Comparison

Approach Control vs Cost Exchange

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

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About

Approach Control

Experience a realistic air traffic control simulation with genuine ATC procedures and pilot voice recordings. Make critical decisions under pressure, manage traffic across 10 unique sectors, and test your skills with challenging scenarios. Includes training modules and career tracking.

Highlights
  • Realistic radar simulation
  • Genuine ATC procedures
  • Actual pilot voice recordings
  • 10 unique approach sectors
  • 10 ATC challenges
  • In-built training modules
  • Career statistics and trophy case
Features
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Work real approach radar. Make real decisions. Feel the pressure. Approach Control: Remastered is a highly realistic air traffic control simulation designed by real-world air traffic controllers. It delivers an authentic radar-control experience using genuine ATC procedures and actual pilot voice recordings. It's a game, but it feels very real. The radar behaves exactly like real approach control radar, including a true 3-second sweep used by professional controllers, plus actual ICAO separation and wake turbulence standards. Every element is designed to replicate how controllers scan, think, and manage traffic in real time, all within a clean, intuitive interface built for mobile. Control traffic in 10 unique approach sectors, each with its own localizer configuration and arrival entry points. Put your skills to the test with 10 ATC challenges that demand precision, planning, and calm decision-making under pressure. Train Like a Controller. New to air traffic control? Built-in Ground School and guided on-the-job training teach you the fundamentals step-by-step, preparing you for increasingly complex traffic scenarios. Track Your Career. Career statistics and a trophy case track your progress, performance, and long-term achievements as an approach controller. If you love flight simulation, try an air traffic control simulation. Approach Control: Remastered delivers one of the most authentic ATC experiences available on mobile.

About

Cost Exchange

Features
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You are the duty officer on an air-defence console. Contacts appear on the scope. You do not know what they are. Query IFF, wait three seconds, then read the returned data — speed, altitude, radar cross section — and INFER the threat yourself. The game never labels it for you. Then the real decision: which weapon? An IR missile costs $150k. A radar missile costs $350k. CIWS costs $5k. The laser is free but needs time you may not have. Fire the expensive one at a cheap drone and you win the engagement while losing the operation. A leaker that reaches the centre damages a facility. Lose enough facilities and the operation is over — no matter how much money is left in the vault. • Infer, don't be told — no automatic threat labels, ever • Four weapons with real trade-offs in range, cost and reload • Ammunition economy: every shot is a decision you pay for • Graded S to F on five criteria, with hard caps for downing a friendly • DAILY OPERATION — the same operation for everyone, one attempt a day • FREE OPERATIONS — endless seeded operations across four difficulty tiers No ads. No energy timers. No in-app purchases. Everything is unlocked. iPhone and iPad.

Screenshots

Approach Control4 screens
Cost Exchange4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cost Exchange at none against Approach Control's 9. Approach Control's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads 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. Approach Control sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Cost Exchange asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Approach Control versus Cost Exchange: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterApproach ControlCost Exchange
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.9 (9 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews36.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings9 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size174 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBig Fat Simulations Inc.Burhanettin Uludag

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Approach Control

One-time9
  • Advanced$1.99
  • Ninja$1.99
  • Approach Control: Remastered$1.99
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  • Cornered$1.99
  • Insanity$1.99
  • Windy$1.99
  • Pandemonium$1.99
  • Gridlock$1.99
  • Full Unlock$14.99
None

Cost Exchange

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Approach Control free?
Approach Control is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Cost Exchange free?
Cost Exchange is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Approach Control or Cost Exchange have ads?
Neither Approach Control nor Cost Exchange shows ads.

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