Comparison

Battleplanes vs Planes Tactics Pro

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

Head to head
About

Battleplanes

Engage in a strategic turn-based combat game where you must locate and destroy your opponent's hidden planes. Analyze hits and misses to find weak spots and outmaneuver your adversary.

Highlights
  • Turn-based strategic combat
  • Locate and destroy hidden planes
  • Online and local multiplayer
  • Challenging AI opponent
  • Training mode
  • Customizable avatars and flags
Features
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Battleplanes is a game of strategy and suspense that will stimulate your brain. Players take turns to search and destroy each other's planes. Each plane has 8 orientations and a weak spot. A good player will analyze the hits and misses, together with the shape of plane and locate that weak spot using as few steps as possible. This makes battleplanes more challenging and exciting to play than the classic sea battle game. Features - Play with friends online or locally. - Rated online games using the Glicko rating system. - 16 planes with 8 uniquely designed shapes. - Challenging AI. - Training mode - Lots of beautiful avatars - Represent your region using 200+ flags. How to Play Setup ------- At first each player set up the planes on a grid-like board. As long as they are not overlaping, the planes be placed anywhere, and in any of the 8 orientations. Player can strategically set the plane formation to confuse the opponent. Gameplay ---------- During the game, players take turns to guess where the opponent planes are. Most importantly, player must correctly guess where the weakness located. At each turn player choose a tile to strike, if it hits the enemy plane, it'll set it on fire. If it hits the weakness tile, the plane will be destroyed. The game finishes when one player destroy all the enemy planes. That player will be the winner.

About

Planes Tactics Pro

Features
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Planes Tactics Pro: save 50% to unlock all features and no ads. Your challenges are the hidden planes with different shapes on a battlefield with size from 5x5 to 10x10. Your role is to find all the heads of every plane, reveal and destroy them on the battlefield. Each level you have a limited number of turns within a given time to play, solving a level with as little turns and less time as possible to get the best score and earn stars. There are โ€œHintsโ€ to help if you get stuck in a level. Planes Tactics is designed for both iPhone and iPad, with 4 packets from beginner, amateur to expert and professor, contains 100 different levels from easy to difficult and 35 different planes from 1 head to 4 heads. We also have 2 players mode to play and share with your friends. Thanks and enjoy! Terms: https://just.1dreamm.com/terms

Screenshots

Battleplanes4 screens
Planes Tactics Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Battleplanes at Free against Planes Tactics Pro's $3.99. Battleplanes also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 63 months) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.6). Planes Tactics Pro's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Battleplanes is free to download; Planes Tactics Pro costs $3.99 up front. Battleplanes sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Planes Tactics Pro sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Battleplanes ships an update fortnightly, Planes Tactics Pro every 63 months. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences ยท 4 level
Battleplanes versus Planes Tactics Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBattleplanesPlanes Tactics Pro
PriceFree โ€” better$3.99
Positive reviews100.0% of reviewsโ€”
Update frequencyFortnightly โ€” betterEvery 63 months
AdsYesNo โ€” better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesโ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 โ€” better15.6
Further details โ€” not scored
Size267 MB43 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperHonghai Gu1dreamm Limited

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Battleplanes

One-time10
  • 20 Hints Pack$0.99
  • Coins Pack 5000$0.99
  • Remove Ads$5.99
Show 7 more
  • Coins Pack 42000$7.99
  • 500 Hints Pack$17.99
  • Coins Pack 100000$17.99
  • 1000 Hints Pack$29.99
  • Coins Pack 300000$47.99
  • Coins Pack 720000$99.99
  • Coins Pack 1660000$199.99
5 purchases

Planes Tactics Pro

One-time5
  • Pack of 250 coins$0.99
  • Pack of 600 coins$1.99
  • Pack of 1750 coins$4.99
Show 2 more
  • Pack of 4000 coins$9.99
  • Pack of 9000 coins$19.99

Questions

Is Battleplanes free?
Battleplanes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Planes Tactics Pro free?
Planes Tactics Pro costs $3.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Do Battleplanes or Planes Tactics Pro have ads?
Battleplanes shows ads; Planes Tactics Pro does not.
Which is updated more often, Battleplanes or Planes Tactics Pro?
Battleplanes ships an update fortnightly, and Planes Tactics Pro every 63 months. Most recently, Battleplanes was updated on October 5, 2026 and Planes Tactics Pro on June 1, 2026.

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