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Head-to-head

Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game vs Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy

Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game 4.7★ · Free + IAP 65
Winner Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy
Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy 4.9★ · Free + IAP 85

Choose Cooking Madness for a more polished experience with fewer complaints about ads.

Cooking Madness offers a more engaging gameplay experience with better user satisfaction regarding features and fewer complaints about ads. Cooking Diary, while fun, has a significant number of users frustrated with in-app purchases and game mechanics.

Head to head

features edge: Cooking Madness-Kitchen FrenzyR1R3R12R53
Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game Users enjoy the variety of restaurants and gameplay in Cooking Diary, but many find the in-app purchase prompts excessive R1R3R12.
Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy Cooking Madness users appreciate the fun gameplay and variety, but some mention that certain levels are impossible to beat without spending money R53.
ease of use edge: Cooking Madness-Kitchen FrenzyR6R9R23R55
Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game Cooking Diary users report issues with freezing and glitches that disrupt gameplay R6R9R23.
Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy Cooking Madness users also mention ads disrupting gameplay, but many find the game easy to pick up and play R55.
reliability edge: Cooking Madness-Kitchen FrenzyR9R23R56R63
Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game Cooking Diary has multiple reports of crashes and glitches after updates R23R9.
Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy Cooking Madness, while criticized for ads, does not have as many reports of technical issues R56R63.
price/value edge: Cooking Madness-Kitchen FrenzyR1R27R39R57
Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game Cooking Diary users feel pressured to spend money to progress, with many stating it's a money grab R1R27R39.
Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy Cooking Madness users also express frustration over costs but some feel the in-game purchases are reasonable and worth it R57.
support edge: Cooking Madness-Kitchen FrenzyR5R19R54R65
Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game Cooking Diary users have requested better support for technical issues and account recovery R5R19.
Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy Cooking Madness users have similar concerns but fewer complaints about customer support R54R65.
Pick Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game if

you prefer a game with a strong story and colorful graphics despite the in-app purchase frustrations.

Pick Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy if

you want a more reliable game experience with better overall user satisfaction and less frequent complaints about ads.

Evidence note: While Cooking Diary has a dedicated fan base, the negative reviews about in-app purchases and reliability are significant. Cooking Madness has a higher overall rating and fewer complaints about game mechanics.

Frequently asked

Which game has more ads?
Cooking Madness has been criticized for having many ads, especially after every level, while Cooking Diary has fewer complaints about ads but more about in-app purchase prompts R10R54R63.

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 100 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. [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.
  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. [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.
  4. [R53] Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy 3/5 · US Great start: I really really love this game I play 3 somewhat similar. I have lost interest lately For one some of the side games have a glitch. It’s asking for whip cream on desserts yet there isn’t any. So it’s impossible to play. Also it’s impossible to play some levels without xtra help and spending more a more $. But like I said it was fun at first .
  5. [R6] Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game 3/5 · US Freezing: Great fun game, but freezes fairly often, have to delete app and reinstall.
  6. [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
  7. [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.
  8. [R55] Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy 5/5 · US Fun Serving Customers Food Items - Promptly: I have played many Merge games, but this one is different - and more fun. Carefully noticing if customers’ order include a beer, lettuce and/or sauce on meat. Also Deciding when/if I need to upgrade for more stove eyes, salad, etc. as the customers/ crowd increases. stressfully-FUN. Through Level 6, no ads!!!! I don’t know if ads will come later.
  9. [R56] Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy 3/5 · US Fun… at first.: This was fun at first, until the ads hit. Then you can only do one level at a time before you are hit with ads. Not just 1 but 2. Once 1 ad is over the next one starts. LONG ads too. Not 15-30 but 60-90 seconds each one. It killed it for me. Too many options of games out there to stick with a full on ad game.
  10. [R63] Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy 1/5 · US Too many ads: The game is great, but the sheer volume of ads you are forced to watch on this game is not worth the trouble. Nobody should be having to pay to not have to see ads after EVERY level and then some. Do better.
  11. [R27] Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game 1/5 · US Greedy greedy: This game keeps making things harder so you have to dish out more and more money.
  12. [R39] Cooking Diary® Restaurant Game 4/5 · US It’s pretty fun: I did four stars instead of five because part of it. I have to pay money, but also it’s my favorite game.
  13. [R57] Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy 1/5 · US Expensive game: Yes, it’s technically free, if you ever want to pass a level or palsy for a side event, have to pay. I’m so frustrated that I bought the weekly pass, but since there wasn’t a new “restaurant” ready yet, the only to earn points for the pass is in side 3 restaurants, which for some is ridiculously difficult! I have played this game long time and it’s never been out of new restaurants
  14. [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!
  15. [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.
  16. [R54] Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy 1/5 · US Ads, Ads, and More Ads!!!!: I have been playing cooking madness for years. I played so frequently that I PAID to remove ads from the game so I could keep playing as much as I wanted. Now when I log on, I see that in order to redeem the Weekly Pass rewards or other challenge rewards, I have to watch ADS??? For something I accomplished?????? So what was the point of me paying for no ads if now I hav
  17. [R65] Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy 1/5 · US Ads added to weekly pass: The recent update that forces you to watch an ad for every reward you’d like to claim for the weekly free pass is hilariously greedy.
  18. [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

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