Comparison

OptiFlight vs Matter AR

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

Head to head
About

OptiFlight

Design intricate flight networks to connect cities and guide passengers efficiently. Adapt your routes to dynamic events like airport rushes and closures across over 350 themed levels. Test your strategic planning skills in historical, present-day, and weather-simulated scenarios.

Highlights
  • Design flight networks
  • Create historical flight maps
  • Simulate inclement weather
  • Use real-world cities
  • 350+ levels
  • Analyze in-game statistics
  • Compete on leaderboards
Features
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Step into the world of airline route planning, where your goal is to create a flight network to guide passengers to their destinations in a limited amount of time. You get to call the shots on which routes to draw and which cities to designate as hubs that best serve each scenario. The flight maps you design will also need to be efficient and flexible to accommodate for events that may occur, like airport rushes and closures, as its effects ripple throughout your network. With over 350 geographically and historically themed levels to play, each map you make will be put to the test. MAIN FEATURES - Take a step back in time and create flight maps for past historical scenarios, like the 1849 California Gold Rush and the 2012 London Olympic Games - Prepare for the future and create flight maps in realistic inclement weather simulation, including Hurricanes and Blizzards - Understand the present and create flight maps using actual cities, like New York City and Tokyo, to reflect real flight patterns FAN-FAVORITE LEVELS Vote for your favorite level in the Preferences page ① Big Game (Level 36, Contiguous US) ② Silk Road (Level 17, Asia) ③ Big Apple (Level 18, Contiguous US) ④ Sustain (Level 38, Contiguous US) ⑤ Sustain (Level 38, Europe) ⑥ Tourism Capital (Level 20, Oceania) OTHER FEATURES - Play 350+ levels across multiple maps like America, Europe, and Asia - Analyze in-game statistics to help fine-tune your flight map - Speed up or slow down the game to your comfort - Compete for the top spot on worldwide leaderboards - Simplistic interface and experience - No ads FUTURE FEATURES - More maps! - More levels! - More cities!

About

Matter AR

Explore virtual layers overlaid on the real world. Engage in AR LaserTag battles, build unique virtual content in a sandbox mode, and discover user-created realities. Share your creations and battle experiences.

Highlights
  • AR LaserTag multiplayer battles
  • Single player LaserTag with leaderboard
  • Sandbox creative mode
  • Build and share virtual content
  • Discover real-world AR locations
  • Capture and share AR photos
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Welcome to MATTER AR, your gateway to virtual layers that exist alongside the physical world. Matter AR connects people, real locations & virtual content in unimaginable new ways! PLAY - LaserTag (prototype). Battle against up to 3 other opponents in an epic battle royale multiplayer AR LaserTag game. Find a Battle Zone on the map, go to the location with your opponents, build your defences, then battle it out to be the last player standing. Fire lasers and bombs at your opponents to deplete their health until they are eliminated. Hide behind virtual or real world objects to protect you, but watch out as virtual defences can be destroyed! LaserTag uses cutting edge AR and AI technology to recognise and localise against the physical environment and track players movement, creating dynamic real time gameplay. Battle results show wins, eliminations and points based on damage dealt. Your battle results contribute to your career points which are recorded locally on your device and shared with your opponents each time you battle! Play SINGLE PLAYER mode from your home, survive as long as you can, collect weapons and power-ups, eliminate enemies to get a higher score and move higher on the global leaderboard! CREATE - Sandbox - Everything you need to start building new worlds. Use Matter’s free, easy to use Augmented Reality creative mode to make your unique virtual content… integrate it with the physical world and allow others to find the new realities you create. DISCOVER - Use the map to discover active locations near you, these locations have been created to allow you to multiplayer LaserTag battle, or build together and discover persistent virtual content in Sandbox. Don’t worry if there’s not a location near you, as Matter AR multiplayer will be available anywhere in the near future. SHARE - Capture and share photos of your Sandbox creations or LaserTag battles. Or Save and share your AR creations and LaserTag defences with a simple link. Discord - https://discord.gg/56kfmtJH8p Socials - @Matter_AR This is our first ‘Pioneer’ edition of Matter AR - Please share your feedback, requests and ideas with us on our Discord server. Current Game Features: - Free to play - LaserTag multiplayer (prototype) - LaserTag single player with global leaderboard (prototype) - Sandbox single/multiplayer - A wide variety of intuitive voxel/block based creative tools - Capture images of your AR creations - Map containing live geospatial AR Active Locations for LaserTag or Sandbox - Regular challenges will be shared on Matter’s Discord, social channels and with push notifications - Leave your AR creations or LaserTag battlegrounds in the real world at Active Locations for others to find and enjoy - Augmented Reality functionality, requires camera permissions - Map functionality, requires location permissions

Screenshots

OptiFlight4 screens
Matter AR4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: OptiFlight at 4.6 against Matter AR's 3.8. OptiFlight also leads on ratings volume (1.3K vs 8) and device support (3 vs 1). Matter AR's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and review sentiment (100% vs 80%). On price, update cadence, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. OptiFlight sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Matter AR asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

OptiFlight holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: OptiFlight has 1.3K ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 80% of OptiFlight's written reviews are positive against 100% of Matter AR's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

OptiFlight ships an update every 6 weeks, Matter AR monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
OptiFlight versus Matter AR: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOptiFlightMatter AR
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (1.3K ratings) — better3.8 (8 ratings)
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.3K — better8
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size131 MB207 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperKrish SuchdevHot Dark Matter Ltd

Customer experience

OptiFlight

All ratings1,280 ratings
Positive92.2%
Neutral3.8%
Negative4.1%
Written reviews120 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral13.3%
Negative6.7%

Matter AR

All ratings7 ratings
Positive57.1%
Neutral14.3%
Negative28.6%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

OptiFlight

One-time3
  • Small Tip$1.00
  • OptiFlight Expansion$1.99
  • Large Tip$5.00
None

Matter AR

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is OptiFlight free?
OptiFlight is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Matter AR free?
Matter AR is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, OptiFlight or Matter AR?
OptiFlight is rated higher. OptiFlight averages 4.6 out of 5 from 1.3K ratings, while Matter AR averages 3.8 from 8 ratings.
Do OptiFlight or Matter AR have ads?
Neither OptiFlight nor Matter AR shows ads.
Which is updated more often, OptiFlight or Matter AR?
OptiFlight ships an update every 6 weeks, and Matter AR monthly. Most recently, OptiFlight was updated on October 13, 2026 and Matter AR on September 19, 2026.

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