Comparison

Castle vs UT Create!

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Castle

Create and play games with a vibrant community. Design your own games using a simple editor, share them with friends, or explore millions of creations from others. Engage with creators, compete for scores, and develop artistic and technical skills.

Highlights
  • Intuitive game editor
  • Community game exploration
  • Social interaction features
  • Game remixing and customization
  • Creative skill development tools
  • Achievement system
Features
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Castle is social media for creating and playing games! - Make your own games in our simple but powerful editor, then share them with friends, or post to the community and build a following. - Explore the millions of games, animations, and drawings made by the community. Every genre, zero ads, thousands posted every day! - Post comments, follow your favorite creators, compete for high scores, collect achievements, or just hang out. - Get started with our simple templates, or remix the games you see and add your own touch. Pull from a library of millions of game objects to create anything you can imagine. - Learn to bring your ideas to life with editor tools for art, physics, logic, music, and sound. Deepen your creativity and develop skills that last forever. Some features in Castle may require in-app purchase, such as boosting your game to reach more players. Creating and sharing games never requires in-app purchase. Some optional features are available with a subscription, such as setting a custom frame for your profile avatar. Creating and sharing games does not require a subscription.

About

UT Create!

Create custom animations, scenes, and stories using your favorite characters and locations. Design unique dialogues with adjustable voices and speeds. Upload your own characters and maps to expand your creative possibilities.

Highlights
  • Stop-motion animation
  • Scene composition
  • Customizable dialogues
  • Character and map uploads
  • Sprite and font library
  • Adjustable voice pitch and speed
Features
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UT Create! is the ultimate creation app for Undertale: Make animations, shot scenes, tell stories, customize dialogs, and more! Includes all your favorite characters, alternate universes, several maps (or upload your own), custom dialog creation, and an endless amount of combinations. Features: - Movie Maker: Bring your stories to life with the wonders of stop-motion animation. Powerful, intuitive interface to compose your creations. - Scene Creator: Set up an endless amount of scenarios with all your favorite characters, places and objects you know and love. - Dialog Creation: Make quality animated dialogs and customize them at your will. Choose and modify characters, voices, speed, fonts, colors and much more. - Make your own AUs! - Upload your OCs and maps. - All characters and their sprites. - All UT fonts and existing colors. - All character voices. - Alterable dialog speed. - Alterable dialog voice pitch. - Premium version that unlocks exclusive features and content!

Screenshots

Castle4 screens
UT Create!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Castle at none against UT Create!'s shown. Castle also leads on ratings volume (39K vs 1.4K). UT Create!'s advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.1). On price, rating, review sentiment 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Castle sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and UT Create! sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Castle against 4.7 for UT Create!. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Castle has 39K ratings behind it against 1.4K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 78% of Castle's written reviews are positive against 73% of UT Create!'s.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Castle versus UT Create!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCastleUT Create!
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (39K ratings)4.7 (1.4K ratings)
Positive reviews78.2% of reviews — better73.0% of reviews
Number of ratings39K — better1.4K
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.111.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size86 MB404 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperMonterey's Coast, Inc.HYOCT GAMES LLC

Customer experience

Castle

All ratings39,374 ratings
Positive93.3%
Neutral2.7%
Negative4.0%
Written reviews2,146 reviews
Positive78.2%
Neutral7.7%
Negative14.0%

UT Create!

All ratings1,431 ratings
Positive93.4%
Neutral2.5%
Negative4.1%
Written reviews455 reviews
Positive73.0%
Neutral9.9%
Negative17.1%

User reviews

Castle

From 39K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Easy to make games
  • 👍 Fun and entertaining
  • 🎨 Allows creativity and expression
  • ⭐ Best game app ever

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes and bugs
  • 🔧 Difficult for beginners
  • 🔒 Restricted features for younger users
  • 🔀 Issues with remixing and copying games

UT Create!

From 1.4K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Great app
  • 👍 Fun to use
  • 🤩 Awesome animations
  • 💯 Best Undertale game
  • 🥰 Love the characters

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Buggy animations
  • 💰 Too many premium features
  • 📺 Excessive ads
  • 🤔 Confusing to animate
  • 🤨 Lack of tutorial

Bugs and requests

Castle

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Keyboard issues and text input problems
  • Crashes when opening the app or creating new decks
  • Sound and audio not working properly
  • Decks not loading or disappearing

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add more colors and a color wheel
  • Implement a friends system and multiplayer
  • Allow longer audio tracks
  • Improve text and drawing tools
  • Add an undo/redo function

UT Create!

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Freezing on iPad
  • Dialogue animation not working
  • Glitchy UI
  • Difficulty changing fonts

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add Undertale Yellow AU
  • Allow creating custom battles
  • Improve animation tools
  • Add more Undertale/Deltarune characters
  • Ability to save and watch animations

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Castle

Subscriptions2
  • Dweller$3.991 Month
  • Dweller+$7.991 Month
One-time3
  • 100 bricks$0.99
  • 550 bricks$4.99
  • 1,200 bricks$9.99
4 purchases

UT Create!

One-time4
  • UNDERFELL - Character Pack$0.99
  • ERRORTALE - Character Pack$0.99
  • UNDERSWAP - Character Pack$0.99
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  • Premium$1.99

Questions

Is Castle free?
Castle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is UT Create! free?
UT Create! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Castle or UT Create!?
Castle and UT Create! are both rated 4.7 out of 5 on the App Store, from 39K and 1.4K ratings respectively.
Do Castle or UT Create! have ads?
UT Create! shows ads; Castle does not.

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