SafeConsumE vs Hideaways
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SafeConsumE
Learn essential food safety practices through an engaging cooking game. Follow recipes, prepare ingredients, and manage kitchen tasks to prevent foodborne illnesses. It's a fun way to build safer kitchen habits.
- Learn food safety
- Interactive cooking gameplay
- Recipe following
- Kitchen task management
- Prevent foodborne illness
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Millions get sick every year from foodborne illnesses. You do not have to be one of them. Discover some simple steps to safer handling food in your kitchen by playing this cooking game. The recipe is pinned to the fridge and the ingredients are ready for you. Chop away, fry chicken, do dishes, deal with a pesky cat, and more.
Hideaways
Explore beautifully crafted worlds and discover human stories in this reimagined spot-the-difference game. Enjoy a calm challenge that exercises attention and memory while immersing yourself in atmospheric music and gentle narratives.
- Beautifully crafted worlds
- Handmade atmospheric music
- Untimed scavenger hunts
- 144 human stories
- Calming gameplay
- Attention and memory exercise
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Hideaways is an immaculate take on spot-the-difference games. It unfolds through beautifully crafted worlds, handmade atmospheric music, untimed scavengers, and 144 human stories — gently woven in, where places carry real feeling and stories are discovered, not told. Both a moment of calm and a quiet challenge, Hideaways invites you to slow your breathing, calm your mind, and wander through aesthetic and auditory pleasures — all while gently exercising attention and memory, and inviting reflection on real-life moments and stories.
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Verdict
SafeConsumE and Hideaways both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of SafeConsumE's written reviews are positive against 44% of Hideaways's. SafeConsumE also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 7) and ads (none vs shown). Hideaways's advantage is ratings volume (2.4K vs 15) and update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months). On price, rating 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
Both are free to download. Hideaways sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. SafeConsumE asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for SafeConsumE against 4.7 for Hideaways. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hideaways has 2.4K ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of SafeConsumE's written reviews are positive against 44% of Hideaways's.
SafeConsumE ships an update every 2 months, Hideaways monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SafeConsumE | Hideaways |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (15 ratings) — better | 4.7 (2.4K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 44.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 15 | 2.4K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 319 MB | 794 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Aarhus University | RoadRocks |
Customer experience
SafeConsumE
Hideaways
Bugs and requests
SafeConsumE
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Hideaways
Reported bugs
4 issues- Game crashes during tutorial
- Differences not registering correctly
- Levels not loading properly
- Issues with screen size and layout
Requested features
4 requests- Option to disable background music
- Ability to save progress within a level
- More level variety and increased difficulty
- Cross-device syncing of progress
In-app purchases
SafeConsumE
No in-app purchases
Hideaways
- TRICKLE(5 hints)$0.99
- BREEZE(10 hints)$1.99
- DUET$1.99
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- FOUNT(20 hints)$2.99
- LUCID LENS$2.99
- DELUGE(50 hints)$4.99
- Grand W.$6.99
