air for 35 minutes and reach a top speed of 57km/h. This drone has a 3000mAh Lithium-ion battery and also comes with an intelligent battery manager. The intelligent battery manager can charge up to four batteries sequentially, which increases the number of times you can fly the drone in a day.

The smooth imaging ability of the zino mini pro drone due to the gimbal stabilizers was impressive, in our opinion. The tri-axis gimbal stabilizer, level 5 wind resistance, and different flight filming modes allow filming of smooth 4K footage. The drone also allows manual bitrate adjustment for better resolution, which is something most other drones set automatically. The zino mini pro improves flight safety by incorporating visual obstacle avoidance, out-of-control protection, and return home features. However, the obstacle avoidance feature needs to be calibrated every two weeks, which can be a hassle.

The Hubsan Zino Mini Pro has one of the longest transmission ranges in the Zino mini and X4 series. The Zino mini pro has a 10 km transmission range which is 50 times better than the Hubsan H502S X4 drone.

The HUBSAN Zino 2 gives other top-tier HUBSAN models a run for their money in terms of features and functionality. It’s a fairly high-end device with level 5 wind resistance allowing it to fly even in some unfriendly weather conditions. Furthermore, it can hover in calm weather. It comes with a 3800 mAh battery and precise battery calculation, so you always know how much longer the device can fly. With endurance flying speeds of 25  km/h, the device will fly for a maximum of 33 minutes. Hovering seems to consume more power, with the total runtime cut down by approximately two minutes.

Notably, besides flight, the HUBSAN Zino 2 also has video and imaging capabilities with a 12 MP 4K 60 fps camera. Of course, with these features, there are also other elements of the drone worth mentioning, such as the image transmission that allows you to look through the camera in real-time. Additionally, it can be equipped with ND filters for better images, has a 3-axis gimbal for stabilization, and more. With all these, the drone is pretty heavy, so you may need to register it with the Federal Aviation Administration. Once done, you can control the device for up to 6,000 meters, although you’d have to be careful not to get into restricted fly zones. That said, it can be used for commercial purposes or as a device for fun.

The Hubsan X4 H501SS pro has some of the best features in the X4 series. It has a 20 minutes flight time which is about the highest flight time you can get out of any Hubsan X4 drone. However, where it lacks in flight time longevity, it makes up for it in cool features that make it easy for beginners. The headless mode allows the drone to use the front-end perspective of the pilot instead of its own, making it easier to fly the drone. Headless mode combined with the follow me and altitude hold modes make the H501SS drone beginner-friendly.

But what truly impressed us was the orbit mode and real-time FPV(First Person View). These two features blend well with the 1080p HD camera to produce fantastic images and videos. The orbit mode allows you to shoot a video from any angle, while the real-time FPV provides an immersive piloting and shooting experience. The drone also contains brushless motors, increasing propeller durability and reducing that buzzing drone noise. Additionally, the drone comes with a return home safety feature in case of low battery and loss of transmission.

However, the H501SS has a low transmission range of only 400 meters compared to the Zino Mini pro. However, data transmission is fast due to the 5.8 GHz transmitter and 2.4 GHz receiver.

The Hubsan X4 H107L drone is the smallest drone on this list. This micro quadcopter weighs about 50 grams and is no larger than the average man’s palm. The drone is built for fun rather than filming and photography, as it has no camera. It has a 100 meters transmission range suitable for flying in the house or backyard. Flying this micro drone in large open requires caution because the transmission might cut off.

However, despite its small size, the H107L drone is tough. We were impressed by its ability to still work after a few crashes. Additionally, the drone comes with a set of extra propeller blades and a propeller guard. The propeller rotor guard ensures safety around the house from the spinning propellers. The drone is also easy to fly, can perform flips, and has bright red and blue LED lights for night flying. The color-coded LED lights also allow the user to determine the drone’s orientation.

Compared to other drones in the X4 series in this list, the H107L drone has the lowest flight time. The H107L drone also lacks other features that increase flying functionality like headless mode, GPS positioning, follow me mode, and hoover mode.

The Hubsan H502S is a sturdy and lightweight drone that later came in the Hubsan X4 series. The H502S improves on almost everything from the H107L, the first drone in the X4 series. We were impressed by the flight speed of this drone despite its relatively short flight time. This Drone has about 12 minutes of flight time which decreases to 10 minutes on a windy day. However, the H502S has a 36km/h flight speed which is as fast as a cruising speed of a Ruppells vulture.

The drone has an automatic return feature in case of control and transmission loss. This failsafe feature blends well with the GPS positioning, follow me mode, headless mode, and the FPV real-time transmission. This mix of features makes the drone perfect for highly mobile videography. The H502S drone has a 720p HD camera, and a stable hoover allows impressive aerial imaging capability. You can capture images and videos at a distance of up to 200 meters due to the drone’s relatively long transmission range.

Unlike the Hubsan X4 107L, the high 5.8Ghz transmission frequency in the H502S drone cannot penetrate through common obstructions like doors and walls. This transmission frequency makes the H502S X4 drone better suited for open spaces with few to no obstructions.

The Hubsan Zino 2+ drone improves on almost everything the Zino mini pro can do. The Zino 2 plus can fly for 39 minutes and reach up to 5km above sea level. This drone also has various resolutions, from 4K HD to 720 HD resolutions. These resolutions allow the user to choose how much space will be occupied by a video. Additionally, the gimbal on this drone is detachable, making it easy to replace in case of damage.

We tested the Zino 2+ drone and were impressed by its image tracking feature, which follows the user’s image. You can also alternate between visual image tracking and GPS active tracking mode if trees and walls highly obstruct the area. The Zino 2+ also comes with creative video and imaging features like hyper-lapse, slow-motion, panoramic, follow mode, and line fly mode. These neat recording features and a tri-axial gimbal stabilizer allow smooth transitions from recording you to recording your surroundings. The Zino 2+ drone also handles well when flying at night. This foldable drone has amazing low-light capture capability that allows you to capture good images at night.

The Hubsan Zino 2+ drone is the only drone on this list, and the zino and X4 series with a detachable gimbal and filter. Additionally, this drone also has level 6 wind resistance, the highest wind resistance level on this list.

The Hubsan Zino Mini SE drone is built for flight endurance and has some of the best specs in the Zino drone series. This drone has a 40 minutes flight time but can reach 45 minutes on a windless day. The brushless motors and 6 km HD transmission allow the drone to take off from 6,000 meters. This takeoff altitude means you can film and take photographs from the top of a mountain (as long as it’s not taller than 6km).

In our opinion, the waypoint mode and optical flow positioning system were the most impressive features of the Zino Mini SE drone. The waypoint mode allows you to chart a course on a GPS map, and the drone will follow that course. This feature can be convenient when you want to record yourself and your surrounding without holding the controller. The Zino Mini SE drone also handles well flying at night. The drone has a bright downward-facing LED light which aids the optical flow positioning system when landing at night. Other neat safety features that increase nighttime capabilities include out-of-control protection, low battery return, and home recognition.

Unlike the Zino mini pro, the Zino Mini SE drone lacks an obstacle avoidance sensor which is why it has a higher flight time. Obstacle avoidance sensors drain power from the battery.