Comparison

Control Tower Full vs SmoothTrack

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

Head to head
About

Control Tower Full

Guide aircraft to safe landing zones by drawing flight paths. Test your strategy and reflexes to prevent collisions and manage air traffic. Experience addictive gameplay with multiple aircraft types.

Highlights
  • Guide aircraft to landing zones
  • Draw flight paths
  • Prevent collisions
  • Classic game mode
  • 6 different planes and helicopters
  • Online high scores
  • Achievements
Features
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Guide aircraft to their landing zones and do not let them collide! This sounds easy? You will need good strategy and fast fingers to draw flight paths and keep the chaos under control. WARNING:Insanely Addictive! FEATURES - Classic game mode with 6 different planes and helicopters - Online high scores - Achievements (6) - Countless hours of addictive gameplay - No 1 air traffic controller game Similar games: Air Control,Air Traffic Control

About

SmoothTrack

Enhance your simulation gaming experience with phone-based head and eye tracking. This app allows for intuitive, 6-degrees-of-freedom head movements to control your in-game perspective without any extra hardware. Seamlessly look around cockpits, check blind spots, or zoom in on details with natural head gestures.

Highlights
  • 6DoF head tracking
  • Optional eye tracking
  • No extra hardware required
  • Works with FreeTrack/TrackIR games
  • Customizable view presets
  • Exaggerated head movements for control
Features
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SmoothTrack 2.0 uses the head and eye tracking AR capabilities of your phone to provide the simplest and best head tracker for 6 degrees-of-freedom head movements in your sim games. ----- "The best new controller on the market." - Charlie Hall, Polygon Customer reviews: "SmoothTrack just works. Less than 5 minutes to install, setup and fly. Love not being tethered to my desk! 5 stars!!" "This worked perfectly and way better than expected! Totally enhanced my experience with MFS 2020!" --- It's a near magical experience to seamlessly slightly move your head and have your game perspective immediately play along (the movements in the game are exaggerated so that you only have to make slight movements of your head to control the camera). Additionally, since version 2, your eyes are also optionally tracked and will nudge the camera based on where you're glancing on screen! - Simply lean forward to get a closer look at your Flight Simulator cockpit! - Look a bit up to see the overhead panel of your A320! - Simply shift your head a bit to the right to see the direction of the space station you're approaching in Elite: Dangerous! - Look a bit left before a hard left turn in Euro Truck Simulator 2! No headset or extra equipment of any kind is required! Simply set up your device so that it can see your face. Using simple camera gestures, you can shift your perspective in-game. Also, if you want, you can store views (say, a copilot angle, or a cockpit closeup) as Quick Views for easy access later. Your head movements are slightly exaggerated which enables you to look out of a cockpit side window with just a slight movement of your head to the left. Any game that supports the FreeTrack or TrackIR protocol will work with this, including: - Microsoft Flight Simulator - Microsoft FSX - DCS World - Elite: Dangerous - IL2: Sturmovik - Euro Truck Simulator 2 - Kerbal Space Program - ...and many, many others! Email and Discord support is provided if there are any issues (or if you have any ideas for new features!).

Screenshots

Control Tower Full4 screens
SmoothTrack4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Control Tower Full at $0.99 against SmoothTrack's $14.99. Control Tower Full also leads on iOS requirement (6.0 vs 26.0). SmoothTrack's advantage is review sentiment (86% vs 41%) and update cadence (every 4 months vs every 25 months). On ads, in-app purchases 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

Control Tower Full costs $0.99 and SmoothTrack $14.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

SmoothTrack holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SmoothTrack has 250 ratings behind it against 44, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 41% of Control Tower Full's written reviews are positive against 86% of SmoothTrack's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Control Tower Full ships an update every 25 months, SmoothTrack every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Control Tower Full versus SmoothTrack: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterControl Tower FullSmoothTrack
Price$0.99 — better$14.99
Rating4.5 (44 ratings)4.7 (250 ratings) — better
Positive reviews40.7% of reviews85.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings44250 — better
Update frequencyEvery 25 monthsEvery 4 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#133 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS6.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer4 Save SoftJohn Goering

Customer experience

Control Tower Full

All ratings44 ratings
Positive88.6%
Neutral2.3%
Negative9.1%
Written reviews27 reviews
Positive40.7%
Neutral11.1%
Negative48.1%

SmoothTrack

All ratings250 ratings
Positive90.4%
Neutral2.8%
Negative6.8%
Written reviews266 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral4.9%
Negative9.4%

Bugs and requests

Control Tower Full

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

SmoothTrack

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Tracking issues with certain phone positions
  • Compatibility problems with some devices/OSes

Requested features

3 requests
  • Background mode support
  • Ability to use rear camera
  • Improved UI and customization options

In-app purchases

None

Control Tower Full

No in-app purchases

None

SmoothTrack

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Control Tower Full free?
Control Tower Full costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is SmoothTrack free?
SmoothTrack costs $14.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Control Tower Full or SmoothTrack?
SmoothTrack is rated higher. Control Tower Full averages 4.5 out of 5 from 44 ratings, while SmoothTrack averages 4.7 from 250 ratings.
Do Control Tower Full or SmoothTrack have ads?
Neither Control Tower Full nor SmoothTrack shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Control Tower Full or SmoothTrack?
Control Tower Full ships an update every 25 months, and SmoothTrack every 4 months. Most recently, Control Tower Full was updated on October 13, 2026 and SmoothTrack on October 14, 2026.

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