Safari Forever vs Ultimate Level Maker / Builder
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Safari Forever
This is a community-driven auto-platformer where players can conquer a campaign and explore an endless supply of user-created levels. It also allows users to build and share their own unique levels with friends.
- Community-driven auto-platformer
- Infinite stream of community levels
- Campaign mode
- Level creation tools
- Share levels with friends
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Safari Forever is a community driven, auto platformer. Conquer the campaign and enjoy an infinite stream of community created levels. Unleash your own creativity and create levels that can be shared with friends effortlessly!
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 ads: Safari Forever at none against Ultimate Level Maker / Builder's shown. Safari Forever also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Safari Forever against 4.7 for Ultimate Level Maker / Builder. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 69 and 69 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 83% of Safari Forever's written reviews are positive against 84% of Ultimate Level Maker / Builder's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Safari Forever | Ultimate Level Maker / Builder |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (69 ratings) | 4.7 (69 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 82.9% of reviews | 83.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 69 | 69 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 129 MB | 188 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Johannes Stensen | Joshua Bellmyer |
Customer experience
Safari Forever
Ultimate Level Maker / Builder
Bugs and requests
Safari Forever
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
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
Safari Forever
No in-app purchases
Ultimate Level Maker / Builder
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Safari Forever free?
Is Ultimate Level Maker / Builder free?
Which has better reviews, Safari Forever or Ultimate Level Maker / Builder?
Do Safari Forever or Ultimate Level Maker / Builder have ads?
Which is updated more often, Safari Forever or Ultimate Level Maker / Builder?
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