Comparison

Planes Control! vs Cancer Crusade

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

Cancer Crusade

Simulate advanced cancer treatments as a doctor from the future. Design custom schedules for virtual patients, learn about real-life strategies, and help researchers discover new ways to combat cancer resistance.

Highlights
  • Treatment Simulator
  • Custom treatment schedules
  • Learn real-life strategies
  • Time-traveling gameplay
  • Tumor cell analysis
  • Balance treatment toxicity
Features
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You are a doctor from the future. With your Treatment Simulator, you can fight back against even the roughest cancer invasions. Design a custom treatment schedule for each virtual patient. The treatment schedules you design will be sent to researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center to help discover new strategies. Good luck, doctor! Cancer is a complex disease. Tumor cells are often able to evolve resistance and keep growing even when patients are given a variety of treatments. A predictive mathematical model is the core engine of this simulator and allows us to explore how to adjust treatment strategies to win against cancer in the long run. After being taught how to use the different therapies and progressing through levels that test your knowledge, you will treat randomized virtual patients with different traits to help us learn more about how to design treatment schedules to combat cancer resistance in real-life patients. In Cancer Crusade you will… • Learn about real-life cancer treatment strategies • Move back and forth in time to discover the best treatment plan • Use different scans to learn more about the tumor cells and find weak points • Improve patient quality of life by balancing treatment doses to be effective but not too toxic

Screenshots

Planes Control!4 screens
Cancer Crusade4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cancer Crusade at none against Planes Control!'s 10. Cancer Crusade also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 12.0). Planes Control!'s advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 11 months) and ratings volume (6.8K vs 11). On price, rating, review sentiment and device support 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. Cancer Crusade asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Planes Control! against 4.8 for Cancer Crusade. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Planes Control! has 6.8K ratings behind it against 11, 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, Cancer Crusade every 11 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and June 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Planes Control! versus Cancer Crusade: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlanes Control!Cancer Crusade
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (6.8K ratings)4.8 (11 ratings) — better
Positive reviews79.1% of reviews80.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings6.8K — better11
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 11 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.07.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB72 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperAntonio Calvino EsquerMoffitt Cancer Center

Customer experience

Planes Control!

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

Cancer Crusade

All ratings11 ratings
Positive90.9%
Neutral9.1%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Cancer Crusade

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

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
None

Cancer Crusade

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Planes Control! free?
Planes Control! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Cancer Crusade free?
Cancer Crusade is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Planes Control! or Cancer Crusade?
Cancer Crusade is rated higher. Planes Control! averages 4.7 out of 5 from 6.8K ratings, while Cancer Crusade averages 4.8 from 11 ratings.
Do Planes Control! or Cancer Crusade have ads?
Planes Control! shows ads; Cancer Crusade does not.
Which is updated more often, Planes Control! or Cancer Crusade?
Planes Control! ships an update monthly, and Cancer Crusade every 11 months. Most recently, Planes Control! was updated on September 24, 2026 and Cancer Crusade on June 3, 2026.

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