Comparison

Planes Control! vs Fly Duel

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

Fly Duel

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A fly lands on the pond. You both go for it. Only one of you has a tongue. Fly Duel is a reflex game about a race you are slowly losing. You start against a giant anteater — the one opponent on the ladder slower than a human being — and finish against a trap-jaw ant whose jaws shut in 0.13 milliseconds. Thirteen animals, each one faster than the last. REAL ANIMALS, REAL NUMBERS Every opponent plays the way it actually hunts. The Argentine horned frog commits explosively but has a short tongue, so it owns close range and gives up the far corner. The veiled chameleon is slow to aim and unstoppable once it fires. The mantis reads you, sharpening as your streak climbs — because a real mantis shortens its strike against faster prey. The star-nosed mole decides whether something is food in eight milliseconds, about as fast as a nerve can carry the signal. None of this is flavour text. The measurements are published figures, and they are what the difficulty is built from. THE TRICK A tongue does not teleport. It travels. So the time it needs depends on how far away the fly spawned — and a fly down by your thumb hands you a couple hundred extra milliseconds that a fly near the mouth never will. Once raw speed stops being enough, the game changes underneath you. It stops being about tapping fast and starts being about reading the board. THE BESTIARY Every animal you face is added to a library: its portrait, its binomial, the measured fact behind how it behaves, and exactly how many seconds it leaves you. Entries you have not reached stay locked, so you can see how far the ladder goes without being told what is on it. SET YOUR OWN SPEED The game runs at about 5% of a real bullfrog, and says so. You can drop it to 3% or push it to 10%, and there is a 100% setting that is a demonstration rather than a difficulty — nobody beats an actual bullfrog. Scores scale with the setting, so the board stays honest. RULES • Tap the fly before the strike lands. • Every 10 rounds a new opponent takes the far bank. • Wild taps freeze you for a beat, so mashing will not save you. • Three stolen flies and the run is over. FOUR LANGUAGES English, Spanish, Persian and Kurdish (Sorani), switchable in Settings — interface, animal names, every fact and every taunt. Persian and Sorani read right to left with Eastern Arabic-Indic numerals. BUILT FROM NOTHING There are no image or sound files in this app. Thirteen animals, the pond, the fly and every noise they make are generated on your phone as you play — the skin is a lit material with real warts and wet highlights, and the music is composed live, speeding up and turning dissonant as the opponent closes in. No accounts. No ads. No tracking. No network code at all. Your scores stay on your phone.

Screenshots

Planes Control!4 screens
Fly Duel4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Fly Duel at none against Planes Control!'s 10. Fly Duel also leads on ads (none vs shown). Planes Control!'s advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price 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. Fly Duel asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Planes Control! versus Fly Duel: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlanes Control!Fly Duel
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (7K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews79.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings7K — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAntonio Calvino EsquerHiva Nasiri

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

Fly Duel

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

Fly Duel

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Planes Control! free?
Planes Control! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Fly Duel free?
Fly Duel is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Planes Control! or Fly Duel have ads?
Planes Control! shows ads; Fly Duel does not.

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