Comparison

Contraptor vs Mobility Maker

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Contraptor

Create intricate machines to solve physics-based puzzles. Design your own challenges, share them with the community, and compete on leaderboards. Learn physics principles through hands-on tutorials.

Highlights
  • Build with real 2D physics
  • Solve community challenges
  • Design and share custom puzzles
  • Climb leaderboards
  • Hands-on tutorials
  • Universal app for iPhone and iPad
Features
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Contraptor is a Rube Goldberg physics playground where you build machines to solve hand-crafted puzzles. Drop in rods, wheels, pins, motors, and welds, wire up a contraption, hit Play, and let real physics decide how it works. NEW TO BUILDING? START WITH PLAY. Thirty short levels teach the whole game one trick at a time. Your first level hands you a single oval. Thirty levels later you're wiring motors, bracing with ghost rods, and threading payloads through wormholes. Every level keeps the machine you built to beat it, so you can come back and watch it run. Beat them all and you earn a Certificate of Completion with your name on it. THEN TAKE ON THE COMMUNITY. Every challenge is a puzzle: get the payload (or many payloads) to the target(s) using whatever that challenge allows. Some let you shove pieces around, some ration your parts with Twists, some bend the rules with wormholes. Solve it and you've earned bragging rights. Then flip it around: design your own challenge, prove it's solvable if you like, and dare everyone to crack it. • Build with real 2D physics — mass, gravity, momentum, friction, bounce, damping, and motors • Arrange tools to flip, align, and evenly space your pieces • 30 hand-built levels that teach all the core tools, plus a certificate at the top • A growing library of community challenges, with search • Design your own, prove they're solvable if you want to, and post them • Share any challenge or solution with a link and a short video of it running; friends open it right in the app • Twists: cap the parts, cap the speed, or hand solvers exactly the toolbox you choose • Win rules: all at once, hold-to-capture, or a Grand Tour of every Target • Wormholes, slow-motion zones, and other rule-benders • Rate and follow other builders • Hands-on tutorials for the core tools with more coming • Universal — iPhone and iPad Seeing a solution isn't the same as building one. That skill gap is the whole game. Free. No ads. Contraptor uses your iCloud account for community features (posting, rating, following, usernames). You can play every level, follow the tutorials, and browse and play everything in the Community without iCloud — it's only needed to post or interact. iCloud is free. Designed by JohnCowMilk · Built in Xcode with Apple's Coding Intelligence and Claude · Physics by Box2D

About

Mobility Maker

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What happens when you put those parts together? Build a machine, set it moving, and find out. Mobility Maker is a 3D physics building and exploration game where your design shapes the adventure. Make a wheeled vehicle, a boat or a flying contraption, then test it in a world of hills, waterways and surprising routes. BUILD. TRY. REBUILD. Connect frames, wheels, engines and movement parts. Change their placement and balance to see how your machine behaves. A tumble into a ditch can be the beginning of a better idea. EXPLORE TO FIND MORE Look beyond the main path for hidden parts and fuel supplies. Discoveries expand what you can build. Return to a workshop, change your machine and tackle the next place with a different approach. Rebuilding preserves your remaining fuel. CHOOSE YOUR ADVENTURE Take on 12 courses, learn the controls in a separate practice course, or explore freely without a finish line. Follow a road, cross the water or take to the air with a design that suits the journey. KEEP YOUR BEST MOMENTS Challenge your personal best times. Record your journeys in the game and choose which videos to save or share. Recording and automatic saving have separate settings. Free to play with advertising and no in-app purchases. Rewarded ads offer fuel support; hidden functional parts are discovered through exploration. Ads require an internet connection.

Screenshots

Contraptor4 screens
Mobility Maker3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Contraptor at none against Mobility Maker's shown. Mobility Maker's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Contraptor ships an update every 5 days, Mobility Maker every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Contraptor versus Mobility Maker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterContraptorMobility Maker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 9 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB348 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperJohn Coumerilhsuho lee

In-app purchases

None

Contraptor

No in-app purchases

None

Mobility Maker

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Contraptor free?
Contraptor is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Mobility Maker free?
Mobility Maker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Contraptor or Mobility Maker have ads?
Mobility Maker shows ads; Contraptor does not.
Which is updated more often, Contraptor or Mobility Maker?
Contraptor ships an update every 5 days, and Mobility Maker every 9 days. Most recently, Contraptor was updated on October 22, 2026 and Mobility Maker on October 13, 2026.

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