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Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game vs Cooking Craze

Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game 4.7★ · Free + IAP 75
Winner Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game
Cooking Craze 4.7★ · Free to download 55

Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game offers a more engaging experience with diverse content and customization, despite its aggressive monetization, while Cooking Craze is plagued by excessive ads and a lack of new content.

Full reviews: Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game · Cooking Craze

Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game provides a fun, challenging, and customizable cooking game experience with a good story and varied restaurants, though many users find its in-app purchase prompts and upgrade costs excessive. Cooking Craze, while initially enjoyable, is heavily criticized for an overwhelming number of ads, frequent crashes, and a noticeable lack of new levels and updates.

Head to head

Features & Content edge: Cooking Diary® Restaurant GameR2R3R5R14
Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game Cooking Diary offers a wide variety of restaurants, foods, and unlockable locations, keeping the game interesting R2R14. Users appreciate the story, fun levels, and customization options for characters, homes, and pets R5. The game also includes competitive tournaments and events R3.
Cooking Craze Cooking Craze is praised for its high-quality graphics, diverse cities, and engaging gameplay . However, many long-term players express disappointment over the lack of new cities and levels, with some waiting for years for updates R56. Some users also find the new "master levels" impossible without boosts .
Ease of Use & Monetization tieR1R3R10R12
Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game While users find Cooking Diary fun and addictive, a significant number complain about constant pop-ups for in-app purchases and offers R1R10R12. Many feel the game becomes too difficult without spending real money, especially for upgrades that cost a lot of rubies R3R13R18R21. Some users, however, find it easy to earn gems and appreciate the lack of ads R17.
Cooking Craze Cooking Craze is heavily criticized for an overwhelming number of ads, appearing after almost every level, even when not opting for coin doubling R53. Many levels become nearly impossible to beat without using boosts, pushing players to spend money . Some players who previously paid to remove ads are frustrated that ads have returned .
Reliability & Performance tieR6R9R15R23
Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game Cooking Diary users report issues with freezing R6, glitches R9, and crashing after updates R23. Some players also experience problems with tasks not allowing the full allotted time R15.
Cooking Craze Cooking Craze suffers from frequent crashing and glitches, including ads that are hard to exit . Users also report lag after updates and issues with game loading .
Support & Updates edge: Cooking Diary® Restaurant GameR5R7R19R51
Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game One user mentions a problem with account sign-in options beyond Facebook R5. Another user reports issues with removed boosters for returning players R7. There are also complaints about false advertising in recent ads R19.
Cooking Craze Cooking Craze has mixed reviews on support, with one user praising quick, polite, and helpful customer service , while another reports robotic answers and refusal to fix data wipe issues R51. Many users are frustrated by the lack of new levels and updates, with some waiting for years R56. There are also issues with update prompts that lead to no actual update .
Pick Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game if

You enjoy a cooking game with a strong narrative, extensive customization options, and a variety of restaurants and challenges, and you are willing to tolerate frequent in-app purchase prompts R2R5.

Pick Cooking Craze if

You are looking for a straightforward cooking game with good graphics and challenging levels, and you don't mind a high volume of ads or the potential need to use boosts to progress .

Evidence note: Both apps are free-to-play with in-app purchases. Cooking Diary's negative reviews often focus on aggressive monetization and difficulty spikes, while Cooking Craze's recent negative reviews overwhelmingly highlight excessive ads and a lack of new content, which significantly impacts the user experience for both free and previously paying users.

Frequently asked

Do these games have a lot of ads?
Cooking Craze has a significant problem with excessive ads, with many users reporting ads after almost every level, even when not opting for bonus features R53. Cooking Diary, on the other hand, is generally praised for having no ads, though it does have frequent pop-ups for in-app purchases R1R10R17.
Are the games pay-to-win?
Both games are criticized for becoming difficult to progress without spending money. In Cooking Diary, upgrades can be expensive, and players feel pressured to buy rubies to advance R3R13R18R21. Similarly, Cooking Craze levels often become impossible to beat without purchasing or using boosts, which can deplete free resources quickly .
Are new levels or content added regularly?
Cooking Diary frequently adds new restaurants and content, keeping the game interesting for many players R2R14R42. In contrast, Cooking Craze users frequently complain about a severe lack of new cities and levels, with many waiting for years for updates and expressing boredom with the existing content R56.

What reviewers actually said

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  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. [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
  3. [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!
  4. [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!
  5. [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.
  6. [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
  7. [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.
  8. [R6] Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game 3/5 · US Freezing: Great fun game, but freezes fairly often, have to delete app and reinstall.
  9. [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
  10. [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.
  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. [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.
  13. [R19] Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game 1/5 · US False advertising: I have played this game for years, and I am so disgusted with your recent ads, showing every game style under the sun except what the actual gameplay is like. I refuse to continue with a game/company with no integrity.
  14. [R51] Cooking Craze 1/5 · US Offers: I did a free off I did what I was supposed to do and there still refusing to give my offer this is the 2nd time…. All my data was wiped out after I had to update they refused to fix that… chat giving robotic answers. I’m starting to hate this game.
  15. [R17] Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game 5/5 · US So Fun: I absolutely love this game especially the fact that there aren’t any ads. Would love to get outfits for free here and there. I also feel that maybe we get more money than necessary in the game tho I just started playing so it could be that the money is for something besides upgrades. Overall great game for ppl of all ages. 💛🌻
  16. [R53] Cooking Craze 3/5 · US Ads, ads, ads! Money, money, money!: The game itself is challenging and fun. Unfortunately, unless you're willing to invest lots of real cash on boosters, you will spend most of your playing time watching ads in order to get ahead. As the game progresses, it becomes more and more difficult, and pretty soon it becomes pretty hard (and stressful) to pass the levels without help. There are cards
  17. [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
  18. [R18] Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game 3/5 · US Real: Fun game but after you past the first town and move on the to the next gem price increases and then it’s 26 gems to upgrade the stove knives or drink dispenser 😒
  19. [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
  20. [R42] Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game 5/5 · US Love: I love the new updates! I love there’s a button to get all our gifts at once now. My favorite game I play everyday
  21. [R56] Cooking Craze 3/5 · US Any New Levels?: Fun game but it seems like new levels aren’t being added, which is disappointing. For the past year, I keep checking back to see new countries or something new, but alas no dice

Synthesized from 110 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store