Ultimate Level Maker / Builder vs Captain Willie's River Run
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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!
Captain Willie's River Run
Embark on an endless jumping adventure inspired by classic 1920s public domain animation. Dodge enemies, collect lives, and climb global leaderboards in this charming, black-and-white platformer. It's easy to learn but offers a challenging, nostalgic experience.
- Endless jumping gameplay
- Vintage art style and music
- Rubber-hose character animation
- Global leaderboards
- Collect extra lives
- Dodge enemies
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Captain Willie’s River Run is a playful tribute to the 1928 animated Public Domain short film (Steamboat Willie) that launched a global era of cartoon storytelling — now in the public domain. This endless platformer captures the charm of early animation with bouncing rubber-hose characters, bold black-and-white visuals, and classic cartoon sound design. Your mission? Jump from platform to platform, dodge flying and crawling enemies, collect extra lives, and climb the global leaderboard! Easy to pick up, hard to master — the perfect nostalgic challenge. Inspired by 1920s public domain animation Charming vintage art style and music Endless jumping gameplay with increasing difficulty Global leaderboards Designed for quick, fun play sessions
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Captain Willie's River Run at none against Ultimate Level Maker / Builder's shown. Captain Willie's River Run also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Ultimate Level Maker / Builder's advantage is ratings volume (69 vs 2). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Captain Willie's River Run 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 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Ultimate Level Maker / Builder | Captain Willie's River Run |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (69 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 69 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 188 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Joshua Bellmyer | Oren Benamor |
Customer experience
Ultimate Level Maker / Builder
Captain Willie's River Run
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
Captain Willie's River Run
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Ultimate Level Maker / Builder
No in-app purchases
Captain Willie's River Run
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Ultimate Level Maker / Builder free?
Is Captain Willie's River Run free?
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