Comparison

Planes Control! vs Runway Rush

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

Runway Rush

Guide aircraft to their designated runways by drawing flight paths. Manage increasingly complex traffic waves across diverse airport locations. Enjoy a unique, ad-free air traffic control simulation.

Highlights
  • Draw flight paths with one finger
  • Manage four aircraft types
  • Four unique, randomly generated airports
  • Original soundtrack and sound effects
  • Top-3 medal table for high scores
  • Incoming traffic warnings
  • Portrait and landscape play
Features
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You are the air traffic controller - and everyone wants to land at once. Drag a flight path with your finger to guide each aircraft to its matching runway: - Red jets scream in fast and land on the long vertical strip - Green cargo haulers are huge, slow, and need the big diagonal - Yellow private jets dart in on the short runway - Blue helicopters take their time and settle on the helipad Sounds simple. Then the next wave arrives - faster, busier, and at a completely different airport. FOUR AIRPORTS, ENDLESS LAYOUTS Guide traffic over an offshore airport at sea, a desert strip among the pyramids, a city park surrounded by streets and skyscrapers, and a frozen airfield ringed by mountains. Every wave rebuilds the map, so no two games play the same. FEATURES - One-finger controls: draw a path, watch them follow it - Four aircraft types with their own speeds and runways - Four locations that rotate every wave, rebuilt at random - Original soundtrack and sound effects - Top-3 medal table for your best scores - Incoming-traffic warnings when a dangerous arrival is seconds away - Pause and 2x fast-forward buttons - Play portrait or landscape - Whales, camels, ducks, husky sleds, and a seal that lives in a frozen lake Free to play, with occasional ads between waves. Remove them forever with a one-time in-app purchase to unlock the full game. Playable offline - no account needed.

Screenshots

Planes Control!4 screens
Runway Rush4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Runway Rush at none against Planes Control!'s 10. Runway Rush also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 79%). Planes Control!'s advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 26.5). On price, update cadence, 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. Runway Rush asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Planes Control! ships an update monthly, Runway Rush every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Planes Control! versus Runway Rush: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlanes Control!Runway Rush
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (6.8K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews79.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings6.8K — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAntonio Calvino EsquerGareth Nesbitt

Customer experience

Planes Control!

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

Runway Rush

Written reviews6 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

Runway Rush

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

Runway Rush

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Planes Control! free?
Planes Control! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Runway Rush free?
Runway Rush is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Planes Control! or Runway Rush have ads?
Both Planes Control! and Runway Rush show ads.
Which is updated more often, Planes Control! or Runway Rush?
Planes Control! ships an update monthly, and Runway Rush every 3 weeks. Most recently, Planes Control! was updated on October 16, 2026 and Runway Rush on October 5, 2026.

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