Comparison

Planes Control! vs Qube it

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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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

Qube it

Features
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Remember when arcades ruled the world? Cube-it brings back the golden age: one pyramid, one hero, and a single goal — bounce across an isometric pyramid and flip every cube to its target colour before Coily the snake catches you. Dodge the tumbling ball, hitch a ride on an escape disk, and climb level after level as the puzzle tightens. One-tap diagonal hops, pure arcade pace, and an optional colour-blind assist so everyone can read the board. Simple to pick up, tricky to master. HOW IT PLAYS • Hop diagonally from cube to cube — every landing repaints the cube • Repaint the whole pyramid to clear the level • Dodge the bouncing balls, and watch out for the purple snake that hatches mid-level and hunts you down • Jump onto a floating disk at the pyramid's edge to escape — and lure the snake off the cliff for a fat bonus • From level 3 things get spicy: some rounds need two hops per cube, and in later rounds re-hopping a finished cube UNDOES it MADE LIKE IT'S 1982 • Authentic isometric pyramid with chunky, hand-shaded cubes • Crunchy synthesized arcade sound effects • Attract mode: the game plays itself until you jump in, just like the cabinets did • Fresh color scheme every level • Difficulty that ramps the way arcade games used to — fair, then ferocious MODERN WHERE IT COUNTS • Game Center leaderboard and achievements — climb to the top of the pyramid • Plays in portrait or landscape, controls tuned for thumbs • No ads, no tracking, no account FREE TO PLAY, HONESTLY Play 2 minutes per day at normal speed for free. After that the game runs 5× faster (which is its own kind of fun). A single one-time purchase removes the limit forever — no subscriptions, no coins, no nonsense. One more hop. You know you want to.

Screenshots

Planes Control!4 screens
Qube it3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Qube it at none against Planes Control!'s shown. Planes Control!'s advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases 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 Qube it sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Planes Control! ships an update monthly, Qube it fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Planes Control! versus Qube it: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlanes Control!Qube it
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (6.8K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews79.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings6.8K — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyFortnightly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAntonio Calvino EsquerAnton Popov

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

Qube it

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
1 purchases

Qube it

One-time1
  • Remove Full Speed Mode$1.99

Questions

Is Planes Control! free?
Planes Control! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Qube it free?
Qube it is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Planes Control! or Qube it have ads?
Planes Control! shows ads; Qube it does not.
Which is updated more often, Planes Control! or Qube it?
Planes Control! ships an update monthly, and Qube it fortnightly. Most recently, Planes Control! was updated on September 24, 2026 and Qube it on September 17, 2026.

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