Four Squares vs Planes Control!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Four Squares
Test your memory and concentration by watching sequences and repeating them. Increase difficulty, speed, and challenge friends across multiple game modes. Customize your experience with themes and sound packs.
- Sequence memorization and repetition
- Three distinct game modes
- Adjustable difficulty levels
- Customizable themes and sound packs
- iCloud save and sync
- Automatic game pausing
- Game Center leaderboards
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Four Squares is a game of memory, skill, and concentration. Watch what happens each turn and repeat what you see. Each time you successfully repeat the sequence it is lengthened, the speed increases, and your thinking time is shortened. Keep practising, work your way up the leaderboards, and challenge your friends. ----- 3 Game Modes ----- Four Squares features 3 different game modes to challenge you in unique ways. Each game mode can be played with easy, normal, or hard difficulty. Endless is the classic mode that gives you a single life to repeat the longest sequence you can. One wrong move and it's game over! Time Attack mode gives you 30 seconds to repeat the longest sequence you can. Every correct sequence will win you some more time, but every wrong move will lose you time so don't rush! Speedrun mode gives you 3 lives to reach a sequence of 10 in the quickest time. You'll lose a life with each wrong move, but the timer doesn't stop so find the right balance of speed and accuracy. ----- Customisation ----- With 9 themes and 6 sound packs Four Squares allows you to customise the experience to your heart's content. ----- Save, Sync, and Replay ----- Each game you complete is saved and backed up to iCloud. You can view completed games on any device and choose to play the same sequence to get the best score. ----- Automatic Pausing ----- When interruptions occur, such as phone call or replying to a text, Four Squares will automatically pause the game and allow you to resume where you left off. ----- Leaderboards ----- Game Center integration provides leaderboards that let you compare your score to friends and other players worldwide. ----- Privacy ----- Four Squares doesn't collect user data or contain any adverts. It is funded by a single in-app purchase that unlocks extra themes and sound packs.
Planes Control!
Guide aircraft to safe landings while avoiding hazards like storms and enemy attacks. Control over 60 different planes and helicopters across 13 challenging levels. Engage in aerial combat, fight wildfires, and manage air traffic in this addictive simulation game.
- Draw flight paths for aircraft
- Avoid collisions and environmental hazards
- Pilot over 60 types of planes and helicopters
- Engage in aerial combat
- Fight wildfires with air tankers
- Navigate diverse and challenging levels
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Take control of the sky and land your planes avoiding collisions and enemies. Guide your planes to ensure safe landing in this incredibly easy to learn yet surprisingly addictive game! Get an adrenalin rush while avoiding dangerous collisions, blazing storms and tornadoes, put out forest fire, get ready to repel an attack of enemy fighters and fight off an alien invasion! GAMEPLAY Planes Control is an game with simple controls. Draw lines with your fingers to determine the path each plane will follow as they find their way to land or to engage the enemy. This sounds easy? You will need fast fingers and strategy to manage all your planes and keep the sky under control. AIRCRAFTS You can navigate more than 60 different planes and helicopters including airliners, WWII fighters, jet planes and tilt rotors while playing Planes Control. Beside this, you will enjoy flying the SR-71 Black Bird (the world's fastest plane), the Antonov 225 (the largest aircraft in the world to fly multiple times) and famous combat planes like the Mitsubishi A6M Zero, the F-14 Tomcat or the Apache AH-64 combat helicopter. LEVELS Planes Control has 13 awesome levels for mobile devices plus 6 new levels full of challenges created for tablets. More levels are on the way. • Earn your wings on a holiday resort, guiding your planes and helicopters. • Aerial combat! Shoot down hostile planes and helicopters over the scorching desert. • Air Tankers: Fight wildfires by dropping water with your planes and helicopters. • Storm Carrier landings: Command your military fighters and helicopters between the clouds and rain. • Navigate canyons in the Arizona’s Desert. • Successfully land your Aircraft during a tornado outbreak. • Night landings: Switch your landing lights on and find your way around the airfield. • Keep an eye on emergency calls and give priority landing to the planes that are running out of fuel. • Avoid cargo planes flying around your air space. • Land your planes in the middle of an alien invasion ! READY FOR A CHALLENGE? Earn new and different achievements in every level and challenge yourself to the limit. Please sit back, fasten your seatbelt and enjoy taking control of the sky – download Planes Control now! ⓘ For the latest inside information from Rarepixels: ► Like us at https://www.facebook.com/planesApp ► Visit us at http://rarepixels.com/games/planes-control/ ► Follow us at https://www.twitter.com/planes_control
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Four Squares at none against Planes Control!'s shown. Planes Control!'s advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 57 months) and rating (4.7 vs 4.3). On price, review sentiment, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Four Squares sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Planes Control! sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Planes Control! holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Planes Control! has 6.8K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 79% and 79% positive.
Four Squares ships an update every 57 months, Planes Control! monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Four Squares | Planes Control! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (4 ratings) | 4.7 (6.8K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 78.6% of reviews | 79.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 6.8K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 57 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yetii Ltd. | Antonio Calvino Esquer |
Customer experience
Four Squares
Planes Control!
Bugs and requests
Four Squares
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Planes Control!
Reported bugs
4 issues- Game freezes on iOS 14
- High score not recorded correctly
- Planes colliding off-screen
- Notification bar interfering with gameplay
Requested features
5 requests- More level options and customization
- Ability to pause and resume games
- Improved tutorial and instructions
- Difficulty settings for each level
- Leaderboards and achievements
In-app purchases
Four Squares
- Four Squares⁺$0.99
Planes Control!
- Pack of 5× Rescue Teams.$0.99
- Unlock all HD Levels$0.99
- Classic levels$0.99
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- Unlock "Time Machine" levels!$0.99
- Unlock "10th Anniversary" levels!$0.99
- Three crashes per game.$1.99
- Classic levels and no ads$2.99
- Pack of 20× Rescue Teams.$2.99
- No Ads.$2.99
- Pack of 50× Rescue Teams.$4.99
Questions
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