Ultimate Level Maker / Builder vs Tesana
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!
Tesana
Explore and play a vast library of community-created games across numerous genres. Utilize AI to describe and build your own unique playable games, then share them with others. Your progress and creations sync across all your devices.
- Play thousands of community-created games
- Create games using AI descriptions
- Online multiplayer across genres
- Save favorites and follow creators
- Publish your own games
- Cross-device synchronization
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Play thousands of games made by the Tesana community, and make your own with AI. PLAY • Online multiplayer games in every genre: shooters, adventure, strategy, roguelikes, racing, puzzles and more. • New games every day, with charts, categories and personal picks. • Save favorites, follow creators and pick up where you left off. • Chat with other players in each game's room. CREATE • Describe the game you want in plain words, and Tesana builds a playable game in minutes. • Keep shaping it in Studio: ask for new levels, characters, rules or art, and play every version as it changes. • Publish it for everyone to play, with its own page and link. YOUR ACCOUNT, EVERYWHERE • Sign in with Apple, Google, Discord or email, the same account as tesana.com. • Your games, saves and plan follow you between phone, tablet and the web. SAFE BY DESIGN • Report any game, comment or player in one tap, and block players you don't want to hear from. Creating games uses credits. A plan gives you monthly credits, and credit packs top you up. Plans renew automatically until you cancel them in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://tesana.com/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Ultimate Level Maker / Builder at 85% against Tesana's 40%. Ultimate Level Maker / Builder also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 10) and rating (4.6 vs 4.3). Tesana's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks). On price 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. Tesana sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per 7 days. Ultimate Level Maker / Builder asks for nothing beyond the download.
Ultimate Level Maker / Builder holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ultimate Level Maker / Builder has 102 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 85% of Ultimate Level Maker / Builder's written reviews are positive against 40% of Tesana's.
Ultimate Level Maker / Builder ships an update every 3 weeks, Tesana every 2 days. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.
| Parameter | Ultimate Level Maker / Builder | Tesana |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (102 ratings) — better | 4.3 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 84.5% of reviews — better | 40.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 102 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 188 MB | 62 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Joshua Bellmyer | Dreamsands Inc. |
Customer experience
Ultimate Level Maker / Builder
Tesana
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
Tesana
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Ultimate Level Maker / Builder
No in-app purchases
Tesana
- Tesana Weekly$7.997 Days
- Tesana Pro$19.991 Month
- Tesana Pro Trial7 Days trial$19.991 Month
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- Tesana Max$49.991 Month
- Tesana Max Trial7 Days trial$49.991 Month
- Tesana Credits Small$4.99
- Tesana Credits Standard$9.99
- Tesana Credits Plus$24.99
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- Tesana Credits Power$49.99
- Tesana Credits Ultimate$99.99
Questions
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