Comparison

Planes Control! vs Pickasso

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

Pickasso

Features
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You're a painter on the factory floor. Colored pixels tumble down the supply pipe onto a moving conveyor belt, and whatever rides off the end drops straight into your canvas — bottom row first, left to right. Grab the right pixels, drop them in the right order, and the picture comes together. Get it wrong and it's part of your painting forever. PICK. PLACE. PAINT. Walk the belt with your painter. Tap a pixel to pick it up, carry it where you want it, and set it back down with PLACE. The frame fills automatically as blocks reach the end of the belt, so the whole game is a race to get the right color into the right slot before it lands. TWO WAYS TO PLAY EASY streams endless blocks with distractor colors mixed in — toss anything you don't want on the discard pile and wait for a better one. HARD deals you exactly the blocks the image needs, shuffled, with no discards. Every block must go somewhere. Every mistake is permanent. EARN YOUR POWER-UPS Power-ups aren't handed out at random — place five pixels correctly in a row and one comes down the pipe. Catch it before it rides off the end: • SLOW-MO — the belt drops to half speed (and the music slows with it) • PAINT BUCKET — arms a wildcard: the next block to land becomes exactly the color that cell needs • CHISEL — pops your most recent wrong pixel back out • MAGNET — carry it, place it, and every block on the belt slides over to gather there • PREVIEW LENS — ghosts the finished picture inside your frame for six seconds 13 HAND-CRAFTED PICTURES From a two-color 5×5 Heart to a seven-color 10×10 Rocket, auto-ranked by size, palette, and complexity. Ghosts, mushrooms, invaders, ducks, houses, fish and more. Finish a level and the next one starts automatically — the belt speeds up as you go, but never faster than you can walk. BEAT THE CLOCK Every level is timed. Placing blocks near the end of the belt saves seconds, and your fastest run is saved per level — but only a flawless 100% painting sets a record. Speed only counts when the picture is right. YOUR OWN GALLERY Every painting you finish is saved exactly as you made it, mistakes and all. Browse them all in the Gallery, and watch them fill the workshop wall in gold frames as you work through a run. PURE 8-BIT An '80s workshop rendered in chunky pixels: spinning belt rollers, a flickering work lamp, weather drifting past the windows, and a chiptune soundtrack synthesized live — a brand new melody composed for every single level. Optional CRT scanlines if you want the full cathode-ray experience. No account. No sign-up. No internet required to play. Your progress stays on your device. Pickasso is free, supported by ads between levels — or remove them forever with a single purchase.

Screenshots

Planes Control!4 screens
Pickasso4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Planes Control! at 12.0 against Pickasso's 17.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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 Pickasso 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, Pickasso fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Planes Control! versus Pickasso: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlanes Control!Pickasso
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (7K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews79.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings7K — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyFortnightly — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAntonio Calvino EsquerStackRef

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

Pickasso

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

Pickasso

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$1.99

Questions

Is Planes Control! free?
Planes Control! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pickasso free?
Pickasso is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Planes Control! or Pickasso have ads?
Both Planes Control! and Pickasso show ads.
Which is updated more often, Planes Control! or Pickasso?
Planes Control! ships an update monthly, and Pickasso fortnightly. Most recently, Planes Control! was updated on October 24, 2026 and Pickasso on October 9, 2026.

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