Wireless PRO

Rode Wireless Pro here. Very cheap these days and I use the original Rode Lavs for hiding the mic under the shirt. Works very well. Battery lasts a long time and internal 32bit float recording is nice to have. 

The pros last like a full day of shooting. Normal ones a little less but still five hours easily after multiple years of use. 

The RODE Wireless Pro is a superior product. It actually supports timecode (even just time-of-day timecode if you don't actually do timecode sync, which in and of itself is SUPER important), and it doesn't have a janky low quality internal clock that causes audio drift like the DJI Mic 2.

When they came out I chose those rode over the DJI mic 2.

Definitely different use cases for everybody. I've owned the Rode Wireless Pro set for a year and have never found myself using the lapel mics. So weird for me that switching to the Mic 3's made more sense for me, as I hate the size of the Rode mics; they're hard to conceal when you don't want to attach wires to people. DJI seems to be shifting their target audience to mobile content creators, hobbyists, vloggers, influencers, etc. Rode is the one catering to the higher end professional users who care about functionality over form factor.

This is the way. Just to add I'd look for the RODE mini if you're going with them since it's more inline with the iphone shooting style. If you're planning on moving on to shooting on a camera at some point I'd save up for the wireless pro.

I have these and they are amazing! 

Unless there's a specific feature or form factor that you REALLY liked with the DJI, I would probably just ride with the Rode (no pun intended). From what Ive read, they are very good quality, possibly better than the DJI. And I say that as someone who recently purchased a DJI Mic Mini and loves it.

I’ve used both, not sure if the Rode now comes with the magnet add-ons? Those really make the difference if you want your videos to look more professional. DJI mics come bundled with the magnets btw.

I believe these offer on board recording as well. When used with the Rode app, you can turn on that setting. I have the older model, with a firmware update about a year after purchase, I found the setting. It has saved me more than once when my receiver ran out of battery. They're also nice that you can set mic one and two to record on different channels into your camera. Comes in handy when you need to kill audio on one body without losing the other. I'm sure DJI offers something similar, but you know how blind loyalty works when a piece of equipment saves you one time.

I don't really get the naming convention. This is a downgrade for me as a professional. I just sold my Rode Wireless pro which has 32bit, a locking 3.5mm jack, but it was bulkier. I'm currently looking at Holland Max 2 since it is modular with the jack and the size it's ok. The DJI mic 3 is a lot like their mini and the Holland Mark M2, plus the 32 bit and timecode features at triple the price. Very unexpected