Comparison

Flatout ATC vs ATC Simulator Pro

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

Head to head
About

Flatout ATC

Command real-world airspace by guiding aircraft through 28 detailed airports. This fast-paced puzzle game tests your skills with realistic procedures and daily challenges. Manage arrivals, departures, and emergencies to achieve perfect landings.

Highlights
  • Realistic airspace command
  • 28 meticulously mapped airports
  • Approach and landing guidance
  • Daily challenges
  • Escalating difficulty
  • Free Play mode
Features
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Flatout ATC puts you in the tower. Vector arrivals, sequence departures, clear approaches, and keep every aircraft safely separated across real airports from New York to Tokyo. NEW IN 3.0: THE WATCH A career campaign told in seasons. Step into the tower as a new controller and earn your place shift by shift, with a full cast, a story that carries across episodes, and a debrief after every shift. - Season 1: First Watch. Seven episodes. Your first solo, your first radio failure, your first engine-out. - Season 2: The Incident Desk. Seven episodes of search and rescue, including a cooperative multi-aircraft rescue. REAL CONTROL - Tap an aircraft to give it a heading, altitude, or speed. - Clear published approaches and issue crossing restrictions like a real controller. - Fly search and rescue: follow the signal, hold a steady hover to hoist, and beat the survival clock. LIVE TRAFFIC Work a shift against real aircraft flying right now over New York, London, and Atlanta, streamed from live ADS-B data. One free live shift every day. NO ADS Every advert was removed. No interruptions, no rewarded videos, just you and the airspace. A WHOLE WORLD Dozens of real airports with satellite-accurate runways, published procedures, 3D terrain and towers, weather you can fly around, helicopters, and a daily challenge. THE LOGBOOK Every level you clear writes a permanent record you can look back on. Already own the Full Game? You keep the base game and every season, free, forever.

About

ATC Simulator Pro

Features
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ATC SIMULATOR PRO Take command of an airport control tower. ATC Simulator Pro is an air traffic control game with two game modes, real airline traffic, and full voice command support. Play it as a quick arcade game or a full aviation simulation. ARCADE MODE A fast, score-based control tower game built for quick sessions. Draw a flight path by hand or use the touch command menu to land arriving aircraft and launch departures. Every clean landing or departure scores points, and air traffic ramps up the longer you last. REALISM MODE A deeper aviation simulation with real separation rules, altitude assignments, weather radar, wind-favored runways, and timed descents. Aircraft climb and descend at real rates. VOICE COMMANDS Speak your instructions like a real air traffic controller. Push to talk, say the callsign and instruction out loud, for example, "United 328, descend and maintain 6000, turn heading 270," and the pilot complies. FULL COMMAND MENU Prefer touch controls over voice? Every spoken command has a menu button: direct to waypoint, direct runway, hold, resume route, change runway, exit airspace, speed, altitude, and heading. REAL AIRLINE TRAFFIC Manage a realistic mix of heavy jets, regional airliners, turboprops, business jets, and general aviation aircraft, each flying with real airline callsigns and real performance characteristics. Handle medevac flights and in-flight emergencies as they come in. RADAR SCREEN A radar-style airspace view with live heading, speed, and altitude readouts, separation and collision warnings, and a full in-app reference for callsigns and controller phraseology.

Screenshots

Flatout ATC4 screens
ATC Simulator Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Flatout ATC at none against ATC Simulator Pro's shown. ATC Simulator Pro's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.1). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Flatout ATC sells 12 one-off in-app purchases and ATC Simulator Pro sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Flatout ATC versus ATC Simulator Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlatout ATCATC Simulator Pro
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (41 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings41 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.116.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size545 MB35 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCraig KennedyRyan Delisle

In-app purchases

12 purchases

Flatout ATC

One-time12
  • Unlock Small Fields$0.99
  • Mid Size Fields$0.99
  • Unlock Military Complication$0.99
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  • Unlock International Airports$0.99
  • Unlock Regional Northeast Airspaces$0.99
  • Unlock the US 'Big Dog'$0.99
  • Unlock the Final Bosses$0.99
  • The Watch — Season One$2.99
  • Season 2: The Incident Desk$2.99
  • Season 3: The Crossing$2.99
  • Base Game Unlock$4.99
  • Unlock Full Game$4.99
1 purchases

ATC Simulator Pro

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$1.99

Questions

Is Flatout ATC free?
Flatout ATC is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ATC Simulator Pro free?
ATC Simulator Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Flatout ATC or ATC Simulator Pro have ads?
ATC Simulator Pro shows ads; Flatout ATC does not.

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