Comparison

Planes Control! vs Guess That Plane

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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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

Guess That Plane

Features
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Turn the sky into a guessing game. Guess That Plane shows the real aircraft flying near you on a live map. Pick one you can see, make your guess, then reveal the answer. THREE WAYS TO PLAY • Origin: where did it take off? Name the airport, city or country. • Destination: where is it headed? Planes that have just taken off are marked, so they're easy to find. • Model: what is it? A320, 737-800, Dreamliner... An exact answer scores best. The right country, or the right aircraft family, counts as close. BUILD YOUR HANGAR Guess a plane exactly in Solo and it's parked in your hangar for that mode. The logbook keeps your rounds and running score, and the map shows which planes you've already guessed: green for right, blue for close, red for missed. PLAY WITH FRIENDS • Pass and play: up to four spotters sharing one phone. • Live games: 2 to 4 players, each on their own phone, join with a room code. The host picks a plane, everyone gets 30 seconds to guess, and the game ends with final standings. No sign-in needed. NO ADS, NO ACCOUNT NEEDED • No ads and no tracking. • Everything works signed out, and your history stays on your phone. • Optional Sign in with Apple syncs your scores and hangar across your devices. • Location is optional. Without it, move the map anywhere in the world and spot from there. GOOD TO KNOW Aircraft positions come from the community ADS-B networks adsb.lol and adsb.fi, and routes from public flight databases. Some flights, such as private ones, don't publish a route, so the app can't always check your guess. Coverage depends on volunteer receivers in your area. Map data: OpenStreetMap contributors, OpenMapTiles, OpenFreeMap.

Screenshots

Planes Control!4 screens
Guess That Plane4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Guess That Plane at none against Planes Control!'s 10. Guess That Plane also leads on ads (none vs shown). Planes Control!'s advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.4). 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. Guess That Plane asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Planes Control! versus Guess That Plane: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlanes Control!Guess That Plane
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 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB62 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAntonio Calvino EsquerEaston Lindsay

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

Guess That Plane

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

Guess That Plane

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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