Level Maker vs Buildbox World
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Level Maker
Unleash your creativity by designing and playing custom platformer levels. Explore an endless stream of user-generated content, from challenging obstacles to unique characters. Share your own creations and discover what others have made.
- Create custom game levels
- Play user-generated levels
- Share your creations
- Over 100 blocks, items, enemies, and characters
- Challenge levels
- Unlimited world levels
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Level Maker is a game of awesome creation and fun. You can PLAY, CREATE and SHARE levels with everyone, so let your imagination run wild! You love super classic platform games, now you can play, create and share your own creations to the world! Features: 100+ blocks, items, enemies and characters. Awesome Level Maker Play, Share and Like Levels Unlimited World Levels created by other players! Challenge Levels
Buildbox World
Explore and play unique games created by a global community. Discover new experiences daily and get inspired to build your own games using the desktop application. Share your creations privately or with the world.
- Explore community-created games
- Play new games daily
- Create games with desktop app
- Preview your creations
- Share games privately or publicly
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With Buildbox World you can explore and play exciting bits created by the Buildbox community from around the globe! New bits are shared all the time, so you'll experience something new every day! Get inspired and create your own bit using the Buildbox desktop application. Then use Buildbox World to preview and share your bit with the world or privately with your friends and family!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Buildbox World at 4.5 against Level Maker's 3.6. Buildbox World also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 weeks) and ratings volume (546 vs 90). Level Maker's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (54% vs 45%). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Level Maker sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Buildbox World sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Buildbox World holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Buildbox World has 546 ratings behind it against 90, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 54% of Level Maker's written reviews are positive against 45% of Buildbox World's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Level Maker ships an update every 3 weeks, Buildbox World every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Level Maker | Buildbox World |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (90 ratings) | 4.5 (546 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 53.6% of reviews — better | 44.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 90 | 546 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 62 MB | 176 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vorun Kreal | App Onboard, Inc. |
Customer experience
Level Maker
Buildbox World
User reviews
Level Maker
From 90 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Incredible game
- 👍 Easy to make levels
- 👍 Lots of creativity
- 👍 Great level editor
- 👍 Fun gameplay
Room to improve
- 🐛 Glitches and bugs
- 🔍 Lack of moderation
- 🔍 Inappropriate content
- 🔍 Difficulty unlocking level maker
- 🔍 Challenging controls
Buildbox World
From 546 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Lightning-fast game creation
- 👍 Intuitive game creation process
- 💡 Ability to view and share projects
- 👍 Great companion app for Buildbox desktop
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes on launch
- 🐛 Exports won't load on app
- 🔒 Difficult to cancel subscription
- 💰 Expensive and not worth the price
Bugs and requests
Level Maker
Reported bugs
5 issues- Game crashes after ads
- Levels not loading properly
- Inability to retry levels after death
- Inconsistent jump mechanics
- Soft-locking in menus
Requested features
6 requests- Add more enemy types
- Improve search and discovery of levels
- Implement checkpoints
- Add more block types and customization options
- Introduce multiplayer functionality
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- Implement a story mode or campaign
Buildbox World
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes when opening the app
- Login/account issues
- Incompatibility with latest OS versions
Requested features
4 requests- Allow game creation on mobile devices
- Improve UI, especially on smaller devices
- Add ability to delete/rename exported games
- Implement multiplayer functionality
In-app purchases
Level Maker
- Remove Ads$1.99
- Unlock All Blocks + Remove Ads$2.99
- Unlock All Characters + Remove Ads$2.99
Buildbox World
- 100 Gems$0.99
- Small Gem Bundle$0.99
- 325 Gems$2.99
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- Medium Gem Bundle$2.99
- 600 Gems$4.99
- Large Gem Bundle$4.99
Questions
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