Comparison

Cooking Witch2 vs Cooking Star

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

Head to head
About

Cooking Witch2

Embark on a culinary adventure managing various restaurants in a magical town. Upgrade your kitchen, decorate your establishments, and serve dishes to customers to become a top chef. Unlock new locations and build your dream restaurant empire.

Highlights
  • Manage diverse restaurants
  • Upgrade kitchen utensils
  • Decorate and renovate establishments
  • Dress up customers
  • Serve dishes quickly
  • Unlock new restaurants
Features
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Start a brand new cooking journey in Culinary Town!Easy to get started and operate. You can make a variety of dishes in different places, by different means, in different environments. Play as a boss in Culinary Town, run all kinds of restaurants: from fancy taverns, mysterious diner, to fantastic cafeteria, and explore every corner of the magic world. In the end, you will grow into a top chef and become crazy about gourmet foods. Tactical Upgrade and Decoration: -Dress up the customers with your favorite outfits in wardrobe. -Decorate and renovate your restaurants located in all places to attract more customers. -The kitchen is gonna be slammed with work. Upgrade your utensils and maximize the profit. Your Goals: -Respond to your customers quickly, serve up as many dishes as possible. -Maintain high customer satisfaction, collect more Likes from customers. -Earn more coins so that you can upgrade and build a top restaurant. -Unlock new restaurants and begin a new culinary journey. Tell your own stories about your pursuit of gourmet foods and the fancy journey in Culinary Town. Let’s see how exciting your stories could be!

About

Cooking Star

Embark on a culinary adventure across diverse locations, from beaches to mountains, as you manage multiple restaurants. Master various cuisines, upgrade your kitchen, and serve customers efficiently to become a top chef. Utilize fun boosters and complete hundreds of challenging levels.

Highlights
  • Explore diverse global cuisines and locations
  • Manage multiple restaurants and cafes
  • Upgrade kitchen appliances and recipes
  • Hundreds of challenging levels
  • Utilize fun game boosters
  • Simple tap-based gameplay
Features
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A whole new world of cooking to explore. With this restaurant cooking game, you will enter a whole new place, travel different locations and cook different cuisines.

 Time to be a chef loved by everyone. To make this cooking restaurant game more interesting and unique from others, we have created a world of cuisines that includes, beaches, in the middle of the sea on boat, mountains, city, desserts, and much much more. 

 In this cooking carnival chef games, you will be on a diner adventure. Also you will not only explore different food dishes but a whole new way to cook recipes, managing the customers, time management and handling a chain of restaurants across different places. Isn’t this an interesting crazy cooking game yet?
 COOKING STAR - KITCHE DIARY: A CHEF GAME WITH DIFFERENT LEVELS AND RESTAURANTS There are lot of features to learn and explore with this food games. A whole new carnival of cooking games to explore. With each location you will see multiple restaurants and each with unique food and recipes. Locations & restaurants to explore:
 Manage multiple restaurants on island Cruise different restaurants and cafes on the boat Shack up your beach cafes and diners Open up restaurants on mountains Time to be a cooking star of the fever cooking city. When you want to be a chef, this cooking simulation game will be everything you want being a crazy chef. FUN BOOSTERS – TO MAKE YOUR GAME MORE INTERESTING We have given a lot of game boosters to make your challenging levels either easy or help in completing your task or goal. - Add more customer - Add extra time - 2nd Chance - Quick Cook - Burn Proof - Double Coin - Quick Serve - Magic Potion Each of these boosters have their own unique advantage and characteristics. WHAT’S MORE INTERESTING ABOUT COOKING STAR KITCHEN DIARY COOKING GAMES? This game packs interesting features: - Bake, grill, and serve food by using simple TAP. - Latest graphics, new theme and lots of pleasing animations. - Instructions for every task to help you understand the game easily. - 100s of kitchen and appliances upgrades. - 100s of food dishes and variations to cook and serve. - 500+ challenging levels uniquely crafted with specific goals. - Surprising daily limited period offers. Grab them before they are gone. - Mini games to get more diamonds. SO CHEFS! 
Assemble. Get ready for a new craze of kitchen star story with an ultimate kitchen cooking madness in food games.

Screenshots

Cooking Witch24 screens
Cooking Star4 screens

Verdict

The call

Cooking Witch2 and Cooking Star both sit at 4.9 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Cooking Witch2's written reviews are positive against 0% of Cooking Star's. Cooking Witch2 also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 11.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Cooking Witch2 sells 15 one-off in-app purchases and Cooking Star sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Cooking Witch2 against 5.0 for Cooking Star. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 3 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Cooking Witch2's written reviews are positive against 0% of Cooking Star's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cooking Witch2 ships an update every 2 months, Cooking Star every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Cooking Witch2 versus Cooking Star: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCooking Witch2Cooking Star
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (7 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings7 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 4 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better11.0
Further details — not scored
Size175 MB53 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGhost Rabbit Co., Ltd.Rohit Makadia

Customer experience

Cooking Witch2

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Cooking Star

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

15 purchases

Cooking Witch2

One-time15
  • 50 gems$0.99
  • Time-limited Pack 1$0.99
  • Gift$0.99
Show 12 more
  • Discount 3$0.99
  • Discount 1$0.99
  • Discount 7$0.99
  • Special Donuts Pack$1.99
  • Discount 4$1.99
  • Discount 5$2.99
  • Gems Box 1$2.99
  • 280 Gems Game$4.99
  • Discount 6$4.99
  • 280 gems$4.99
  • 680 gems$9.99
  • Ice Coffee Black Gold Pack$19.99
9 purchases

Cooking Star

One-time9
  • 350 Diamonds$0.99
  • Limited Offer2 variants$0.99
  • Limited Offer2 variants$1.99
Show 6 more
  • Remove Banner-Interstitial Ads$2.99
  • Limited Offer2 variants$3.99
  • 2000 Diamonds$3.99
  • Chef’s Special Pack$4.99
  • Limited Offer3 variants$4.99
  • Limited Offer$5.99

Questions

Is Cooking Witch2 free?
Cooking Witch2 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Cooking Star free?
Cooking Star is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Cooking Witch2 or Cooking Star?
Cooking Star is rated higher. Cooking Witch2 averages 4.9 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while Cooking Star averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Cooking Witch2 or Cooking Star have ads?
Both Cooking Witch2 and Cooking Star show ads.
Which is updated more often, Cooking Witch2 or Cooking Star?
Cooking Witch2 ships an update every 2 months, and Cooking Star every 4 months. Most recently, Cooking Witch2 was updated on October 24, 2026 and Cooking Star on October 10, 2026.

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