Portal vs Level Maker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Portal
Engage in a physics-based puzzle adventure across numerous test chambers. Each level presents unique objectives to challenge your problem-solving skills in this addictive game.
- Physics-based gameplay
- Multiple test chambers
- Varied level objectives
- Addictive puzzle solving
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Loosely base on the game Portal by Valve, this fun and addicting physics game takes you through many levels of test chambers, each with a different objective.
Level Maker
Unleash your creativity by designing and playing custom platformer levels. Explore an endless stream of user-generated content, from challenging obstacles to unique characters. Share your own creations and discover what others have made.
- Create custom game levels
- Play user-generated levels
- Share your creations
- Over 100 blocks, items, enemies, and characters
- Challenge levels
- Unlimited world levels
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Level Maker is a game of awesome creation and fun. You can PLAY, CREATE and SHARE levels with everyone, so let your imagination run wild! You love super classic platform games, now you can play, create and share your own creations to the world! Features: 100+ blocks, items, enemies and characters. Awesome Level Maker Play, Share and Like Levels Unlimited World Levels created by other players! Challenge Levels
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Verdict
Portal and Level Maker are too close to call on the numbers: across 10 compared parameters — price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Portal sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Level Maker sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Portal holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 50 and 106 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 55% of Portal's written reviews are positive against 54% of Level Maker's.
Portal ships an update monthly, Level Maker every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | Portal | Level Maker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (50 ratings) — better | 3.7 (106 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 54.7% of reviews — better | 53.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 50 | 106 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 62 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Charles Younger | Vorun Kreal |
Customer experience
Portal
Level Maker
User reviews
Portal
From 50 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great for Portal fans
- 💡 Fun puzzle action
- 🚀 Good for iPhone
- ✨ Simple but good
- 🎮 Challenging physics
Room to improve
- 😕 Not fun at all
- 🐛 Glitches on some levels
- 🤔 Choppy graphics
- 📉 Too hard too quickly
- 😵 Repetitive gameplay
Level Maker
From 106 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Incredible game
- 👍 Easy to make levels
- 👍 Lots of creativity
- 👍 Great level editor
- 👍 Fun gameplay
Room to improve
- 🐛 Glitches and bugs
- 🔍 Lack of moderation
- 🔍 Inappropriate content
- 🔍 Difficulty unlocking level maker
- 🔍 Challenging controls
Bugs and requests
Portal
Reported bugs
9 issues- Platform moves with button click
- Seesaw puzzle impossible
- Companion cube moves with platform
- Blue portal not movable
- Game won't open level one
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- Can't click on levels
- Doesn't display correctly on iPhone 4
- Stuck on scene 2 level 13
- Some buttons don't work
Requested features
6 requests- Add Portal music
- Animate thrown objects
- Thin the turret
- Update the game
- Allow turning iPhone to control ball
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- Add actual Portal button sound
Level Maker
Reported bugs
5 issues- Game crashes after ads
- Levels not loading properly
- Inability to retry levels after death
- Inconsistent jump mechanics
- Soft-locking in menus
Requested features
6 requests- Add more enemy types
- Improve search and discovery of levels
- Implement checkpoints
- Add more block types and customization options
- Introduce multiplayer functionality
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- Implement a story mode or campaign
In-app purchases
Portal
- Tip the Developer - Small Tip$0.99
- Tip the Developer - Nice Tip!$1.99
- Tip the Developer - Generous Tip!$4.99
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- Tip the Developer - Amazing Tip!$9.99
Level Maker
- Remove Ads$1.99
- Unlock All Blocks + Remove Ads$2.99
- Unlock All Characters + Remove Ads$2.99
Questions
Is Portal free?
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