Arenas vs Ultimate Level Maker / Builder
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Arenas
Create and play your own games without any coding knowledge. This app offers a drag-and-drop editor, realistic physics, and community sharing features. Design single-player or multiplayer experiences and explore games made by others.
- Drag-and-drop game editor
- Realistic physics engine
- Bluetooth multiplayer
- Plain-English game logic
- Community game publishing
- Game modification
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Have you ever wanted to be a game designer, but you don't know how to program? With Arenas, anyone can make games! Arenas has a simple drag-and-drop style game editing engine, a built in realistic physics engine, bluetooth multiplayer support (so you can make a ".io" game), plain-English "rules" for custom logic, and many configurable game settings that are common among most popular mobile games! You can create single-player or multi-player games and play them with your friends (via bluetooth) or publish them to the community so others can enjoy. Explore "Community Arenas" to find fun games all around the world! If you find a game you really like, feel free to save a copy, open it in the editor, and modify it however you like to make your own variant. There are infinite possibilities, so what are you waiting for? ...And don't worry, there are NO ADS in Arenas! ---- Arenas is a free to use app and offers a premium auto-renewing subscription for "Arenas Unlimited". In the free version of the app you can play for one and a half hours per week, with Arenas Unlimited auto-renewing subscription you receive unlimited play time each week. Arenas is a term of Minty Networks, LLC. (Trademark pending).
Ultimate Level Maker / Builder
Design and build your own 2D platforming levels with a wide variety of tools and assets. Create intricate obstacle courses, adventure maps, or anything you can imagine, then share your creations online and explore those made by others.
- Create 2D platforming levels
- 13 level themes
- Hundreds of blocks, enemies, and objects
- Foreground and background block placement
- World map creation
- Online level sharing and downloading
- Challenge mode with unlockable hats
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This app gives you the tools you need to create fantastic 2D platforming levels and share them with everyone. Build tricky obstacle courses, crazy contraptions, or even longer adventure-style levels. The choice is yours! Features: • Make all sorts of levels, big or small! • Select from 13 different level theme options to suit your mood. • Hundreds of blocks, enemies, and objects to place in each level. • Decoration blocks and sloped ground tiles to create more detailed environments. • Several powerups including upgrades to the player's armor and jump height. • Place blocks in the foreground and background. • Add a sub-area to your levels. • Electricity can be conducted by metal blocks to power pistons and more. • Dynamic fire spreading (wooden blocks can burn, and ice blocks melt!) • Create world maps to compile your levels into a story or adventure! • Share your levels and world maps online, and download those uploaded by other players. • Tackle the classic challenge mode to unlock cool new hats to wear!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Ultimate Level Maker / Builder at 4.6 against Arenas's 3.7. Ultimate Level Maker / Builder also leads on review sentiment (85% vs 55%) and monetization model (ad-supported vs freemium). Arenas's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Ultimate Level Maker / Builder holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 153 and 102 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 55% of Arenas's written reviews are positive against 85% of Ultimate Level Maker / Builder's.
Arenas ships an update every 11 days, Ultimate Level Maker / Builder every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Arenas | Ultimate Level Maker / Builder |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (153 ratings) | 4.6 (102 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 55.0% of reviews | 84.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 153 — better | 102 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Freemium | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 188 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Minty Networks, LLC | Joshua Bellmyer |
Customer experience
Arenas
Ultimate Level Maker / Builder
User reviews
Arenas
From 153 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Unique and accessible for children
- 👍 Intuitive and well-designed editor
- 😊 Fun and creative experience
Room to improve
- 🐛 Buggy rules and stability issues
- 🔒 Lack of content moderation
- 🤔 Multiplayer not working
Ultimate Level Maker / Builder
From 102 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great game overall
- 💡 Excellent level maker
- 💰 No ads or purchases
- 🤩 Highly creative possibilities
- 🌟 Very fun and engaging
Room to improve
- 🐛 Glitches and bugs present
- 🐌 Slow updates
- 🕹️ Controls not always good
- 🔴 Too many ads
- ⚠️ Online safety concerns
Bugs and requests
Arenas
Reported bugs
3 issues- Game crashes when publishing
- Issues with cloning objects
- Negative conditionals not working as expected
Requested features
4 requests- Add ability to delete games
- Improve multiplayer functionality
- Introduce more music and sound options
- Fix slingshot glitch and other exploits
Ultimate Level Maker / Builder
Reported bugs
8 issues- Did not get hat after completing 5th year 2nd time
- Glitch with magnet on giant potion
- Lose a life when restarting a level
- Colors are too dark and don't match image
- Username glitch (SOMEBODYCOOL vs SOMEBODYCOOL XD)
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- Cannot add a Sonic level
- New update not on iOS
- Restarting level loses a life
Requested features
37 requests- Add multiplayer and friends list
- Add more bosses
- Add more cosmetics and pets
- Add chat for multiplayer
- Allow replaying levels
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- Add gravity switching like GD
- Add friends to play with
- Add a story mode
- Allow uploading levels without completion
- Add different kinds of coins
- Add more characters to play as
- Add playable character maker
- Add a family or friends for Carbo
- Add a girl version of Carbo or a dog/little brother
- Add lily pad blocks
- Add search functionality in the level editor
- Add more blocks and items
- Add multiplayer mode
- Add ability to color Carbo
- Add NPCs for storytelling
- Add a view creator button with profiles
- Add more lore for Carbo
- Add side scrolling
- Fix jet pack power up
- Add plane power up
- Add a bat boss
- Add comments on user games
- Add rating for user games
- Add custom music for levels
- Add more bone enemies
- Add new bosses (Giga Beetle, Mansion Bat, Huge Riko)
- Add mod support
- Add level rating system
- Improve lighting and shadows
- Add playable character maker
- Add boss maker
- Add more world parts
In-app purchases
Arenas
No in-app purchases
Ultimate Level Maker / Builder
No in-app purchases
Questions
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