Comparison

Planes Control! vs Pixel Pro Tennis

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

Pixel Pro Tennis

Experience addictive arcade tennis with realistic gesture controls and authentic physics. Compete in quick matches or embark on a global career, upgrading skills and tactics to conquer Grand Slams. Enjoy beautiful pixel art across over 40 unique arenas.

Highlights
  • Realistic gesture-based controls
  • Career mode with global tournaments
  • Over 40 unique tournaments
  • Skill upgrades and tactic tweaking
  • Beautiful pixel-art graphics
  • Quick play matches
  • Game Center leaderboards and achievements
Features
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Pixel Pro Tennis is a unique and addicting arcade tennis game, that combines realistic gesture controls with authentic physics and beautiful pixel-art. Use the unique and simple touch controls to hit everything from a lob, to a slice, to a gloriously satisfying top-spin winner. Complete a quick match on grass, clay or hard court in just with a few minutes. Or start a Career, and take your player around the world and into the Grand Slams. Choose your tournaments, upgrade your skills and tweak your tactics for your next opponent. Play through over 40 gorgeously pixelated arenas, each carefully crafted with unique playing conditions and payoffs. Watch the tour news as you try to achieve your career dreams. Earn ranking points and rise up the world rankings, unlocking different tours until you reach the Grand Slams and hit the top spot.  Finish a tournament high enough to earn winnings and skill points, that you can use to upgrade everything from your serve power to court speed. Alternatively, use your skill points to play more tournaments each season. Challenge friends over Game Center, with achievements and leaderboards for all the courses. FEATURES: Realistic gesture based controls Over 40 unique tournaments Over 250 unique opponents Addictive, fun gameplay Beautiful pixel-art Skill upgrades Quick play Career mode Tour news feed Career dream achievements Game Centre leaderboards, achievements and challenges Custom number of sets per match Multiple difficulty settings

Screenshots

Planes Control!4 screens
Pixel Pro Tennis4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Planes Control! at 79% against Pixel Pro Tennis's 29%. Planes Control! also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.1) and update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 Pixel Pro Tennis sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Planes Control! holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Planes Control! has 7K ratings behind it against 457, 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 29% of Pixel Pro Tennis's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Planes Control! ships an update monthly, Pixel Pro Tennis every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Planes Control! versus Pixel Pro Tennis: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlanes Control!Pixel Pro Tennis
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (7K ratings) — better4.1 (457 ratings)
Positive reviews79.1% of reviews — better29.1% of reviews
Number of ratings7K — better457
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 3 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB86 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAntonio Calvino EsquerPixamo

Customer experience

Planes Control!

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

Pixel Pro Tennis

All ratings450 ratings
Positive75.8%
Neutral4.2%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews55 reviews
Positive29.1%
Neutral12.7%
Negative58.2%

User reviews

Planes Control!

From 7K 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

Pixel Pro Tennis

From 457 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Excellent game
  • 🚀 Fun and addictive
  • ⭐ Great graphics and details
  • 💪 Challenging but rewarding

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Unreliable controls and movement
  • 🤯 Frustrating and buggy gameplay
  • 📢 Excessive ads and paywalls
  • 🤖 Poor AI and opponent behavior

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

Pixel Pro Tennis

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Serves cannot be returned
  • Player movement issues
  • Inconsistent hit registration
  • Glitches in tournament mode

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add multiplayer mode
  • Improve serve mechanics
  • Introduce difficulty settings
  • Expand customization options

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
Show 7 more
  • 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
7 purchases

Pixel Pro Tennis

One-time7
  • Unlock Multiple Save Slots$0.99
  • Unlock All Players$0.99
  • Unlock Set Lengths$0.99
Show 4 more
  • Unlock Player Editing$0.99
  • Unlock Quick Match Tournaments$0.99
  • Remove Ads$2.99
  • Unlock Everything$4.99

Questions

Is Planes Control! free?
Planes Control! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pixel Pro Tennis free?
Pixel Pro Tennis is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Planes Control! or Pixel Pro Tennis?
Planes Control! is rated higher. Planes Control! averages 4.7 out of 5 from 7K ratings, while Pixel Pro Tennis averages 4.1 from 457 ratings.
Do Planes Control! or Pixel Pro Tennis have ads?
Both Planes Control! and Pixel Pro Tennis show ads.
Which is updated more often, Planes Control! or Pixel Pro Tennis?
Planes Control! ships an update monthly, and Pixel Pro Tennis every 3 months. Most recently, Planes Control! was updated on October 26, 2026 and Pixel Pro Tennis on October 23, 2026.

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