Comparison

Planes Control! vs Airport Control 2

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 Control 2

Manage airport ground traffic by drawing paths to guide planes and prevent crashes. This challenging yet fun casual simulator tests your multitasking skills while earning money and unlocking new stations.

Highlights
  • Draw paths to control plane movement
  • Manage airport ground security
  • Serve incoming airplanes to earn money
  • Unlock and upgrade airport stations
  • Experience weather effects
  • Test multitasking abilities
Features
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It's a sequel to the simple path drawing game Airport Control. Your job is to manage airport ground traffic by drawing a path to guide the planes. Ground airport security is your duty to prevent airplane crashes. It's a simple but challenging game! It's a fun, addicting casual game to play while free. This free casual Airport Simulator game also tests your brain's multitasking ability. GAMEPLAY - Boarding, Warehouse, Fueling, Maintenance, Emergency Repair. - Earn money by serving incoming airplanes. - Unlock and upgrade stations. GRAPHICS - Beautiful and relaxing graphics. - Different types of maps. - Environment effects: rain, storm, cloudy day.

Screenshots

Planes Control!4 screens
Airport Control 24 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Planes Control! at 6.8K against Airport Control 2's 113. On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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 Control 2 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 Control 2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Planes Control! has 6.8K ratings behind it against 113, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 79% of Planes Control!'s written reviews are positive against 78% of Airport Control 2's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Planes Control! versus Airport Control 2: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlanes Control!Airport Control 2
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (6.8K ratings) — better4.7 (113 ratings)
Positive reviews79.1% of reviews — better77.8% of reviews
Number of ratings6.8K — better113
Update frequencyMonthlyMonthly
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 MB51 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 Control 2

All ratings108 ratings
Positive93.5%
Neutral2.8%
Negative3.7%
Written reviews27 reviews
Positive77.8%
Neutral11.1%
Negative11.1%

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 Control 2

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
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
1 purchases

Airport Control 2

One-time1
  • Remove Ads.$1.99

Questions

Is Planes Control! free?
Planes Control! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Airport Control 2 free?
Airport Control 2 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Planes Control! or Airport Control 2?
Planes Control! is rated higher. Planes Control! averages 4.7 out of 5 from 6.8K ratings, while Airport Control 2 averages 4.7 from 113 ratings.
Do Planes Control! or Airport Control 2 have ads?
Both Planes Control! and Airport Control 2 show ads.
Which is updated more often, Planes Control! or Airport Control 2?
Planes Control! ships an update monthly, and Airport Control 2 monthly. Most recently, Planes Control! was updated on October 20, 2026 and Airport Control 2 on October 19, 2026.

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