Comparison

Ultimate Level Maker / Builder vs Contraptix

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

Contraptix

Engage in a physics-based puzzle game where you complete unfinished machines by adding missing parts. Solve over 300 levels with unique mechanics and compete in daily challenges.

Highlights
  • Chain reaction physics puzzles
  • 300 levels across 75 stages
  • Daily challenge with leaderboards
  • Free mode for creative building
  • Community-created maps
  • Offline play
Features
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Place ramps, gears, magnets, balloons and rockets, press Play and watch every piece set off the next one. Contraptix is a physics puzzle game where every level is an unfinished machine: you add the missing parts and real physics decides whether it works. 300 LEVELS ACROSS 75 STAGES Start with simple chain reactions and finish with huge machines full of belts, pulleys, pipes, switches and timers. Every stage introduces a new part. A THOUSAND WAYS TO SOLVE IT There's no single answer. There's always a spare part on purpose: choosing well is part of the puzzle. Use few parts and be quick to earn all three stars. PARTS WITH PERSONALITY Bouncing balls, gears passing on their spin, fans, scissors that cut ropes, boxing gloves, light bulbs, cannons, trampolines and a mouse running in its wheel. Plus lasers and mirrors, portals, springs, electromagnets, dynamite and upside-down gravity zones. DAILY CHALLENGE A new puzzle every day. Fewest parts wins; on a tie, the fastest. Compete on the world and country leaderboards. FREE MODE Build whatever you like with every part you've discovered. COMMUNITY Build your own maps in Free mode, remove some parts and publish them as a challenge. Play other players' maps, rate them and climb the community and creator leaderboards. ACHIEVEMENTS Unlock achievements and compete on the Game Center leaderboard. PLAY YOUR WAY No sign-up, plays offline. Link Google or Apple whenever you like and your progress follows you to any phone. Available in 9 languages. Contraptix is free, with ads and optional in-app purchases (coins for hints and removing ads).

Screenshots

Ultimate Level Maker / Builder4 screens
Contraptix4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Ultimate Level Maker / Builder at 4.6 against Contraptix's 4.0. Ultimate Level Maker / Builder also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 4) and ratings volume (103 vs 2). Contraptix's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads, device support 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. Contraptix sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Ultimate Level Maker / Builder asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Ultimate Level Maker / Builder holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ultimate Level Maker / Builder has 103 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ultimate Level Maker / Builder ships an update every 3 weeks, Contraptix every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Ultimate Level Maker / Builder versus Contraptix: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUltimate Level Maker / BuilderContraptix
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (103 ratings) — better4.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews84.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings103 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 9 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size188 MB69 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperJoshua BellmyerRoberto Diaz

Customer experience

Ultimate Level Maker / Builder

All ratings69 ratings
Positive88.4%
Neutral7.2%
Negative4.3%
Written reviews71 reviews
Positive84.5%
Neutral8.5%
Negative7.0%

Contraptix

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

Contraptix

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Ultimate Level Maker / Builder

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Contraptix

One-time4
  • Bag of coins$0.99
  • Chest of coins$2.99
  • Remove ads$2.99
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  • Coin treasure$5.99

Questions

Is Ultimate Level Maker / Builder free?
Ultimate Level Maker / Builder is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Contraptix free?
Contraptix is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Ultimate Level Maker / Builder or Contraptix?
Ultimate Level Maker / Builder is rated higher. Ultimate Level Maker / Builder averages 4.6 out of 5 from 103 ratings, while Contraptix averages 4.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Ultimate Level Maker / Builder or Contraptix have ads?
Both Ultimate Level Maker / Builder and Contraptix show ads.
Which is updated more often, Ultimate Level Maker / Builder or Contraptix?
Ultimate Level Maker / Builder ships an update every 3 weeks, and Contraptix every 9 days. Most recently, Ultimate Level Maker / Builder was updated on November 8, 2026 and Contraptix on November 6, 2026.

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