Comparison

Ultimate Level Maker / Builder vs Musical Pinball Lite

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

Head to head
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!

About

Musical Pinball Lite

Create unique musical compositions by strategically placing objects that generate notes when struck by falling balls. This interactive game blends physics, creativity, and music, allowing you to design your own soundscapes. Experience a novel approach to music creation and auditory exploration.

Highlights
  • Compose melodies through physics
  • Place objects for musical notes
  • Customize timbre, pitch, and duration
  • Control ball speed and angle
  • Blend art, physics, and music
Features
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This innovative music creation game lets players craft melodies through physics and creativity. In this interactive world, you can place various shaped objects, each representing a unique musical note. Customize each object's timbre, pitch, and note duration to create your desired sound palette. Strategically position and angle these objects to control the speed and angle of collisions with falling balls. Every impact generates a distinct sound, allowing you to compose a harmonious symphony through a series of well-orchestrated collisions. The game challenges your creativity and musical sense, as you arrange these interactive elements to form a complete, cohesive musical piece. Whether you're a music enthusiast or a casual gamer, this experience offers a unique blend of art, physics, and music, providing an immersive journey into auditory creativity. The differences from the normal versions: -The lite version will play advertisements -The lite version does not have instruments "Celesta" and "MusicBox"

Screenshots

Ultimate Level Maker / Builder4 screens
Musical Pinball Lite4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Musical Pinball Lite at none against Ultimate Level Maker / Builder's shown. Musical Pinball Lite also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 3 weeks) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Ultimate Level Maker / Builder's advantage is ratings volume (101 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Musical Pinball Lite holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ultimate Level Maker / Builder has 101 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ultimate Level Maker / Builder ships an update every 3 weeks, Musical Pinball Lite daily. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Ultimate Level Maker / Builder versus Musical Pinball Lite: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUltimate Level Maker / BuilderMusical Pinball Lite
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (101 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews83.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings101 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksDaily — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size188 MB574 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperJoshua Bellmyer明 闫

Customer experience

Ultimate Level Maker / Builder

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

Musical Pinball Lite

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and 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

Musical Pinball Lite

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Ultimate Level Maker / Builder

No in-app purchases

None

Musical Pinball Lite

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ultimate Level Maker / Builder free?
Ultimate Level Maker / Builder is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Musical Pinball Lite free?
Musical Pinball Lite is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Ultimate Level Maker / Builder or Musical Pinball Lite?
Musical Pinball Lite is rated higher. Ultimate Level Maker / Builder averages 4.6 out of 5 from 101 ratings, while Musical Pinball Lite averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Ultimate Level Maker / Builder or Musical Pinball Lite have ads?
Ultimate Level Maker / Builder shows ads; Musical Pinball Lite does not.
Which is updated more often, Ultimate Level Maker / Builder or Musical Pinball Lite?
Ultimate Level Maker / Builder ships an update every 3 weeks, and Musical Pinball Lite daily. Most recently, Ultimate Level Maker / Builder was updated on October 23, 2026 and Musical Pinball Lite on October 6, 2026.

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