Gadget Creative Challenge vs Ball Maze Maker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Gadget Creative Challenge
Design and build intricate marble machine contraptions using a variety of interactive parts. Watch your creations come to life with adjustable physics and camera views. Share your unique designs with friends across multiple platforms.
- Create custom marble machines
- Dozens of pipe and animated pieces
- Adjustable physics and release intervals
- Runtime adjustable controls
- Save, load, and share creations
- Multi-platform sharing
- Multiple camera views
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Create your own marble machine gadgets. Choose parts from a work bench that contains dozens of pipe sections and animated pieces. Pieces can be easily moved and rotated and snapped to connect with nearby pieces. You can combine up to 100 pieces into a single creation. You can easily adjust the time interval between marbles being released. You can also adjust how powerful the spring is and how much the anti-gravity accelerators boost the marbles uphill. Some pieces have sliding controls so they can be adjusted at run-time. You can design a closed system, that returns the marbles back up to the box where they started, so it could theoretically run indefinitely. Hit Play to watch your creation run. Choose from 4 different preset camera positions, or use the controls to create your own custom view. An additional Marble View will show you what it’s like to travel inside your device. Easily save or load previous creations or optionally Share your creations with friends via email or text messages. Games you share are multi-platform, allowing them to play on another copy of Gadget Creative Challenge running on most popular smartphones, tablets, and computers. Universal App - supports iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad, including standard, Retina, and iPhone X displays. Even runs on Apple Mac or MacBooks equipped with Apple’s new M1 Silicon chip with easy to use mouse and on screen controls.
Ball Maze Maker
Design and build intricate mazes to trap balls. Merge shapes to create challenging puzzles for endless fun. Test your maze-making skills and amaze your friends.
- Maze creation
- Shape merging
- Puzzle design
- Ball trapping
- Challenging gameplay
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Merge the Shapes! Create the Maze to imprison the balls!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Ball Maze Maker at Free against Gadget Creative Challenge's $2.99. Ball Maze Maker also leads on review sentiment (38% vs 0%) and ratings volume (351 vs 5). Gadget Creative Challenge's advantage is rating (4.2 vs 3.4) and ads (none vs shown). On in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
Ball Maze Maker is free to download; Gadget Creative Challenge costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Gadget Creative Challenge holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ball Maze Maker has 351 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of Gadget Creative Challenge's written reviews are positive against 38% of Ball Maze Maker's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Gadget Creative Challenge ships an update every 26 months, Ball Maze Maker every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Gadget Creative Challenge | Ball Maze Maker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.2 (5 ratings) — better | 3.4 (351 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 38.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 351 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 26 months | Every 7 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 171 MB | 296 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Magnin & Associates | Yso Corp |
Customer experience
Gadget Creative Challenge
Ball Maze Maker
Bugs and requests
Gadget Creative Challenge
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Ball Maze Maker
Reported bugs
3 issues- Disappearing game pieces
- Income upgrades not working as intended
- Crashes and freezes on launch or gameplay
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to rotate/control game pieces
- Option to purchase ad-free experience
- Improved progression and income mechanics
- More variety in game content and levels
In-app purchases
Gadget Creative Challenge
No in-app purchases
Ball Maze Maker
No in-app purchases
Questions
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