Nailed It! Baking Bash vs Tiny Cafe
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Nailed It! Baking Bash
Compete with friends or hone your skills in this baking game inspired by a popular series. Recreate edible masterpieces through rapid-fire mini-games and strategic distractions. Available exclusively for Netflix members.
- Rapid-fire mini-games for baking and decorating
- Classic multiplayer mode with competitive challenges
- Distraction mechanics to hinder opponents
- Single-player mode for skill practice
- Internationally themed cakes
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Available exclusively for Netflix members. Calling all home bakers! Host a party for your pals to see who creates the best-looking – or worst-looking – cakes in this game based on the hit series. Welcome to the most frantic and creative baking competition. Grab a group of friends and see who can best re-create the game's edible masterpieces. Can you nail it? Features: • Mini-game madness: Play sequences of rapid-fire mini games to bake, paint and garnish your way through a wide selection of internationally themed cakes. • Classic multiplayer mode: Compete with friends to re-create edible masterpieces under time pressure, just like the show's contestants do. Earn and use distractions to make your competitors' bakes even more challenging. • Single-player backstage baking mode: Want to hone your baking skills at your own pace? Let Jacques take you on a confectionary world tour and create cakes without time pressure in single-player mode.
Tiny Cafe
Run your own cozy cafe, brewing coffee and serving treats to adorable cat customers. This idle simulation game lets you manage staff, expand your menu, and grow your business into a global franchise. Enjoy relaxing music and charming stories.
- Run your own cafe
- Brew drip coffee
- Serve cat customers
- Manage cute staff
- Expand to global cities
- Collect Cheese
- Soothing cafe music
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■ Tiny Cafe, a cute and cozy cafe game featuring cat customers and winner of the 2024 BIC Best Casual Game Award, has officially launched! A new cozy cafe game from the developers of Forest Island, a relaxing animal game downloaded by 7 million players who love beautiful nature and animals! [Game Introduction] 1. Run your own cafe for free! Open and run a cafe with Dolce, the world's smallest barista mouse, and the cat Gusto. Brew drip coffee with beans from Gusto's own roastery. The aromatic smell of coffee will attract cats to your cafe. 2. A casual idle simulation cooking game that's easy to play and simple to learn. Leave the cute staff to their own devices to work hard brewing coffee. The showcase will automatically fill with freshly baked donuts. Install new tools such as espresso machines, ovens, and more, and add cakes and other items to the menu. 3. Serve coffee to cat customers Treat cat customers to heart-melting hot coffee and sweet treats. Make sure they like your cafe and become regulars. Enjoy additional stories of your regulars along with their daily or special menu orders on Catbook, the feline social network. 4. Cute part-timers working hard to create your menu items Watch as cute little mice scurry around making espressos, lattes, and other drinks and desserts. Set up various rest areas, like a bathhouse, and earn Cheese when staff use them. Collect Cheese to hire more staff and grow your cafe. 5. 30+ managers with different skills at each grade to help you run your cafe Call in a special manager with the special delivery service. If you're lucky, you'll get a top-tier Platinum-grade manager with 4 stars. When you put managers in your cafe who have a good synergy with each other, your cafe will grow even faster! 6. Go global! Gather a loyal customer base and harness word of mouth on social media to expand your cafe to cities like New York, Paris, Hawaii, Seoul, Tokyo, and more. Become a global franchise brand like many you know from the human world. With a trusted manager and well-trained part-timers, your cafe dreams will certainly come true. 7. Soothing cafe music Enjoy cafe music from the developers of the global hit, Forest Island. Listen to them and you'll feel refreshed after a tiring day or a depressing mood. [Official Instagram] Follow Tiny Cafe's official Instagram for special events, announcements, free merchandise, and more. https://www.instagram.com/tinycafe_dolce ■ If one of the following sounds like you, we recommend Tiny Cafe! - Love coffee and sweets - Want to run a cute cafe - Want to get to know cat customers - Dream of becoming a barista or pastry chef - Want to learn how to make cafe menu items - Enjoy cafe music or ASMR - Love a relaxed cafe atmosphere - Want to grow a small, independent cafe into a global franchise - Want to play a cozy idle game, growth game, or simulation game - Play tycoon games, food games, cooking games, and restaurant games - Enjoy cute animal games and cat games - Love manga and anime with stories - Enjoy interactive story games Tiny Cafe, a cute, cozy cafe game with cat customers, Join Dolce, the world's smallest barista, and Gusto the cat, and serve cats coffee! ---- Contact Us https://nanalistudios.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portals
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Tiny Cafe at 4.8 against Nailed It! Baking Bash's 3.8. Tiny Cafe also leads on review sentiment (70% vs 48%) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 weeks). Nailed It! Baking Bash's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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. Nailed It! Baking Bash sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $19.99 per month and Tiny Cafe sells 36 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Tiny Cafe holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tiny Cafe has 4K ratings behind it against 228, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 48% of Nailed It! Baking Bash's written reviews are positive against 70% of Tiny Cafe's.
Nailed It! Baking Bash ships an update every 6 weeks, Tiny Cafe every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 13, 2026.
| Parameter | Nailed It! Baking Bash | Tiny Cafe |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (228 ratings) | 4.8 (4K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 47.5% of reviews | 69.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 228 | 4K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 504 MB | 479 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Netflix, Inc. | Nanali Inc. |
Customer experience
Nailed It! Baking Bash
Tiny Cafe
User reviews
Nailed It! Baking Bash
From 228 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🤩 Fun and entertaining game
- 👍 Realistic to the TV show
- 😄 Funny baking activities
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezes
- 🤯 Unrealistic expectations for cake decorating
- 😒 Limited cake selection gets boring
Tiny Cafe
From 4K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💕 Cute and cozy game
- 🎨 Excellent art style and animations
- 🕹️ Engaging and addictive gameplay
- 🎁 Reasonable amount of ads/monetization
- 🗣️ Interesting storylines and characters
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional crashes and loading issues
- 💰 Progression can feel grindy at times
- 🕰️ Slow progress in later stages
- 🔍 Unclear mechanics/tutorials in some areas
- 🔊 Audio issues after watching ads
Bugs and requests
Nailed It! Baking Bash
Reported bugs
3 issues- Unable to login or sign in
- Multiplayer functionality not working
- Loading screen gets stuck at 0%
Requested features
3 requests- Add more cake options and levels
- Allow playing with random online players
- Add undo/erase function for decorating
Tiny Cafe
Reported bugs
3 issues- Inability to progress past certain missions
- Loss of progress/account data after periods of inactivity
- Incorrect or missing information in certain popups
Requested features
5 requests- More customization options for the cafe
- Ability to recruit and customize employees
- Offline/AFK earning mechanics
- Mini-games or other side activities
- Improved performance on higher branches
In-app purchases
Nailed It! Baking Bash
- Netflix Standard Plan$19.991 Month
Tiny Cafe
- Barista Pack I$0.99
- AD Remove Pack I (Discount)$0.99
- Cafe Support Pack$0.99
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- Cheese Package$1.99
- Coin Package$1.99
- AD Remove Pack I$1.99
- Best friends Pack (Discount)$1.99
- 300 Gems$1.99
- Mascot Skin Pack$2.99
- Cherry Blossom Pass$3.99
- Seasonal Pakage - Winter$3.99
- Unlock Reward$3.99
- Blue Snake Pack$3.99
- Dice package$3.99
- Sally's Branch #1 Support Pack$3.99
- AD Remove Pack II (Discount)$3.99
- Branch #1 PASS$3.99
- Branch #2 Special Pack$3.99
- Dean's Branch #2 Support Pack$3.99
- Attendance book (Special)$3.99
- Daily Gem$3.99
- 1000 Gems$6.99
- Season Pass (Halloween)$7.99
- Branch #3 PASS$7.99
- AD Remove Pack II$7.99
- Branch #2 PASS$7.99
- Barista Pack III$9.99
- AD Remove Pack III (Discount)$9.99
- Best friends Pack$9.99
- Pablo's high-end camera$9.99
- Gusto Gift$19.99
- AD Remove Pack III$19.99
- Roastery Pack$19.99
- 3300 Gems$19.99
- 7000 Gems$39.99
- 16000 Gems$79.99
Questions
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