Titan Ground Control is Titan Dynamics' fork of QGroundControl, the open-source ground control station for MAVLink-enabled drones. It keeps everything QGC offers, including flight control, mission planning and vehicle setup for PX4 and ArduPilot, and adds an AI flight assistant, Mission Planner's 3D map, a head-up display, internet ADS-B traffic with avoidance, and a reworked Fly View.
Download the latest release (installers for Windows x64 and ARM, a macOS disk image, Linux AppImages for x86_64 and for 64-bit ARM such as the Raspberry Pi 5 (64-bit Raspberry Pi OS based on Debian 13), and an Android APK) or the development build, which has the same. It installs alongside QGroundControl and fetches its own updates from the Help page.
This page covers what's new in the fork. For general QGC usage and building, see Upstream Resources.
- Settings and configuration pages open split-screen by default on desktop, so you never lose sight of the map or video feed while you change parameters or other settings.
- Move the video box freely around the screen.
- Fly and configure the vehicle in plain English, powered by Anthropic's Claude: arm, take off, go to a point, change altitude, heading or speed, orbit, switch modes, run missions, or read and write parameters.
- Voice in and out: optional speech-to-text (Groq Whisper) and spoken replies, even with the app's other sounds muted.
- Knows the vehicle: ArduCopter, ArduPlane, QuadPlane/VTOL and PX4, each with the right modes and commands.
- Multi-step sequences ("arm, take off to 30 m, then fly north 100 m"), each step tracked live.
- Points of interest added from the map (Add POI) and named in commands ("orbit POI 2").
- Confirmation prompts for dangerous commands, and no disarming in flight.
Set it up under Application Settings → Titan AI (Claude API key required; Groq key optional, for voice).
- Toolbar: a red Arm / Disarm button, buttons for your ArduPilot
FLTMODE1–FLTMODE6modes with short names, a messages icon with an unread-message badge, and every status indicator after the modes (GPS, battery and RC first), leaving the right end to the Titan Dynamics logo. - Telemetry panel of tiles you set up in place: any value as a number or a bar, with caution and warning levels, in the order, columns and size you choose, kept per vehicle type. Batteries add their consumption per kilometre.
- Guided action confirmations in a centered popup, with Don't show again.
- Richer battery tooltip, smooth mouse-wheel zoom anchored at the cursor, a frosted-glass toolbar, and camera controls hidden until you turn them on.
- Swarms connect quietly: no dialog to dismiss for each vehicle after the first.
- Picture-in-picture you can drag, resize, swap into the main view, or hide into a small button; widgets in its corner move out of its way.
- Aspect ratio right under the video source, where Auto takes the stream's own.
- USB cameras plugged in while the app runs join the source list, which a Refresh button also updates.
- USB cameras and capture cards on Android, through the app's own driver, on devices where Android doesn't offer them to apps.
- Old-TV static while there's no picture.
- Mission Planner's 3D map, ported from TitanPlanner: satellite terrain with real elevation, the vehicle model with its heading lines and trail, the mission and ADS-B traffic, seen from Mission Planner's chase, FPV or free-look cameras. It reads the 2D map's tile cache, so cached tiles work offline.
- Full screen or split: the Fly View tool strip's 3D button shows it in place of the 2D map, or beside it with Split-screen on. Configure it under Application Settings → 3D Map.
- Every connected vehicle: the one you follow drawn solid and the rest half transparent, as on the 2D map, each in a pulsing ring under its name so it stands out however far off. Switching vehicles flies the camera over to the new one and starts its trail afresh.
- A fighter-style head-up display: flight path marker, pitch ladder, heading, speed and altitude tapes, waypoint, home and wind, battery, and link, GPS, EKF and vibration status that stays quiet until something is off.
- Over the video (on by default, in your choice of size and color) or as the instrument panel, over a synthetic horizon.
- Traffic from the internet without a receiver, from adsb.fi (non-commercial use only) or an ADSBExchange-style server such as adsb.lol, nearest first, within the radius and number of aircraft you choose. Turn it on under Application Settings → ADSB Server.
- Sent to the autopilot for avoidance, with the aircraft it flags as threats shown in red.
- An icon for each kind of aircraft, with its details on hover or tap.
- Link Stats, as in TitanPlanner: bytes and packets each way, lost packets, link quality, the longest gap between packets, and a chart of the link's bandwidth.
- Split view: Settings and Vehicle Configuration open beside the map, which stays usable, or at full width, as you last left them.
- Polished settings, vehicle configuration and parameter pages that fit the half-width panel.
- Updates under Application Settings → Help, from the stable releases or the development builds, beside links to the source code and releases.
- Orange accent theme and Titan Dynamics branding.
- Defaults: Google hybrid maps, the compass's extra heading indicators, the HUD over the video, a ready-made telemetry panel, camera controls hidden, guided altitude up to 10 km with no go-to distance limit, audio muted on first run, and the indoor theme on mobile.
Titan Ground Control tracks upstream QGroundControl. For everything not specific to this fork, the official QGC documentation applies:
- User Manual
- Developer Guide and build instructions; the Qt and CMake versions this fork builds with are in TITAN_AGENTS.md
- Contributing
- License Information
Titan Ground Control is open source under the same license as QGroundControl.