Comparison

Ultimate Level Maker / Builder vs Block Jump

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

Block Jump

Navigate challenging, spike-filled worlds with precise timing. Dodge deadly obstacles and conquer difficult levels. Create and share your own custom challenges using the integrated level editor, and play levels made by the community.

Highlights
  • Rhythm-based platforming
  • Dodge deadly obstacles
  • Built-in level editor
  • Share creations online
  • Play community levels
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Dash through spike-filled worlds in Block Jump. Time your jumps, dodge deadly geometry obstacles, and beat impossible levels. Build your own challenges with the built-in level editor. Share creations online and play thousands of community-made levels. Fly, flip, and dash through rhythm-based platforming action with geometry precision. Download and start jumping now!

Screenshots

Ultimate Level Maker / Builder4 screens
Block Jump4 screens

Verdict

The call

Ultimate Level Maker / Builder and Block Jump both sit at 4.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Block Jump's written reviews are positive against 84% of Ultimate Level Maker / Builder's. Block Jump also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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

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

Ultimate Level Maker / Builder holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 69 and 75 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 84% of Ultimate Level Maker / Builder's written reviews are positive against 100% of Block Jump's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Ultimate Level Maker / Builder versus Block Jump: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUltimate Level Maker / BuilderBlock Jump
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (69 ratings) — better4.5 (75 ratings)
Positive reviews83.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings6975 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedAd-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size188 MB171 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperJoshua BellmyerGAMEHOX

Customer experience

Ultimate Level Maker / Builder

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

Block Jump

All ratings75 ratings
Positive86.7%
Neutral5.3%
Negative8.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
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

Block Jump

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Ultimate Level Maker / Builder

No in-app purchases

None

Block Jump

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 Block Jump free?
Block Jump is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Ultimate Level Maker / Builder or Block Jump?
Ultimate Level Maker / Builder is rated higher. Ultimate Level Maker / Builder averages 4.7 out of 5 from 69 ratings, while Block Jump averages 4.5 from 75 ratings.
Do Ultimate Level Maker / Builder or Block Jump have ads?
Both Ultimate Level Maker / Builder and Block Jump show ads.

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