Comparison

Planes Control! vs Airport

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Planes Control!

Guide aircraft to safe landings while avoiding hazards like storms and enemy attacks. Control over 60 different planes and helicopters across 13 challenging levels. Engage in aerial combat, fight wildfires, and manage air traffic in this addictive simulation game.

Highlights
  • Draw flight paths for aircraft
  • Avoid collisions and environmental hazards
  • Pilot over 60 types of planes and helicopters
  • Engage in aerial combat
  • Fight wildfires with air tankers
  • Navigate diverse and challenging levels
Features
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Take control of the sky and land your planes avoiding collisions and enemies. Guide your planes to ensure safe landing in this incredibly easy to learn yet surprisingly addictive game! Get an adrenalin rush while avoiding dangerous collisions, blazing storms and tornadoes, put out forest fire, get ready to repel an attack of enemy fighters and fight off an alien invasion! GAMEPLAY Planes Control is an game with simple controls. Draw lines with your fingers to determine the path each plane will follow as they find their way to land or to engage the enemy. This sounds easy? You will need fast fingers and strategy to manage all your planes and keep the sky under control. AIRCRAFTS You can navigate more than 60 different planes and helicopters including airliners, WWII fighters, jet planes and tilt rotors while playing Planes Control. Beside this, you will enjoy flying the SR-71 Black Bird (the world's fastest plane), the Antonov 225 (the largest aircraft in the world to fly multiple times) and famous combat planes like the Mitsubishi A6M Zero, the F-14 Tomcat or the Apache AH-64 combat helicopter. LEVELS Planes Control has 13 awesome levels for mobile devices plus 6 new levels full of challenges created for tablets. More levels are on the way. • Earn your wings on a holiday resort, guiding your planes and helicopters. • Aerial combat! Shoot down hostile planes and helicopters over the scorching desert. • Air Tankers: Fight wildfires by dropping water with your planes and helicopters. • Storm Carrier landings: Command your military fighters and helicopters between the clouds and rain. • Navigate canyons in the Arizona’s Desert. • Successfully land your Aircraft during a tornado outbreak. • Night landings: Switch your landing lights on and find your way around the airfield. • Keep an eye on emergency calls and give priority landing to the planes that are running out of fuel. • Avoid cargo planes flying around your air space. • Land your planes in the middle of an alien invasion ! READY FOR A CHALLENGE? Earn new and different achievements in every level and challenge yourself to the limit. Please sit back, fasten your seatbelt and enjoy taking control of the sky – download Planes Control now! ⓘ For the latest inside information from Rarepixels: ► Like us at https://www.facebook.com/planesApp ► Visit us at http://rarepixels.com/games/planes-control/ ► Follow us at https://www.twitter.com/planes_control

About

Airport

Take on the role of an airport manager and control air traffic by drawing paths for planes. Successfully land and depart aircraft to earn money, upgrade your airport, and unlock new stations. This game tests your multitasking skills and offers various levels and modes.

Highlights
  • Control airport traffic by drawing paths
  • Guide airplanes for landing and departure
  • Earn money to upgrade and open new stations
  • Multiple levels with increasing difficulty
  • Endless mode with leaderboards and achievements
  • Day-night cycle with weather effects
Features
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Play the role of airport manager and control the airport traffic. Be an airport control tower and guide airplanes simply by drawing paths and manage the chaos of the airport. Best way to Kill Free Time. This game also tests your brain's multitasking ability. Gameplay and features: Guide the airplanes towards the runway to land and serve them as required. Earn money by successfully departing airplanes on time and use the money to upgrade and open new stations. Lots of Levels with increasing difficulty and six endless mode levels with global leaderboards and many achievements to unlock. Rainy days and cloudy days with the day-night cycle.

Screenshots

Planes Control!4 screens
Airport4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Planes Control! at monthly against Airport's every 5 months. Planes Control! also leads on ratings volume (6.8K vs 415). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Planes Control! sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Airport sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Planes Control! against 4.7 for Airport. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Planes Control! has 6.8K ratings behind it against 415, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 79% and 80% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Planes Control! ships an update monthly, Airport every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Planes Control! versus Airport: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlanes Control!Airport
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (6.8K ratings)4.7 (415 ratings)
Positive reviews79.1% of reviews80.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings6.8K — better415
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 5 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.012.0
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB50 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAntonio Calvino Esquermukesh patel

Customer experience

Planes Control!

All ratings6,833 ratings
Positive94.0%
Neutral2.9%
Negative3.0%
Written reviews421 reviews
Positive79.1%
Neutral8.1%
Negative12.8%

Airport

All ratings415 ratings
Positive92.8%
Neutral5.1%
Negative2.2%
Written reviews70 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral8.6%
Negative11.4%

User reviews

Planes Control!

From 6.8K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Fun game
  • 👍 Simple yet challenging
  • 🚀 Addictive gameplay
  • 👍 Good variety of levels
  • 🚀 Responsive controls

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes and bugs
  • 🔋 Drains battery quickly
  • 🐛 Progress not saved
  • 🐛 Collision detection issues
  • 🐛 Planes spawning off-screen

Airport

From 415 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 😊 Highly addictive and fun gameplay
  • ⏱️ Excellent time management mechanics
  • 🧠 Great for stress relief and mental stimulation
  • 📱 Works offline without internet required
  • 🎮 Simple yet engaging mechanics

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Level 32 is broken/endless
  • 📢 Forced ads after every level
  • 🔇 Mutes background music automatically
  • 💰 Limited content without paying
  • 🎮 Unclear level objectives/instructions

Bugs and requests

Planes Control!

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Game freezes on iOS 14
  • High score not recorded correctly
  • Planes colliding off-screen
  • Notification bar interfering with gameplay

Requested features

5 requests
  • More level options and customization
  • Ability to pause and resume games
  • Improved tutorial and instructions
  • Difficulty settings for each level
  • Leaderboards and achievements

Airport

Reported bugs

10 issues
  • Level 32 never ends - planes keep spawning infinitely
  • Level 11 doesn't award stars despite meeting criteria
  • Ghost plane appears and crashes into boarding bays
  • Game crashes immediately on app startup
  • Planes can land/takeoff from locked runways
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  • Planes explode randomly causing money loss
  • Level 36 has ghost plane issues
  • Progress data disappears without explanation
  • Unclear level completion targets
  • Star rating not properly awarded

Requested features

10 requests
  • More levels and content
  • Different airport variations
  • Boat/port management version
  • Additional terminal features (plane washing, etc.)
  • Customizable terminal layout
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  • Plane priority/classification guide
  • More endless mode variations
  • First class passengers and food services
  • Better grammar in instructions
  • Skip level option

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Planes Control!

One-time10
  • Pack of 5× Rescue Teams.$0.99
  • Unlock all HD Levels$0.99
  • Classic levels$0.99
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  • Unlock "Time Machine" levels!$0.99
  • Unlock "10th Anniversary" levels!$0.99
  • Three crashes per game.$1.99
  • Classic levels and no ads$2.99
  • Pack of 20× Rescue Teams.$2.99
  • No Ads.$2.99
  • Pack of 50× Rescue Teams.$4.99
1 purchases

Airport

One-time1
  • Airport Control adFree$1.99

Questions

Is Planes Control! free?
Planes Control! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Airport free?
Airport is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Planes Control! or Airport?
Planes Control! and Airport are both rated 4.7 out of 5 on the App Store, from 6.8K and 415 ratings respectively.
Do Planes Control! or Airport have ads?
Both Planes Control! and Airport show ads.
Which is updated more often, Planes Control! or Airport?
Planes Control! ships an update monthly, and Airport every 5 months. Most recently, Planes Control! was updated on September 22, 2026 and Airport on September 13, 2026.

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