Comparison

Planes Control! vs Cleared to Land

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

Cleared to Land

Guide various aircraft to their landing zones in this lighthearted aviation game. Manage busy skies, avoid chaos, and enjoy hand-painted airfields with unique challenges. It's quick to play, easy to learn, and gets progressively more difficult.

Highlights
  • Fast landing gameplay
  • Multiple aircraft types
  • Distinct airfields
  • Daily challenges
  • Achievements
  • Optional upgrade
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Take the tower in Cleared to Land, a lighthearted aviation game about keeping busy skies moving. Guide planes, helicopters, and specialty aircraft toward the right landing zones, time your approaches, and avoid runway chaos as each airfield adds its own personality. It is quick to play, easy to understand, and steadily trickier once the traffic starts stacking up. Play across hand-painted airfields, chase daily challenges, collect achievements, and unlock a little extra polish with the optional First Class Pass. The whole thing has a warm 1950s travel-poster feel: cheerful, a bit ridiculous, and built for one more round. Features: - Fast, readable landing gameplay - Planes, helicopters, and themed aircraft - Distinct airfields with their own layouts and hazards - Daily challenges and score chasing - Achievements and progression - Optional First Class Pass upgrade No account is required. Just clear the pattern, line them up, and try not to make the evening news.

Screenshots

Planes Control!4 screens
Cleared to Land4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cleared to Land at none against Planes Control!'s 10. Cleared to Land also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 79%). Planes Control!'s advantage is ratings volume (7K vs 1) and update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months). On price 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. Cleared to Land asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Cleared to Land holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Planes Control! has 7K ratings behind it against 1, 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 Cleared to Land's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Planes Control! ships an update monthly, Cleared to Land every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Planes Control! versus Cleared to Land: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlanes Control!Cleared to Land
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (7K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews79.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings7K — better1
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB182 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAntonio Calvino EsquerDWAYNE COLLIN CHARRINGTON

Customer experience

Planes Control!

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

Cleared to Land

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 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

Cleared to Land

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
None

Cleared to Land

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Planes Control! free?
Planes Control! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Cleared to Land free?
Cleared to Land is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Planes Control! or Cleared to Land?
Cleared to Land is rated higher. Planes Control! averages 4.7 out of 5 from 7K ratings, while Cleared to Land averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Planes Control! or Cleared to Land have ads?
Planes Control! shows ads; Cleared to Land does not.
Which is updated more often, Planes Control! or Cleared to Land?
Planes Control! ships an update monthly, and Cleared to Land every 2 months. Most recently, Planes Control! was updated on November 1, 2026 and Cleared to Land on October 31, 2026.

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