Comparison

Cooking Live vs InTheHat

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

Head to head
About

Cooking Live

Manage a restaurant, cook delicious food, and design its interior. Travel the world, blog about local cuisine, and help independent restaurants thrive against large corporations. This game combines cooking, time management, and design elements.

Highlights
  • Restaurant time management gameplay
  • Hundreds of cooking levels
  • Global restaurant blogging
  • Interior design and decoration
  • Kitchen equipment modernization
  • Unlock new cafes and locations
Features
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Hello everyone! My name is Jane and I need your help! I travel around the world and create a blog about local restaurants and cuisine. And I see that big corporations press talented local cooks and their restaurants! Let's take matters into our own hands and give them back their zest for life! Are you into cooking games and designing games? Then welcome to Cooking Live! Feel like a star Chef in the world of crazy cooking! Be careful! This game is total cooking madness! Tasty fried eggs, juicy burgers, great pizza... You'll never be bored with this recipe selection. Make food to feel your cooking fever! But making food isn't everything. You also have to handle a serious cooking craze when an influx of customers arrives! Complete an order for a customer in time before they leave the restaurant! Every restaurant and diner dash around the world could use the help of an interior designer! Hone your skills in the world of design and make bold choices from your options for furniture and style. You can change your selection at any time. As you develop your business, you'll face an increased number of customers. Modernize your kitchen equipment, complete orders in time, and amaze customers with even more tasty dishes! Features of Cooking Live: - Classic restaurant games and time management games gameplay. - Hundreds of fun levels for all tastes: you need to cook great pizza, juicy burgers, and lots more! - Travel around the world looking for new interesting cafes and blog content. - Interior design. A wide range of furniture and decor means you can make every restaurant one of a kind. - Interesting, lively characters with their own personalities and stories. - A unique plot. Create a blog, challenge opponents to a cook-off, immerse yourself in thrilling cooking stories, and help your friends and subscribers all over the world bring taste back to their lives! Cooking Live combines elements of business games about restoring and developing the restaurant and food games. Progress through the plot step by step and unlock new themed cafe shops and beautiful locations. Whether it's a pizzeria, bakery, or diner dash, every chef has their own unique taste and their own recipes and stories. Learn them all — join the game right now! Show off your cooking fever and help save every cozy diner dash from the hands of soulless corporations! Do you have any problems or suggestions? E-mail us at support@matryoshka.com We make sure to carefully read all our e-mails! Sincerely, Matryoshka Games Team

About

InTheHat

Features
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Fun group game that has been played many times over the year. Get a group together and play "IN THE HAT". Get a group together, either autogenerate names or think of your own - the funnier the better. When the timer starts, the teams compete to describe the person. No "rhymes with". You're allowed one pass per round. Best teams win.

Screenshots

Cooking Live4 screens
InTheHat4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: InTheHat at none against Cooking Live's 10. Cooking Live's advantage is device support (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.4 vs 17.0). On price and ads 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 Live sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. InTheHat asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Cooking Live versus InTheHat: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCooking LiveInTheHat
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (9.5K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews45.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings9.5K — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size323 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMatryoshka Games (CY) LTDHannah Bruce Macdonald

Bugs and requests

Cooking Live

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Game freezing or crashing
  • Ads not loading or playing properly
  • Progression and rewards not tracking correctly
  • Design elements not loading or displaying properly

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add more levels and content updates
  • Improve ad implementation and reduce frequency
  • Introduce more customization options
  • Allow replaying of completed levels

InTheHat

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Cooking Live

One-time10
  • Turn-off Ads Bundle$0.99
  • NoAds Pack!$0.99
  • Ruby pack 1$1.99
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  • Sale!$1.99
  • Newbie pack$2.99
  • NoAds Pack$2.99
  • Ruby pack 2$4.99
  • Subscriber's pack$6.99
  • Ruby pack 3$9.99
  • Vlogger pack$14.99
None

InTheHat

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cooking Live free?
Cooking Live is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is InTheHat free?
InTheHat is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Cooking Live or InTheHat have ads?
Neither Cooking Live nor InTheHat shows ads.

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