Cooking Frenzy® Crazy Chef
Cooking Frenzy is a highly addictive time-management game with engaging gameplay, but recent updates and monetization strategies have led to frequent crashes, excessive ads, and levels that are nearly impossible to pass without in-app purchases.
Cooking Frenzy is a popular time-management cooking game that many users find fun and addictive, offering a challenging experience. However, recent reviews highlight significant issues including frequent app crashes, an overwhelming number of ads and pop-ups, and a 'pay-to-win' structure where later levels become prohibitively difficult without spending money on boosters.
What users like
What users complain about
- Frequent app crashes and freezing, especially after updatesR1R54R56R59
- Excessive and intrusive ads and pop-upsR3R5R8R10
- Levels become impossible to pass without spending money on boosters or gemsR2R4R6R9
- Purchased in-game items (gems, boosters, bundles) are often not receivedR23R31R69R75
- Game progress can be lost or resetR4R91
- Some ads prevent closing, forcing game restart and loss of progressR5R87R107
Latest update · v1.0.95
What the developer says changed (the verdict above weighs this against what reviewers report):
- Bug fixes and performance improvements.
Recurring themes
Who it's for
This game is for players who enjoy fast-paced, challenging time-management cooking games and are willing to either tolerate frequent ads and pop-ups or potentially spend money on in-app purchases to progress through harder levels R2R8R12. It is not for players who dislike aggressive monetization, frequent interruptions, or technical instability R1R6R54R96.
Evidence note: The recent reviews skew heavily negative, focusing on monetization, ads, and technical issues. While the lifetime rating is high, the recent sentiment indicates a significant decline in user satisfaction, suggesting a negative trajectory. The developer's notes about bug fixes are directly contradicted by numerous reports of crashes and freezing.
Frequently asked
Does Cooking Frenzy require in-app purchases to progress?
Are there many ads in Cooking Frenzy?
Does Cooking Frenzy have technical issues like crashing?
What reviewers actually said
Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.
- [R7] Khloe Bear: am playing the cooking Frenzy is the best I could play all day long. Byy
- [R16] Cooking all night long: Sleep is for the weary! Im addicted to this game! Bed time? No way! Hello 2 am!
- [R18] Cooking Frenzy: This is a fun and fast game!
- [R21] Game: Love it very addictive
- [R62] Love it: Love it , it is challenging sometimes but great
- [R63] Review: Fun to play. I love a challenge and it is challenging. Having loads of fun ❤️
- [R67] Cool game: Fast paced drives you crazy xx
- [R73] Cooking Frenzy: Cooking Frenzy is brilliant for practising moving your fingers fast! You never know what is going to happen There are lots of fun restaurants to play in and once you start you can’t stop playing! Cooking Frenzy is 1 of the best games ever invented On a scale of 1-10 it deserves a 10 every time Call this number to find out More 44 7786 034810 Report written by Maisie Edwards :A
- [R38] Addicting!: This game is perfect for me, I love repetition type games. Very fun and enjoyable. Of course there are tons of ads and popups but what I appreciate is I’ve made it to level 130 so far without having to spend any money on the game. Other games let you play to a certain point that you end up needing to spend money to continue playing but this one hasn’t so far.
- [R66] Addictive game!: Love this game, and have actually managed to complete all levels with spending any money! Really pleased with this as all the other cooking games I’ve tried, I’ve had to buy extra boosts. Will there be any more levels please?! Or do I have to delete it now?!
- [R68] Love this game!: Finished all the levels, and now waiting for the next city update. Didn’t spend any money on this game. Plus, it is pretty generous with giving boosters and diamonds when completing all the stars from buying the frenzy cards. <3 <3
- [R1] Keeps freezing: I love the game when I can play it. At the moment it’s stuck on loading.
- [R54] Keeps crashing: Used to love this game but now it keeps crashing and when I get back into it I’ve lost a life. 😡 sort it out Thanks for replying but it doesn’t help closing the all other apps down it still crashes Once again app crashing after update
- [R56] Easter upgrade?: Upgraded yesterday and now I can’t play at all? Can’t open game and don’t want to delete as I will lose everything.....What’s gone wrong?
- [R59] App stopped working: Just updated to the latest version and app stopped working! What to do?
- [R3] Fun but too many popups: Fun game, but there’s way too many pop-ups - and there seem to be more and me every time I log in. Update: to clarify, I’m not talking about ads - I realize those are inevitable - and your game doesn’t have too many. I’m talking about the game pop-ups that overwhelm you each time you log in to play he game. I play several other cooking games that don’t do this.
- [R5] Love this game: I really like this game but I am having a problem where a ad pops up and says rotate your phone and I do just that and it just keeps spinning making me have to click out of the game and restart it, Can you please fix this?
- [R8] 10/10 game HORRIBLE ADS: I wish I could give this game 5 stars, but by far the MOST ads I’ve ever had on an app. It’s so bad I have to give it only 3 stars )
- [R10] Fun, but: The game is a lot of fun, but too many advertisements and you run out of hearts too fast. Even when I purchase hearts, the amount requested for items is way too high and that is very discouraging.
- [R2] You have to spend money to continue: It’s nearly impossible to pass some levels without spending money on boosters
- [R4] Good game: but why my progress is disappearing and the game start from the zero even It was connected to my Facebook account , honestly it’s very disappointed 🥺😭😩
- [R6] Was good at First: The game was good at first but THEN IT TURNED INTO A STUPID CASH GRAB.
- [R9] Frenzy: The game is fun, but clearly they just want you to spend real money, thus they adjust the game so you cannot move forward. When it gets to that point I will delete!
- [R23] Do not buy boost and gems: The game is fun I like a challenge but I tried to buy diamonds and boosters twice and never received them and you can’t reach anyone about it I DO NOT RECOMMEND buying through them!
- [R31] Really enjoy this game.: I wanna give this game 5 stars because I love playing it, but I’ve spent money on bundle packs that I’ve never received and sent emails about it that never got a response. Other than that this is a great game, I just need either a refund on my packs or the packs that I spent the money on.
- [R69] Such a shame: Great game and I don’t even like games....however, it’s clearly designed to make cash. I even (annoyed with myself that I did) paid for gems that I’ve never received. If it wasn’t such a scam....it would be amazing :(
- [R75] 👎🏼: I’ve paid for a bundle but still not received my goods👎🏼
- [R91] Disappointed: I’ve been playing this game for 3-4 years now and after one of the recent updates the game just stopped loading. I even deleted the game and re-downloaded it and the issue remains. I’m truly disappointed because I’ve spent money on this game a few times and lost everything. However, it truly is a great game.
- [R87] Ads won’t close: This is a fun little game but there are ads that won’t close so you have to close out of the game, you lose your points on the game just played.
- [R107] Update: Good game but new update has problems. After watching ads you often have to close the game and reopen, losing the feature you watched the ad for. Previous version was much better.
- [R11] Love the game but…: I really like playing the game but they try too hard to make me spend my money. For example, you will try to beat a level but you will always lose because the game won’t give you enough customers to serve, no matter how fast you serve them. Now I’m stuck on a level for days just because I won’t buy more diamonds just to pay for ONE more customer to beat the level. It’s very irr
- [R13] Great game🙂🙂: This is the best game ever
- [R14] Restaurante: I enjoy and have fun playing the game.
- [R12] Can’t play this game without spending money: This is my favorite cooking game, but you can’t get past the third restaurant unless you spend money to get boosters. You need boosters to pass roughly 1 out of 3 levels. So unless you plan on spending at least $30 a month on this game it’s not worth it.
- [R22] Have to pay $ to win: So I have been playing this game for quite a while. I have really enjoyed it and have found it to be really relaxing up until recently. While playing certain levels, I have found them to be impossible to win, even with a booster. For instance, level 185: star 2, even with instant cook, you cannot win it. There just isn’t enough time or customers for the amount of coins you ne
- [R49] Heavy sadness.: I began playing and spent maybe an hour passing levels and being so happy. Happiest I’ve been in a while. I’m only on the second restaurant and I’ve now given up hope. The levels became insanely hard FAST. too fast. It’s like they want you to be hooked so they trick you into spending money. I don’t see how you could pass the levels I’m on now so early in the game without buying th
- [R19] So many ads: The game itself is addictive but the ads are crazy, however you get rewards for all of them.
- [R96] $$$$ & PUBLICITÉ IMPOSÉ: TU VEUX FINIR DES TABLEAUX ?? PAYEEEEEEEEEEE $$$$$$$$$ Il y a continuellement des publicités qui t’incite à les regarder si tu veux obtenir des diamants qui te permette de continuer à jouer !! Tu joues 30 secondes et tu as une pub de 30-45 secondes à chaque fois !!! ÉCŒURER DES PUBLICITÉS !!! ONT VEUX JOUER À CE JEU ET NON À D’AUTRE JEUX !!!!!! JE QUITTE AVEC UNE NOTE
- [R135] Crashes please help: Great game but recently started crazy every time I try to play wouldn’t even allow me to complete a level. Please help!
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store