# Cooking Live: Restaurant diary — user reviews > 280 indexed App Store user reviews of Cooking Live by Matryoshka Games (CY) LTD, rated 4.70/5 from 9,285 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cooking-live-restaurant-diary/id1595075449/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cooking-live-restaurant-diary/id1595075449.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 7,882 · 4★ 771 · 3★ 358 · 2★ 137 · 1★ 137 ## What do users think of Cooking Live? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Enjoyable gameplay - 🎨 Appealing graphics and design - 🕹️ Fun cooking and decorating mechanics - 🚀 Satisfying progression through levels **Cons** - 💰 Excessive ads and in-app purchases - 🐛 Bugs and technical issues - 🔁 Repetitive and limited content - 🕰️ Difficulty spikes in later levels **Commonly reported bugs** - Game freezing or crashing - Ads not loading or playing properly - Progression and rewards not tracking correctly - Design elements not loading or displaying properly **Most requested features** - Add more levels and content updates - Improve ad implementation and reduce frequency - Introduce more customization options - Allow replaying of completed levels ## Newest reviews (13 of 280) ### 3/5 — viciante *2026-05-28* mas pacotes de moedas caro ### 3/5 — Cannot continue playing *2025-11-09, version 0.42.0* I finally decided to pay to go ad free. But once I did, the option to earn extra income by voluntarily watching ads has been grayed out after one instance. Even the option to speed up development of my upgrades is rubies/gems only, with not even an option to watch an add like before. ### 4/5 — 修复bug *2025-10-13, version 0.42.0* 游戏本身挺好的 竖屏版我也在玩 但你能不能也管管这个游戏啊 每次进关卡都有闪屏bug 什么时候修复一下修复一下！！！ ### 2/5 — Way too many ads *2025-09-28, version 0.42.0* After every round they play an ad. For you to get enough points accumulated to upgrade items there are ads. I’ve played plenty of games similar to this and they were no where near like this ### 2/5 — Fun game, BUT *2025-06-07, version 0.42.0* The game is fun, but they make it impossible to complete levels without watching ads or spending money to upgrade your kitchen supplies. I wish games could go back to just being a way to have fun and kill time rather than being a giant cash grab. ### 2/5 — Too expensive!!! *2025-06-06* It’s a pretty fun game. But way too expensive to keep this game going. Prices are insane. ### 4/5 — Great game *2025-06-06, version 0.42.0* Love playing there a lot of different things that come up it’s just a lot of fun gets your energy pumping. Lol ### 3/5 — Expensive *2025-05-03, version 0.42.0* I just started playing and the upgrades are ridiculous high and include rubies. I will see how far I get before it’s a requirement to spend money to upgrade before I uninstall. 1500 coins and 5 rubies to upgrade tomatoes is crazy when you only earn prolly 100 coins and 1 or 2 rubies per level. Other than that it’s great. ### 2/5 — Slows *2025-04-21, version 0.42.0* To many aps n watching apps ### 3/5 — Broken Ads *2025-04-09, version 0.42.0* After an ad it doesn’t go back to the game. I have to close out the game and not receive any points because it won’t return to the game. Other then that I like it ### 2/5 — через каждый уровень реклама аж по две штуки !!!! удаляю из за этого !!! *2025-04-09* реклама бесконечная даже когда пропускаю !!! и никаких плюсов от просмотра аж по два ролика смотрю ### 2/5 — Реклама бесит *2025-03-16* Достала тупая реклама, можно не так много рекламы?! ### 3/5 — Beug *2025-03-15* Le jeu beug, maintenant je ne peux peu plus entrer dans le jeu épuisé la dernière mise à jour. Dommage parce que j’aime beaucoup ce jeu ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Too many ads *2026-06-25, version 0.42.0* It’s an enjoyable game, but there’s an ad between every level that takes longer than actual game play. No ad-free option either. I removed it after a day. Too much wasted time. ### 1/5 — Facebook Save not working *2026-06-23, version 0.42.0* I’m unable to save my progress thru Facebook to play on other devices :( ### 1/5 — Как бесит эта бесконечная реклама *2026-06-17* У тебя есть выбор посмотреть рекламу за плюшки чтобы быстрее проходить игру или посмотреть рекламу просто так, потому что она выскакивает после каждого пройденного уровня. А если ты решил увеличить вознаграждение после уровня то ты смотришь две рекламы👍🏻… Почему нельзя сделать действительно выбор, так устаешь от этого спама ### 1/5 — Много рекламы и невозможно её отключить!! *2026-06-01* Игра интересная, но реклама после каждого уровня, это раздражает, но дело в том что отключить её покупкой игроки из России тоже не могут!!! Это тупик! Сделайте что нибудь с оплатой для игроков из России!!! ### 1/5 — Please don’t use no ads advertising *2026-01-30, version 0.42.0* Avoiding Hate ad advertising problems news spreading warning ⚠️ other don’t want ad showing no advertising 😡 avoiding Warnings told app risking through AI porn in game and spreading other scam apps sharing ruining in game told warnings ADs advertising AI 🤖 dirty photos ### 1/5 — Pub *2026-01-25* Dites que c’est une boute à pub entrecoupés de jeux séances très rapides par contre sur la pub qu’on est obligé de voir alors qu’elle ne bouge pas et une autre s’enchaîne et pour le jeu vite fait on ferme ! Oh j’ai désinstallé en plus jouer à l’horizontal j’aime pas bye ### 1/5 — Игра кишит рекламой *2026-01-21* После каждого уровня реклама,в начале уровней 10 её не было И ещё, у меня пропадает звук в игре. Не советую. ### 1/5 — Cooking live *2025-06-28, version 0.42.0* Way to many ads and not enough actual playing time ### 1/5 — Unplayable *2025-05-26, version 0.42.0* The ads never finish. ### 1/5 — Мм *2025-04-24* Не получается вообще зайти в игру, стоит заставка Matryoshka и всё, дальше не грузит, удаляю ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — F2P *2026-06-16, version 0.36.0* I don’t know why this game doesn’t have any review or is it just me playing this game. But I actually LOVE this game because I’m F2P myself and talking about the amount of diamonds they gave us! I even have enough diamond to decorate the restaurants! (Don’t know if it will be the problem in the future when we need to upgrade the equipment though lol) And I think the long I keep playing the more I see it getting more difficult which I like challenging anyways. I just hope that they will give us an item to help us in the kitchen MORE (because my finger can’t handle it anymore and my hand can’t even move however I want 😭). IN SHORT, love this. Would recommend 💕 ### 5/5 — Diyesha *2026-04-14, version 0.42.0* iPhone ### 5/5 — Needing to make more *2026-03-13, version 0.42.0* Not enough time. Why is each session so short ### 5/5 — Love it *2026-02-01, version 0.42.0* It is fun ### 5/5 — Not overwhelming *2025-06-18, version 0.42.0* The game doesn’t make it so complicated that I can’t keep up so far. Hopefully it stays this way. I may be just starting, I realize it’s get a bit harder but other games got overwhelming quickly after just starting. I quit the game because I couldn’t keep up. ### 5/5 — Add more *2025-06-03, version 0.42.0* I love it but now it’s making me redo the same levels completely ridiculous ### 5/5 — Just. YESSS *2025-05-03, version 0.42.0* I’m literally OBSESSED with this game! It’s so easy to play and so much much to pass my time! ### 5/5 — Lo recomiendo *2025-03-05, version 0.41.0* Bonitas gráficas ### 5/5 — Such a wonderful game *2025-02-22, version 0.41.0* Really easy and chill and I low key loveeeee ittttt like I would litterally play this game for hours and hours. ### 5/5 — ชอบค่ะ สนุกมากๆ *2025-01-23, version 0.41.0* มีรอบที่ค้างนะคะ เข้าไม่ได้ เสียใจมากคะ --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-09.*