Paper Labs: FlightA paper plane game for phone and tablet
Fold it. Tune it. Fly it out of the window.
Fold real paper planes crease by crease on a model maker’s desk, clip them onto a desk catapult and launch them out of the window over a whole town. Every fold changes how they fly.
Free to start. Coming soon for iPhone, iPad and Android phones and tablets.
- 16paper planes to fold, step by step
- 155town windows to throw from
- 465gold planes to win at the windows
- 200silver planes: bonus achievements
How it plays
From a flat sheet to a flight
No sliders for wing size, no preset stats. You fold the plane, and the plane you folded is the one that flies.
1Fold
Drag the paper and crease it. The flap follows your finger, corners and edges snap into line, and a hand shows each guided fold the first time.
2Tune
Clip it onto the Air Cannon. Pump the power, raise the nose with the syringe, swing the aim. Slide the grip and bend each flap a degree at a time.
3Fly
Hit the big red button. Your plane crosses the room and sails out over the town. Meet a window’s goals to win its gold planes.
Real paper, real flight
Every crease changes the flight
The game reads the exact shape you folded, every layer, crease, flap and paperclip, and flies that shape. Nothing is scripted.
- Weight from the paperEvery layer counts, at the weight of the paper you picked, plus any paperclips. Stack the nose and it gets heavier.
- Lift from the shapeA vortex-lattice solve of your wings, keel and flaps, worked out for each plane you fold.
- A full six-axis flightStalls, spins, loops and long glides come out of the physics, the same way they do with real paper.
- Wind and a busy townEvery window has its own wind and gusts, and the weather changes each day. Roofs, trees, fences and moving cars all get in the way.
Climbing and stalling? Bend the flaps down. Tail-heavy? Add a paperclip. Just like the real thing.
The town
A whole town of windows
Throw from any window of 22 houses. A path leads from the small houses to the big ones: each window’s first gold plane opens the next window, and a house with two thirds of its gold planes opens the next house.
Every window has three goals, each a gold plane:
- Stay up long enough
- Land on a target
- Fly through the rings
- Go the distance
- Loop the loop
- Fly a full circle
- Stall and recover
- Climb above the sill
- Touch down softly
- Land on a roof
- Fly over a house
Cars and buses run on a timetable: land on one and ride along. Look out for birds’ nests.
Gold and silver
Win the paper planes
Planes stand for goals. A white plane is still to win.
- To winEvery goal starts as white paper.
- Gold planes465 window goals across the town. They open windows, houses and new models to fold.
- Silver planes200 bonus achievements, from Ready to Near impossible, won from any window. On Google Play Games and Game Center too.
- Out the windowThrow a plane out of the window
- Free rideLand on any moving vehicle
- Taxi!Ride on a moving taxi
- Tyre swingerLand on the tree swing
- Ring masterFly through all 4 rings of a ring course in one throw
- MayorComplete every house on the path
Every day
Something new each morning
Daily play runs on your phone, picked from the date, so everyone gets the same day. No server, no sign-in.
- The Daily FoldOne window and one goal for everyone. Practise as much as you like, then arm the one throw that counts and beat the day’s par.
- Neighbours’ notesThree neighbours a day put a note in their window: a plane on my roof, in my garden, through my window.
- Weather of the dayA town-wide wind and gusts, shown on the homemade wind gauge outside the window.
- A gentle streakKeep playing for new papers: sky blue, kraft, airmail and gold leaf. One missed day a week is forgiven.
Models
Sixteen planes to learn
Each one is taught fold by fold, with a guide crease to show the way. Start with the Classic Dart and The Basic, then win gold planes to open the rest.
Classic Dart
Traditional
The plane everyone knows: fold it flat, then open the wings.
- Fast and straight
The Basic
Traditional
Four folds and wide wings: the gentle first glider.
- Glider
Nakamura Lock
Eiji Nakamura
A blunt locked nose that glides long and steady.
- Long glides
Raven
Inspired by Fold’N Fly
Wide wings and a locked nose for long, circling flights.
- Glider
The Stable
Inspired by Fold’N Fly
A square locked nose and wide wings for big, lazy loops.
- Glider
Lock-Bottom
Inspired by Fold’N Fly
Long nose folded back and locked: a sturdy distance plane.
- Fast and straight
Tail Spin
Inspired by Fold’N Fly
A long dart with a blunt nose. Twist its tail flaps and it spins.
- Stunts
Heavy-Nosed Plane
Inspired by Fold’N Fly
Its nose is folded back and forth into a heavy wedge. Good for loops.
- Stunts
V-Wing
Inspired by Fold’N Fly
A square-sheet glider whose wings fan out from the nose.
- Glider
Step Hawk
Inspired by the Kline-Fogleman stepped wing (Richard Kline)
Doubled front strip, pushed-up fin and a nose clip: a steady glider.
- Long glides
Storm Hawk
Inspired by the Kline-Fogleman stepped wing (Richard Kline)
Step Hawk’s big brother: rounded-back wingtips and a pushed-up fin.
- Glider
Wayfarer
Inspired by the Kline-Fogleman stepped wing (Richard Kline)
A twin tail raised from the wings’ back strips: steady and far-flying.
- Long glides
Ridge Soarer
Inspired by the Kline-Fogleman stepped wing (Richard Kline)
Swept-back wingtips, a deep body and a T-tail: a calm, floating glider.
- Glider
Frost Falcon
Inspired by the Kline-Fogleman stepped wing (Richard Kline)
Short swept wingtips on a tall fin: throw it gently.
- Glider
Notch Ray
Inspired by the Kline-Fogleman stepped wing (Richard Kline)
A square notch at each wing’s back corner and a pushed-up fin.
- Fast and straight
Dusk Moth
Inspired by the Kline-Fogleman stepped wing (Richard Kline)
Wide wings with clipped tips: slow, floaty flights.
- Long glides
Or open Free fold and design your own.
The workshop
Made for fingers
Built for phones and tablets first. Drag to fold, pinch to zoom, twist to turn the view, swipe with three fingers to undo. A magnifier pops up beside your finger so you can see what you’re holding.
- ScissorsCut straight through every layer, or stop inside the paper to leave a slit for elevons and tabs.
- TapeTape the layers under a spot together so they fold as one from then on.
- PaperclipsSlide a clip onto an edge for nose weight. It moves the balance point, and the flight with it.
- Bend any foldTap a fold line and open it to any angle: wings, dihedral, an elevator tab. It clicks at 30°, 45°, 60° and 90°.
- Reverse foldsPush a point inside out between its layers, for noses and tails, the way origami does.
- Seven papersPrinter paper, origami kami, lab grid, sky blue, kraft, airmail and gold leaf, in A4 or A5, thin or thick. Heavier paper flies differently.
- Free foldSkip the guide, start from a blank sheet and invent your own plane. Then see if it flies.
- The hangarEvery plane you have flown waits on the shelf with its best distance and time aloft, ready to fly or fold again.
- Save and undoUndo and redo every fold, and keep your best designs in save slots to fly again.
Free to start
Play free, unlock it all once
One purchase opens the whole game for good. No ads, no subscription, no coins.
Free
- The first two houses of the town
- Classic Dart and The Basic
- Free fold with folds and bends
- The Daily Fold and friends’ challenges, from any window
- 3 save slots
Full game
- Every house and every window
- All 16 models, opened with gold planes
- Scissors, tape, reverse folds and paperclips
- 9 save slots
Coming soon to your phone
Paper Labs: Flight is on its way to the App Store and Google Play, for iPhone, iPad and Android phones and tablets.
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