Pizzaiolo! vs Popsicle Stack
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pizzaiolo!
Build and manage your own pizza shop. Prepare dough, add toppings, and bake delicious pizzas to become the ultimate pizzaiolo. Compete to be the best in the business.
- Manage your own pizzeria
- Knead dough
- Add pizza toppings
- Bake pizzas
- Become the best pizzaiolo
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Open your very own pizzeria! Knead the dough, place the toppings and bake the most delicious pizza of all time. Can you become the best pizzaiolo?
Popsicle Stack
Build and sell custom popsicles in this fun runner game. Collect cups, choose flavors, add toppings, and create unique frozen treats to earn cash. Explore hundreds of levels and customize your chef.
- 3D popsicle stacking
- Fluid runner gameplay
- Customizable chef
- Hundreds of levels
- Variety of flavors and toppings
- Sell popsicles to customers
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You scream, I scream, we all scream for ice cream! Popsicle Stack brings you a beautiful popsicle building experience mixed with an ultra smooth runner game that's both easy to learn and fun to play! Create massive stacks of popsicles and sell them to your eager customers to earn mountains of cash. Explore the vast array of different fillings and toppings, create any popsicle flavor you can imagine: chocolate vanilla strawberry, rainbow and sprinkles, fruit pop, chocolate dip, the possibilities are endless! Which flavors will make you the most money? That's for you to find out. Start with your popsicle cup, the cup shapes the popsicle. What kind of shape will you choose? Collect and stack as many cups as you can (this takes skills!). Next choose your popsicle filling, maneuver your cups into a ice cream pouring station and fill them with your choice of ice cream flavors! Now it's time to freeze your pops and put them on a popsicle sticks, remove the cup and now you have a queue of frozen popsicles! Onto the toppings, dip your popsicles into a pool of melted chocolate then roll them under a shower of sprinkles. Mix and match toppings to expand the variety of flavors you serve. Time to sell your popsicles to the hungry kids and bring in that money! The crazier the popsicle build, the more it sells for, so go wild! Gameplay Features: 3D popsicle stacking game, how many can you stack? Fluid runner game with a variety of obstacles and treasures. Learn how to make your own popsicles! Customize your chef, dozens of cosmetic upgrades to choose from. 100's of levels to explore, and more on the way! A perfect game to sit down and relax with. Warning! This game will make you want ice cream. Visit https://lionstudios.cc/contact-us/ if have any feedback, need help on beating a level or have any awesome ideas you would like to see in the game! From the Studio that brought you Mr. Bullet, Happy Glass, Ink Inc and Love Balls! Follow us to get news and updates on our other Award Winning titles; https://lionstudios.cc/ Facebook.com/LionStudios.cc Instagram.com/LionStudioscc Twitter.com/LionStudiosCC Youtube.com/c/LionStudiosCC
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pizzaiolo! at none against Popsicle Stack's 8. Popsicle Stack's advantage is review sentiment (76% vs 53%). 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. Popsicle Stack sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Pizzaiolo! asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Pizzaiolo! against 4.5 for Popsicle Stack. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 78K and 76K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 53% of Pizzaiolo!'s written reviews are positive against 76% of Popsicle Stack's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 13, 2026.
| Parameter | Pizzaiolo! | Popsicle Stack |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (78K ratings) — better | 4.5 (76K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 52.9% of reviews | 76.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 78K — better | 76K |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 415 MB | 449 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Geisha Tokyo Inc. | Lion Studios |
Customer experience
Pizzaiolo!
Popsicle Stack
User reviews
Pizzaiolo!
From 78K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🍕 Fun and relaxing game
- 👍 Easy to play and understand
- ⭐ Customers are happy with any pizza
- 🎨 Allows for creativity in pizza making
Room to improve
- 💸 Too many ads interrupting gameplay
- 🐛 Glitches and lags, especially with large pizzas
- 🔍 Lack of clear descriptions for ingredients
- 💰 Accumulating money with nothing to spend it on
Popsicle Stack
From 76K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🍦 Fun and satisfying game
- 🎮 Addictive gameplay
- 🕹️ No Wi-Fi required
- 💫 Great graphics and visuals
Room to improve
- 💢 Too many ads
- 🤕 Glitchy and buggy at times
- 🔁 Repetitive levels
- 🙄 Disturbing character animations
Bugs and requests
Pizzaiolo!
Reported bugs
3 issues- Dough spreading issue on large pizzas
- Inability to go back and fix mistakes in toppings
- Rewards not being properly awarded after making special pizzas
Requested features
4 requests- Add more pizza toppings and ingredients
- Implement a way to upgrade or customize the pizzeria
- Provide an option to pay for an ad-free version
- Add a cookbook or guide for different pizza types
Popsicle Stack
Reported bugs
3 issues- Game freezes or crashes at higher levels
- Progress loss or reset issues
- Unresponsive controls or input issues
Requested features
4 requests- More variety in popsicle flavors and toppings
- Ability to customize the character
- Additional game modes or challenges
- Reduced ad frequency or ad-free option
In-app purchases
Pizzaiolo!
No in-app purchases
Popsicle Stack
- 50 000 coins$1.99
- Remove Ads$2.99
- 100 gems$2.99
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- 100 000 coins$2.99
- 300 000 coins$5.99
- 300 gems$5.99
- Mega Bundle$8.99
- 500 000 coins$9.99
