Comparison

Ultimate Level Maker / Builder vs Patchwork Quest

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

Patchwork Quest

Transform your drawings, maps, and photos into interactive video game worlds. Capture images or upload them to create playable adventures with custom boundaries and real-time map tracking.

Highlights
  • Create game worlds from photos
  • Upload images from library
  • Draw invisible walls for boundaries
  • Real-time world map
  • Explore custom-made worlds
Features
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Turn your drawings, maps, and photos into magical playable worlds! Patchwork Quest transforms imagination into adventure. Snap a photo of your drawings and crafts to stitch them together into a top down video game world and explore! - take photo or upload from library - draw invisible walls to setup collision boundaries - realtime world map to keep track of locations

Screenshots

Ultimate Level Maker / Builder4 screens
Patchwork Quest1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Patchwork Quest at none against Ultimate Level Maker / Builder's shown. Patchwork Quest 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 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On price, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Patchwork Quest 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 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Ultimate Level Maker / Builder versus Patchwork Quest: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUltimate Level Maker / BuilderPatchwork Quest
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (69 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews83.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings69 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size188 MB9 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperJoshua BellmyerKyle Scully

Customer experience

Ultimate Level Maker / Builder

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

Patchwork Quest

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

Patchwork Quest

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Ultimate Level Maker / Builder

No in-app purchases

None

Patchwork Quest

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 Patchwork Quest free?
Patchwork Quest is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Ultimate Level Maker / Builder or Patchwork Quest?
Patchwork Quest is rated higher. Ultimate Level Maker / Builder averages 4.7 out of 5 from 69 ratings, while Patchwork Quest averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Ultimate Level Maker / Builder or Patchwork Quest have ads?
Ultimate Level Maker / Builder shows ads; Patchwork Quest does not.

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