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My Cafe vs Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game

My Cafe 4.7★ · Free + IAP 70
Winner Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game
Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game 4.7★ · Free + IAP 85

Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game offers a more engaging and customizable experience with a wider variety of content, despite frequent complaints about in-app purchase prompts and difficulty progression.

Full reviews: My Cafe · Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game

Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game generally provides a more diverse and customizable gameplay experience, including character, home, and restaurant customization, with many players finding it highly addictive and fun. However, it is frequently criticized for aggressive in-app purchase prompts and increasing difficulty that pushes players to spend money. My Cafe's reviews were not provided, so a direct comparison on user sentiment for My Cafe is not possible.

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Features and Content edge: Cooking Diary® Restaurant GameR2R5R14R24
My Cafe Reviews for My Cafe were not provided, so specific user feedback on its features and content is unavailable for comparison.
Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game is praised for its extensive content, including many different restaurants, foods, and unlockable locations R2R14. Users appreciate the ability to customize their character, home, and even in-game pets R24R33R45. The game also includes a story, various events, and challenges that keep gameplay interesting R5R37.
Ease of Use and Gameplay edge: Cooking Diary® Restaurant GameR3R8R13R21
My Cafe Reviews for My Cafe were not provided, so specific user feedback on its ease of use and gameplay is unavailable for comparison.
Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game is described as fun, addictive, and fast-paced, requiring multitasking R3R8. Players enjoy the challenge and graphics . However, some users find the game becomes too difficult at higher levels, making progression stagnant without spending money R13R21.
Reliability and Performance tieR6R9R23R43
My Cafe Reviews for My Cafe were not provided, so specific user feedback on its reliability and performance is unavailable for comparison.
Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game experiences frequent freezing and crashing issues, especially after updates R6R9R23R43. Some users report the game exiting itself out or getting stuck on the loading screen R9R43.
Price and Value (IAP) tieR1R3R10R12
My Cafe Reviews for My Cafe were not provided, so specific user feedback on its price and value is unavailable for comparison.
Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game is heavily criticized for its aggressive in-app purchase prompts and the perception that it's a 'money-grabbing scheme' R1R10R12. Many users feel compelled to spend real money to progress, especially at higher levels, due to expensive upgrades and insufficient in-game currency rewards R3R13R21. While some players do spend money and find it 'worth it' for the customization and variety R24, many others are frustrated by the constant pressure to buy R1R12.
Support and Updates tieR7R9R15R23
My Cafe Reviews for My Cafe were not provided, so specific user feedback on its support and updates is unavailable for comparison.
Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game receives mixed feedback regarding updates. Some users appreciate new updates and features like a 'get all gifts' button . However, updates are also frequently associated with performance issues like crashing and freezing R9R23R43. There are also complaints about changes in game mechanics, such as the removal of boosters for returning players R7 and misleading task completion times R15.
Pick My Cafe if

You are looking for an alternative to Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game and are hoping for a game with potentially fewer aggressive in-app purchase prompts or different gameplay mechanics, though specific details from its reviews are not available here.

Pick Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game if

You enjoy highly customizable games with extensive content, a story, and diverse restaurants, and you don't mind frequent in-app purchase prompts or the potential need to spend money to progress through challenging levels R2R5R24R33.

Evidence note: The comparison is heavily skewed as reviews for My Cafe were not provided. All analysis for App A is based on its general description as 'Free + IAP' and its lifetime rating, without specific user feedback. Therefore, the 'edge' for App B in several dimensions is due to the availability of positive reviews for it, not necessarily a direct superiority over App A.

Frequently asked

Does Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game have a good story?
Yes, Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game is noted by users for having a good story and engaging levels, which contributes to its overall appeal R5R37.
Are there many in-app purchases in Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game?
Yes, Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game is frequently criticized for having too many in-app purchase prompts and making it difficult to progress without spending money, with upgrades often costing many rubies R1R3R12R13.
Can you customize your character in Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game?
Yes, a popular feature of Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game is the ability to customize your character, home, and even pets, which many users enjoy R24R33R45.

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 50 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.

  1. [R2] Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game 4/5 · US Cooking Diary: Cooking Diary is a fun and colorful cooking game where you run restaurants and serve customers quickly. The goal of the game is to cook different foods, upgrade your kitchen, and keep customers happy before time runs out. One of the best parts of the game is how many different restaurants and foods there are. As you move through the levels, you unlock new locations and recipes, whi
  2. [R5] Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game 4/5 · US GREAT GAMEEEEEE: Everyone that plays this game will become absolutely in love. It’s my favorite mobile game right now! There’s a good story, fun levels, and a lot more! The only recommendation that I would leave is to add the option of being able to sign in to an older account to not lose your progress with something else other than Facebook. Thank you!
  3. [R14] Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game 5/5 · US Great App!!: One of the best games to play when I need to kill some time. Great game play and so many things to do and so many restaurants to explore!
  4. [R24] Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game 5/5 · US Worth It!!!: I spend so much money on this game it’s no joke but it’s so worth it! The outfit changing, the Home decorating, the changing your pups clothing or your animal in general and let’s not forget the different type of restaurants. This game is a 10 out of 10.
  5. [R3] Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game 3/5 · US Way to many rubies: I enjoy playing this game. It’s very addicting. The problem is that you compete in tournaments and events, you have to play a lot to win these tournaments and events and only end up winning a few rubies when an upgrade is 22 movies it can be hard to regret in the game. If you win 30 consecutive rounds you get 10 measly rubies. The game makes it so that you have to spend money a
  6. [R8] Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game 5/5 · US Fun Game: Very relaxing game and it’s fun to play.
  7. [R13] Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game 1/5 · US Too difficult you have to spend money to get through the levels: This game has changed. At first it starts out fun and exciting but then it changes all about money. I don’t recommend
  8. [R21] Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game 2/5 · US Make it make sense.: The game made it much easier on the lower level to gain rubies as prizes. Now I’m at the pizza shop level and it’s become stagnant. A complete halt. How did I go from winning the treasure boxes with 15-20 rubies to now nothing?! You would think as the levels get higher they would give you a bit more because now the upgrades cost much more. This is America during the $2 minimum
  9. [R6] Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game 3/5 · US Freezing: Great fun game, but freezes fairly often, have to delete app and reinstall.
  10. [R9] Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game 3/5 · US Update issue: The game was running great but ever since I updated the app it glitches and exits itself out
  11. [R23] Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game 1/5 · US Crashes after Update: After update on 1.2.26, cannot get back into game. Keeps crashing after the initial Mytona screen.
  12. [R43] Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game 5/5 · US Glitching: Hello! I love this game and have been playing since 2021! However, whenever I open the app, it closes out or is simply stuck on the screen with no options. At allllll. I don’t have the option to update. Anyone having the same issue? Can someone help please? I’m afraid if I delete and reinstall, I’ll lose my progress. Please help
  13. [R1] Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game 2/5 · US TOO MANY IN APP PURCHASES: The game itself (when you can actually play it, is fun) but omg I can’t even make it past one level without the game trying to make me purchase something 10 different times!! It’s annoying!! Look, if someone wants to purchase gems, they’re gonna do it. You do NOT have to ask a million times. I had to uninstall, it was more about the purchases than the actual game.
  14. [R10] Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game 1/5 · US STOP WITH ALL THE POP UP ADDS!!: This was a good game until they constantly spam you with pop up adds and offers for their game! Bs
  15. [R12] Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game 3/5 · US Kay…: Limit the number of prompts to get you to pay for stuff. I’m a lot more likely to spend money if you occasionally offer a good deal that actually helps in game, versus being incessantly prompted to spend money I know for a fact will last about four seconds. Stop trying to. Scam people, basically.
  16. [R7] Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game 1/5 · US Removed boosters for returning players: It’s such a shame they removed boosters for players that come back after more than a month. I deeply enjoyed using them to play multiple levels with ease. Please bring these back, now it’s just depressing without them.
  17. [R15] Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game 3/5 · US Not given the full allotted time to complete tasks: The photo shoot & others give you a limited time to complete, however the last 14 hours or so they don’t let you continue to complete it. It’s misleading.. We should be able to have the full allotted time to complete all of the tasks.
  18. [R37] Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game 4/5 · US Entertaining: There’s a lot of story line & an unnatural amount of pop ups for side quests & gem sales but I do really like it. It definitely distracts from overthinking because you just focus on what you need to do. Plus I like adding new restaurants.
  19. [R33] Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game 5/5 · US Best game: This is a very great game I can actually feel like I can cook for once and I’m happy I can change the clothes and skin because I am a very picky person and I love the different levels so I don’t have to stay on the same place over and over again.
  20. [R45] Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game 5/5 · US Amazing: I have been playing this game for 7 years now and I’m hooked! I’m a real person btw lol and the way you can customize your character, home, restaurants, meet in game friends and use Facebook to add friends there to help out in your restaurant or send gifts!

Synthesized from 50 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store