Comparison

Chef's Quest vs Match Cafe

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Chef's Quest

Embark on a global culinary journey to become a master chef. Solve match-3 puzzles, collect decor, and build a thriving restaurant. Compete with friends and attract celebrities for bonuses.

Highlights
  • Match-3 culinary challenges
  • Restaurant design and furnishing
  • Collect unique decor items
  • Play with friends
  • Power-ups
  • Attract celebrities
  • Master chef battles
Features
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Travel the world on your quest to become the ultimate chef and restaurateur. Switch and match your way through hundreds of culinary challenges in this most delectable puzzle adventure. Amass a wealth of opulent decor and acquire a cult following as you turn your quaint little diner into a global celebration of multicultural cuisine. Take on this adventure solo or play with friends visiting their own unique restaurants or challenging their scores! Chef’s Quest features: - Use dozens of power ups to sizzle, pop, and grill your way to the top! - Collect coins to design and furnish your very own restaurant - Discover dozens of unique restaurant decor items in your travels - Visit friends restaurants to forage for new design ideas - Challenge friend's scores on every puzzle - Attract celebrities for huge bonuses based on restaurant objectives - Challenging master chef battles when graduating from a region - Leaderboards & achievements to match with your friends - Delightful orchestrated soundtrack - Seasonal updates (Halloween, Easter, Valentine's Day, Christmas - there’s always something special cooking!) - Play on iPhone or iPad as your progress carries over - Support for 14 languages Visit us at https://thebinarymill.zendesk.com/ if you need any help! Follow us to get news and updates; facebook.com/thebinarymill Twitter: @thebinarymill https://www.youtube.com/user/binarymill http://www.thebianrymill.com/ Chef’s Quest is completely free to play but some optional in-game items will require payment. You can turn off the payment feature by disabling in-app purchases in your device settings.

About

Match Cafe

Engage in a delightful match-three puzzle adventure where you renovate restaurants and assist a chef in achieving culinary fame. Solve over a thousand challenging levels, overcome unique obstacles, and unlock new dining spaces. Decorate your cafes and enjoy a relaxing, fun cooking game experience.

Highlights
  • Hundreds of challenging match-3 levels
  • Restaurant renovation and decoration
  • Unique obstacles and power-ups
  • Collect bonuses and rewards
  • Daily challenges and boosters
  • Limited-time events and tournaments
Features
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Do you like match 3 games? Play Match Cafe, renovate the restaurants and help the Chef to become famous! Over a thousand match-three games (match 3 levels) & puzzle games. Enjoy brain puzzles with our kitchen game! Overcome the obstacles and combine amazing power-ups to complete fun and challenging levels in match games! Unlock wonderful restaurants in kitchen games over and over again by playing fun match 3 levels! Join in now and enjoy the fun! You'll encounter incredible obstacles: an oven, crispy cookies, ripe avocado, and even a kitten! Hurry up and cut the baguette, cook delicious pudding and create a rice panda in a food game! Match, connect, swap, and crush lines in colorful match games - challenge yourself to beat all of the matching puzzle games! Match Cafe is a relaxing fun cooking game in which you can decorate restaurants and match puzzles. People all over the world are playing these amazing matching games for adults. Relax and enjoy these match 3 game. What’s inside this exciting cooking games adventure? - Unique gameplay: help chefs renovate the restaurants by swapping and matching pieces in mini games! Exercise your fingers and test your skills and strategies in food making game. - Play hundreds of challenging and fun match 3 levels enjoying our food game - Crush cookies, burst avocados, collect ingredients and more- matching puzzle game is easy to play for everyone! - Collect your own collections, get delicious bonuses and incredible rewards! Wait no more and surprise your friends with the craziest yummies by playing this awesome cook game! - Log in daily to win new challenges in a cook game! Get boosters to help you complete the levels! - Unlock your inner restaurant games designer and turn that cooking mama cafe into a chic cafe. - Earn rewards and prizes with limited-time events in matching game. - Unique tournaments and mini games in match-three game! Participate in tourneys with other players and get prizes in our puzzle game for adults. - Play the Match Cafe restaurant game with new friends and old ones to have even more fun. - Try this amazing, fun, colorful, and addictive chef kitchen cooking restaurant game. Among all the match 3 games, Match Cafe is one of the newest matching games full of tens of powerful boosters, super power ups and unique storyline and the lively atmosphere of an open restaurant! Play cooking restaurant games for everyone - fun puzzle games to keep you entertained for hours! Questions? Contact our Tech Support by sending an email to support.matchcafe@playgenes.com Privacy Policy: https://playgenes.com/docs/privacy_policy_en.html Terms of Service: https://playgenes.com/docs/terms_of_service_en.html

Screenshots

Chef's Quest4 screens
Match Cafe4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Chef's Quest at none against Match Cafe's shown. Chef's Quest also leads on review sentiment (71% vs 40%) and update cadence (weekly vs every 5 weeks). Match Cafe's advantage is ratings volume (3.9K vs 51) and rating (4.8 vs 4.5). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Chef's Quest sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Match Cafe sells 14 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Match Cafe holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Match Cafe has 3.9K ratings behind it against 51, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 71% of Chef's Quest's written reviews are positive against 40% of Match Cafe's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Chef's Quest ships an update weekly, Match Cafe every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Chef's Quest versus Match Cafe: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChef's QuestMatch Cafe
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (51 ratings)4.8 (3.9K ratings) — better
Positive reviews70.6% of reviews — better40.0% of reviews
Number of ratings513.9K — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS7.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size123 MB611 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThe Binary MillP.D. PLAYGENES INTERNATIONAL LIMITED

Customer experience

Chef's Quest

All ratings51 ratings
Positive86.3%
Neutral3.9%
Negative9.8%
Written reviews180 reviews
Positive70.6%
Neutral13.3%
Negative16.1%

Match Cafe

All ratings3,920 ratings
Positive94.6%
Neutral3.4%
Negative2.0%
Written reviews40 reviews
Positive40.0%
Neutral17.5%
Negative42.5%

User reviews

Chef's Quest

From 51 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Engaging gameplay
  • 🎨 Vibrant graphics
  • 🕹️ Addictive match-3 mechanics
  • 🛠️ Ability to decorate restaurant
  • 🕰️ Relaxing time-killer

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and glitches
  • 🔋 High battery consumption
  • 💰 Monetization issues and paywall
  • 🕹️ Difficulty spikes in later levels
  • 🔇 Repetitive sound effects

Match Cafe

From 3.9K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 💕 Enjoyable game experience
  • 🎨 Colorful and decorative design
  • 👍 Fun and challenging gameplay

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent freezing and crashing issues
  • 💤 Lack of progress sync between devices
  • 📺 Too many intrusive ads
  • 🔁 Repetitive and stagnant content

Bugs and requests

Chef's Quest

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Disappearing lives and lost progress
  • Freezing and black screen issues
  • Inconsistent performance on older devices

Requested features

3 requests
  • More level variety and new content updates
  • Improved progress saving and syncing across devices
  • Option to disable in-app purchases

Match Cafe

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Inability to complete certain levels
  • Game freezing and restarting unexpectedly
  • Sync issues between phone and tablet

Requested features

3 requests
  • Ability to customize restaurant decor
  • More level variety and new content updates
  • Better progress sync across devices

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Chef's Quest

One-time10
  • 10 Diamonds$0.99
  • Buffet$1.99
  • Catch of the Day$1.99
Show 7 more
  • Lunch Special$1.99
  • Christmas Pack$1.99
  • 50 Diamonds$4.99
  • Buffet$6.99
  • Catch of the Day$6.99
  • Lunch Special$6.99
  • 100 Diamonds$9.99
14 purchases

Match Cafe

One-time14
  • One-time offer!$0.99
  • A little bit of coins$1.99
  • One-time offer!$1.99
Show 11 more
  • One-time offer!$2.99
  • One-time offer!$4.99
  • Some coins$4.99
  • One-time offer!$6.99
  • One-time offer!$7.99
  • One-time offer!$9.99
  • Lots of coins$14.99
  • One-time offer!$14.99
  • One-time offer!$19.99
  • A mountain of coins$29.99
  • One-time offer!$29.99

Questions

Is Chef's Quest free?
Chef's Quest is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Match Cafe free?
Match Cafe is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Chef's Quest or Match Cafe?
Match Cafe is rated higher. Chef's Quest averages 4.5 out of 5 from 51 ratings, while Match Cafe averages 4.8 from 3.9K ratings.
Do Chef's Quest or Match Cafe have ads?
Match Cafe shows ads; Chef's Quest does not.
Which is updated more often, Chef's Quest or Match Cafe?
Chef's Quest ships an update weekly, and Match Cafe every 5 weeks. Most recently, Chef's Quest was updated on October 17, 2026 and Match Cafe on October 18, 2026.

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