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Head-to-head

Cooking Craze vs Cooking Frenzy® Crazy Chef

Cooking Craze 4.7★ · Free + IAP 45
Winner Cooking Frenzy® Crazy Chef
Cooking Frenzy® Crazy Chef 4.7★ · Free + IAP 65

Cooking Frenzy® Crazy Chef is the better choice due to fewer reported technical issues and a more balanced free-to-play experience, despite both games sharing similar monetization complaints.

Full reviews: Cooking Craze · Cooking Frenzy® Crazy Chef

Both Cooking Craze and Cooking Frenzy® Crazy Chef are free-to-play cooking time-management games that face criticism for aggressive monetization and technical glitches. However, Cooking Frenzy® Crazy Chef appears to have fewer widespread issues with ads and game-breaking bugs, and some users even report completing all levels without spending money.

Head to head

Features & Content tieR3R8R9R11
Cooking Craze Cooking Craze offers a variety of food from foreign countries and seasonal side games, though recent updates have seen a lack of new holiday content and new cities R3R8R11. Some users appreciate the challenging nature and diverse food options R9R11.
Cooking Frenzy® Crazy Chef Cooking Frenzy® Crazy Chef provides a range of restaurants and daily targets, with users enjoying the fast-paced gameplay and graphics . However, some players report completing all available levels and waiting for new content .
Ease of Use & Difficulty edge: Cooking Frenzy® Crazy ChefR7R10R13R14
Cooking Craze Cooking Craze becomes increasingly difficult, with many users feeling forced to purchase in-app items or watch numerous ads to progress past certain levels R7R10R13R14. The 'Crowned Chef' levels are specifically criticized for being impossible without boosts .
Cooking Frenzy® Crazy Chef Cooking Frenzy® Crazy Chef also has levels that become very challenging, often requiring boosts or in-app purchases to complete . However, some players have managed to complete all levels without spending money, indicating a potentially more balanced difficulty curve for some .
Reliability & Performance edge: Cooking Frenzy® Crazy ChefR1R2R5R6
Cooking Craze Cooking Craze users frequently report significant technical issues, including constant crashing, freezing, lagging, and failure to load R1R2R5R6. Some users also experienced lost game progress .
Cooking Frenzy® Crazy Chef Cooking Frenzy® Crazy Chef also experiences crashing issues, particularly after updates, which can lead to lost lives or inability to open the game . However, some users reported that reinstalling the app, as advised by developers, fixed the issue .
Price & Value (Free vs. Paid) edge: Cooking Frenzy® Crazy ChefR1R4R7R9
Cooking Craze Cooking Craze is heavily criticized for an excessive number of forced ads, often appearing after every level and sometimes freezing or not providing rewards R1R4R9R18. Many users feel the game is rigged to force purchases of spoons or boosts to progress, making it a 'pay to win' experience R7R10R13R14.
Cooking Frenzy® Crazy Chef Cooking Frenzy® Crazy Chef also has monetization complaints, with users feeling pressured to buy boosts or gems to pass difficult levels . Some users have reported not receiving purchased bundles or gems . However, a notable number of players claim to have completed all levels without spending any money , and there are fewer complaints about overwhelming ads compared to Cooking Craze .
Customer Support tieR10R20R31R32
Cooking Craze Cooking Craze's customer support is criticized for being unhelpful, with users reporting issues like lost progress not being fully restored, being told to pay to beat levels, and receiving unhelpful responses regarding purchased items not being delivered R10R31R32. One user also reported being double-charged for in-app purchases R20.
Cooking Frenzy® Crazy Chef Cooking Frenzy® Crazy Chef users have reported issues with purchases not being received . However, there is one instance where the developer advised reinstalling the app to fix a glitch, which successfully resolved the problem for a user .
Pick Cooking Craze if

you prioritize a long-standing game with diverse food themes and are willing to tolerate frequent ads, potential bugs, and a 'pay-to-win' progression model R9R11.

Pick Cooking Frenzy® Crazy Chef if

you want a cooking game that, while still challenging and monetized, offers a slightly better chance of progressing without constant spending and has fewer widespread, game-breaking performance issues .

Evidence note: The evidence for both apps regarding monetization and technical issues is substantial and consistent across many reviews. Cooking Frenzy® Crazy Chef's edge in 'Ease of Use & Difficulty' and 'Reliability & Performance' is based on a relative lack of severe, widespread complaints compared to Cooking Craze, and some positive reports of completing the game without payment.

Frequently asked

Do these games force you to watch ads?
Yes, both games feature ads, but Cooking Craze is heavily criticized for an excessive number of forced, long ads after nearly every level, which often freeze or fail to reward the player R1R4R9R18. Cooking Frenzy® Crazy Chef has fewer complaints about overwhelming ads .
Can you play these games without spending money?
While both games are free-to-play with in-app purchases, users of Cooking Craze widely report that it becomes impossible to beat higher levels without buying boosts or spoons R7R10R13R14. In contrast, several Cooking Frenzy® Crazy Chef players claim to have completed all available levels without spending any money .
Do these games have technical problems?
Yes, both games have technical problems; Cooking Craze users frequently report crashing, freezing, lagging, and loading issues, sometimes leading to lost progress R1R2R5R6. Cooking Frenzy® Crazy Chef also experiences crashes, particularly after updates, but some users found that reinstalling the app resolved these issues .

What reviewers actually said

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  1. [R3] Cooking Craze 3/5 · US Holiday Side Games??: I ADORE this game (like an embarrassing amount of adoration for a grown woman), but one of the features I’ve loved are the seasonal side games. There were the usual ones for back to school, fall, and Halloween, but then there was nothing for Thanksgiving and so far nothing for Christmas! I noticed there was a pretty significant update in the last couple of weeks; I hope this
  2. [R8] Cooking Craze 5/5 · US Update: I love this game however are there no new restaurants besides crown chef?
  3. [R9] Cooking Craze 3/5 · US Ads ruined it for me !: Been my favorite game since it came out. It’s fun, challenging, and not cheap looking. There is always something new to cook, and the food matches the city. But now there are ads, long ones, after every level! Why? You could watch them for extra coins and spoons, what was wrong with that? Half the time they freeze. Should be 5 stars but ads should make it 0. Also suggesti
  4. [R11] Cooking Craze 5/5 · US this game is so fun and it make me very hungy hungy: i have played this game for years and it oddly doesn’t get old? like i play with my brother and it’s cool to see all the kinds of food from the foreign countries. good game, good food.
  5. [R7] Cooking Craze 1/5 · US Can’t complete without buying something: I used to LOVE this game. We’re talking like 300levels in. But at a certain point it becomes IMPOSSIBLE to beat without spending extra money on the things you need like to upgrade or play with an advantage like the instant chef. It’s literally ridiculous and makes it not fun anymore. And I can tell it’s rigged so that you lose. I had 40 plates served out of
  6. [R10] Cooking Craze 1/5 · US No chance of beating if not paying: This game is a scam. Not possible to beat higher levels. Glitches. And when I went to customer service, they told me I had to pay to beat it. Don’t waste your time
  7. [R13] Cooking Craze 2/5 · US Unfair: I am completely and utterly annoyed at the difficulty level rising in each city, making it impossible to beat levels with purchasing spoons. This algorithm is unfair to those who are consistent users of this app. I love this game but i am sick of having to purchase spoons just to win every level!!!!
  8. [R14] Cooking Craze 4/5 · US Pay to play: Pay to play fun at start and then bad every thing upgrade and moving fast to still lose don’t give u enough spoons where u got to buy them can’t get past one level bc u have to buy spoons that’s bullshii
  9. [R1] Cooking Craze 1/5 · US Frustrated: This game was awesome before they added advertising. Now the game stalls and frames freeze. After watching a long ad, it freezes. I used to love this game. Now I find it frustrating.
  10. [R2] Cooking Craze 4/5 · US Ok so…: Personally I do agree with the people who say that there are to many promotion pop up’s. And that’s the problem.Every time I get a lot of promotion pop up’s it kicks me out so I have to go back and load In again, and boy does that take a while. But after all this not so positive information I would personally say that I recommend this game.👌
  11. [R5] Cooking Craze 5/5 · US Game crashing: I am having a problem with the game, it is crashing literally every two minutes and I have to close it and open it and so on.
  12. [R6] Cooking Craze 3/5 · US Laggy: Booooooo idk why it is so slow. Every time I close the app the music is still playing for like 10 seconds and the game keeps pausing for so long when it loads to 100%. Idk if it’s my device, maybe, but it’s happening all the time and I don’t like it. *sashays away*
  13. [R4] Cooking Craze 2/5 · US Too many ads: I enjoy playing. And I used to watch ads all the time to double my coins. Now I am forced to watch ads and I don’t even get rewarded for being forced to watch them. Put it back to only promoting ads when I press the double coin button.
  14. [R20] Cooking Craze 3/5 · US Major Problem: I will say that I love this game. It is so addicting but I have a Big problem with the app recently. When I choose to buy some spoons for 9.99 on 3 different occasions the APP has duplicated my purchase therefore charging me a total of $21.62 instead of $10.81. The person who I contacted at Apple said that this would be an issue with the APP and she is going to try to get me refunds
  15. [R31] Cooking Craze 2/5 · US Buyer beware: Sometimes in the game you’re offered to buy 650 spoons that also comes with 30 min of unlimited lives (one of the main reasons I often buy the package). The first time I did it and didn’t get my lives I contacted support. Their response was mainly “well sorry, that’s the way it is. Stuff happens”. Next time I did it I was in a event so thought maybe the unlimited lives don’t go throu
  16. [R32] Cooking Craze 2/5 · US App support does not fix issues: I begin having problem with Cooking Craze about three weeks ago for some reason. I wasn’t getting daily bonuses, videos or spoon. I contacted support, they told me to delete the app and reinstall it. I did still the same issue. I contacted them three or four times with no avail. I just deleted the app permanently. Such a fun game, such a shame.
  17. [R18] Cooking Craze 3/5 · US Too many ads now: Pretty much every level or two you get an ad.

Synthesized from 85 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store