Comparison

Planes Control! vs VelociDrone

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

VelociDrone

Experience realistic drone racing on your mobile device. Compete against others on leaderboards with full flight playback. Supports various drone classes and cross-platform play with the desktop version.

Highlights
  • Multiple drone classes
  • Leaderboard racing
  • Full flight playback
  • Cross-platform play
  • Track downloads from desktop
Features
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Drone racing simulator for mobile devices. Includes 5" racing drones, 5" freestyle drones, Mega class drones, Toothpick drones and micro drones. Race against the leaderboards with full playback of other racers flights from the leaderboards. Race against desktop players as well as mobile. Integrated with the desktop version of velocidrone so that tracks can be downloaded from the desktop version of the simulator. The simulator has touch controls but for best results we recommend using your own real life racing drone controller, for example RadioMaster T16, Frsky Taranis, TBS Tango or Mambo. Controllers can be connected via ELRS wifi or by using an apple approve MFi bluetooth device.

Screenshots

Planes Control!4 screens
VelociDrone4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Planes Control! at Free against VelociDrone's $7.99. Planes Control! also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.2) and review sentiment (79% vs 42%). VelociDrone's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and ads (none vs shown). On 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

Planes Control! is free to download; VelociDrone costs $7.99 up front. Planes Control! sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. VelociDrone asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Planes Control! holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Planes Control! has 6.8K ratings behind it against 37, 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 42% of VelociDrone's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Planes Control! ships an update monthly, VelociDrone every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard10 real differences · 1 level
Planes Control! versus VelociDrone: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlanes Control!VelociDrone
PriceFree — better$7.99
Rating4.7 (6.8K ratings) — better3.2 (37 ratings)
Positive reviews79.1% of reviews — better41.9% of reviews
Number of ratings6.8K — better37
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank—#60 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB915 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAntonio Calvino EsquerBat Cave Games Limited

Customer experience

Planes Control!

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

VelociDrone

All ratings37 ratings
Positive48.6%
Neutral10.8%
Negative40.5%
Written reviews62 reviews
Positive41.9%
Neutral11.3%
Negative46.8%

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

VelociDrone

From 37 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Great physics simulation
  • 🚀 Good performance on mobile
  • 📱 Works on iPhone and iPad
  • 💻 Similar to PC version
  • ✨ Best mobile simulator

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Controller connection issues
  • 🤔 Difficult controller setup
  • 📉 Dated graphics
  • 🤷‍♂️ Lack of clear instructions
  • 💸 Not worth the price for some

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

VelociDrone

Reported bugs

17 issues
  • ELRS WiFi controllers not connecting reliably
  • Camera FOV resets to default
  • Controller connection takes multiple restarts
  • No stick movement shown in visualization
  • Drone resets to start
Show 12 more
  • Throttle and yaw stop working inexplicably
  • Controller not recognized in input page
  • App gets stuck at loading after connecting WiFi controllers
  • Sporadic WiFi controller connection
  • Settings for quality, resolution, and FPS don't work
  • Controller link breaks, input screen no longer shows controller
  • Cannot connect to DJI FPV Controller 3
  • Cannot connect to Tango 2
  • Cannot connect to TX16S
  • TBS Tango 2 not found by game
  • Sign in issues every time app is opened
  • Digital controllers are buggy

Requested features

10 requests
  • Add more levels/maps
  • Implement a level editor
  • Add battery mode
  • Improve controller setup instructions/tutorials
  • Add Russian language support
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  • Add Chinese subtitles/localization
  • Allow direct Bluetooth controller connection
  • Add tutorial for beginners
  • Allow offline play without login
  • Improve sound design

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
None

VelociDrone

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Planes Control! free?
Planes Control! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is VelociDrone free?
VelociDrone costs $7.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Planes Control! or VelociDrone?
Planes Control! is rated higher. Planes Control! averages 4.7 out of 5 from 6.8K ratings, while VelociDrone averages 3.2 from 37 ratings.
Do Planes Control! or VelociDrone have ads?
Planes Control! shows ads; VelociDrone does not.
Which is updated more often, Planes Control! or VelociDrone?
Planes Control! ships an update monthly, and VelociDrone every 2 months. Most recently, Planes Control! was updated on October 16, 2026 and VelociDrone on October 17, 2026.

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