Comparison

Cupcakes! XL vs Emoquest

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

Head to head
About

Cupcakes! XL

Virtually bake and decorate an assortment of cupcakes with various liners, batters, frostings, and toppings. Share your creations or serve them on decorative plates. Blow out virtual candles by blowing on your device.

Highlights
  • Bake virtual cupcakes
  • Decorate with frostings and toppings
  • Choose from various liners and batters
  • Share creations via email or social media
  • Serve on virtual plates
  • Blow out virtual candles
Features
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Bake, decorate, and eat virtual cupcakes from the comfort of your couch. Reviews for Cupcakes!: - 6,000+ five star ratings on the App Store - One of CNN.com's "10 new iPhone games for everyone" - "The cupcakes look so good I almost licked my phone.", Robin Rhys, AppAdvice.com Cupcakes! XL takes advantage of your iPad's giant screen, to make it easy to bake yummy virtual cupcakes. Pick your cupcake liners, fill the pan with cake batter, pop it in the oven, and before you know it your cupcakes will come out piping hot. Once they are baked, you can choose from an amazing array of frostings and candy toppings to apply, to build the perfect cupcake. Even choose from 25 flavors of official Jelly Belly® gourmet jelly beans to add to the top! After you've decorated your masterpieces, you can share them with your friends via email, Facebook, or save them to your photo albums. And of course you can eat them! Choose a tablecloth and plate to serve them on and you are ready for dessert. Last but not least, put candles on your cupcake and blow them out by blowing on your iPad! For the iPad version of Cupcakes!, we've expanded your baking pan to let you make a dozen cupcakes at once. And once you've baked them, they are all displayed on the countertop, making it easy to choose which one to decorate & eat next. Your batch of cupcakes is automatically saved when you quit the app, so if you need to do something else and come back, all your baking & decorating will be right where you left it. Cupcakes! XL features include: - Full support for all screen orientations, hold your iPad any way you want (portrait, landscape, upside down) and Cupcakes! XL will take advantage of the whole screen - 32 different cupcake liners (white, yellow, pink, blue, green, red polka dot, rainbow, leopard print, vines, camo, orange, black, red/blue/purple stripes, happy birthday, tie dye, shamrocks, zebra, red checkered, etc), and a custom liner creator option - 20 different batters (white, yellow, chocolate, strawberry, carrot cake, red velvet, lemon, confetti, marble, apple spice, blueberry muffin, and more) - The ability to set your baking time, from lightly baked to crispy burnt cupcakes - 62 types of frosting (vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, mint, caramel, cookies & cream, raspberry, chocolate orange, chocolate shell, vanilla confetti, lemon, nutella, butter cream, strawberry cream, peanut butter, triple chocolate, rainbow, lime, orange vanilla, blueberry, cream cheese, grape, and more!) Plus an option to mix your own frosting colors. - 75 toppings (gummy bears, red hots, rainbow sprinkles, chocolate sprinkles, red/yellow/pink/blue/green sprinkles, strawberries, banana slices, mini chocolate chips, chocolate candies, cookie bits, mini-marshmallows, candy hearts, gummy worms, cinnamon sugar, powdered sugar, almonds, peanuts, candy corn, and more!) - 25 flavors of Jelly Belly gourmet jelly beans to add as toppings - 15 kinds of plates and 10 tablecloths, to give your cupcakes the perfect presentation

About

Emoquest

Interactive stories designed to help children improve social skills and manage emotions. Users make choices within scenarios to guide characters through social situations. Offers a variety of stories covering topics like sharing, anger management, and personal space.

Highlights
  • Interactive social stories
  • SEL activities
  • Emotion management
  • Social skills improvement
  • Choice-based scenarios
  • Special education focus
Features
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Interactive Social Stories for Special Ed Classrooms. SEL Activities to improve social skills and manage emotions. Choose what Jimmy should do in Social Situations. Social Stories * Sharing is Caring * Taking Turns * Expressing Anger * Asking to Join * Jimmy gets Teased * Cheering Harry up * I Choose How I Act! * Stranger Danger * Personal Space * Sharing Friends * Leaving Recess * Potty Training  * Germs * Compromise * Staying with the Group * Doing Hard Things * Being Honest * Brushing your Teeth * Not Interrupting Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://har150n.github.io/Emoquest_Privacy_Policy/support

Screenshots

Emoquest4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Emoquest at Free against Cupcakes! XL's $1.99. Emoquest also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.2) and update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 3 months). Cupcakes! XL's advantage is ratings volume (51 vs 2) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 12.0). On ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Emoquest is free to download; Cupcakes! XL costs $1.99 up front. Cupcakes! XL sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Emoquest sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $17.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Emoquest holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cupcakes! XL has 51 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cupcakes! XL ships an update every 3 months, Emoquest every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Cupcakes! XL versus Emoquest: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCupcakes! XLEmoquest
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.2 (51 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews88.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings51 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS8.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size64 MB167 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMaverick Software LLCHarrison Shu

Customer experience

Cupcakes! XL

All ratings51 ratings
Positive82.4%
Neutral7.8%
Negative9.8%
Written reviews119 reviews
Positive88.2%
Neutral5.9%
Negative5.9%

Emoquest

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Cupcakes! XL

Reported bugs

14 issues
  • App crashes when pressing 'Make More' button
  • Frosting selection goes blank after updates
  • Candles don't work properly
  • Game Center achievements not syncing
  • Kilo Cupcake achievement not unlocking despite making 1000+ cupcakes
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  • Recipe cards cut off and not fully visible
  • Text too large when making cupcakes from scratch
  • Unable to clear cupcake from screen, causing app shutdown
  • Cupcake book display broken after updates
  • Wrapper removal animation unrealistic
  • Frosting selection requires 2-second wait time
  • App closes if user declines to write review
  • Voting system issues and unfair competition results
  • App crashed while composing email with recipe

Requested features

20 requests
  • More cupcake flavors and frosting varieties
  • More topping options
  • Fondant feature for custom designs
  • Ability to create custom icing colors
  • Multiple undo functionality
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  • Ability to relight candles and undo eating cupcakes
  • Sell/shop feature with ingredient purchasing system
  • Different cake shapes and sizes with sculpting options
  • Cake pops game
  • Donut and cake games
  • More dessert varieties (pasta, soda, soup, pie, jello, pretzels, burgers, smoothies)
  • Candy maker game with chocolate and fudge
  • Photo liner feature on iPad version
  • Plain/drawing frostings like iPhone version
  • New tablecloths and plates
  • Display multiple cupcakes together on screen
  • Back button for easier navigation
  • Ability to access saved cupcakes at any time
  • Black icing option
  • Lavender frosting and vanilla bean/buttercream flavors

Emoquest

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Cupcakes! XL

One-time1
  • Holiday Expansion Pack$0.99
3 purchases

Emoquest

Subscriptions3
  • Emoquest Pro Monthly$17.991 Month
  • pro$19.991 Month
  • Emoquest Pro Annual$139.991 Year

Questions

Is Cupcakes! XL free?
Cupcakes! XL costs $1.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Emoquest free?
Emoquest is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Cupcakes! XL or Emoquest?
Emoquest is rated higher. Cupcakes! XL averages 4.2 out of 5 from 51 ratings, while Emoquest averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Cupcakes! XL or Emoquest have ads?
Neither Cupcakes! XL nor Emoquest shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cupcakes! XL or Emoquest?
Cupcakes! XL ships an update every 3 months, and Emoquest every 5 weeks. Most recently, Cupcakes! XL was updated on October 24, 2026 and Emoquest on October 16, 2026.

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