Planes Control! vs Tube Typer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
Tube Typer
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Mind the doors — it's time to type. Tube Typer turns London's transport network into a typing game. Pick a line, then type each station's name before your train is due to depart. Keep up and you'll glide from terminus to terminus; fall behind and the train is held at the platform until you catch up. There's no game over — just you, the route and the clock. EVERY LINE, EVERY STATION • 19 real routes: all 11 Underground lines, the six named Overground lines, the DLR and the Elizabeth line • 325 stations with their real names, in the right order, in official line colours • Start on the two-stop Waterloo & City and work your way up to the 43-station District line — each new line runs a little faster than the last SOUNDS LIKE THE TUBE • On-board announcements in a British voice: "The next station is…" • Arrival chimes, door sounds and key clicks — your own music keeps playing underneath • Subtle haptics for every keystroke, slip and arrival WATCH LONDON LIGHT UP • A full network map in two styles — classic schematic diagram or real geography — where the lines you've completed appear in colour and locked ones wait in grey • A live route strip in-game, with your train sliding from station to station as you type MADE FOR TYPISTS • Forgiving input: capitals optional, and apostrophes and ampersands can be typed or skipped — "kings cross" works • Effective words per minute, wait counts and per-station splits after every run • Chase your personal best on every line, with Game Center leaderboards and 17 achievements to earn (some hidden) • Full hardware-keyboard support on iPhone and iPad Tube Typer is free, with no adverts, no in-app purchases and no account. Your progress is stored on your device, and everything works offline. Whether you're a Londoner who knows the Northern line by heart or a typist after something better than random words, this is your route to faster fingers. All change, please.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tube Typer at none against Planes Control!'s 10. Tube Typer also leads on ads (none vs shown). Planes Control!'s advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price 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
Both are free to download. Planes Control! sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Tube Typer asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Planes Control! | Tube Typer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (7K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 79.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Antonio Calvino Esquer | Sijun Yang |
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
Tube Typer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Planes Control!
- 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
Tube Typer
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Planes Control! free?
Is Tube Typer free?
Do Planes Control! or Tube Typer have ads?
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