My Cafe vs Tiny Cafe
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
My Cafe
Build and manage your dream coffee shop, from designing the interior to setting prices and creating unique menu items. Engage with customers through interactive storylines and connect with friends to form townships and compete with other cafes.
- Real business simulation
- Cafe interior design and makeover
- Interactive storylines with customers
- Create custom coffee and tea drinks
- Social play with friends and townships
- Offline income generation
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Join more than 50 million coffee lovers around the world and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit in this FUN and RELAXING restaurant game. Decide on your cafe STRATEGY and earn income, even when you are offline! REAL BUSINESS SIMULATION ● With My Cafe you can own and grow a coffee shop of your dreams ● Decorate the space as you wish, hire and train staff, decide on menu items and even set prices as you see fit CAFE MAKEOVER ● Do you have a knack for design? Hone your interior design skills and do a total cafe makeover ● In this restaurant game, you can choose from numerous decor styles, position furniture as you wish, and make a place totally yours by accentuating with elements that show your true self INTERACTIVE STORYLINES ● As a true coffee shop owner, you will get to meet your customers from various backgrounds and get to help them navigate through life. In this time management game you can pick between different lines of dialogue with customers and see where your story takes you! ● Do you like drama? Romance? In My Cafe, the choice is all yours! GO SOCIAL WITH MY CAFE ● Play this cafe game with friends or meet like-minded people to form townships and compete against owners of other coffee shops. ● Fulfill festival tasks and lead your town to success together! COFFEE MANIA: Do you love coffee as much as we do? ● My Cafe: Recipes & Stories allows you to unleash your barista superpower and create custom coffee and tea drinks for all your guests. ● Unlock unique coffee recipes and spice up everyone’s life in your cafe with distinctive drink combinations. •••••••••••••••••••••• My Cafe: Recipes & Stories is FREE to download and play with no obligations to pay. However, some in-game items can be purchased for real money. If you wish to disable this feature, please turn off in-app purchases in your device’s settings. •••••••••••••••••••••• +++++ Note: An internet connection is required to play the game A Prestige Township is a weekly/monthly/annual subscription service that allows you to increase the prestige of any township of which you are a member and accept two quests at the same time during Festivals. A Prestige Township subscription costs USD $3.99/$7.99/$49.99 USD (or local equivalent) per week/month/year, which will be charged to your iTunes account after purchase and when the subscription is renewed weekly/monthly/annually. Subscriptions are renewed automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. The payment will be charged to your iTunes account once the purchase is confirmed. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current subscription period. You can manage your subscription and disable auto-renewal in your account settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription. +++++ Follow My Cafe on Facebook and Instagram for exclusive offers and bonuses! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MyCafeGame/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mycafe.games/ Terms of Service: https://static.moonactive.net/legal/terms.html?lang=en Privacy Notice: https://static.moonactive.net/legal/privacy.html?lang=en Questions about the game? Our support is ready and waiting at: https://melsoft-games.helpshift.com/hc/en/3-my-cafe-recipes-stories---world-restaurant-game/contact-us/
Tiny Cafe
Run your own cozy cafe, brewing coffee and serving treats to adorable cat customers. This idle simulation game lets you manage staff, expand your menu, and grow your business into a global franchise. Enjoy relaxing music and charming stories.
- Run your own cafe
- Brew drip coffee
- Serve cat customers
- Manage cute staff
- Expand to global cities
- Collect Cheese
- Soothing cafe music
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■ Tiny Cafe, a cute and cozy cafe game featuring cat customers and winner of the 2024 BIC Best Casual Game Award, has officially launched! A new cozy cafe game from the developers of Forest Island, a relaxing animal game downloaded by 7 million players who love beautiful nature and animals! [Game Introduction] 1. Run your own cafe for free! Open and run a cafe with Dolce, the world's smallest barista mouse, and the cat Gusto. Brew drip coffee with beans from Gusto's own roastery. The aromatic smell of coffee will attract cats to your cafe. 2. A casual idle simulation cooking game that's easy to play and simple to learn. Leave the cute staff to their own devices to work hard brewing coffee. The showcase will automatically fill with freshly baked donuts. Install new tools such as espresso machines, ovens, and more, and add cakes and other items to the menu. 3. Serve coffee to cat customers Treat cat customers to heart-melting hot coffee and sweet treats. Make sure they like your cafe and become regulars. Enjoy additional stories of your regulars along with their daily or special menu orders on Catbook, the feline social network. 4. Cute part-timers working hard to create your menu items Watch as cute little mice scurry around making espressos, lattes, and other drinks and desserts. Set up various rest areas, like a bathhouse, and earn Cheese when staff use them. Collect Cheese to hire more staff and grow your cafe. 5. 30+ managers with different skills at each grade to help you run your cafe Call in a special manager with the special delivery service. If you're lucky, you'll get a top-tier Platinum-grade manager with 4 stars. When you put managers in your cafe who have a good synergy with each other, your cafe will grow even faster! 6. Go global! Gather a loyal customer base and harness word of mouth on social media to expand your cafe to cities like New York, Paris, Hawaii, Seoul, Tokyo, and more. Become a global franchise brand like many you know from the human world. With a trusted manager and well-trained part-timers, your cafe dreams will certainly come true. 7. Soothing cafe music Enjoy cafe music from the developers of the global hit, Forest Island. Listen to them and you'll feel refreshed after a tiring day or a depressing mood. [Official Instagram] Follow Tiny Cafe's official Instagram for special events, announcements, free merchandise, and more. https://www.instagram.com/tinycafe_dolce ■ If one of the following sounds like you, we recommend Tiny Cafe! - Love coffee and sweets - Want to run a cute cafe - Want to get to know cat customers - Dream of becoming a barista or pastry chef - Want to learn how to make cafe menu items - Enjoy cafe music or ASMR - Love a relaxed cafe atmosphere - Want to grow a small, independent cafe into a global franchise - Want to play a cozy idle game, growth game, or simulation game - Play tycoon games, food games, cooking games, and restaurant games - Enjoy cute animal games and cat games - Love manga and anime with stories - Enjoy interactive story games Tiny Cafe, a cute, cozy cafe game with cat customers, Join Dolce, the world's smallest barista, and Gusto the cat, and serve cats coffee! ---- Contact Us https://nanalistudios.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portals
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: My Cafe at 93K against Tiny Cafe's 4K. My Cafe also leads on chart position (#179 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (13.5 vs 15.0). Tiny Cafe's advantage is review sentiment (70% vs 60%). On price, rating, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. My Cafe sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Tiny Cafe sells 36 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for My Cafe against 4.8 for Tiny Cafe. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: My Cafe has 93K ratings behind it against 4K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 60% of My Cafe's written reviews are positive against 70% of Tiny Cafe's.
My Cafe ships an update weekly, Tiny Cafe every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on September 25, 2026.
| Parameter | My Cafe | Tiny Cafe |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (93K ratings) | 4.8 (4K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.4% of reviews | 69.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 93K — better | 4K |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #179 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.5 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 740 MB | 479 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Melsoft | Nanali Inc. |
Customer experience
My Cafe
Tiny Cafe
User reviews
My Cafe
From 93K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Addictive and fun
- 👍 Unique and interactive gameplay
- 🎨 Customizable cafe
- 📚 Interesting character stories
Room to improve
- 💰 Expensive in-app purchases
- 🤑 Difficult to progress without spending money
- 🕰️ Slow progression and earning of coins/gems
- 🔀 Frustrating special order requirements
- 🧱 Cluttered cafe layout due to too many machines
Tiny Cafe
From 4K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💕 Cute and cozy game
- 🎨 Excellent art style and animations
- 🕹️ Engaging and addictive gameplay
- 🎁 Reasonable amount of ads/monetization
- 🗣️ Interesting storylines and characters
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional crashes and loading issues
- 💰 Progression can feel grindy at times
- 🕰️ Slow progress in later stages
- 🔍 Unclear mechanics/tutorials in some areas
- 🔊 Audio issues after watching ads
Bugs and requests
My Cafe
Reported bugs
4 issues- Customers orders not registering properly
- Purchased items not showing up in game
- Inability to access certain features
- Sound issues and constant need to reload app
Requested features
6 requests- Ability to create own township without VIP
- More ways to earn coins and gems for free
- Option to rotate furniture 360 degrees
- Staff kitchen area to store excess equipment
- Ability to upgrade existing machines
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- Faster customer turnover and order fulfillment
Tiny Cafe
Reported bugs
3 issues- Inability to progress past certain missions
- Loss of progress/account data after periods of inactivity
- Incorrect or missing information in certain popups
Requested features
5 requests- More customization options for the cafe
- Ability to recruit and customize employees
- Offline/AFK earning mechanics
- Mini-games or other side activities
- Improved performance on higher branches
In-app purchases
My Cafe
- Elite Membership for 1 week7 Days trial$4.997 Days
- Special Offer$0.99
- Pink Gift$0.99
- Gems$1.99
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- Blue Gift$1.99
- Golden Gift$2.99
- Gems for recipes and stories$4.99
- Special Offer$4.99
- US Independence day$7.99
- Gems for recipes and stories$9.99
Tiny Cafe
- Barista Pack I$0.99
- AD Remove Pack I (Discount)$0.99
- Cafe Support Pack$0.99
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- Cheese Package$1.99
- Coin Package$1.99
- AD Remove Pack I$1.99
- Best friends Pack (Discount)$1.99
- 300 Gems$1.99
- Mascot Skin Pack$2.99
- Cherry Blossom Pass$3.99
- Seasonal Pakage - Winter$3.99
- Unlock Reward$3.99
- Blue Snake Pack$3.99
- Dice package$3.99
- Sally's Branch #1 Support Pack$3.99
- AD Remove Pack II (Discount)$3.99
- Branch #1 PASS$3.99
- Branch #2 Special Pack$3.99
- Dean's Branch #2 Support Pack$3.99
- Attendance book (Special)$3.99
- Daily Gem$3.99
- 1000 Gems$6.99
- Season Pass (Halloween)$7.99
- Branch #3 PASS$7.99
- AD Remove Pack II$7.99
- Branch #2 PASS$7.99
- Barista Pack III$9.99
- AD Remove Pack III (Discount)$9.99
- Best friends Pack$9.99
- Pablo's high-end camera$9.99
- Gusto Gift$19.99
- AD Remove Pack III$19.99
- Roastery Pack$19.99
- 3300 Gems$19.99
- 7000 Gems$39.99
- 16000 Gems$79.99









