Comparison

Train Conductor vs Planes Control!

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

Head to head
About

Train Conductor

Direct trains with simple swipes to avoid collisions and manage busy routes. This engaging game offers a fun and addictive experience for players of all ages, including a special mode designed for children with cute characters.

Highlights
  • Control trains with finger swipes
  • Create track connections
  • Tap to stop/start trains
  • Avoid disastrous collisions
  • Manage peak hour traffic
  • Play with cute trains for kids
Features
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Control trains with a swipe of the finger and avoid disastrous collisions! 5 Million players love Train Conductor and you will too. - “iPhone Game of the Year” - DIYGamer - "Highly Addictive Game" - Apple - “Best Game Audio” - Freeplay - 30,000 five star ratings - #1 App in more than 50 countries THIS IS NO SIMULATION - JUST SUPER FUN! Become a Train Conductor today! Directly control trains with your finger. Send them to their destinations by creating track connections with a quick swipe. Tap a train to stop it, tap again to get it moving. Avoid disastrous collisions, and manage the peak hour of commuter trains. "You will love Train Conductor and it will reward you." - diygamer.com “A highly polished app that controls perfectly.” - 148apps.com "The design is simply brilliant." - whatsoniphone.com Play with Cute Trains, designed just for kids! Slower, easier, trains that your kids can play with for hours. Play with the happy dolphin, the cuddly koala, the grumpy snake, the sleepy platypus and the colorful rosella. Cute Trains are very forgiving with little fingers. Kids can let their imaginations run wild in this wonderful new mode! Thank you fans! We <3 you :D

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

Screenshots

Train Conductor4 screens
Planes Control!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Planes Control! at Free against Train Conductor's $2.99. Planes Control! also leads on ratings volume (6.8K vs 271) and update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months). Train Conductor's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (95% vs 79%). On in-app purchases, monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Planes Control! is free to download; Train Conductor costs $2.99 up front. Train Conductor sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Planes Control! sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Planes Control! holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Planes Control! has 6.8K ratings behind it against 271, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 95% of Train Conductor's written reviews are positive against 79% of Planes Control!'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Train Conductor ships an update every 3 months, Planes Control! monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Train Conductor versus Planes Control!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTrain ConductorPlanes Control!
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.5 (271 ratings)4.7 (6.8K ratings) — better
Positive reviews94.8% of reviews — better79.1% of reviews
Number of ratings2716.8K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS6.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTHE VOXEL AGENTS PTY. LTD.Antonio Calvino Esquer

Customer experience

Train Conductor

All ratings271 ratings
Positive88.2%
Neutral5.9%
Negative5.9%
Written reviews1,755 reviews
Positive94.8%
Neutral3.7%
Negative1.5%

Planes Control!

All ratings6,833 ratings
Positive94.0%
Neutral2.9%
Negative3.0%
Written reviews421 reviews
Positive79.1%
Neutral8.1%
Negative12.8%

User reviews

Train Conductor

From 271 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🎮 Addictive and fun gameplay
  • 👍 Simple yet challenging mechanics
  • 🎨 Charming graphics and visuals
  • 🕹️ Responsive and intuitive controls
  • 🕰️ Engaging day and night modes

Room to improve

  • 🕹️ Difficulty can be frustrating at times
  • 🕰️ Repetitive gameplay after completing all levels
  • 💰 Some users felt the game was too short for the price
  • 🔇 Repetitive background music

Planes Control!

From 6.8K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Fun game
  • 👍 Simple yet challenging
  • 🚀 Addictive gameplay
  • 👍 Good variety of levels
  • 🚀 Responsive controls

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes and bugs
  • 🔋 Drains battery quickly
  • 🐛 Progress not saved
  • 🐛 Collision detection issues
  • 🐛 Planes spawning off-screen

Bugs and requests

Train Conductor

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Crashes or freezes when receiving notifications
  • Occasional issues with train tracking and positioning

Requested features

4 requests
  • More levels and maps to explore
  • Ability to customize the gameplay experience
  • Multiplayer or competitive modes
  • Improved progression system with unlockables

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

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Train Conductor

One-time2
  • Unlock All Levels$1.99
  • Cute Trains$4.99
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

Questions

Is Train Conductor free?
Train Conductor costs $2.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Planes Control! free?
Planes Control! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Train Conductor or Planes Control!?
Planes Control! is rated higher. Train Conductor averages 4.5 out of 5 from 271 ratings, while Planes Control! averages 4.7 from 6.8K ratings.
Do Train Conductor or Planes Control! have ads?
Planes Control! shows ads; Train Conductor does not.
Which is updated more often, Train Conductor or Planes Control!?
Train Conductor ships an update every 3 months, and Planes Control! monthly. Most recently, Train Conductor was updated on October 13, 2026 and Planes Control! on October 14, 2026.

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