Comparison

Planes Control! vs School Time 3D

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

School Time 3D

Navigate a boy through a maze-like school environment, avoiding obstacles and challenges to reach the destination on time. Collect bonuses and power-ups while using strategy to find the best path. This adventure game tests skills and reflexes, offering educational benefits in time management and problem-solving.

Highlights
  • Maze-like school navigation
  • Obstacle avoidance
  • Time-based challenges
  • Bonus and power-up collection
  • Multiple difficulty levels
  • Time management education
Features
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The game is set in a high school or middle school, and the player must guide the boy through a maze-like environment, avoiding obstacles and challenges along the way. The goal of the game is to reach the target destination before time runs out, while also collecting bonuses and power-ups along the way. The player must use their wits and strategy to find the best path through the school Multiple levels, each with a different target destination and set of challenges. As the player progresses through the levels, the challenges will become more difficult, requiring more skill and strategy to complete. Overall, "School Time" is an exciting and challenging adventure game that will test the player's skills and reflexes as they navigate through the school's lobbies and hallways to reach their target on time. This game can be a fun way to educate on time management, problem solving and to some extent map reading and spatial awareness. A portion of our revenue will be given to charitable causes. Smashin Games has decided to go the route of "paid app" to eliminate the use of annoying ads and have more control what kids see to make sure quality remains intact.

Screenshots

Planes Control!4 screens
School Time 3D4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Planes Control! at Free against School Time 3D's $2.99. Planes Control! also leads on ratings volume (6.8K vs 6). School Time 3D's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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; School Time 3D costs $2.99 up front. Planes Control! sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and School Time 3D sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

School Time 3D holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Planes Control! has 6.8K ratings behind it against 6, 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 100% of School Time 3D's.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Planes Control! versus School Time 3D: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlanes Control!School Time 3D
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating4.7 (6.8K ratings)5.0 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews79.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings6.8K — better6
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB442 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAntonio Calvino EsquerNavinium Investments, LLC

Customer experience

Planes Control!

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

School Time 3D

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
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

School Time 3D

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
4 purchases

School Time 3D

One-time4
  • Coin Pack 1$1.99
  • Coin pack 2$3.99
  • Coin pack 3$5.99
Show 1 more
  • Coin pack 4$12.99

Questions

Is Planes Control! free?
Planes Control! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is School Time 3D free?
School Time 3D costs $2.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Planes Control! or School Time 3D?
School Time 3D is rated higher. Planes Control! averages 4.7 out of 5 from 6.8K ratings, while School Time 3D averages 5.0 from 6 ratings.
Do Planes Control! or School Time 3D have ads?
Planes Control! shows ads; School Time 3D does not.

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