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Head-to-head

Cooking Craze vs The Cook

Cooking Craze 4.7★ · Free + IAP 40
Winner The Cook
The Cook 4.6★ · Free + IAP 70

For a more reliable and less frustrating cooking game experience, The Cook is the better choice, despite its repetitive gameplay, as Cooking Craze is plagued with severe technical issues and aggressive monetization.

Full reviews: Cooking Craze · The Cook

Cooking Craze, while offering more content, is severely hampered by frequent crashes, freezes, and an overwhelming number of forced ads, making it a frustrating experience for many users. The Cook, on the other hand, provides a more stable and enjoyable, albeit repetitive, gameplay experience with fewer complaints about technical issues or excessive ads.

Head to head

Features & Content edge: Cooking CrazeR3R9R11R12
Cooking Craze Cooking Craze offers a variety of cities, food types, and seasonal side games, which players initially enjoy R3R9R11R12. However, recent updates have led to a lack of new content, with users complaining about rare updates and recycled city boards R12. The 'Crowned Chef' levels are also criticized for being too difficult and ruining the fun .
The Cook The Cook is praised for its engaging cooking challenges, different worlds, and options for skins and tableware . However, many users find the gameplay repetitive due to a limited variety of food options and maps R54R80. Players quickly reach the end of available content and are sent back to the start .
Ease of Use & Gameplay edge: The CookR7R9R10R12
Cooking Craze Cooking Craze is described as fun and challenging, with good graphics R9R12. However, many users report that the game becomes impossible to beat at higher levels without spending money or using boosts, leading to frustration R7R10. The game is also accused of being rigged to make players lose R7.
The Cook The Cook is generally found to be fun, easy to play, and entertaining R80. Users enjoy the cooking mechanics and achieving goals . Some minor issues include not enough time to cut vegetables and difficulty with ingredient selection . One user noted that the boss battles always result in a win .
Reliability & Performance edge: The CookR1R2R5R6
Cooking Craze Cooking Craze suffers from severe reliability issues, with frequent reports of crashing, freezing, and lagging R1R2R5R6. Users experience lost progress, loading failures, and ads causing the game to freeze R1.
The Cook The Cook is generally described as not glitchy and performs well for many users . However, some users report occasional glitches, such as sweets floating or the game randomly restarting their progress .
Price & Value (IAP/Ads) edge: The CookR1R4R7R9
Cooking Craze Cooking Craze is heavily criticized for an overwhelming number of forced ads, appearing after almost every level and often freezing or not rewarding players R1R4R9R18. Many users feel forced to spend money to progress, with claims that higher levels are impossible without purchases R7R10. There are also reports of duplicated purchases and issues with IAP benefits not being delivered R31.
The Cook The Cook also has ads, which some users find too frequent or long R63. However, some users report that ads are not excessive or can be avoided by turning off Wi-Fi . There are complaints about being charged for ad removal but still seeing ads, and general frustration with the value of purchases R63R68. Some users suggest an option to remove ads for a small fee .
Customer Support edge: The CookR10R23R31R32
Cooking Craze Cooking Craze's customer support is criticized for being unhelpful. Users report that support suggested deleting and reinstalling the app, which did not resolve issues R32. One user was told they had to pay to beat higher levels R10. Another reported a dismissive response when IAP benefits were not received R31. There are also complaints about unaddressed bugs and general lack of developer care R23.
The Cook Reviews for The Cook do not extensively mention customer support. One positive note is that the developers respond to reviews . There are no specific complaints about unhelpful support, but also no strong praise.
Pick Cooking Craze if

Pick Cooking Craze if you are looking for a cooking game with a wider variety of locations and food types, and are willing to tolerate frequent technical issues, aggressive advertising, and a 'pay-to-win' progression model R9R11R12R23.

Pick The Cook if

Pick The Cook if you prefer a more stable and less glitchy cooking game experience, even if the gameplay might become repetitive due to fewer food options and maps R54R80. It's also a better choice if you want to avoid the constant crashing and forced monetization tactics reported in Cooking Craze R1R5R10R23.

Evidence note: Reviews for The Cook are less detailed and fewer in number compared to Cooking Craze, making some comparisons less robust. Many positive reviews for The Cook are very short or contain emojis, providing less specific feedback. The negative reviews for Cooking Craze are significantly more detailed and numerous, highlighting major issues.

Frequently asked

Does Cooking Craze have a lot of ads?
Yes, Cooking Craze has a significant problem with ads; many users report an overwhelming number of forced, long ads appearing after almost every level, which often freeze the game or do not provide promised rewards R1R4R9R18.
Is The Cook a pay-to-win game?
While The Cook is free-to-play with in-app purchases, reviews suggest it is not as aggressively pay-to-win as Cooking Craze; users mainly complain about ads and repetitive content, rather than being unable to progress without spending money R54R63R68R80.
Are there technical issues with Cooking Craze?
Yes, Cooking Craze is plagued with numerous technical issues, including frequent crashing, freezing, lagging, and problems with loading and lost game progress R1R2R5R6.

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. [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
  3. [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.
  4. [R12] Cooking Craze 3/5 · US When it’s working it’s great: The graphics are great. That’s the best compliment I can give. But there are SO many issues all the time. And updates and new cities are rare. They keep recycling old city boards for everything.
  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. [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.
  8. [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.👌
  9. [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.
  10. [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*
  11. [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.
  12. [R23] Cooking Craze 1/5 · US Keeps crashing: This game use to be so much fun but then just got impossible and would crash and freeze sooo much. I stopped playing it for so long and just recently did the halloween special event levels but it crashed so many times had to keep restarting the stupid game. Now I remember why i stopped playing it. The developers could care less and they dont fix nothing. To all the newcomers DONT B
  13. [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
  14. [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.
  15. [R18] Cooking Craze 3/5 · US Too many ads now: Pretty much every level or two you get an ad.
  16. [R54] The Cook 2/5 · GB Good but needs an update,: I really like playing this game but it gets repetitive, there are some levels I just can’t do and you don’t get paid very much for an order. Few improvements will be great but overall is ok .👨‍🍳
  17. [R63] The Cook 1/5 · GB Rip off: Taken my money and adverts are still on I’m furious this is a scam
  18. [R68] The Cook 1/5 · GB It’s not worth it: It is 20000£ also after you paid, you, wasted your money all it is to do is to give baby, it’s not what you think It is it’s just want you to get it so it can I have money listen, it’s not worth
  19. [R80] The Cook 4/5 · GB Very fun game 🎉, with room for improvement: Very fun and easy to play, with cute upgrades and extras. Great way to pass the time. However, I was a little bit disappointed at the lack of meal options and ingredients. I think that the addition of curry, pasta, pizza, stir fry and other international dishes would make the game more fun to play. It’s gets gets a bit repetitive after a while. I hope yo

Synthesized from 100 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store