Control Tower vs Air Traffic Master
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Control Tower
Guide aircraft to safe landing zones and prevent collisions by drawing flight paths. This strategy game requires quick reflexes and careful planning to manage air traffic and achieve high scores.
- Guide aircraft to landing zones
- Draw flight paths
- Classic game mode
- Online high scores
- Achievements
- Addictive gameplay
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Take control of the skies and feel the rush of bringing every flight home safely. Draw a line with your finger and watch planes, jets, helicopters and seaplanes follow it to their runway or helipad. You'll get it in seconds, and the busier the sky gets, the sharper you become. WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT • Play in seconds: just draw a line, your aircraft does the rest • Never get bored: 6 unique airports, from a sunny coastline to a polar research base • Pull off daring landings: touch down on an aircraft carrier drifting with the tide • Relax in beauty: switch anytime between crisp Classic art and a hand-painted world • Feel the rush: traffic keeps building until only the sharpest controllers survive • Prove you're the best: 19 achievements and a best score on every airport • Play your way: fast-forward when it's calm, choose dotted or dashed flight paths • Play in your language: fully translated into 51 languages • Made for your screen: looks great on every iPhone and iPad Quick to start and hard to put down. Perfect for a coffee break or a long flight. 51 LANGUAGES English, Српски, Srpski, Русский, Українська, Deutsch, Español, Português (PT), Português (BR), Polski, Čeština, Français, Suomi, Română, Ελληνικά, Svenska, Italiano, Slovenčina, Magyar, Dansk, Nederlands, Slovenščina, Türkçe, Eesti, Indonesia, Melayu, Filipino, Norsk, Lietuvių, العربية, فارسی, Afrikaans, Latviešu, বাংলা, 繁體中文, 简体中文, עברית, 한국어, Български, Català, Íslenska, ไทย, Tiếng Việt, हिन्दी, తెలుగు, தமிழ், اردو, नेपाली, Esperanto, O‘zbek, 日本語
Air Traffic Master
Guide aircraft to their runways by drawing flight paths. Manage incoming planes, helicopters, and gliders to prevent collisions and ensure safe landings. Experience dynamic weather and diverse airfields across numerous missions.
- Draw flight paths for aircraft
- Prevent mid-air collisions
- Guide planes to designated runways
- Manage diverse aircraft types
- Experience dynamic weather conditions
- Play through 32 career missions
- Offline gameplay
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Take the tower. Planes, gliders and helicopters stream in from every edge of the screen, and only your finger stands between a calm shift and a mid-air collision. Draw a route, guide each aircraft to its own runway, keep them apart, and bring every last one home. HOW IT PLAYS Swipe a line from any aircraft to its runway: red planes to the red runway, yellow light planes to the yellow strip, helicopters to the helipad. A route locks when it reaches the runway's landing end from the right direction. Red runways carry a triangle and yellow runways a disc, so you can tell them apart without relying on colour. Easy to learn — then the traffic builds, routes tangle, and one collision ends your shift. CAREER: 32 MISSIONS, 96 STARS Four airfields, eight missions each. Land the numbers, keep a clean streak, survive the rush hour, bring the medevac home before its clock runs out. Complete a mission to unlock the next, and earn up to three stars on each — the briefing shows exactly what every star needs. FOUR AIRFIELDS • Forest Airpark — a quiet strip by a winding river • Glacier Bay — icy approaches over a frozen bay • Tropic Shore — beach runways with thatched hut hangars • Desert Outpost — runways among the dunes (unlocks with 12 career stars; locked in endless mode until then) WEATHER THAT CHANGES THE GAME Career missions bring wind that speeds aircraft up or slows them down and pushes idle ones off course, storm cells that strike aircraft flying into them and erase their routes, fog banks and sandstorms that hide the traffic, and night shifts where lit runways show the way. A picture card explains each hazard the first time you meet it, and FIELD GUIDE in the pause menu keeps them all. SIX KINDS OF AIRCRAFT Prop planes, light planes and helicopters fly in every mode; fast jets, heavy cargo planes and medevac helicopters on a countdown of about 30 seconds join them in career missions. MADE WITH CARE A warm retro look — stitched leather, polished brass, cream logbook paper — with painterly top-down art, runway lights that guide you in, music and haptic feedback. Plays on phones and tablets, and works offline. • One-finger controls • Endless mode with classic traffic and a high score for every airfield • 2× fast-forward when the skies are quiet • Rewind after a crash by watching an optional video ad • No account, no in-app purchases ADS Air Traffic Master is supported by ads: an ad may appear when you leave the game-over screen, and REWIND (marked WATCH AD) is an optional rewarded video. The game itself plays offline; ads need a connection. Made by UO Games, a small indie studio. Say hello at uo-games.com — clear skies and happy landings!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Control Tower at 4.2 against Air Traffic Master's 1.0. Control Tower also leads on review sentiment (40% vs 0%) and ratings volume (188 vs 1). Air Traffic Master's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (weekly vs every 7 months). On price, ads, 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. Control Tower sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Air Traffic Master asks for nothing beyond the download.
Control Tower holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Control Tower has 188 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of Control Tower's written reviews are positive against 0% of Air Traffic Master's.
Control Tower ships an update every 7 months, Air Traffic Master weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Control Tower | Air Traffic Master |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (188 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 39.8% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 188 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 82 MB | 67 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 4 SAVE SOFT DOO NOVI SAD | Umut OZCINGIRAK |
Customer experience
Control Tower
Air Traffic Master
Bugs and requests
Control Tower
Reported bugs
11 issues- Planes spawn on screen edges and cannot be controlled
- App crashes when submitting scores
- App freezes mid-game with no save function
- Touch input delay and unresponsive controls
- Planes crash due to uncontrollable border spawns
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- Screen scaling issues on newer iPhone models
- Ad banner causes crashes when displaying
- Controls flip upside down (orientation bug)
- Pause function does not work properly
- Game won't load or start properly
- Planes don't respond to drawn flight paths
Requested features
9 requests- New maps and levels
- Restore original Flight Control game
- Better sound design and music
- Improved plane graphics and visual clarity
- Tutorial for new players
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- Faster plane spawn rates
- Multiple free levels instead of just one
- Option to disable ads with one-time payment
- Full-screen support for modern devices
Air Traffic Master
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Control Tower
- Unlock FULL game$0.99
Air Traffic Master
No in-app purchases
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