Airport Madness Mobile Lite vs Planes Control!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Airport Madness Mobile Lite
Experience the thrill of managing air traffic at a busy international airport. Guide aircraft for safe takeoffs, landings, and taxiing to prevent collisions and delays. Test your nerves and strategic thinking in this engaging simulation.
- Manage aircraft takeoffs and landings
- Prevent mid-air collisions
- Strategize taxi clearances
- Two challenging airport layouts
- Nerves of steel required
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Check out Airport Madness Mobile for the full blown version with no ads! "You land a million planes safely. Then you have one little mid-air, and you never hear the end of it." - Air Traffic Controller, New York TRACON Top 10 Simulation in Deutschland and the UK Top 50 Games in Deutschland and the UK! Do you have what it takes to be an air traffic controller at a busy international airport? As an air traffic controller it is your job to keep aircraft from colliding, while avoiding unnecessary delays. You are paid the big bucks for your visualization skills and guts. Just like the real job of an air traffic controller, you must pay attention and keep your eyes moving. There is always something that you could be doing! You must give takeoff clearances, landing clearances and taxi clearances in a strategic effort to maintain safety and efficiency where there would otherwise be total chaos. This is not a spectator's sport! This simulation contains 2 different challenging airport layouts. Knowledge of air traffic control is not required to be a top-notch air traffic controller in Airport Madness Mobile, but you do require nerves of steel. Be sure to check out Will It Fly? and Airport Madness Challenge!
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.
- 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
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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
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Planes Control! at 4.7 against Airport Madness Mobile Lite's 3.8. Planes Control! also leads on review sentiment (79% vs 37%) and update cadence (monthly vs every 12 months). Airport Madness Mobile Lite's advantage is iOS requirement (9.3 vs 12.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 Madness Mobile Lite sells 4 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.
Planes Control! holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Planes Control! has 7K ratings behind it against 260, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 37% of Airport Madness Mobile Lite's written reviews are positive against 79% of Planes Control!'s.
Airport Madness Mobile Lite ships an update every 12 months, Planes Control! monthly. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.
| Parameter | Airport Madness Mobile Lite | Planes Control! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (260 ratings) | 4.7 (7K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 36.6% of reviews | 79.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 260 | 7K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.3 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Fluik | Antonio Calvino Esquer |
Customer experience
Airport Madness Mobile Lite
Planes Control!
User reviews
Airport Madness Mobile Lite
From 260 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fun and challenging game
- 👍 Great graphics and premise
- 🚀 Addictive gameplay
- 👍 Decent time killer
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes and bugs
- 🔒 Ads block gameplay
- 🔒 Ads even after purchase
- 🔒 Limited free levels
- 🔒 Expensive paid version
Planes Control!
From 7K App Store ratingsWhat 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
Airport Madness Mobile Lite
Reported bugs
4 issues- Crashes on loading or purchasing levels
- Planes colliding on their own
- Ads covering key gameplay elements
- Inability to select planes due to UI issues
Requested features
5 requests- More levels and content
- Ability to choose levels
- Remove timer and add more control
- Better optimization and stability
- Improved tutorial and instructions
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
Airport Madness Mobile Lite
- Level Pack 1$0.99
- Level Pack 2$0.99
- Level Pack 3$0.99
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- Level Pack 4$0.99
Planes Control!
- 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
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