Comparison

Ruddarr vs Plane and Simple

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

Head to head
About

Ruddarr

Control your movie, documentary, and TV series collections remotely. Browse upcoming releases, manage your media library, and receive notifications. Customize the app's appearance and sync settings across devices.

Highlights
  • Manage movies and TV series
  • Browse upcoming releases calendar
  • Receive fine-grained notifications
  • View activity queue and history
  • Switch between multiple instances
  • Customize app appearance
  • Synchronize settings via iCloud
Features
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Ruddarr is a beautifully designed, open source, privacy-first companion app for Radarr and Sonarr instances. Manage your movies, documentaries and TV series from anywhere, anytime. Features: • Manage movies and TV series • Browse upcoming releases in the calendar • Receive fine-grained notifications • View activity queue tasks and history events • Switch between multiple instances • Customize the app color scheme and appearance • Synchronize settings/instances between devices (iCloud) • Automate actions using Siri Shortcuts • Connect to reverse proxies using custom HTTP headers • Use Spotlight search to quickly jump to media • Fully localized, ready to be translated Notifications require a subscription to Ruddarr+, because sending push notifications to devices requires reliable server infrastructure, which incurs monthly operating expenses for this free, open-source project. Alternatively, *arrs come with many notification integrations that can be self-hosted. Requirements: • Ruddarr does not provide any media and requires a Radarr or Sonarr instance to interact with. - - - Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Plane and Simple

This app uses augmented reality to identify aircraft in real-time. Point your device at a plane to see its flight number, origin, altitude, speed, and distance overlaid on your camera view.

Highlights
  • Augmented reality flight tracking
  • Real-time aircraft information
  • Display flight numbers
  • Show altitude and speed
  • Identify country of origin
  • Measure distance to aircraft
Features
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Ever wonder about that plane overhead? Just point your iPhone or iPad at the sky. Plane and Simple uses augmented reality to pin live flight data directly onto aircraft in your camera view. No searching, no map scrolling. Just look up. WHAT YOU'LL SEE FOR EVERY FLIGHT - Airline, flight number, and callsign - Aircraft make, model, and registration - Altitude, speed, heading, and climb/descent rate - Distance from you in real time - Origin and destination cities with route info TAP ANY PLANE TO GO DEEPER - Real aircraft photos courtesy of Planespotters.net - Great-circle route map from origin to destination - Satellite views of departure and arrival cities - Compass bearing visualisation AND THEN IT REMEMBERS Every aircraft you tap is kept permanently. Come back a month later and you have a collection: the airlines you've caught, the aircraft types you've seen, the countries their tails are registered in. Your logbook syncs through your own iCloud, so a new phone never costs you the collection. HOW RARE WAS THAT? Every aircraft type is weighed against a database of more than 91,000 airframes. When the app calls a catch uncommon, it's telling you how many of that aircraft are left in the world: 270 A380s, 809 747s. Not a guess. NINETEEN ACHIEVEMENTS From your first aircraft to catching an airline's flight number one. Two are secret, and the best of them are the ones you can't go looking for: the same aircraft twice on different days, or the same route flown in both directions. WORTH SHOWING SOMEONE Turn any sighting into a card made from your own photo of the sky, with the aircraft marked where it actually was and its contrail running the way it was actually flying. Plane and Simple tracks live aircraft using the OpenSky Network and knows 619,000 routes, 1,000 airlines and 3,700 airports by name. It uses your device settings for metric or imperial units, and is available in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Japanese, Korean, Polish and Simplified Chinese. No account required. No ads. Your logbook stays on your device and in your iCloud, never ours. Just point, and see what's flying.

Screenshots

Ruddarr4 screens
Plane and Simple4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Ruddarr at 696 against Plane and Simple's 2. Plane and Simple's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs monthly) and review sentiment (100% vs 90%). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Ruddarr sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $5.99 per year and Plane and Simple sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Ruddarr against 5.0 for Plane and Simple. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ruddarr has 696 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 90% of Ruddarr's written reviews are positive against 100% of Plane and Simple's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ruddarr ships an update monthly, Plane and Simple weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Ruddarr versus Plane and Simple: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRuddarrPlane and Simple
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (696 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews90.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings696 — better2
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.018.5 — better
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB19 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperRuddarrMerano Studio Limited

Customer experience

Ruddarr

All ratings696 ratings
Positive96.7%
Neutral0.7%
Negative2.6%
Written reviews221 reviews
Positive90.0%
Neutral2.7%
Negative7.2%

Plane and Simple

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Ruddarr

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Fails with error when trying to add any service
  • Crashes and freezes all the time

Requested features

3 requests
  • Support one time purchase
  • List view not just posters
  • Latest releases or trending lists that could be pulled from trakt or IMDb

Plane and Simple

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Ruddarr

Subscriptions1
  • Ruddarr+$5.991 Year
4 purchases

Plane and Simple

One-time4
  • Espresso$0.99
  • Leave us a tip$0.99
  • Latte$1.99
Show 1 more
  • Whole bag of beans$3.99

Questions

Is Ruddarr free?
Ruddarr is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Plane and Simple free?
Plane and Simple is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Ruddarr or Plane and Simple?
Plane and Simple is rated higher. Ruddarr averages 4.9 out of 5 from 696 ratings, while Plane and Simple averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Ruddarr or Plane and Simple have ads?
Neither Ruddarr nor Plane and Simple shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ruddarr or Plane and Simple?
Ruddarr ships an update monthly, and Plane and Simple weekly. Most recently, Ruddarr was updated on October 18, 2026 and Plane and Simple on October 3, 2026.

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