Comparison

Planes Control! vs RTO

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

RTO

Features
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Continue takeoff, or reject it? Read the instruments, make your decision, and follow it through. RTO is a small aviation simulation about rejected takeoff. Watch airspeed, both engines, alerts, and the remaining runway. Maintain thrust to continue, or return it to idle when you decide to stop. Thrust, brakes, and reverse. Set power with a vertical thrust lever, then release the parking brake to start the roll. Available RTO autobraking activates during a high-speed rejection. For a low-speed rejection or an autobrake fault, hold BRAKE to slow down. Select reverse from the engines that can provide it. Your inputs affect acceleration and stopping margin. Judge what you can see. Distinguish a brief isolated vibration from persistent, rising vibration or thrust loss. Mild vibration subsides; assess stronger vibration alongside thrust and other indications. Rejecting for observed vibration before V1 is respected even if it later subsides. V1 and stopping margin are assessed separately. Check N1, N2, EGT, oil pressure, fuel flow, vibration, and acceleration alongside the alerts. Flights include fire, thrust loss, self-recovering surge, airspeed disagreement, low acceleration, and hot brakes. The review uses the indications and speed visible at your decision. Each flight varies. Surface, loading, runway length, V1, event timing, the affected engine, and progression can change. Choose a practice scenario or retry the same flight to compare decisions. Scenario selection weights - No fault: 10% - Manageable minor indications: 27.5% - Serious events before V1: 37.5% - Serious events after V1: 25% Game selection weights, not real fault rates or play results. Small samples vary; practice scenarios are excluded. After stopping, assess the cabin. Read cabin and exterior reports, then choose to keep passengers seated or order evacuation. Stop fuel on both engines before evacuation; select Both to stop them together. An earlier evacuation instruction is recorded as a shutdown-order mistake. Known smoke lets you act without waiting for a full report or fire extinction. Respond after positive climb. Serious engine indications unlock controls after two seconds of stable thrust and airspeed. Normal flights keep five seconds of initial climb. Pitch is automatic. Select Both, Left or Right above the lever or tap an engine. Reduce the affected side while maintaining the other engine. If serious indications remain at idle, tap to stop fuel. Fuel stays off for the flight. After the response, five seconds of stable flight are checked; an incomplete check is reflected in the review. For fire, the same button becomes Fire agent after fuel stop. Two bottles are shared and released one at a time. In the game, 75% of fires need one bottle and 25% need two. Fuel stop alone does not extinguish fire. Review the decision and its result. Takeoff decision, engine response, and cabin instruction are assessed separately. A sound decision to continue can still leave an engine response incomplete. Review your decision speed against V1, when serious indications became visible, and the runway remaining at the stop. Indications that appeared after your stop decision are identified separately. Read the recorded inputs, then retry the same flight or move on. Engine rotation, oil pressure and sound respond to shutdown and airflow. Screen cues support muted play. iPhone is portrait-only; iPad supports both orientations. The interface adapts to both iPhone Duo displays. Free, with no advertising or in-app purchases. Available in Japanese, American English, and British English. Aircraft performance, faults and evaluation use a fictional game model, not real-world procedures, performance data or flight training. Fuel stop and fire agent release are simplified. The game covers thrust, braking, cabin instructions after stopping and initial engine response. Airborne cabin procedures, navigation and landing are outside its scope.

Screenshots

Planes Control!4 screens
RTO4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: RTO at none against Planes Control!'s 10. RTO also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 8 days vs monthly). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Planes Control! sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. RTO asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Planes Control! ships an update monthly, RTO every 8 days. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Planes Control! versus RTO: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlanes Control!RTO
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (7K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews79.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings7K — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 8 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAntonio Calvino EsquerMasato Furushima

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

RTO

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

RTO

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Planes Control! free?
Planes Control! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is RTO free?
RTO is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Planes Control! or RTO have ads?
Planes Control! shows ads; RTO does not.
Which is updated more often, Planes Control! or RTO?
Planes Control! ships an update monthly, and RTO every 8 days. Most recently, Planes Control! was updated on October 29, 2026 and RTO on October 29, 2026.

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