Comparison

Planes Control! vs Power Line Pro

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

Power Line Pro

Connect houses to a power station by directing electric wires. This challenging puzzle game offers over 500 levels across five difficulty categories. Test your logic and spatial reasoning to electrify every home.

Highlights
  • Connect houses to power station
  • Direct electric wire connections
  • Control power station output
  • Over 500 levels
  • Five difficulty categories
Features
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Power line pro is a simple and challenging puzzle game at the same time. To transport electricity to every house, you need to connect all the houses to the power station. Use your fingers to control the connection direction of electric wires, so as to achieve the purpose of electrifying. You can also use your finger to control the direction of the output current of the power station, in order to achieve the perfect goal of passing electricity through each house. 1. More than 500 levels. 2. Five classic category from easy to difficult.

Screenshots

Planes Control!4 screens
Power Line Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Planes Control! at 79% against Power Line Pro's 0%. Planes Control! also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.8) and update cadence (monthly vs every 9 months). Power Line Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10). On price, ads 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. Power Line Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Planes Control! holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Planes Control! has 6.8K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 79% of Planes Control!'s written reviews are positive against 0% of Power Line Pro's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Planes Control! ships an update monthly, Power Line Pro every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Planes Control! versus Power Line Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlanes Control!Power Line Pro
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (6.8K ratings) — better3.8 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews79.1% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings6.8K — better5
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 9 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB59 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAntonio Calvino Esquer广才 杜

Customer experience

Planes Control!

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

Power Line Pro

All ratings5 ratings
Positive60.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative50.0%

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

Power Line Pro

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

Power Line Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Planes Control! free?
Planes Control! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Power Line Pro free?
Power Line Pro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Planes Control! or Power Line Pro?
Planes Control! is rated higher. Planes Control! averages 4.7 out of 5 from 6.8K ratings, while Power Line Pro averages 3.8 from 5 ratings.
Do Planes Control! or Power Line Pro have ads?
Both Planes Control! and Power Line Pro show ads.
Which is updated more often, Planes Control! or Power Line Pro?
Planes Control! ships an update monthly, and Power Line Pro every 9 months. Most recently, Planes Control! was updated on October 16, 2026 and Power Line Pro on October 14, 2026.

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