Comparison

Ultimate Level Maker / Builder vs Doodle Drift

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

Doodle Drift

Features
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Drift the pencil. Draw the beat. Doodle Drift turns each 30-second rhythm race into a line you draw by steering. Read the lane ahead as paper gliders, erasers, ink spirits, binder clips, and crumpled comets rush toward you across a vast drawn landscape. Follow the pulses, pick your opening, and make the drift yours. THREAD THE CLOSE CALLS Incoming doodles create a new decision on every route: read the blocked lane, drift into the opening, or skim past for a near miss. Clean beats build Flow. Keep the run alive to reach Flow Fever, where the page, music, and feedback flare together. Each encounter has its own hand-drawn character, backed by responsive sound and haptics. CHARGE YOUR INK Bank eight clean pickups, then spend them on one beat. Ink Surge turns the next eight beats into a risk and a reward: every clean pickup and close shave adds to a bonus you only keep if you finish the phrase without a miss. Your pencil becomes a bright marker, and the surge stays visible in the line you file. Spend it early for a safe payout, or hold it for a harder phrase worth more. FILE A LINE THAT IS YOURS Finish a run to see your actual trace filed on the page—not a perfect drawing substituted for your mistakes. Line and Beat combine into your Groove grade, with B, A, and S targets to chase. Replay against your saved best line and refine the next run across six authored routes with progressive hazards. CHOOSE YOUR JOURNEY Race one design at a time in Journey, take on a five-page Expedition with one life per page, or see how many pages you can file in Endless Drift. Adventure progress and best page counts are saved between sessions. EARN STARLIGHT. EQUIP A CHARM. Journey Stars build Starlight and unlock three play-style charms. Paper Wings keeps pickup rings open longer. Moon Thread builds Flow faster. Comet Ink rewards stylish close shaves. Choose a charm at Adventure checkpoints and shape the run around how you play. PLAY YOUR WAY Tilt your iPhone or use Hold Sides to steer without motion permission. Learn a route in Practice before taking on a one-life race. Mute sound while haptics stay on, and use reduced motion for a calmer presentation. START WITH THE FREE BLUEPRINT CUP Lightning, Shooting Star, and Rocket are free to play. Journey, Expedition, Endless Drift, Journey Stars, Starlight, and charms are part of the game—no subscription, paid lives, or paid revives. OPEN NIGHT NOTES ONCE The optional Full Sketchbook purchase unlocks Comet, Cassette, and Moon Cat: three after-dark routes with midnight-paper effects. It is a one-time, non-consumable purchase, not a subscription. Restore Purchases is available for an existing purchase. No paid lives. No paid revives. Just another page and another chance to draw the beat.

Screenshots

Ultimate Level Maker / Builder4 screens
Doodle Drift4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Ultimate Level Maker / Builder at none against Doodle Drift's 1. Ultimate Level Maker / Builder also leads on device support (3 vs 1). Doodle Drift's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Doodle Drift sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Ultimate Level Maker / Builder asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ultimate Level Maker / Builder ships an update every 3 weeks, Doodle Drift every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Ultimate Level Maker / Builder versus Doodle Drift: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUltimate Level Maker / BuilderDoodle Drift
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (103 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews84.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings103 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size188 MB63 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperJoshua BellmyerGijung Kim

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

Doodle Drift

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Ultimate Level Maker / Builder

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Doodle Drift

One-time1
  • Full Sketchbook$2.99

Questions

Is Ultimate Level Maker / Builder free?
Ultimate Level Maker / Builder is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Doodle Drift free?
Doodle Drift is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Ultimate Level Maker / Builder or Doodle Drift have ads?
Ultimate Level Maker / Builder shows ads; Doodle Drift does not.
Which is updated more often, Ultimate Level Maker / Builder or Doodle Drift?
Ultimate Level Maker / Builder ships an update every 3 weeks, and Doodle Drift every 3 days. Most recently, Ultimate Level Maker / Builder was updated on November 8, 2026 and Doodle Drift on October 31, 2026.

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