Comparison

BlockMaker 3D vs Buildings for Minecraft

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

Head to head
About

BlockMaker 3D

Easily add impressive structures to your Minecraft maps with a single tap. Explore over 550 unique buildings across 8 categories, including houses, castles, and vehicles. Works offline and ensures map safety with automatic backups.

Highlights
  • Instant build import
  • 8 building categories
  • Over 550 unique buildings
  • Offline access
  • Map safety backups
  • Easy to use interface
Features
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BlockMaker 3D brings building search, 3D previews and placement, draft creation and world editing together. You can: You can also turn photos into pixel buildings and generate houses automatically. • Inspect buildings and worlds in 3D, then adjust position, rotation and height before installation. • Create an empty draft or copy an existing building into a draft and keep editing. • Edit Minecraft worlds directly: place or remove blocks, move, copy and paste selections, and add buildings. • Export buildings from a world, save them as drafts or local creations and reuse them across worlds. Find houses and building ideas Search the online library for Minecraft houses, villas, mansions, cottages, treehouses, castles, towers, temples, villages, farms and survival bases. Explore ideas for pixel art, statues and redstone-themed builds too. Available creations depend on the current library: search for a design, check its details and download one you want to use or adapt. Save favorites and revisit downloaded buildings. Preview in 3D before you install Look around roofs, entrances, materials and overall size instead of choosing from a cover image alone. Open a world preview to see the terrain and nearby structures. Move and rotate your building, adjust its height and confirm its position before installing it in a Minecraft world. Create a draft or copy a building to edit Copy an existing building into a draft and use the 3D editor to place or erase blocks, replace materials and reshape roofs and walls. Or start an empty draft to design a modern house, mountain cabin, medieval fortress or survival base. Save drafts to continue editing later; finished creations can be previewed and installed in Minecraft worlds. Edit Minecraft worlds directly Open a world and explore and edit it in 3D. Place or remove blocks, select areas for bulk edits, move, copy and paste existing content, or choose a building to place in the world. Rotate, mirror and adjust its position to fit the terrain, roads and surrounding buildings. Export a build from your world Keep a house or base you already made. Select its area on the map, adjust the height range and review the result in 3D. Save it as an editable draft or a local building; you can also choose to publish your creation. Reuse a building across worlds without rebuilding it from the beginning. Turn a photo into pixel art. Take a picture or choose one from your library. Set the block count along its longest edge, then preview the result before you install it, save it as a draft or publish it. Generate a house. Choose from a range of house styles and adjust the generation options. Preview the result, install it, keep working on it in a draft or share it. Manage worlds and share creations Create or import worlds, browse maps and organize drafts, local creations, favorites and downloads. Capture a cover for your own building. Once published, share a link to your creation. Requires Minecraft. Intended for supported Minecraft Bedrock / PE / MCPE worlds. Back up important worlds before changing them. This is an unofficial app and is not affiliated with Mojang or Microsoft. Minecraft names, brands and assets belong to their respective owners.

About

Buildings for Minecraft

Easily add unique houses and architectural styles to your Minecraft world. Browse a catalog of diverse buildings or request custom designs from developers. Integrate new structures directly into your game for enhanced gameplay.

Highlights
  • Downloadable houses for Minecraft
  • Variety of architectural styles
  • Custom house design requests
  • Modern, medieval, city buildings
  • Houses for girls and boys
  • Easy integration into game
Features
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Buildings for Minecraft - your reliable assistant in creating unique buildings for Minecraft! With our unique catalog, you can download and integrate a variety of houses directly into your favorite game, providing easy access to many architectural styles. Our catalog offers a wide selection of houses to download into your game, including modern houses, medieval buildings, city buildings and skyscrapers, villas, as well as houses for girls and boys. You can easily download and add your favorite buildings to the game. Didn't find the house you were looking for? Request it! In our application, you can request a unique house according to your own description from our developers. You can describe your ideal do in detail, and our developers will create it especially for you. If we like your idea, your house will be added to the catalog so that you and other users can download it and enjoy it in your favorite game! DISCLAIMER: This is an unofficial application for Minecraft Pocket Edition and is not associated with Mojang AB or Microsoft. The Minecraft name and the Minecraft trademark, including Minecraft resources, belong to Mojang AB or their legal owners. All rights reserved according to http://account.mojang.com/documents/brand_guidelines. We do not claim copyright and intellectual property. If you find a violation, please contact us at: support@bytecore.studio and we will try to fix it immediately. Privacy Policy https://www.bubblekvas.com/privacy-policy User Agreement (EULA) https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

BlockMaker 3D4 screens
Buildings for Minecraft4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: BlockMaker 3D at weekly against Buildings for Minecraft's monthly. Buildings for Minecraft's advantage is review sentiment (21% vs 8%). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. BlockMaker 3D sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Buildings for Minecraft sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Buildings for Minecraft holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 338 and 517 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 8% of BlockMaker 3D's written reviews are positive against 21% of Buildings for Minecraft's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BlockMaker 3D ships an update weekly, Buildings for Minecraft monthly. Both last shipped on October 27, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
BlockMaker 3D versus Buildings for Minecraft: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBlockMaker 3DBuildings for Minecraft
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (338 ratings)4.4 (517 ratings) — better
Positive reviews8.3% of reviews21.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings338517 — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterMonthly
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size364 MB169 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYu LiuYevhen Isayev

Customer experience

BlockMaker 3D

All ratings337 ratings
Positive78.6%
Neutral4.2%
Negative17.2%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive8.3%
Neutral16.7%
Negative75.0%

Buildings for Minecraft

All ratings517 ratings
Positive83.0%
Neutral3.9%
Negative13.2%
Written reviews19 reviews
Positive21.1%
Neutral10.5%
Negative68.4%

Bugs and requests

BlockMaker 3D

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Buildings for Minecraft

Reported bugs

9 issues
  • Sends back to home screen
  • Game keeps glitching
  • Says Minecraft needs to be installed first
  • Doesn't find Minecraft add
  • Download doesn't work
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  • Screen is blank
  • Not able to download/install anything
  • Download stuck at 100%
  • 99% of maps don't match description/images

Requested features

4 requests
  • Fix download bug
  • Fix glitching
  • Fix download/install issues with Minecraft Education
  • Fix conversion to Minecraft screen issue

In-app purchases

1 purchases

BlockMaker 3D

One-time1
  • Generator Pro$1.99
5 purchases

Buildings for Minecraft

Subscriptions4
  • Premium one Week$9.997 Days
  • Premium 1 Week3 Days trial$9.997 Days
  • Premium 1 Month$19.991 Month
Show 1 more
  • Premium 1 Year$199.991 Year
One-time1
  • Premium Mods for Minecraft$9.99

Questions

Is BlockMaker 3D free?
BlockMaker 3D is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Buildings for Minecraft free?
Buildings for Minecraft is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, BlockMaker 3D or Buildings for Minecraft?
Buildings for Minecraft is rated higher. BlockMaker 3D averages 4.2 out of 5 from 338 ratings, while Buildings for Minecraft averages 4.4 from 517 ratings.
Do BlockMaker 3D or Buildings for Minecraft have ads?
Both BlockMaker 3D and Buildings for Minecraft show ads.
Which is updated more often, BlockMaker 3D or Buildings for Minecraft?
BlockMaker 3D ships an update weekly, and Buildings for Minecraft monthly. Most recently, BlockMaker 3D was updated on October 27, 2026 and Buildings for Minecraft on October 27, 2026.

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