Ultimate Level Maker / Builder vs Duck Life 3
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!
Duck Life 3
Train genetically enhanced ducks to compete in races across various leagues and locations. Unlock new evolutions by mastering mini-games and improving your duck's stats. Enjoy remastered visuals and offline play.
- Genetically enhanced duck breeds
- Train Running, Flying, Swimming, Climbing skills
- Compete in Amateur, Advanced, Professional leagues
- HD remastered visuals
- Offline play
- Touchscreen controls and haptics
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THE CLASSIC EVOLVES Duck Life 3: Evolution is the beloved third entry in the series, now released as a standalone app after first appearing in the Duck Life Retro Pack. Played over 150 million times online, this faithful remaster brings back the genetically enhanced duck training experience—with modern enhancements to match. CHOOSE YOUR EVOLUTION Pick from four genetically modified duck breeds, each with unique strengths. Train across Running, Flying, Swimming, and Climbing skills to unlock your duck’s next evolution, transforming its appearance and enhancing its stats with every league. LEAGUES & CHAMPIONSHIP Compete in three leagues—Amateur, Advanced, and Professional—set across the farm, London, and Easter Island. Win qualifier and final races in each league to evolve your duck and unlock tougher challenges. DEEPER TRAINING & STRATEGY Master each mini-game to push your duck’s stats higher. Use coins from training and racing to buy better food or raise your training caps. With each evolution, your duck becomes faster, stronger, and cooler. MODERN FEATURES - HD remastered visuals - Smooth 60fps performance - Touchscreen controls and haptics - Save states and multiple save files - Play fully offline, no browser required
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Ultimate Level Maker / Builder at none against Duck Life 3's 1. Ultimate Level Maker / Builder also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.3) and ratings volume (69 vs 18). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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. Duck Life 3 sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Ultimate Level Maker / Builder asks for nothing beyond the download.
Ultimate Level Maker / Builder holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 69 and 18 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 84% of Ultimate Level Maker / Builder's written reviews are positive against 86% of Duck Life 3's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Ultimate Level Maker / Builder ships an update every 3 weeks, Duck Life 3 every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ultimate Level Maker / Builder | Duck Life 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (69 ratings) — better | 4.3 (18 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 83.9% of reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 69 — better | 18 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 188 MB | 197 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Joshua Bellmyer | MoFunZone Inc |
Customer experience
Ultimate Level Maker / Builder
Duck Life 3
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
Duck Life 3
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Ultimate Level Maker / Builder
No in-app purchases
Duck Life 3
- Ad Block$2.99
Questions
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