Port Control vs Airport Tycoon
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Port Control
Guide ships to safe port approaches by drawing their paths. Avoid collisions with other vessels and manage your ships' fuel levels. Ensure successful arrivals by refueling when necessary.
- Guide ships to ports
- Draw safe paths
- Avoid ship collisions
- Manage ship fuel
- Refuel ships
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Manage the sea traffic. Be helpful captain of vessel. Guide your ships to a safe approaching at various ports. Draw their lines to avoid crashes! Be careful for freighters. Calculate good your ships fuel quantity for successful approaching. If inadequate of fuel ships look for fuel tank.
Airport Tycoon
Manage an airport, from maintaining aircraft and controlling air traffic to signing airline contracts and building your own fleet. Expand terminals and acquire special aircraft to become a global aviation tycoon.
- Realistic aircraft maintenance and painting
- Air traffic control for arrivals and departures
- Build and manage your own aircraft fleet
- Expand airport terminals (domestic, international, cargo, VIP)
- Acquire special aircraft like Concorde and An225
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Airport Tycoon is an airport simulation game, as the director in the game world you start with an airport and hangar, you should maintain airplanes from airlines at beginning, control air traffic, sign contracts with airlines and build your own fleet! You can see your airways all over the world! === Game Features === *Relastic Maintenance & Paint Aircraft Play as a professional aircraft maintenance engineer, through cleaning, de-icing, engine disassembly, etc. To complete the regular maintenance of the aircraft to ensure that the aircraft safely perform every takeoff and landing tasks. *Air Traffic Control In your busy airport, play the role of ATC to make decisions on flight arrivals and departures, to sort out aircraft queues, to ease congestion and delays, to effectively improve flight efficiency and to expand airport revenue! *Build Fleet & Be the tycoon In the process of gradual contracting, it is also possible to expand domestic, international, cargo, VIP terminals, land special aircraft such as Concorde, An225 and C919! Become a rich Airport Tycoon!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Port Control at none against Airport Tycoon's 9. Port Control also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (53% vs 38%). Airport Tycoon's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.3) and update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly). On price, ratings volume 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. Airport Tycoon sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Port Control asks for nothing beyond the download.
Airport Tycoon holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 252 and 183 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 53% of Port Control's written reviews are positive against 38% of Airport Tycoon's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Port Control ships an update fortnightly, Airport Tycoon every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Port Control | Airport Tycoon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (252 ratings) | 4.8 (183 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 53.3% of reviews — better | 37.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 252 — better | 183 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 177 MB | 357 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | OMICRON BILISIM HIZMETLERI TICARET LIMITED SIRKETI | Fuzhou Lingyuan Technology Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
Port Control
Airport Tycoon
In-app purchases
Port Control
No in-app purchases
Airport Tycoon
- A Couple of Gems$0.99
- Special Pack$1.99
- Super Radar$1.99
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- No Ads$4.99
- A Handful of Gems$4.99
- A Pile of Gems$9.99
- A Sack of Gems$19.99
- A Box of Gems$29.99
- A Crate of Gems$49.99
Questions
Is Port Control free?
Is Airport Tycoon free?
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Do Port Control or Airport Tycoon have ads?
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