Comparison

Cake Maker vs DIY Makeover

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

Head to head
About

Cake Maker

Design and decorate your own virtual birthday cake with a variety of flavors and toppings. Light candles, sing a birthday song, and make a wish for a fun celebration.

Highlights
  • Choose cake flavors
  • Decorate with sprinkles, candies, fruits
  • Select age candles
  • Light candles and play birthday song
  • Blow out candles to make a wish
Features
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DIY your cake with many toppings. Wish and blow the candles out to have a happy birthday party. Cake Maker: Happy Birthday applies to birthdays with cake used to make birthdays very special. How to play: - Choose your favorite flavor cake. - Decorate your cake with beautiful sprinkles, candies, fruits, and candles. - Choose the number candle. - Lit the candle up to play the birthday song. - Blow the candle out to get the wish. Feature: - Nine different flavors of cakes. - Lots of toppings such as cookies, cherries, strawberries,... - More than 99+ age candles. - Happy birthday song played immediately when the candles lit up. With Cake Maker: Happy Birthday there will be no excuse not to celebrate in birthday. Download now for free!

About

DIY Makeover

Create unique 3D face masks using a variety of natural and surprising ingredients. Solve skin problems for virtual clients and enjoy a relaxing, satisfying makeover experience.

Highlights
  • Create custom 3D face masks
  • Use natural and unique ingredients
  • Solve virtual skin problems
  • Relaxing and satisfying gameplay
  • Realistic makeover and makeup simulation
  • Stress-relieving experience
Features
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If you're a fan of Skincare and Makeup Project! Then welcome to the world of DIY Face Mask Salon. With DIY Makeover: Mask 3D salon, you'll become a stylist who create a brand new skincare mask by yourself. Anyone that face up with skin problems will probably know that acne, pores, eczema, too oily or extreme dry skin, swelling, cracking or scaliness are rivals of beauty. So lucky if you have a healthy skin, but if not, you definitely need a big makover to be perfect! It's very essential to build an healthy skincare routine at home and know which type of makeup & skincare ingredients are suitable with your face skin. DIY Makeover: Mask 3D simulates a real salon that you'll use natural ingrediens such as avocado, coconut, cucumber, etc. and experience making and mixing them to create stunning 3D face mask. Surprised? Yes, all these kitchen ingredients will help make a fancy and satisfying face mask to upgrade your fabulous beauty! First step to be a beauty queen is to have stunning skin! Let queeze acne and hear a realistic sounds of diy tools. You can also become a professional stylist that help girls even boys visisting your salon to solve their skin problems of acne, uneven skin tone, and dullness on their face too! Besides, you can challenge yourself with unique ingredients that you never used before such as candy, ice cream, gold, diamond, coke, milk, and perfume to DIY a really special face mask. Surprising ingredients will amaze you and make you laugh all day! How to play DIY Makeover: Mask 3D: - Choose your favourite ingredients and suitable tools to diy face mask. - Follow steps to create the cosmetics mask that will help your customer and give them a perfect look. - Be careful when you slice foods and using kitchen tools. - Complete all makeover and makeup steps with one finger. Game Features DIY Makeover: Mask 3D: - Relaxing and satisfying sound effects. - Realistic 3D DIY mask making process. - Stress relieving makeover and makeup games. - Addictive and smoothing gameplay. - Eye-catchy graphic. - Tons of realistic beauty tools to makeover. - A variety of skincare ingredients for you to become an awesome stylist. - Unlimited naughty ingredients to troll friends. Your customers are waiting. Install DIY Makeover: Mask 3D and start your DIY salon now!

Screenshots

Cake Maker4 screens
DIY Makeover4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cake Maker at none against DIY Makeover's 1. Cake Maker also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.4) and review sentiment (44% vs 35%). DIY Makeover's advantage is ratings volume (11K vs 3.2K). On price, update cadence, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. DIY Makeover sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Cake Maker asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Cake Maker holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3.2K and 11K respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 44% of Cake Maker's written reviews are positive against 35% of DIY Makeover's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cake Maker ships an update every 5 weeks, DIY Makeover every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Cake Maker versus DIY Makeover: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCake MakerDIY Makeover
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (3.2K ratings) — better4.4 (11K ratings)
Positive reviews44.4% of reviews — better34.7% of reviews
Number of ratings3.2K11K — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.013.0
Further details — not scored
Size197 MB184 MB
Age rating9+4+
Developer9UP COMPANY LIMITEDDO HAI HA

Customer experience

Cake Maker

All ratings3,177 ratings
Positive94.2%
Neutral2.2%
Negative3.6%
Written reviews45 reviews
Positive44.4%
Neutral4.4%
Negative51.1%

DIY Makeover

All ratings8,858 ratings
Positive86.5%
Neutral5.6%
Negative7.8%
Written reviews144 reviews
Positive34.7%
Neutral18.1%
Negative47.2%

User reviews

Cake Maker

From 3.2K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Fun game
  • 💡 Good for planning birthdays
  • 👍 Realistic cake decorations

Room to improve

  • 🤯 Too many ads
  • 🤬 Ads interfere with gameplay
  • 🙄 Ads cover up options

DIY Makeover

From 11K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Fun game
  • 🤩 Awesome game
  • 🤩 Best game

Room to improve

  • 😡 Too many ads
  • 🤬 Ads are annoying
  • 😠 Excessive ads
  • 🤯 Ads ruin the experience

Bugs and requests

Cake Maker

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Ads cause the app to freeze or crash
  • Decorating options are blocked by ads

Requested features

3 requests
  • Reduce ads or make the app ad-free
  • Add more cake customization options
  • Improve the cake-making process

DIY Makeover

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Game is laggy and slow
  • Crashes and freezes frequently

Requested features

4 requests
  • Reduce the number of ads
  • Improve graphics and visuals
  • Add more levels and content
  • Introduce multiplayer or social features

In-app purchases

None

Cake Maker

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

DIY Makeover

One-time1
  • Remove ads$2.99

Questions

Is Cake Maker free?
Cake Maker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is DIY Makeover free?
DIY Makeover is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Cake Maker or DIY Makeover?
Cake Maker is rated higher. Cake Maker averages 4.8 out of 5 from 3.2K ratings, while DIY Makeover averages 4.4 from 11K ratings.
Do Cake Maker or DIY Makeover have ads?
Both Cake Maker and DIY Makeover show ads.
Which is updated more often, Cake Maker or DIY Makeover?
Cake Maker ships an update every 5 weeks, and DIY Makeover every 2 months. Most recently, Cake Maker was updated on November 7, 2026 and DIY Makeover on November 9, 2026.

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