Comparison

Planes Control! vs Harbor King

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

Harbor King

Manage ship traffic in a fast-paced line-drawing game. Guide vessels to docks, prevent collisions, and keep the harbor clear. Earn rewards to extend your gameplay and achieve high scores.

Highlights
  • Draw safe ship routes
  • Guide ships to correct docks
  • Manage multiple vessels
  • Prevent collisions
  • Collect coins for rewards
  • Buy extra lives
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Draw safe routes. Guide ships to dock. Keep the harbor moving. Harbor King is a real-time ship traffic game that puts you in charge of a busy port. Draw a path for each boat, guide it to the correct dock to unload, then send it safely back out to sea. Watch every route: one collision can disrupt your run. DRAW, DOCK AND DEPART • Guide small boats and large cargo ships by drawing lines across the water. • Bring each vessel to the right dock to unload its cargo. • Keep dock entrances clear and plan around ships already on the move. • Lead ships out of the harbor once unloading is complete. KEEP TRAFFIC UNDER CONTROL As more vessels arrive, routes cross and dock space becomes limited. Plan ahead, react quickly and manage several ships at once. Different boats bring different handling challenges, making timing and route planning essential. COLLECT COINS AND CONTINUE YOUR RUN Draw through coin lines to collect coins along your route. Spin the daily wheel for additional rewards, then use coins to buy extra lives and continue after a mistake. QUICK ROUNDS, GROWING CHALLENGES Harbor King combines route drawing, time management and fast decisions in short play sessions. Each arrival gives you another path to plan and another collision to avoid. Take charge of the port and guide every ship safely home.

Screenshots

Planes Control!4 screens
Harbor King4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Planes Control! at 79% against Harbor King's 0%. Planes Control! also leads on rating (4.7 vs 2.0) and ratings volume (6.8K vs 2). Harbor King's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 9 days vs monthly). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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 and Harbor King sells 5 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 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Planes Control! has 6.8K ratings behind it against 2, 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 Harbor King's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Planes Control! ships an update monthly, Harbor King every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Planes Control! versus Harbor King: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlanes Control!Harbor King
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (6.8K ratings) — better2.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews79.1% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings6.8K — better2
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 9 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB172 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAntonio Calvino EsquerINFOSTRING TECHNOLABS PRIVATE LIMITED

Customer experience

Planes Control!

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

Harbor King

All ratings2 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral40.0%
Negative60.0%

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

Harbor King

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
5 purchases

Harbor King

One-time5
  • 1000 Coins$0.99
  • 2500 Coins$2.99
  • 5000 Coins$3.99
Show 2 more
  • 10000 Coins$5.99
  • 20000 Coins$7.99

Questions

Is Planes Control! free?
Planes Control! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Harbor King free?
Harbor King is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Planes Control! or Harbor King?
Planes Control! is rated higher. Planes Control! averages 4.7 out of 5 from 6.8K ratings, while Harbor King averages 2.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Planes Control! or Harbor King have ads?
Planes Control! shows ads; Harbor King does not.
Which is updated more often, Planes Control! or Harbor King?
Planes Control! ships an update monthly, and Harbor King every 9 days. Most recently, Planes Control! was updated on October 3, 2026 and Harbor King on September 21, 2026.

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