Comparison

Ultimate Level Maker / Builder vs Lava Runner Arcade

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

Lava Runner Arcade

Navigate a house filled with molten lava by jumping and sprinting across furniture. Master precise timing to overcome obstacles and collect coins. Unlock new character skins to customize your runner.

Highlights
  • Arcade-style stage runs
  • Collect and spend coins
  • Unlock epic skins
  • Heart and checkpoint systems
  • Automatic saves
Features
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The ultimate "Floor is Lava" challenge is taking over the house! Your living room has been flooded with roaring, molten magma. Your only hope of survival? Leap, sprint, and boundary-hop across ordinary household furniture before you take a scorching dip! Tap to jump and double-tap to perform gravity-defying maneuvers over sprawling kitchen islands, towering dressers, fallen bookshelves, and rogue washing machines. Every obstacle requires perfect timing—one wrong step will cost you a life! GAME FEATURES: Arcade-Style Stage Runs: Progress through escalating, custom-crafted levels. Each stage brings tighter gaps, faster hazards, and ultimate room chaos! Collect & Spend Coins: Grab floating gold coins scattered precariously across the burning terrain as you run. Unlock Epic Skins: Take your hard-earned coins to the Shop! Swap your classic runner for elite styles like the cosmic Astronaut, the stealthy Ninja, or the legendary blazing Phoenix. Heart & Checkpoint Systems: Found a heart? Grab it for an extra life! Keep your eyes peeled for checkpoints to save your progress mid-run. Automatic Saves: Your progress, total wealth, and unlocked apparel are safely stored locally so you can jump right back into the heat anytime. The room is collapsing, the heat is rising, and the floor is strictly off-limits. Download now and prove you are the ultimate Lava Surfer!

Screenshots

Ultimate Level Maker / Builder4 screens
Lava Runner Arcade4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Lava Runner Arcade at none against Ultimate Level Maker / Builder's shown. Lava Runner Arcade also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.7) and review sentiment (100% vs 84%). Ultimate Level Maker / Builder's advantage is ratings volume (69 vs 10) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). 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

Lava Runner Arcade holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ultimate Level Maker / Builder has 69 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 84% of Ultimate Level Maker / Builder's written reviews are positive against 100% of Lava Runner Arcade's.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Ultimate Level Maker / Builder versus Lava Runner Arcade: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUltimate Level Maker / BuilderLava Runner Arcade
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (69 ratings)4.9 (10 ratings) — better
Positive reviews83.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings69 — better10
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size188 MB4 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperJoshua BellmyerBrandon Egnarski

Customer experience

Ultimate Level Maker / Builder

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

Lava Runner Arcade

All ratings10 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 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

Lava Runner Arcade

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Ultimate Level Maker / Builder

No in-app purchases

None

Lava Runner Arcade

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 Lava Runner Arcade free?
Lava Runner Arcade is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Ultimate Level Maker / Builder or Lava Runner Arcade?
Lava Runner Arcade is rated higher. Ultimate Level Maker / Builder averages 4.7 out of 5 from 69 ratings, while Lava Runner Arcade averages 4.9 from 10 ratings.
Do Ultimate Level Maker / Builder or Lava Runner Arcade have ads?
Ultimate Level Maker / Builder shows ads; Lava Runner Arcade does not.

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