Mars Walk VR vs VR Junior Chef
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mars Walk VR
Embark on an educational virtual reality tour of the red planet. Explore Martian landscapes, visit historic landing sites, and witness scientific instruments in action. This immersive experience brings the wonders of Mars directly to your smartphone.
- Explore Mars surface and landing sites
- Experience Martian dust storms
- Observe scientific instruments on Mars
- Visit historic Viking landers
- Follow Curiosity rover's sample collection
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The first people who will visit Mars are sitting in a school today. To help inspire these students, Lockheed Martin created Mars Walk. A virtual reality adventure you can experience using your own smartphone. Mars Walk provides a fun, interactive, and educational tour of the red planet in a stunning VR experience. Explore Mars – on your phone. Download today. A cardboard VR device is required. Thanks to our partners NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). FEATURES: - Walk the surface of Mars and explore the landing sites for InSight, Viking and Curiosity. - Experience dust storms at the Northern Crater - Observe InSight and Viking as they gather information about Mars - Visit one of the famous Viking landers that landed more than 40 years ago - Follow Curiosity as it navigates the red surface collecting samples
VR Junior Chef
Learn to cook and bake 24 recipes in augmented and virtual reality. Explore the science behind food and then create dishes like muffins and burgers in a virtual kitchen. Requires a companion book to activate experiences.
- 24 virtual and augmented reality recipes
- Learn food science concepts
- Interactive virtual kitchen
- Augmented reality book activation
- Step-by-step cooking guidance
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Step into the kitchen with Professor Maxwell to learn how to cook and bake 24 delicious recipes that come alive in augmented and virtual reality! Jump into the VR lab to learn where food comes from and the science behind each recipe, including how yeast makes dough rise, the effects of gluten, the process of osmosis and more. Then get hands on in the kitchen to make muffins, smoothies, burgers, fish tacos and other favorites, all in Professor Maxwell’s VR Junior Chef! To activate the experiences, simply download the app and hold your phone over the book included in the kit to see Professor Maxwell come to life.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: VR Junior Chef at 3.6 against Mars Walk VR's 2.5. Mars Walk VR's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 months). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
VR Junior Chef holds the better App Store score, 3.6 against 2.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 31 and 26 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 43% of Mars Walk VR's written reviews are positive against 40% of VR Junior Chef's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Mars Walk VR ships an update every 2 weeks, VR Junior Chef every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mars Walk VR | VR Junior Chef |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (31 ratings) | 3.6 (26 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 43.5% of reviews — better | 40.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 31 — better | 26 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 736 MB | 1.7 GB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lockheed Martin | Abacus |
Customer experience
Mars Walk VR
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In-app purchases
Mars Walk VR
No in-app purchases
VR Junior Chef
No in-app purchases
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