Comparison

Solitaire Cooking Tower vs Nonogram Life

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

Head to head
About

Solitaire Cooking Tower

Play classic solitaire while building and collecting various restaurants. Collect unique card decks like Puppy or Kitty decks as you progress. Enjoy a blend of card game strategy and restaurant management.

Highlights
  • Classic solitaire gameplay
  • Build diverse restaurants
  • Collect unique card decks
  • Restaurant variety
  • Card deck customization
Features
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Welcome to Solitaire Cooking Tower - Best Card Game! Build your own restaurants while playing your favorite solitaire! > Just like the old days! Remember the old solitaire game on your PC that you used to love? Well, things just got better! > Build Restaurants! Hot dogs, tacos, Chinese food, and so on. Variety of restaurants to choose and build from! > Start Collecting Cards Decks! Create your own Card Decks while playing solitaire! Puppy Decks, Kitty Decks, Blossom Decks and much more! More Card Deckss & restaurants all over the world will continue to be updated in-game!

About

Nonogram Life

Engage your mind with logic puzzles that reveal hidden pixel art. Solve by filling cells according to number clues, offering a relaxing and mindful experience with handcrafted designs and soothing music. Save your progress and enjoy various topics.

Highlights
  • Hand-crafted pixel art puzzles
  • Diverse topics and themes
  • Hint system for assistance
  • Intuitive drag or d-pad controls
  • Relaxing music and mindfulness
  • Automatic save/resume functionality
  • Marking (X) feature for easier solving
Features
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Nonograms, also known as Paint by Numbers, Picross, Griddlers, Pic-a-Pix, Hanjie, and various other names, are picture Logic puzzle in which cells in a grid must be colored or left blank according to numbers at the side of the grid to reveal a hidden picture. *** Rule *** In this puzzle type, the numbers are a form of discrete tomography that measures how many unbroken lines of filled-in squares there are in any given row or column. For example, a clue of "4 8 3" would mean there are sets of four, eight, and three filled squares, in that order, with at least one blank square between successive sets. *** Features *** ● Hand crafted beautiful pixel arts ● There are various topics to have fun with ● Using hint can help you in difficult time ● Easy controls, either using drag or d-pad ● Mindfulness, relaxing music ● Playing session is saved/resumed automatically ● Don’t forget to using Mark (X) to solve the puzzle easier *** Strategy *** Simpler puzzles can usually be solved by a reasoning on a single row only (or a single column) at each given time, to determine as many boxes and spaces on that row as possible. Then trying another row (or column), until there are no rows that contain undetermined cells. Some more difficult puzzles may also require several types of "what if?" reasoning that include more than one row (or column). This works on searching for contradictions: When a cell cannot be a box, because some other cell would produce an error, it will definitely be a space. And vice versa. Advanced solvers are sometimes able to search even deeper than into the first "what if?" reasoning. It takes, however, a lot of time to get some progress.

Screenshots

Solitaire Cooking Tower4 screens
Nonogram Life4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Nonogram Life at 4.8 against Solitaire Cooking Tower's 4.6. Nonogram Life also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Solitaire Cooking Tower sells 12 one-off in-app purchases and Nonogram Life sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Nonogram Life holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.3K and 598 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 79% of Solitaire Cooking Tower's written reviews are positive against 76% of Nonogram Life's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Solitaire Cooking Tower ships an update monthly, Nonogram Life fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Solitaire Cooking Tower versus Nonogram Life: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSolitaire Cooking TowerNonogram Life
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (1.3K ratings)4.8 (598 ratings) — better
Positive reviews79.1% of reviews — better76.4% of reviews
Number of ratings1.3K — better598
Update frequencyMonthlyFortnightly — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size350 MB95 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSticky Hands Inc.Nguyen Loc

Customer experience

Solitaire Cooking Tower

All ratings1,280 ratings
Positive92.4%
Neutral4.0%
Negative3.6%
Written reviews593 reviews
Positive79.1%
Neutral9.4%
Negative11.5%

Nonogram Life

All ratings546 ratings
Positive97.1%
Neutral1.5%
Negative1.5%
Written reviews89 reviews
Positive76.4%
Neutral13.5%
Negative10.1%

User reviews

Solitaire Cooking Tower

From 1.3K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Best game ever
  • 👍 Fun, cute, and relaxing game
  • 👍 Addictive and enjoyable
  • 👍 Great concept and gameplay
  • 👍 Smooth and fluid gameplay

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Bugs and glitches after updates
  • 🔋 Battery draining issues
  • 💸 Expensive in-app purchases
  • 📺 Too many intrusive ads
  • 🤔 Confusing translation/localization

Nonogram Life

From 598 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🎨 Beautiful visuals
  • 🧠 Challenging puzzles
  • 🔍 Interesting facts
  • 🕰️ Relaxing gameplay
  • 🚫 No in-app purchases

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Bugs and glitches
  • 🔍 Unclear controls
  • 🔋 Overheating issues
  • 💰 Ads can be intrusive
  • 🔒 Lack of volume control

Bugs and requests

Solitaire Cooking Tower

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Game freezing or crashing
  • Ads not working as intended
  • Progress and data loss issues
  • Inability to open the game after updates

Requested features

6 requests
  • More restaurants and menu items
  • Ability to choose difficulty level
  • Option to mute or adjust volume of customer sounds
  • Ability to reset progress or start over
  • More game modes beyond just solitaire
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  • Improved daily challenges and missions

Nonogram Life

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Black screen on certain levels
  • Incorrect puzzle solutions
  • Progress reset/loss of progress
  • Crashes and freezes

Requested features

4 requests
  • More levels and categories
  • Ability to disable lives/hints
  • Support for Apple Pencil
  • Improved performance optimization

In-app purchases

12 purchases

Solitaire Cooking Tower

One-time12
  • Undo 5$0.99
  • EventPackage1$0.99
  • Shuffle 5$1.99
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  • Magic 5$1.99
  • Star 100$1.99
  • Undo 25$2.99
  • Reward Video ADs skip$4.99
  • Shuffle 25$5.99
  • Alice card deck package$5.99
  • Magic 25$5.99
  • Special Package$7.99
  • Ultimate Package$9.99
1 purchases

Nonogram Life

One-time1
  • Remove Ads2 variants$2.99

Questions

Is Solitaire Cooking Tower free?
Solitaire Cooking Tower is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Nonogram Life free?
Nonogram Life is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Solitaire Cooking Tower or Nonogram Life?
Nonogram Life is rated higher. Solitaire Cooking Tower averages 4.6 out of 5 from 1.3K ratings, while Nonogram Life averages 4.8 from 598 ratings.
Do Solitaire Cooking Tower or Nonogram Life have ads?
Both Solitaire Cooking Tower and Nonogram Life show ads.
Which is updated more often, Solitaire Cooking Tower or Nonogram Life?
Solitaire Cooking Tower ships an update monthly, and Nonogram Life fortnightly. Most recently, Solitaire Cooking Tower was updated on October 29, 2026 and Nonogram Life on October 30, 2026.

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