IR Books vs VR MasterChef Junior
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
IR Books
This app combines traditional books with virtual and augmented reality to create an immersive learning experience for young readers. Explore topics like space, animals, and geography through interactive content. Designed for K-7 students, it offers a new way to engage with educational material.
- Virtual Reality integration
- Augmented Reality integration
- Interactive learning experiences
- Educational content for K-7
- Topics include space, animals, geography
- Combines physical books with digital content
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Immersive Reality Books (IR Books) is the world’s first publishing program that combines Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and a traditional book to create an amazing learning experience aimed at grade K-7 readers. Books are available from participating libraries and schools. Read it, see it, live it. Download the app, get your book, and insert your phone into your goggles and learn about space, animals, geography and more. IR Books are the future of reading.
VR MasterChef Junior
Learn to cook in an immersive virtual reality kitchen with guidance from a MasterChef Junior alum. This app uses AR and VR to make recipes easy to follow, building essential skills, confidence, and imagination in young food lovers.
- Immersive VR cooking experience
- AR step-by-step recipe videos
- Learn food and kitchen safety
- Build cooking skills and confidence
- Interactive recipe book
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Make cooking fun, informative and delicious! Learn to cook with MasterChef Junior alum in the MasterChef kitchen in immersive VR! The VR MasterChef Junior Interactive Recipe book gives young food lovers everything they need to succeed in the kitchen. Using virtual and augmented reality (AR), each recipe is made totally foolproof and easy to follow. Features AR step by step videos to help beginners get excited about cooking. VR MasterChef Junior is the ultimate kids cookbook, using VR and AR to help them build essential skills, practice food and kitchen safety, and gain confidence and imagination.
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Verdict
IR Books and VR MasterChef Junior both sit at 3.2 stars, but that hides the real split: 55% of IR Books's written reviews are positive against 20% of VR MasterChef Junior's. VR MasterChef Junior's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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 MasterChef Junior holds the better App Store score, 3.4 against 3.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 21 and 28 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 55% of IR Books's written reviews are positive against 20% of VR MasterChef Junior's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
IR Books ships an update monthly, VR MasterChef Junior every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | IR Books | VR MasterChef Junior |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (21 ratings) | 3.4 (28 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 54.5% of reviews — better | 20.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 21 | 28 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 150 MB | 2.2 GB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Library Ideas, LLC | Abacus |
Customer experience
IR Books
VR MasterChef Junior
In-app purchases
IR Books
No in-app purchases
VR MasterChef Junior
No in-app purchases
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