QGroundControl (QGC) is a Ground Control Station (GCS) for UAVs, providing full flight control and mission planning for any MAVLink-enabled drone, including PX4 and ArduPilot platforms.

Features

• Mission planning — plan, edit, and fly autonomous waypoint, survey, and structure-scan missions.
• Live Fly View — real-time flight display with map, instruments, and full vehicle telemetry.
• Vehicle setup — guided wizards for sensor calibration, radio, flight modes, and power.
• Parameter tuning — inspect and edit every vehicle parameter through the Fact System.
• Video streaming — GStreamer-based UDP RTP / RTSP video with recording in the Flight Display.
• Multi-vehicle — connect to and monitor multiple vehicles simultaneously.
• MAVLink tooling — built-in MAVLink Inspector, console, and log download/analysis.
• Cross-platform — Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS from a single codebase.

Download

Grab the latest stable build for your platform, or see all assets on the releases page:

Links

• Official Website
• User Manual
• Developer Guide / Build Instructions
• Discussion & Support
• Dronecode Discord
• Security Policy
• Code of Conduct
• License

Contributing

QGC is open source and welcomes contributions. See AGENTS.md for build/test/lint commands and coding conventions, and .github/CONTRIBUTING.md for architecture patterns and the contribution workflow.

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