Buildbox World vs Indigo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Buildbox World
Explore and play unique games created by a global community. Discover new experiences daily and get inspired to build your own games using the desktop application. Share your creations privately or with the world.
- Explore community-created games
- Play new games daily
- Create games with desktop app
- Preview your creations
- Share games privately or publicly
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With Buildbox World you can explore and play exciting bits created by the Buildbox community from around the globe! New bits are shared all the time, so you'll experience something new every day! Get inspired and create your own bit using the Buildbox desktop application. Then use Buildbox World to preview and share your bit with the world or privately with your friends and family!
Indigo
Design and play custom games with AI assistance. Personalize experiences for friends or create entirely new game worlds. Share your creations and enjoy them together.
- AI game generation
- Game personalization
- Share games with friends
- Play games together
- Custom game creation
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Create, share and play games with friends Use our AI to make the game your own, or simply personalize games for your friends
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Indigo at 85% against Buildbox World's 44%. Indigo also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.5). Buildbox World's advantage is ratings volume (545 vs 13) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Buildbox World sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Indigo sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Indigo holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Buildbox World has 545 ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 44% of Buildbox World's written reviews are positive against 85% of Indigo's.
Buildbox World ships an update every 9 days, Indigo weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Buildbox World | Indigo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (545 ratings) | 4.7 (13 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 43.6% of reviews | 84.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 545 — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 176 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | App Onboard, Inc. | Antimatter Systems |
Customer experience
Buildbox World
Indigo
Bugs and requests
Buildbox World
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes when opening the app
- Login/account issues
- Incompatibility with latest OS versions
Requested features
4 requests- Allow game creation on mobile devices
- Improve UI, especially on smaller devices
- Add ability to delete/rename exported games
- Implement multiplayer functionality
Indigo
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Buildbox World
- 100 Gems$0.99
- Small Gem Bundle$0.99
- 325 Gems$2.99
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- Medium Gem Bundle$2.99
- 600 Gems$4.99
- Large Gem Bundle$4.99
Indigo
- Indigo Premium$4.991 Month
