Comparison

Drop Ahead vs Ultimate Level Maker / Builder

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

Head to head
About

Drop Ahead

Design, play, and compete in custom game levels. Share your creations with a global community and test your skills against others. Enjoy endless challenges and express your style with unlockable skins.

Highlights
  • Create custom game levels
  • Share levels with players worldwide
  • Compete on leaderboards
  • Earn e-gift prizes
  • Play endless user-created levels
  • Customize character skins
Features
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Jump Into Fun with Drop Ahead Sandbox Madness, new game from the creators of the Parkour Go and Hot Lava Floor! Get ready for endless fun and cool challenges in Drop Ahead Sandbox Madness! It’s the perfect place to build, run, and jump in your very own game levels. Features: Create Your Levels: Make your own cool courses with easy tools and share them with friends or players around the world. See how they like jumping and running through what you've made! Compete and Win: Rise to the top of the leaderboards by mastering levels or being the fastest speedrunner. The best creators and speedrunners are rewarded with exclusive e-gift prizes. Play Non-Stop: With so many levels made by other players, you’ll never run out of new challenges. Try them all and have a blast! Keep Getting Better: We’re always adding new stuff to make the game more fun, like fresh features and awesome content. Choose Your Style: Pick the fun skins to make your character look just how you like! Cool Stuff Coming Soon: More Skins: Get ready for even more cool skins to change up your look. Play With Friends: We’re adding multiplayer so you can challenge your friends or team up to tackle levels together. Mystery and Fun: Look out for mysterious and super fun surprises that we’ll add to shake things up! Be Part of Our World: Join a great community of players who love creating, sharing, and competing. Whether you’re all about building or you’re a champ at racing through levels, Drop Ahead Sandbox Madness is your place to shine.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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!

Screenshots

Drop Ahead4 screens
Ultimate Level Maker / Builder4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Ultimate Level Maker / Builder at none against Drop Ahead's 1. Ultimate Level Maker / Builder also leads on ratings volume (69 vs 4). Drop Ahead's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and review sentiment (100% vs 84%). On price, update cadence, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Drop Ahead sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Ultimate Level Maker / Builder asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Drop Ahead holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ultimate Level Maker / Builder has 69 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Drop Ahead's written reviews are positive against 84% of Ultimate Level Maker / Builder's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Drop Ahead ships an update every 2 weeks, Ultimate Level Maker / Builder every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Drop Ahead versus Ultimate Level Maker / Builder: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDrop AheadUltimate Level Maker / Builder
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better4.7 (69 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better83.9% of reviews
Number of ratings469 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.4 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size262 MB188 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperAndrew KozlovJoshua Bellmyer

Customer experience

Drop Ahead

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Ultimate Level Maker / Builder

All ratings69 ratings
Positive88.4%
Neutral7.2%
Negative4.3%
Written reviews62 reviews
Positive83.9%
Neutral9.7%
Negative6.5%

Bugs and requests

Drop Ahead

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

1 purchases

Drop Ahead

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$2.99
None

Ultimate Level Maker / Builder

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Drop Ahead free?
Drop Ahead is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ultimate Level Maker / Builder free?
Ultimate Level Maker / Builder is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Drop Ahead or Ultimate Level Maker / Builder?
Drop Ahead is rated higher. Drop Ahead averages 5.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Ultimate Level Maker / Builder averages 4.7 from 69 ratings.
Do Drop Ahead or Ultimate Level Maker / Builder have ads?
Both Drop Ahead and Ultimate Level Maker / Builder show ads.
Which is updated more often, Drop Ahead or Ultimate Level Maker / Builder?
Drop Ahead ships an update every 2 weeks, and Ultimate Level Maker / Builder every 3 weeks. Most recently, Drop Ahead was updated on September 29, 2026 and Ultimate Level Maker / Builder on October 16, 2026.

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