iCave vs Paper Plane vs Trash Balls
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iCave
Navigate a progressively shrinking cave, dodging obstacles to survive. Control your flight by touching and holding the screen to ascend, releasing to descend. Test your reflexes across three distinct difficulty levels.
- Endless cave navigation
- Touch and hold flight control
- Obstacle avoidance
- Three difficulty levels
- High score tracking
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Fly through an ever decreasing cave avoiding the obsticles in your way. How long can you last? To fly, touch and hold the screen to fly up, release and gravity will take its hold. Three levels of difficulty.
Paper Plane vs Trash Balls
Pilot a triangular spacecraft to destroy incoming asteroids and alien saucers. Navigate through space by rotating, thrusting, and firing projectiles. Experience classic arcade gameplay with a focus on skillful maneuvering and target elimination.
- Destroy asteroids and saucers
- Pilot a triangular spacecraft
- Rotate, thrust, and shoot
- Classic arcade gameplay
- Retro space shooter experience
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The main goal of the game is to destroy flying trash balls and survive endless waves of crumpled paper attacks. The player controls a fast paper plane that can rotate left and right, shoot forward, and boost through the air. Once the plane starts moving in one direction, it continues drifting through the arena until the player changes direction with another boost. Precision movement and quick reactions are essential to avoid incoming trash balls and clear the skies.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: iCave at 5.0 against Paper Plane vs Trash Balls's 3.4. iCave also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). Paper Plane vs Trash Balls's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 64 months) and ratings volume (37 vs 2). 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
Both are free to download. Paper Plane vs Trash Balls sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. iCave asks for nothing beyond the download.
iCave holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Paper Plane vs Trash Balls has 37 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 79% of iCave's written reviews are positive against 50% of Paper Plane vs Trash Balls's.
iCave ships an update every 64 months, Paper Plane vs Trash Balls every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iCave | Paper Plane vs Trash Balls |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 3.4 (37 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 78.8% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 37 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 64 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 57 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Andy Qua | Aleksa Racovic |
Customer experience
iCave
Paper Plane vs Trash Balls
In-app purchases
iCave
No in-app purchases
Paper Plane vs Trash Balls
- No Ads$1.99
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