Idle Highway vs ThePaperPlane
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Idle Highway
Build and manage your own highway empire in this engaging idle game. Earn money and expand your network to become a wealthy tycoon. Simple to learn and fun to master.
- Control highway traffic
- Build highway networks
- Manage highway operations
- Earn in-game currency
- Expand your empire
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Fun and easy to play game about controlling, building and managing highway! Become Rich! Idle Highway!
ThePaperPlane
Control a paper plane through various backyard challenges. Master simple tap-and-hold controls to navigate hoops, pop balloons, and knock over objects. Maintain your daily streak to progress through increasingly difficult levels.
- Tap-and-hold controls
- Backyard obstacle courses
- Balloon popping
- Object knocking
- Daily seeded challenges
- Unlockable named planes
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Throw a folded paper plane across a chain of back gardens. Tap to throw. Hold anywhere to lift the nose and climb. Keep holding and the dart loops over the top and flies the other way. Pull down to dive. Let go to glide. That is the whole control scheme. Thread hula hoops, pop every balloon, and knock over the stacks people left lying around: cardboard, bottles, crates, bricks. Clear a yard to walk into a harder one without leaving the sitting. There is one seeded chain of yards each day. Finish the first garden to keep your streak. Miss a day and it goes back to one. Coins, planes, and stickers stay on your phone. Fold named planes in the Shed, each with its own power, plus a workshop that never runs out of scraps. No accounts, no ads, no in-app purchases.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: ThePaperPlane at 100% against Idle Highway's 43%. ThePaperPlane also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.4) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). Idle Highway's advantage is ratings volume (1.2K vs 5) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Idle Highway sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. ThePaperPlane asks for nothing beyond the download.
ThePaperPlane holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Idle Highway has 1.2K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of Idle Highway's written reviews are positive against 100% of ThePaperPlane's.
Idle Highway ships an update every 2 weeks, ThePaperPlane monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Idle Highway | ThePaperPlane |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (1.2K ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 42.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.2K — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 137 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Adept Games Cezary Tabota | Shazad Devani |
Customer experience
Idle Highway
ThePaperPlane
Bugs and requests
Idle Highway
Reported bugs
4 issues- Cars phasing through each other
- Blocked in-game reviews
- Crashes after ads
- Locked new maps despite meeting requirements
Requested features
4 requests- More levels and maps
- Improved offline earnings
- Better progression and content
- Reduced ads or optional ad-free mode
ThePaperPlane
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Idle Highway
- Remove Ads$7.99
ThePaperPlane
No in-app purchases
Questions
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