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Head-to-head

My Cafe vs Cafeland

My Cafe 4.7★ · Free + IAP 70
Winner My Cafe
Cafeland 4.6★ · Free + IAP 65

My Cafe offers a more engaging story-driven experience and deeper social features, while Cafeland provides a simpler, more casual cafe management game, though both struggle with monetization practices and recent negative updates.

Full reviews: My Cafe · Cafeland

My Cafe and Cafeland are both free-to-play cafe management games with in-app purchases. My Cafe stands out for its long-running story, character interactions, and township features, but recent updates and aggressive monetization have frustrated many long-time players. Cafeland offers a more straightforward cafe experience with decorating and cooking, though it also faces criticism for its monetization, frustrating mini-games, and recent changes to celebrity hints.

Head to head

Features & Gameplay edge: My CafeR2R3R6R8
My Cafe My Cafe is praised for its long-running stories, character interactions, and township features, which provide depth beyond basic cafe management R2. However, recent updates have introduced frustrating changes like waiting to 'learn' recipes and too many festivals, making the game feel less about customer interaction R3R9R8. Some users also find the town/task element complicated R6.
Cafeland Cafeland offers cooking, decorating, and club activities, with some users enjoying the variety and nostalgic feel . However, recent updates have removed helpful features like celebrity food hints, making progression harder . Users also complain about food taking too long to cook or sell, and the difficulty of mini-games like 'Gummy Match' .
Ease of Use & User Experience tieR4R5R16R18
My Cafe My Cafe has issues with glitches, including freezing screens, white screens, and ads not loading for rewards R4R5R16R18. Players also find it annoying to edit their cafe while customers are present R32R49. Some recent graphic changes are disliked, with characters becoming 'weird and 3D' and prices becoming unrealistic R25.
Cafeland Cafeland users report frequent lagging and freezing, especially during puzzle parts of the game . Decorating can be difficult due to the screen flying to the side when placing tiles, and some items lack full rotation . Recent updates have also been criticized for huge, 'eyesore' icons and too many updates in a short period .
Reliability & Performance tieR4R5R16R18
My Cafe My Cafe suffers from various technical issues, including the game freezing at startup, white screens, and crashing R4R5. Users also report ads for rewards glitching or not loading R16R18. Some players have experienced losing progress or having their game restart from level 1 .
Cafeland Cafeland also has significant reliability problems, with users reporting the game lagging, freezing, and crashing . Some players have been locked out of their accounts or experienced tutorial glitches preventing them from playing . There are also reports of not receiving earned rewards R60.
Price & Value tieR1R7R15R19
My Cafe My Cafe is heavily criticized for being 'money grabbing' and 'pay to play' R1R7R19R33. Users feel forced to spend real money to progress, especially in festivals, and note that in-game offers become more expensive the more you spend R1R15R19R33. Some even report money being taken from their account without authorization R21.
Cafeland Cafeland is also seen as 'money hungry' and expensive, with complaints about the high cost of upgrades, expansions, and boosters . Users feel it's hard to get anywhere without spending real money, especially with the cost of vouchers and cards . There's a specific complaint about being charged more than the displayed price for a pack .
Customer Support tieR12R21R60R81
My Cafe My Cafe's support is criticized for ignoring users who send proof of unauthorized money being taken from their account R21. Players also report missing rewards and diamonds not showing up, with no clear resolution R12.
Cafeland Cafeland users explicitly state there is 'no customer service whatsoever' . Players report not receiving earned items like wholesale sauce and being banned without explanation, with no apparent way to get help R60R81.
Pick My Cafe if

Pick My Cafe if you enjoy games with a strong narrative, character development, and social township features, and don't mind the potential for aggressive monetization and occasional glitches R2. It's also a good choice if you appreciate a game you can play for many years and feel nostalgic about R2.

Pick Cafeland if

Pick Cafeland if you prefer a more straightforward cafe management and decorating game with a nostalgic feel reminiscent of old Facebook games R55. It might appeal to you if you enjoy cooking a wide variety of dishes and engaging in club activities, and are willing to overlook frequent updates and monetization challenges .

Evidence note: Both apps have a significant number of recent negative reviews, particularly regarding monetization and frustrating updates, which contrasts with their higher lifetime average ratings. The free-to-play model with IAP means many negative reviews stem from the friction of not paying, but both apps are criticized for being 'pay-to-win' or 'money hungry' even by long-term players.

Frequently asked

Are My Cafe and Cafeland free to play?
Yes, both My Cafe and Cafeland are free to download and play, but they include in-app purchases (IAP) that many users feel are necessary for significant progression or to avoid frustration R1R19R33R37.
Do these games have glitches or performance issues?
Yes, both My Cafe and Cafeland have reported glitches and performance issues; My Cafe users experience freezing screens, white screens, and ads not loading R4R5R16R18, while Cafeland players report frequent lagging, freezing, and crashing .
Which game is better for decorating my cafe?
Cafeland is highlighted for its decorating features, with users enjoying the ability to customize their cafe, although some wish for more variety, modern items, and full rotation for all decorations R55R56. My Cafe also allows decorating, but users complain about the inconvenience of moving furniture while customers are present R32R49.
Have recent updates improved or worsened the games?
For both games, recent updates have generally worsened the user experience according to many reviews; My Cafe players dislike changes like forced recipe learning and increased festival frequency R3R8R9R25, while Cafeland players are frustrated by the removal of celebrity food hints, increased difficulty of mini-games, and 'eyesore' interface changes .

What reviewers actually said

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  1. [R2] My Cafe 5/5 · GB 🩷🫶🩷 No.1 OG: I’ve had this Game for nearly as long as it first came out!. I’ve had soooo many phones and always have had to have this game on my phone and have never deleted it. I have always followed the Story’s and have loved it all!. Thank You 🙏🥰🫶🩷🫶
  2. [R3] My Cafe 3/5 · GB I don’t like the new updates: It was nicer before when you had to guess the ingredients for a new recipe. Waiting a minute or 30 secs for each recipe is really annoying especially if I know the recipe but I’m not able to sell it because I have to ‘learn it’. The old way was better. Also the spice box is more ugly now
  3. [R6] My Cafe 3/5 · GB Hard to follow: Managed to keep this app for all of 24 hours. I initially really enjoyed playing and learning how to progress, I also love that the game continued to earn money whilst I was away. I didn’t get the whole complicated town/task element of the game. It is also takes so long to gain enough diamonds to keep up with the spices making it almost impossible to fulfil the better rewarded orde
  4. [R8] My Cafe 4/5 · GB Game play: Hello I am a bit fed up if playing festivals all the time I can’t catch up on resources why cant we just interact with the customers again like if use it be it is getting boring
  5. [R4] My Cafe 1/5 · GB Can’t even start?: I played this game on my phone a few years back but ever since I’ve started playing on my iPad..well I haven’t! From the first part where you have to place the stand there is a glitch where the screen freezes and I can’t do anything.So every time I reopen the app or reset my whole device or re-download the game the same thing happens… i can’t even play the game!!! Pls fix this o
  6. [R5] My Cafe 5/5 · GB My cafe: Hi I love the my cafe game but for the past few days I click on the game ready to play and it’s just shows me a white screen and kicks me off. Yesterday morning I had to click it like 8 times for it to work but yesterday night and this morning it’s just stopped working completely. Please help.
  7. [R16] My Cafe 1/5 · GB Doesn’t work: Ads for rewards keep glitching and have to close the game and open again to continue. In game play has some glitches too!
  8. [R18] My Cafe 3/5 · GB The ads are not working so i get no rewards: I cannot access ad-based rewards because it keeps saying ‘no ads available’ for days now please sort it out!!!!!!!!
  9. [R1] My Cafe 1/5 · GB Money grabbing - anything to get up to spend: The game used to be fun. Now it’s constant marathons to complete tasks and spend money. The more you spend the more expensive the offers are. It’s sold as you get more points toward vip status but nobody needs those anymore and it hasn’t gone past level 7 in over a year. Our team was put in the lower task marathons and we had to ask and be removed as
  10. [R7] My Cafe 1/5 · GB Rules change in the middle of the game: Developers only care about money. They don’t care if you enjoy it or not. Things you pay for today, will be given to other players for free. As I am writing this played a weekday tournament and waited to win today at the end of the tournament. Just realised that they changed the rules so that people get double the trophies last minute.
  11. [R15] My Cafe 3/5 · GB Stop posting so many in game buys: Can’t even play the game without being interrupted every now and then by new “challenges” that pop up very visibility, which can only be completed in you buy one of the in game packages. This has the opposite effect as it ruins the gaming experience, coupled with all the so called 400% discounts or buy smth and get XXX free…. Great game but need to have a talk
  12. [R19] My Cafe 2/5 · GB Pay to play: I loved this game at first, I was really addicted however soon I noticed that it’s basically pay to play. You take part in festivals however if another team in the group you’re in has been purchasing in game stuff, theres almost no chance you will get ahead of them which is just really unfair. A lot of festival tasks are way out of scope until you buy packages, cards, gifts and so on.
  13. [R12] My Cafe 3/5 · GB Good game but missing rewards: Doing quite well and enjoying the game. There’s loads of things to do whilst waiting on recipes ect. However I am missing rewards. For example my township went up a league and the rewards I should have just completely disappeared. When I gain extra diamonds they don’t show up. I wouldn’t mind if it was just one or two but when I earn 50+ diamonds it is really infuria
  14. [R21] My Cafe 1/5 · GB Money grab: Watch out. These people just take money out of your account. Their so called support ignore you when you send proof of money taken out your account. Happened twice and that’s only what I noticed.
  15. [R60] Cafeland 1/5 · US Wholesale sauce: I did not receive my wholesale sauce that earned in my cafe club. I should have received w5 of them. Please fix or I’m leaving.
  16. [R81] Cafeland 1/5 · US Banned: I've played this game on and off for close to ten years now but I just went to download the game again to play it for the first time in a while and my account was banned????
  17. [R33] My Cafe 1/5 · GB What a shame: This game used to be good but now has way too much going on in it. The prices a ridiculously high and the only way to progress is by paying real money. I have one mission but can’t complete it because it’s too expensive and the creators are constantly moving the goal post. I can no longer play due to high price stagnation and now my device has deleted it and I don’t have any reason t
  18. [R37] My Cafe 2/5 · GB Beware!: This used to be a great game, but the developers are getting very greedy and you now have to spend real money to get anywhere. Be careful!
  19. [R32] My Cafe 4/5 · GB Please add edit feature: I really like this game but the one thing that I find annoying is having to edit the restaurant when the customers are in there. It would make it so much easier to be able to have an edit mode where I can move the furniture about without people sitting there.
  20. [R49] My Cafe 4/5 · GB Good but…!: Ive been playing my cafe for 2 years now and I absolutely love it but there is a few things that you can tweak such as…: • there should be an option to close the cafe to easily move stuff around so that the customers don’t leave the cafe when I move their tables and chairs around and also so that they don’t get in the way • there also should be a way to renovate the cafe in one go. L
  21. [R55] Cafeland 5/5 · US Cool game to play: I love the game its very nice and cute and I love that you can decor your cafe and characters. But I wish that people would change their cafe name from “my cafe” to a different name because it gets too annoying. Thanks, Tiana’s palace .👩🏾
  22. [R56] Cafeland 3/5 · US Muy lindo: Deberían tener mas variedad y modernidad en todos los artículos para decorar o remodelar.
  23. [R9] My Cafe 3/5 · GB I don’t want to wait to “learn” a new recipe: I’ve been playing this game for years. I deleted it a while ago and re-downloaded it a couple days ago. My issue is that you have to “learn” the recipes. Before, you would either figure out how to make them or pay gems, or (if really desperate) just search it up. This new method of having to wait to a new recipe is very silly and is a big waste of tim
  24. [R25] My Cafe 1/5 · GB Why has the game changed so much and not for the better: I played this game as little as a year or 2 ago and there are so many changes. The prices of the drinks used to be realistic. Like £4 for a tea. But now it’s £27.40. Like WHAT… the charecters before used to be so realistic and now they’ve been changed for rubish cartoon versions of there former selves. I understand they need to keep up with

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