Comparison

Cake Maker vs Pollen & Peril

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

Pollen & Peril

Features
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Pollen & Peril is a cozy garden tycoon where every flower feeds your hive. GROW YOUR GARDEN Plant nine crops, from quick Sweet Clover to slow-burning Ghost Peppers. Each has its own growth time, harvest value and personality. Harvest ripe beds for pollen, or leave blooms standing so they keep dripping nectar. KEEP YOUR BEES HAPPY Your bees turn pollen into honey on their own, and a healthy colony multiplies every harvest. Marigolds draw new bees in, Lavender soothes them, and a well-stocked pantry keeps a growing swarm fed. PLAN YOUR LAYOUT Placement matters. Bee Boxes pollinate their neighbours. Lavender speeds up the beds beside it, Sunflowers boost nearby harvests, and Clover restores worn-out soil. Grow three species together to create a Wild Meadow. Switch on the Bonus and Soil lenses to see exactly how your garden is working. SURVIVE THE PERIL Rabbits, aphids, floods, droughts and plant viruses can strike at any time. Fix trouble as it happens, or build fences, sprinklers, drainage and netting to stop it before it starts. BUILD A GOLDEN APIARY Unlock all nine beds and upgrade your hive and home to earn the Golden Apiary. Then begin a new season: the garden starts over, but you keep every milestone and gain a permanent harvest bonus. Sixteen Garden Almanac milestones reward you along the way. PLAY YOUR WAY • Learn by doing with a friendly coach, no manual required • Your garden keeps growing while you're away • A bad run costs your swarm, never your save • Works on iPhone and iPad • VoiceOver, Dynamic Type and Reduce Motion support • Sound and haptics you can switch off • No ads, no tracking, no in-app purchases, no internet needed

Screenshots

Cake Maker4 screens
Pollen & Peril4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Pollen & Peril at none against Cake Maker's shown. Cake Maker's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Cake Maker versus Pollen & Peril: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCake MakerPollen & Peril
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (3.2K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews44.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings3.2K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size197 MB2 MB
Age rating9+4+
Developer9UP COMPANY LIMITEDJOSEPH ROBERT KNITTEL

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

Pollen & Peril

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Cake Maker

No in-app purchases

None

Pollen & Peril

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cake Maker free?
Cake Maker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pollen & Peril free?
Pollen & Peril is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Cake Maker or Pollen & Peril have ads?
Cake Maker shows ads; Pollen & Peril does not.

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