Comparison

Planes Control! vs Air Traffic Master

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

Air Traffic Master

Guide aircraft to their runways by drawing flight paths. Manage incoming planes, helicopters, and gliders to prevent collisions and ensure safe landings. Experience dynamic weather and diverse airfields across numerous missions.

Highlights
  • Draw flight paths for aircraft
  • Prevent mid-air collisions
  • Guide planes to designated runways
  • Manage diverse aircraft types
  • Experience dynamic weather conditions
  • Play through 32 career missions
  • Offline gameplay
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Take the tower. Planes, gliders and helicopters stream in from every edge of the screen, and only your finger stands between a calm shift and a mid-air collision. Draw a route, guide each aircraft to its own runway, keep them apart, and bring every last one home. HOW IT PLAYS Swipe a line from any aircraft to its runway: red planes to the red runway, yellow light planes to the yellow strip, helicopters to the helipad. A route locks when it reaches the runway's landing end from the right direction. Red runways carry a triangle and yellow runways a disc, so you can tell them apart without relying on colour. Easy to learn — then the traffic builds, routes tangle, and one collision ends your shift. CAREER: 32 MISSIONS, 96 STARS Four airfields, eight missions each. Land the numbers, keep a clean streak, survive the rush hour, bring the medevac home before its clock runs out. Complete a mission to unlock the next, and earn up to three stars on each — the briefing shows exactly what every star needs. FOUR AIRFIELDS • Forest Airpark — a quiet strip by a winding river • Glacier Bay — icy approaches over a frozen bay • Tropic Shore — beach runways with thatched hut hangars • Desert Outpost — runways among the dunes (unlocks with 12 career stars; locked in endless mode until then) WEATHER THAT CHANGES THE GAME Career missions bring wind that speeds aircraft up or slows them down and pushes idle ones off course, storm cells that strike aircraft flying into them and erase their routes, fog banks and sandstorms that hide the traffic, and night shifts where lit runways show the way. A picture card explains each hazard the first time you meet it, and FIELD GUIDE in the pause menu keeps them all. SIX KINDS OF AIRCRAFT Prop planes, light planes and helicopters fly in every mode; fast jets, heavy cargo planes and medevac helicopters on a countdown of about 30 seconds join them in career missions. MADE WITH CARE A warm retro look — stitched leather, polished brass, cream logbook paper — with painterly top-down art, runway lights that guide you in, music and haptic feedback. Plays on phones and tablets, and works offline. • One-finger controls • Endless mode with classic traffic and a high score for every airfield • 2× fast-forward when the skies are quiet • Rewind after a crash by watching an optional video ad • No account, no in-app purchases ADS Air Traffic Master is supported by ads: an ad may appear when you leave the game-over screen, and REWIND (marked WATCH AD) is an optional rewarded video. The game itself plays offline; ads need a connection. Made by UO Games, a small indie studio. Say hello at uo-games.com — clear skies and happy landings!

Screenshots

Planes Control!4 screens
Air Traffic Master4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Planes Control! at 79% against Air Traffic Master's 0%. Planes Control! also leads on rating (4.7 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (7K vs 1). Air Traffic Master's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and update cadence (weekly vs monthly). On price, ads 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. Air Traffic Master asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Planes Control! holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 1.0. 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 0% of Air Traffic Master's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Planes Control! ships an update monthly, Air Traffic Master weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Planes Control! versus Air Traffic Master: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlanes Control!Air Traffic Master
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (7K ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews79.1% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings7K — better1
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB67 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAntonio Calvino EsquerUmut OZCINGIRAK

Customer experience

Planes Control!

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

Air Traffic Master

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

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

Air Traffic Master

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
None

Air Traffic Master

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Planes Control! free?
Planes Control! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Air Traffic Master free?
Air Traffic Master is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Planes Control! or Air Traffic Master?
Planes Control! is rated higher. Planes Control! averages 4.7 out of 5 from 7K ratings, while Air Traffic Master averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Planes Control! or Air Traffic Master have ads?
Both Planes Control! and Air Traffic Master show ads.
Which is updated more often, Planes Control! or Air Traffic Master?
Planes Control! ships an update monthly, and Air Traffic Master weekly. Most recently, Planes Control! was updated on November 1, 2026 and Air Traffic Master on October 31, 2026.

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