# Cooking Life: Kitchen Diary — user reviews > 35 indexed App Store user reviews of Cooking Life by Art Ocean Inc., rated 4.73/5 from 1,514 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cooking-life-kitchen-diary/id1523253168/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cooking-life-kitchen-diary/id1523253168.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,273 · 4★ 137 · 3★ 60 · 2★ 22 · 1★ 23 ## What do users think of Cooking Life? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 👍 Entertaining and addictive gameplay - 🎨 Good graphics and visuals - 💡 Interesting cooking experience **Cons** - 🚧 Frequent technical issues like freezing and crashing - 💸 Excessive use of ads and in-app purchases - 🤖 Similarity to other cooking games like Cooking Diary **Commonly reported bugs** - Levels freezing or becoming unplayable - Connectivity problems and server issues - Glitches with order processing and gameplay mechanics **Most requested features** - More restaurant options and content updates - Improved guild/social features - Wider variety of outfits and customization options ## Newest reviews (13 of 35) ### 3/5 — Asb@&$ *2024-12-01, version 1.0.13* All the adds are freezing ### 4/5 — Allison’s letrr to you *2023-03-16, version 1.0.13* There are to many ads but it’s good :) :] ### 2/5 — Not happy *2022-11-20, version 1.0.13* So I do like you’re game but I can’t connect it to Facebook which makes me annoyed because I would like to invite my friends to play. When will this issue be fixed? ### 3/5 — Is this ALL *2022-05-16, version 1.0.13* Is this game just going to end on sushi restaurant? ### 3/5 — Ads *2021-12-10, version 1.0.13* Too manu ads between levels!! ### 4/5 — Need new restaurants *2021-11-23, version 1.0.13* I really like this game but it has ended on the Sushi Restaurant for MONTHS, now. I think , since last year😞😩 ### 3/5 — Ads *2021-08-11* Remove the ads! They keep popping up mid game! Not fun! ### 4/5 — New update *2021-05-09, version 1.0.13* When is new update will be out? ### 3/5 — Great game, too many bugs. *2021-01-23, version 1.0.13* Great game it’s very similar to cooking diary but costs less and rewards are awesome. My only complaint is that it’s too many bugs I will probably go back to playing cooking dairy until these buys are fixed. Current bugs I’m experiencing are - level freezing, guild freezing (keeps telling me connection issues but I can play my other games just fine) movement are laggy a lot. Also please add more outfits that isn’t similar to cooking diary because I don’t want to play the exact same game. ### 3/5 — Updates *2020-11-12, version 1.0.6* When is there going to be more levels. Been waiting for ages ### 3/5 — Cooking Life Kitchen Diary *2020-10-31, version 1.0.5* Are there no more levels past Fried Fish restaurant? Can’t upgrade restaurant anymore and nowhere to move onto. More levels needed ### 4/5 — Game keeps freezing. *2020-10-11, version 1.0.4* Game is fun. But keep running into issues where the game freezes after you past any level. ### 2/5 — Cooking Life *2020-09-20, version 1.0.2* This game is blinking off of my phone screen. I play it for a little while but it needs to be fix ASAP. I rate it as a two stars because I can’t play it ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Hello? Developers?? *2021-09-10, version 1.0.13* There are only 7 restaurants in the game and there seems to be zero plan for new ones. Also, there are only a few outfits to acquire. It appears the developers have abandoned this game as there is literally NO work being put into it. Such a waste. ### 1/5 — Cooking life *2021-01-12, version 1.0.13* Upgrades cost to many rubies smh ### 1/5 — Gems gems gems *2020-11-04, version 1.0.5* Why do you need gems to upgrade your basic kitchen equipments? Aren’t the equipment essential to pass at least a level? Don’t tell me it’s strategy and plan ahead or log in everyday to collect gems, yea, by the time I’m able to pass level 3, it would be a year later collect gems to buy basic equipment. ### 1/5 — Too many ads *2020-11-02, version 1.0.5* Far too many ads and they’re way too long. You spend more time on ads than on the game. Also it’s nearly impossible to get through more than a minute of the game before time is up. Will delete. ### 1/5 — Needs update *2020-10-26, version 1.0.5* Updated today and now it’s a glitch. I’m losing lives because what I select to make doesn’t work so can’t process orders in levels. ### 1/5 — Crashing on IOS 12 *2020-10-02, version 1.0.3* I keep trying to put on my apron and it crashes. I uninstall and install the game back & still does the same thing. **Developer response:** Thank you for playing the game and reporting this issue to us. We are working hard to improve the game performance and will release updates as soon as possible :) If you have any other concerns, please feel free to contact us In the game and get directly help from the customer support. ### 1/5 — Annoying *2020-09-15, version 1.0.1* I hate how it keeps telling me what to do. It makes me buy things and makes me use boost ### 2/5 — not very good *2024-10-04, version 1.0.13* Barely any clothes to put on ### 2/5 — Way to many ads and network server issues *2023-12-03, version 1.0.13* Game is good, just like cooking diary which imo is better. This game you can’t join a guild, if you create your own, you can’t leave it. ### 2/5 — Could Be 5 Stars *2023-03-04, version 1.0.13* Another good game that self sabotages. This game is fun I enjoy it but I’m not able to give more than 2 stars. In games like these you watch a lot of ads to earn needed items I have no problem with that. You do end up choosing to watch quite a few and it benefits the game, all good. BUT this game has forced pop up ads (incredibly annoying) along with the ones you can choose to watch. That’s a HUGE no! That means they don’t care about the customers or the game. It’s a scam. Greed is their only motive. Cooking Diary is just like this game but because no forced pop up ads they get 5 stars. I don’t understand ruining your own game like these devs but they will learn that people will abandon a game like this because there are games out there where the devs actually care about their game and customers. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Love this game *2023-06-19, version 1.0.13* I know there’s a lot of ads but I’m 10 and I have cooking experience best cooking game ever. ### 5/5 — Best game *2023-05-06, version 1.0.13* This game is the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ### 5/5 — I finished the game, I’m sad 😢 *2021-05-18, version 1.0.13* The last restaurant is the Sushi restaurant? No more ? 😭 ### 5/5 — Lord *2020-10-31, version 1.0.5* It takes part for this game but I do love it it’s a stress reliever ### 5/5 — Game *2020-10-21, version 1.0.4* Y’all should have more clothes ### 5/5 — Love *2020-09-20, version 1.0.1* So far I like the game it’s fun ### 5/5 — Fun *2020-09-17, version 1.0.1* It’s a fun game ### 4/5 — Soo entertaining but… *2023-10-25, version 1.0.13* This is really entertaining but a problem. This is fun and addicting but there are some flaws like ads😢 so thats why it is a 4 not a 5 ### 4/5 — It’s fun but *2023-09-15, version 1.0.13* It feels like a rip off of cooking diary, but the graphics and gameplay are unsophisticated. I think it’s the game grows it could get really good. ### 4/5 — 快看我 *2023-04-13, version 1.0.13* 这是不打算更新了吗？ --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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