Comparison

Merge Cooking® vs DropOS

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

Head to head
About

Merge Cooking®

Embark on a culinary adventure, merging ingredients to create global dishes and manage themed restaurants. Travel the world, unlock new recipes, and renovate dining spaces. A relaxing cooking simulation game with no time pressure.

Highlights
  • Merge ingredients to uncover new items
  • Cook exotic global dishes
  • Travel to different countries
  • Simulate real-life cooking equipment
  • Renovate and design restaurants
  • Master global recipes
  • Relaxing gameplay with no time pressure
Features
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Do you know you can enjoy the food around the world without traveling? Do you know you can master the secret of cooking with just a few simple steps? Tie your apron and put your chef hat on! In Merge Cooking, you can cook anything! - Welcome, Chef! Your assistant Lea is waiting for you to start the adventure of opening restaurants and serving customers around the world. Merge Cooking not only allows you to cook as a star chef and master the world cuisine but also helps you realize your designer dream and renovate Michelin star restaurants! - Start a food tour! ENJOY Eggs Benedict in New York, DRINK Tom Yam Gong in Bangkok, ROLL Sushi in Tokyo, DINE on Escargot in Paris… Merge Cooking takes you on a world tour, city by city! You will unlock a world-famous dish every day and discover more exciting and challenging recipes to hone your cooking skills. Various local cuisines – Taco, Kebab, Ramen and more. Numerous restaurant themes – fast food, BBQ, seafood and more. - Play with ingredients! MERGE ingredients with the simple steps – tap, drag & merge! Quality delicacy requires nothing but basic ingredients! COOK with the help of machines – seven pieces of equipment that bring you extra fun! Simulate real-life cooking and prepare the food in a fun way! Frying pan, juice blender, oven and cocktail shaker… everything you need to prepare a decent meal will be on standby. Say goodbye to overcooked pies and charred steaks! - Eat outside the box! Mozzarella, pecan, coconut, lobster, champagne… Find everything you need to become a world-famous chef. Merge them to serve hungry customers! Discover more as you play! Unlock special souvenirs as you travel. How about sending a postcard from Hollywood? - Every flavor tells a story! Nothing makes people more connected than good food. Get familiar with the American restaurant owner who's also a football coach and the French restaurant manager who's elegant but picky. Greet customers from all walks of life. Learn their stories and write more of your own! In Merge Cooking you’ll: - MERGE fruits, vegetables, cheese and UNCOVER other numerous ingredients. - COOK exotic and fantastic dishes and TRAVEL to different countries. - SIMULATE real-life cooking with different cooking equipment. - RENOVATE restaurants with fresh new designs. - UPGRADE culinary skills and MASTER global recipes. - RELAX by enjoying great delicacy. No time pressure! - CLAIM amazing rewards and gifts. - ENGAGE yourself and ENJOY extra fun! Merge Cooking, cook anything! Have questions or need support? Contact us via email at support@happibits.zohodesk.com.

About

DropOS

Engage in a physics-based puzzle game where you strategically drop marbles into a contraption. Plan the sequence of drops to guide each marble into its matching bin, with each marble's passage altering the machine for the next.

Highlights
  • Physics-based contraption puzzles
  • Strategic marble dropping
  • 100 hand-designed levels
  • Weekly leaderboard
  • Earn in-game cogs
  • Bonus brass pin board
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A da Vinci workshop, rendered in brass and gravity. In a lantern-lit workshop of brass and walnut, a marble waits at the top of a machine you cannot steer. Drag it into the top funnel and let go. Real gravity takes over, and the marble rolls, tips, and tumbles through the fixed contraption until it lands, ideally, in a bin that matches it. Then look again. Every piece that marble crossed has changed for the marble behind it. You plan the sequence. Physics does the rest. You never steer a marble in flight. You read the machine, then choose the order you drop them in. - The see-saw bit tips one way, then the other. The marble crossing it reroutes the next one. - The rotor does not toggle. It counts forward to its next exit with every pass. - The remote lever throws a switch from across the board. - The waterwheel never stops turning, so timing matters as much as logic. - The felt slows a marble to a crawl. It changes how late a marble arrives, never where it lands. - The wax seal carries the first marble across, then breaks. Every marble behind it drops through. Every marble in a bin that matches it, every bin filled, and the level is solved. A misfire is not a wall. Press the red knob and the machine re-cocks itself, ready for a new order. Walking out on a run already in motion costs your streak, so the machine asks first. What's inside - 100 hand-designed levels, rated one to five in difficulty - One new idea at a time: no two pieces debut on the same board - More waiting deeper in: the gilded marble, the cam tongue, the trapdoor, the pendulum, the drumskin, and the press - A weekly boards leaderboard to climb - Exclusive looks to collect as you play: rare marble sets, board finishes, and lever trims - Three brass instruments for a stubborn board: the Hourglass, the Blueprint, and the Apprentice Built like a puzzle box. Every surface is warm brass, walnut, or aged parchment, and every word is set in EB Garamond, the serif of an old draftsman's manual. Yours to play, quietly. No ads. No sign-in. No ad-tracking or ad-targeting software. DropOS needs no connection to play; anything synced for the leaderboard is anonymous by default. For anyone who loved the marble-drop puzzlers of the late 1990s, and for anyone meeting one for the first time.

Screenshots

Merge Cooking®4 screens
DropOS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: DropOS at none against Merge Cooking®'s 41. DropOS also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 70%). Merge Cooking®'s advantage is ratings volume (52K vs 3) and chart position (#3 vs unranked). On price 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. Merge Cooking® sells 39 one-off in-app purchases. DropOS asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

DropOS holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Merge Cooking® has 52K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 70% of Merge Cooking®'s written reviews are positive against 100% of DropOS's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Merge Cooking® ships an update weekly, DropOS every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 2 level
Merge Cooking® versus DropOS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMerge Cooking®DropOS
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (52K ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews69.8% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings52K — better3
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 6 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#3 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size492 MB70 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperHappibitsLaunchKitOS

Customer experience

Merge Cooking®

All ratings51,666 ratings
Positive95.0%
Neutral2.1%
Negative2.9%
Written reviews4,920 reviews
Positive69.8%
Neutral9.2%
Negative21.0%

DropOS

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

Bugs and requests

Merge Cooking®

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Ads not providing rewards
  • Inability to complete orders due to missing items
  • Generators resetting after using speed-up
  • Game freezing or crashing

Requested features

5 requests
  • Option to turn off tutorial/guidance
  • Ability to sell or delete old recipe books
  • Larger main game board
  • Separate energy counts for different boards
  • Timers for generator recharge times

DropOS

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

39 purchases

Merge Cooking®

One-time39
  • Special Pack 1$1.99
  • DiamondPack1$2.99
  • Special Pack 2$2.99
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  • Video Pass 3$2.99
  • Bits of Diamonds 3$2.99
  • Diamond Coupon 1$2.99
  • Diamond Pass 2$3.99
  • Energy Pass 3$3.99
  • Special Pack 3$3.99
  • Special Pack 4$4.99
  • Task Pass 1_101$4.99
  • Golden Pass 1$4.99
  • Golden Pass 3$4.99
  • Special Pack 5$5.99
  • DiamondPack2$6.99
  • Energy Trilogy 6$6.99
  • Cluster of Diamonds 3$6.99
  • Energy Trilogy 7$8.99
  • Diamond Pass 4$9.99
  • Holiday Package 42$9.99
  • Energy Trilogy 8$9.99
  • MC Pack: Task Pass 1_112$9.99
  • Energy Pass 9$9.99
  • Holiday Package 66$9.99
  • Holiday Package 58$9.99
  • Holiday Package 38$9.99
  • Holiday Package 30$9.99
  • Golden Pass 4$9.99
  • Holiday Package 46$9.99
  • Activity Pack 272$9.99
  • Pack_1p1_egypt_2$9.99
  • Activity Pack 322$9.99
  • Activity Pack 312$9.99
  • Speed Boost Pack 16$9.99
  • Pile of Diamonds 3$13.99
  • New Energy Pack 6$14.99
  • Special Pack 15$15.99
  • Energy Trilogy 2$19.99
  • DiamondPack24$27.99
None

DropOS

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Merge Cooking® free?
Merge Cooking® is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DropOS free?
DropOS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Merge Cooking® or DropOS?
DropOS is rated higher. Merge Cooking® averages 4.7 out of 5 from 52K ratings, while DropOS averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Merge Cooking® or DropOS have ads?
Merge Cooking® shows ads; DropOS does not.
Which is updated more often, Merge Cooking® or DropOS?
Merge Cooking® ships an update weekly, and DropOS every 6 days. Most recently, Merge Cooking® was updated on November 3, 2026 and DropOS on October 24, 2026.

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