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Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy vs Royal Cooking

Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy 4.9★ · Free + IAP 70
Winner Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy
Royal Cooking 4.7★ · Free + IAP 55

For a more established cooking game with a larger content library, Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy is the better choice, despite its aggressive monetization and ad practices.

Full reviews: Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy · Royal Cooking

Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy offers a vast number of levels and a generally engaging experience, though it's heavily criticized for excessive ads and pay-to-progress mechanics. Royal Cooking, while praised for its initial fun, quickly becomes unplayable without purchases due to insufficient coin rewards and issues with its ad-free option.

Head to head

Features & Content edge: Cooking Madness-Kitchen FrenzyR5R7R11R20
Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy is praised for having many levels and being a long-standing game, with players enjoying its fast-paced, stressful-fun gameplay R5R11R20. Some users appreciate the variety of restaurants and mini-games, though recent updates have reduced new restaurant releases R7.
Royal Cooking Royal Cooking is noted for being addictive and having new levels and restaurants added . However, some users find the gameplay repetitive, with limited kitchen variety . There are also requests for more maps, features, and increased difficulty .
Ease of Use & Gameplay edge: Cooking Madness-Kitchen FrenzyR3R17R19R20
Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy Players find Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy easy and fun, testing speed and focus R17R20. The tap-to-serve and cook mechanic is appreciated . However, some levels are described as impossible without extra help or spending money, leading to frustration R3R19R21R22.
Royal Cooking Royal Cooking is generally seen as easy to pick up and addictive . However, it quickly becomes impossible to progress without upgrades, which are hard to afford R63. Some users report glitches, freezing, and crashing issues R81R86.
Reliability & Performance edge: Cooking Madness-Kitchen FrenzyR1R18R81R86
Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy One user reported long download times, taking up to an hour R1. Otherwise, reviews generally don't highlight significant performance issues, with some noting smooth gameplay R18.
Royal Cooking Royal Cooking users report issues with the app glitching and freezing, making it almost unusable for some R81R86.
Price & Value (Free vs. Paid) tieR7R12R21R22
Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy is free but heavily criticized for being a "money pit" where progression often requires spending money on boosters or passes R7R12R21R22. Deals have also reportedly worsened .
Royal Cooking Royal Cooking is also free but users quickly hit a paywall, finding it impossible to progress without purchasing coins or boosters R63R64. The cost of upgrades is disproportionately high compared to coin earnings .
Ads tieR4R6R8R13
Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy is heavily criticized for an overwhelming number of long, unskippable ads, often appearing after every level R4R6R8R13. Even users who paid to remove ads report still being forced to watch them for rewards R4R15.
Royal Cooking Royal Cooking also receives significant complaints about excessive ads after every level, with some being very long and unskippable . Some users who paid to remove ads found they reappeared or that the ad-free purchase removed the option to watch ads for coins, hindering progression R63R64R66R88.
Pick Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy if

Pick Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy if you want a cooking game with a large amount of content and generally smooth gameplay, and you are prepared for frequent ads or potential in-app purchases to progress R5R11R17R20.

Pick Royal Cooking if

Pick Royal Cooking if you are looking for a new cooking game with good graphics and events, and you are willing to spend money early on to bypass progression walls .

Evidence note: Both apps are free with in-app purchases and face similar criticisms regarding aggressive monetization and ad frequency, making direct comparison on these points challenging. Many negative reviews for both apps stem from the free-to-play model's inherent friction.

Frequently asked

Are there many ads in Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy?
Yes, Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy is heavily criticized for having an excessive number of ads, often appearing after every level and sometimes being long and unskippable R6R13. Even players who paid to remove ads report still being forced to watch them for in-game rewards R4R15.
Is Royal Cooking truly ad-free if I pay?
While Royal Cooking offers an ad-free purchase, typically for 0.99p R63R64R66, some users report that ads reappeared after a short time R88. Additionally, paying to remove ads can eliminate the option to watch voluntary ads for coins, which are crucial for progression, making the game harder to play without further purchases R63R64.
Do I need to spend money to progress in these games?
Both Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy and Royal Cooking are frequently described as "pay-to-win" or "money pits," where progression becomes very difficult or impossible without purchasing boosters, coins, or other in-app items, especially at higher levels (R7, R19, R21, R22, , for Cooking Madness; , R63, , , , for Royal Cooking).

What reviewers actually said

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  1. [R5] 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.
  2. [R7] 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
  3. [R11] Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy 5/5 · US Exactly what the name is: It makes me cook like mad I am madly inlove with this game
  4. [R20] Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy 4/5 · US Cooking madness kitchen frenzy: I love this game it test your speed and focus. Good for adults and kids. 10 out of 10 definitely recommend
  5. [R3] 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 .
  6. [R17] Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy 5/5 · US Great game: I love this game . It’s easy and fun and very relaxing. Would recommend.
  7. [R19] Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy 1/5 · US Scam: Fun until the game introduces levels that are impossible to beat without paying for extras. Scam.
  8. [R1] Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy 1/5 · US Take too long to download like 1 hour: Take too long to download
  9. [R18] Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy 3/5 · US Addicting but Stressful: Fantastic graphics and smooth gameplay, but I’m not the target audience. The ads made it seem like it would be a relaxed game, but the actual gameplay is much faster paced. I could have predicted this if I had payed attention to the name of the game lol.
  10. [R81] Royal Cooking 3/5 · GB Glitching: This app keeps glitching for me, after i complete one level my entire phone freezes. This is extremely frustrating. It was working perfectly fine before, so i’m not sure what has changed. I am confident it is not an issue with my device as everything else runs smoothly. This problem is making the app almost unusable, and i would really appreciate a solution or an update to fix this. K
  11. [R86] Royal Cooking 4/5 · GB Royal cooking: Game is so good but is always crashes out and freezes
  12. [R12] Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy 3/5 · US PLEASE READ: I like this game a lot but it’s chaotic and wants you to spend money. Otherwise great game
  13. [R21] Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy 3/5 · US Typical App Store money pit: Game is fun but becomes impossible to beat unless you spend more money and the appeals for money are never ending(“Buy these diamonds! Buy this booster pack! “ Special offers constantly.) I’d pay a flat fee for this, paying for boosters constantly for rigged games? No.
  14. [R22] Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy 1/5 · US Eventually You’ll Have to Pay $$$: As you move through the progress of the game, the levels become unbeatable without purchasing boosters and extra time. They draw you in, then stop your progress until you pay up.
  15. [R4] 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
  16. [R6] 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.
  17. [R8] Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy 4/5 · US Pretty fun game just has a whole lot of ads.: 4/5
  18. [R13] 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.
  19. [R15] Cooking Madness-Kitchen Frenzy 3/5 · US Love it, too many pop ups: I love this game but I paid for the no-ad version which was great but now in order to get the rewards I earned I have to watch an add and then there’s way too many inside games and pop ups.
  20. [R63] Royal Cooking 3/5 · GB Good but some snags: I purchased the ad free version pretty early on because it was a steal for 0.99p, but I’m unable to make enough coins to make crucial upgrades, meaning I’m failing levels and unable to make more coins. Voluntary ads don’t appear for me to triple coins. The only option is for me to buy more coins, which I’m not going to do. The game is okay, but it’s frustrating when I’m not g
  21. [R64] Royal Cooking 2/5 · GB Expensive after the ads: I paid the .99 to remove ads after level which then took away any options to watch ads for coins all together. You need coins to upgrade the kitchen to proceed in this game. The amount of coins you make off a level win is maybe 1/5 of the amount needed to upgrade just one element and there aren’t any other ways to earn significant coins to progress. I wish I knew this befo
  22. [R66] Royal Cooking 3/5 · GB Great until level 99: I was enjoying playing this game and paid 99p to remove the ads which was fab, but then was unable to earn extra coins on completion on levels. I have reached Level 99 and cannot get past it unless I pay real money for coins needed to upgrade items in the kitchen. Now deleting as board of trying to get past the same level.
  23. [R88] Royal Cooking 1/5 · GB Ad free lie: The game is good but I paid to go ad free and never pay again but 2 days later the ads are back and I have to pay again to go ad free.

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