Level Up vs Pocket Codex Guides
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Level Up
This app serves as a comprehensive companion for video gamers, offering detailed walkthroughs, achievement guides, and unlockable item information for a vast library of games across multiple platforms. It helps players overcome challenges and discover hidden secrets.
- Level-by-level video walkthroughs
- FAQ sections for games
- Achievement unlock guides
- Unlockable item information
- Games organized by platform
- Regularly updated game library
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Level Up is the premier Video Game companion application. Level Up provides FAQ's, Unlockable Items, Achievements and level by level video walkthroughs of all your favorite games. Can't find the 3rd coin on World 5 Level 1 of your favorite game? Just go to Level Up and watch the video of how to get through it while finding all the secrets. Each game is organized by platform so finding the game you want is easy. Videos are organized by level and game so you don't have to spend all day searching for the right video to get you past that big boss. With over 100 games already available, more games are added on a regular basis to ensure that you will always have walkthroughs of the latest games. Current game titles include: PS4: - Assassins Creed: Syndicate - Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 - Fallout 4 PS3: - Assassins Creed - Battlefield: Bad Company 2 - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - Devil May Cry 4 - Enslaved: Odyssey to the West - God of War III - Heavy Rain - inFAMOUS 2 - Just Cause 2 - Killzone 3 - LittleBigPlanet - LittleBigPlanet 2 - Lord of the Rings: War in the North - Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots - Mortal Kombat - Red Dead Redemption - Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions - Transformers Dark of the Moon - Twisted Metal - Uncharted 2: Among Thieves - Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception XBox 360: - Alan Wake - Assassins Creed - Assassins Creed 2 - Assassins Creed: Brotherhood - Assassins Creed: Revelations - Assassins Creed 3 - Battlefield 3 - Bioshock 2 - Borderlands - Borderlands 2 - Call of Duty: Black Ops - Call Of Duty: Black Ops 2 - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Crysis 2 - Dark Souls - Darksiders 2 - Dead Island - Dead Rising 2 - Dead Space - Dead Space 2 - Devil May Cry 4 - Dragon Age Origins - Dragon Age 2 - Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Fable III - Fallout: New Vegas - Gears of War 2 - Gears of War 3 - Ghost Recon: Future Soldier - Halo: Reach - Halo 4 - Halo 5 - Homefront - I Am Alive - LA Noire - Left 4 Dead 2 - LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues - Limbo - Lost Planet 2 - Mass Effect 2 - Mass Effect 3 - Max Payne 3 - NeverDead - Ninja Gaiden 2 - Portal - Portal 2 - Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands - Prototype 2 - Rage - Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare - Resident Evil 5 - Resident Evil 6 - Resident Evil: ORC - Rise of the Tomb Raider - Saboteur - Saints Row: The Third - Sine Mora - Singularity - Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure - SSX - The Darkness 2 - Transformers: War for Cybertron - Trials Evolution Wii: - Alice in Wonderland - Donkey Kong Country Returns - LEGO: Harry Potter Years 1-4 - Metroid: The Other M - New Super Mario Bros - Red Steel 2 - Sin and Punishment: Star Successor - Splatoon - Super Mario Galaxy 2 - Super Paper Mario - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash Up - Trauma Team DS: - Dragon Quest IX - Mario and Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story - Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time - New Super Mario Bros - Sonic and Sega All-Stars Racing - The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks PSP: - Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII - Daxter - God of War: Ghost of Sparta - Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars - Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep - Loco Roco 2 - Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker - Patapon 2 iOS: - Angry Birds Halloween - Angry Birds - Clash of Clans - Infinity Blade - Infinity Blade 2 - Near Orbit Vandguard Alliance (NOVA) - Near Orbit Vandguard Alliance 3 PC: - Diablo 3 - Orcs Must Die 2 - Trine 2 - The Walking Dead: Episode 1 - Transformers: War for Cybertron A few of the Games require an In App Purchase to access all the Walkthrough content.
Pocket Codex Guides
Access your retro game guides anytime, anywhere with this offline reader. Organize your collection by game and track your progress. Supports HTML, TXT, and PDF files, with iCloud sync for seamless reading across devices.
- Offline access
- Organize by game
- HTML, TXT, PDF support
- Progress tracking
- iCloud Drive Sync
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Pocket Codex is a a simple, offline reader for retro game guides. Features: Organize your guides by game Support for HTML, TXT, and PDF file types Simple, focused reading experience for each type Built for offline use Progress tracking iCloud Drive Sync for reading across multiple devices
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pocket Codex Guides at 5.0 against Level Up's 4.3. Pocket Codex Guides also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and review sentiment (100% vs 77%). Level Up's advantage is iOS requirement (8.1 vs 26.0). On price, ratings volume, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Pocket Codex Guides holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 24 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 77% of Level Up's written reviews are positive against 100% of Pocket Codex Guides's.
| Parameter | Level Up | Pocket Codex Guides |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (14 ratings) | 5.0 (24 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 77.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 14 | 24 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.1 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Leafeater Games, LLC. | Anthony John Caccese |
Customer experience
Level Up
Pocket Codex Guides
Bugs and requests
Level Up
Reported bugs
3 issues- Walkthroughs not loading after purchase
- Inability to access landscape mode for videos
- Inconsistent performance across devices
Requested features
4 requests- Add more games, especially newer titles
- Improve stability and reduce crashes
- Allow offline access to purchased walkthroughs
- Add support for more platforms (PC, 3DS, etc.)
Pocket Codex Guides
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Level Up
No in-app purchases
Pocket Codex Guides
No in-app purchases
Questions
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