Comparison

Cooking Craft vs PathBloom

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

Head to head
About

Cooking Craft

Design and manage your own restaurant, cooking and serving diverse global cuisine. Hire and direct staff to build a thriving restaurant empire in this engaging time management game.

Highlights
  • Design your dream restaurant
  • Cook and serve global cuisine
  • Hire and manage staff
  • Time management gameplay
  • Build a restaurant empire
Features
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Craft your dream restaurant to COOK and SERVE delicious food from all over the world. Hire staff and manage them to run your restaurant empire. Become a cooking boss. Play this addictive time management game for FREE.

About

PathBloom

This game transforms your walks into a colorful exploration of your surroundings. As you move, the dormant map around you blooms with color, revealing streets and sprouting virtual flowers along your path. Progress is earned through discovery, not distance, with all essential features remaining free.

Highlights
  • Color your city map by walking
  • Discover real-world places and landmarks
  • Daily walking expeditions
  • Time-lapse of your walking history
  • Customize voxel explorer and trail
  • Weekly and global leaderboards
Features
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Your world starts gray. Every walk makes it bloom. PathBloom turns everyday walks into real-world exploration. The map around you is dormant and colorless — walk somewhere new and it blooms: streets flush with color and tiny voxel flowers sprout along the exact path you traveled. Nothing you can buy ever touches your progress. Not your XP, not your streak, not your rank. Everything that matters is free, and every cosmetic can be earned by walking. EXPLORE, DON'T JUST EXERCISE • A fresh expedition every day: PathBloom designs a walking loop through the most unexplored streets near you, past parks, plazas, viewpoints, and local spots you've never visited. • Discover real places: every park, mural, and corner cafe you pass gets collected — common finds to legendary landmarks. • Rewards novelty, never distance: XP comes from new ground and new places, so a curious wander beats a treadmill grind every time. WATCH A YEAR OF WALKING IN SIX SECONDS Your bloom map remembers everything. Open the atlas, drag the slider, and watch every street you have ever walked fill in from your first day to today — a time-lapse of your own two feet. MAKE IT YOURS • Build your voxel explorer and watch them grow from Curious Sprout to legend, level by level. • Earn badges, souvenirs, and daily quest chests. • Keep a streak alive by discovering — and bank Streak Freezes for rest days. • Dress your trail in seasonal themes, stand voxel keepsakes on your home stage, and frame your walks with share cards. CLIMB THE RANKS • Weekly and all-time leaderboards for your city and the world — ranked by places explored, not miles walked. • Opt out anytime with one switch. YOUR MAP STAYS ON YOUR PHONE Your GPS traces and routes never leave your device. Leaderboards only ever see your nickname, avatar, city, and score. FREE TO PLAY, HONEST FOREVER Cosmetic trail themes and keepsakes can be bought or earned by walking, and a one-time Supporter Pack removes interstitial ads forever. That is the whole of it. The world outside your door is bigger than you think. Go bloom it.

Screenshots

Cooking Craft4 screens
PathBloom4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: PathBloom at 5.0 against Cooking Craft's 4.4. Cooking Craft's advantage is ratings volume (6.3K vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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 Craft sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and PathBloom 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

PathBloom holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cooking Craft has 6.3K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Cooking Craft versus PathBloom: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCooking CraftPathBloom
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (6.3K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews11.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings6.3K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 weeks
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size336 MB58 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperVoodooSimple Tree LLC

Customer experience

Cooking Craft

All ratings6,283 ratings
Positive84.2%
Neutral5.0%
Negative10.8%
Written reviews475 reviews
Positive11.8%
Neutral16.2%
Negative72.0%

PathBloom

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Cooking Craft

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Servers/unloaders getting stuck
  • Inability to upgrade past certain levels

Requested features

3 requests
  • More level variety and progression
  • Ability to pause game during ads
  • Offline play option

PathBloom

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Cooking Craft

One-time10
  • Small Gem Pack$0.99
  • Permanent Multiplier$0.99
  • Permanent Stack$0.99
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  • Permanent Magnet$0.99
  • Small Gem Pack$4.99
  • No Ads$9.99
  • Large Gem Pack$9.99
  • Starter Pack$11.99
  • X-Large Gem Pack$19.99
  • 2X-Large Gem Pack$49.99
9 purchases

PathBloom

One-time9
  • Postcard Frame$0.99
  • Gold Leaf Frame$0.99
  • Ocean Current Trail$1.99
Show 6 more
  • Sakura Drift Trail$1.99
  • Wisteria Rain Trail$1.99
  • Maple Ember Trail$1.99
  • Frostlight Trail$1.99
  • Firefly Night Trail$1.99
  • Supporter Pack$4.99

Questions

Is Cooking Craft free?
Cooking Craft is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PathBloom free?
PathBloom is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Cooking Craft or PathBloom?
PathBloom is rated higher. Cooking Craft averages 4.4 out of 5 from 6.3K ratings, while PathBloom averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Cooking Craft or PathBloom have ads?
Both Cooking Craft and PathBloom show ads.
Which is updated more often, Cooking Craft or PathBloom?
Cooking Craft ships an update every 2 weeks, and PathBloom every 2 weeks. Most recently, Cooking Craft was updated on October 20, 2026 and PathBloom on October 12, 2026.

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