Vex 2 vs Ultimate Level Maker / Builder
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Vex 2
Experience a retro stickman platformer with hundreds of new levels. Master new avatar skills and challenging parkour gameplay to become the best runner. This game offers a classic stick figure running challenge.
- Hundreds of new levels
- New avatar and stick figure skills
- Challenging parkour gameplay
- Retro stickman graphics
- Human runner challenge
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Jump, run, and survive in a challenging stickman parkour adventure! Vex 2: Stickman Parkour brings intense platform action with tricky obstacles, deadly traps, and challenging levels. Test your skills as you run, jump, and dodge through dangerous stages filled with unexpected challenges. Master your movement, avoid traps, and complete each level with perfect timing. Every jump matters, and every mistake brings a new challenge. Features: • Challenging parkour platform gameplay • Tricky obstacles and deadly traps • Fast-paced stickman action • Tons of challenging levels to conquer • Simple controls, hard-to-master gameplay • Play offline anytime, anywhere Can you beat every stage and become the ultimate parkour master?
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 review sentiment: Ultimate Level Maker / Builder at 85% against Vex 2's 33%. Ultimate Level Maker / Builder also leads on rating (4.6 vs 2.6) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). Vex 2's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, 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. Vex 2 sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Ultimate Level Maker / Builder asks for nothing beyond the download.
Ultimate Level Maker / Builder holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ultimate Level Maker / Builder has 103 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Vex 2's written reviews are positive against 85% of Ultimate Level Maker / Builder's.
Vex 2 ships an update every 7 months, Ultimate Level Maker / Builder every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Vex 2 | Ultimate Level Maker / Builder |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.6 (8 ratings) | 4.6 (103 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 84.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 | 103 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 188 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | 红利 郑 | Joshua Bellmyer |
Customer experience
Vex 2
Ultimate Level Maker / Builder
Bugs and requests
Vex 2
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
Vex 2
- Remove Ads$0.99
Ultimate Level Maker / Builder
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Vex 2 free?
Is Ultimate Level Maker / Builder free?
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