Comparison

Cupcake Maker Games vs Cake Pop Maker

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

Head to head
About

Cupcake Maker Games

Design, bake, and decorate your own virtual cupcakes with a wide variety of flavors, liners, icings, and toppings. Share your sweet creations and enjoy a fun baking experience.

Highlights
  • Choose cake mix flavors
  • Select decorative liners
  • Bake cupcakes in a virtual oven
  • Decorate with various icings
  • Add toppings from 5 categories
  • Share and store creations
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Create yummy,sweet cupcakes in the original Cupcake Maker game! Bake your way to delicious creations in the very best cupcake maker game out there! Choose your cake mix from a variety of flavors. Next, add the eggs, oil, and water and stir until a smooth batter is formed. Now it’s time to choose which liners you want. How about bold colored foil, decorative, or traditional? Maybe one of each! After you have carefully selected 6, it’s time to spoon the batter in each liner, one by one. Now it’s time to bake those yummy cupcakes! Place the pan in the oven and watch the batter turn into warm, moist, perfect cupcakes. When the red indicator light turns off, your cupcakes are fully baked and ready for your decorating skills! Next, select the color and style of icing for each cupcake. Maybe you want it piled high in purple or just spread evenly in white. Then, top those cupcakes off with fun, colorful, and delicious items from 5 sweet categories: candies and nuts, candles, toppers, holidays and occasions, and extras. With all the choices, you will find yourself baking batch after batch of cupcakes in every flavor and color! Share your cupcake creations! Store them in the fridge for later. Beware! The more cupcakes you bake, the more you will crave the real thing! For more fun, try your hand at Chop Shop or take the food challenge and see how many cupcakes you can eat in 30 seconds! ABOUT Sunstorm Sunstorm is the pioneer of the popular "Maker" and "Sunnyville" series of games. Founded in 2009, Sunstorm provides creative and fun experiences for kids and parents to enjoy together. Sunstorm is a subsidiary of TabTale, a leading, global creator of innovative games, interactive books and educational apps. Visit us: https://www.tabtale.com/ Like us: https://www.facebook.com/TabTale Follow us:@Tabtale Watch us: https://www.youtube.com/iTabtale CONTACT US Let us know what you think! Questions? Suggestions? Technical Support? Contact us 24/7 at WeCare@TabTale.com. FOR PARENTS The app is free to play but certain in-game items may require payment. You may restrict in-app purchases by disabling them on this device. Use of the app is subject to TabTale’s terms of Use: https://tabtale.com/terms-of-use/ . The app may include advertising for TabTale and certain third parties which will redirect users to our sites, apps or third-party sites. TabTale is committed to protect its users’ privacy. The app may enable collection of limited user data by TabTale or its carefully selected providers (e.g. ad networks and analytics) for limited and lawful purposes (e.g. respond to support queries; maintain, analyze and improve the app’s features and services; serve contextual advertising). By downloading or using the app you accept TabTale’s Privacy Policy: https://tabtale.com/privacy-policy/ and permit such uses for users of your device. For more information please refer to our Privacy Policy.

About

Cake Pop Maker

Create and decorate your own virtual cake pops. Mix ingredients, bake them, and add toppings to design unique treats. Share your delicious creations with friends.

Highlights
  • Mix ingredients
  • Bake cake pops
  • Decorate with toppings
  • Share creations
  • Challenge friends
Features
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CAKE POPS! is the newest in BLUEBEAR’s range of food-making games. Ever felt like makin’ and bakin’ your very own cake-pop creation? Now you can make as many as you like! Mix ingredients together, put them in the oven and bake them, throw on some goodies and gobble it up! You can also challenge your friends to make cake pops just as tasty as yours, or share your tasty creations! CAKE POPS! is the latest game in BLUEBEAR’s collection, which includes other scrumptious games like Candy Bars!, Ice-Pops!, Slushies!, Ice-Cream! and many more, and have been downloaded 100 million times! Check them out today! IMPORTANT MESSAGE: - This App is free to play but certain in-game items may be purchased for real money. You may restrict in-app purchases by disabling them on your device. - By downloading this App you agree to Bluebear's Privacy Policy: http://www.bluebear.ie/foodpass_privacy.php - Please consider that this App may include third parties services for limited legally permissible purposes. Contact us at support@bluebear.ie with any feedback or suggestions! Terms of Use: https://www.bluebear.ie/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.bluebear.ie/privacy

Screenshots

Cupcake Maker Games4 screens
Cake Pop Maker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Cake Pop Maker at weekly against Cupcake Maker Games's every 3 months. Cake Pop Maker also leads on review sentiment (86% vs 58%) and rating (4.7 vs 4.4). Cupcake Maker Games's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 11.0). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Cupcake Maker Games sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Cake Pop Maker sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Cake Pop Maker holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cake Pop Maker has 1.5K ratings behind it against 106, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 58% of Cupcake Maker Games's written reviews are positive against 86% of Cake Pop Maker's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cupcake Maker Games ships an update every 3 months, Cake Pop Maker weekly. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Cupcake Maker Games versus Cake Pop Maker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCupcake Maker GamesCake Pop Maker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (106 ratings)4.7 (1.5K ratings) — better
Positive reviews57.6% of reviews86.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1061.5K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better11.0
Further details — not scored
Size74 MB66 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTabTale LTDBluebear Technologies Ltd.

Customer experience

Cupcake Maker Games

All ratings105 ratings
Positive83.8%
Neutral3.8%
Negative12.4%
Written reviews328 reviews
Positive57.6%
Neutral14.3%
Negative28.0%

Cake Pop Maker

All ratings1,528 ratings
Positive93.7%
Neutral2.4%
Negative3.9%
Written reviews154 reviews
Positive86.4%
Neutral3.9%
Negative9.7%

User reviews

Cupcake Maker Games

From 106 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🎨 Nostalgic and childhood memories
  • 👍 Fun and entertaining game
  • 🍰 Realistic cupcake making experience

Room to improve

  • 💰 Expensive in-app purchases
  • 📺 Too many intrusive ads
  • 🔒 Limited free content

Cake Pop Maker

From 1.5K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Fun and engaging game
  • 🍭 Realistic cake pop creation
  • 💡 Variety of decorations and customization options
  • 🎨 Creative and colorful design

Room to improve

  • 🔒 Locked content requires in-app purchases
  • 💰 Subscription model for full access
  • 🐛 Occasional crashes or bugs reported

Bugs and requests

Cupcake Maker Games

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Frequent crashes and glitches
  • Purchased content not unlocking properly

Requested features

3 requests
  • More free decorating options
  • Ability to create custom cupcakes
  • Expand gameplay beyond just decorating

Cake Pop Maker

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Ads displaying inappropriate content
  • Unlock features not working as expected

Requested features

4 requests
  • Expand to other baked goods like cookies, muffins, etc.
  • Add more flavor and decoration options
  • Introduce a story mode or challenges
  • Integrate social features to share creations

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Cupcake Maker Games

One-time10
  • Candles$1.99
  • Toppers$1.99
  • Holidays and Occasions$1.99
Show 7 more
  • Extras$1.99
  • Candy and Nut Toppings$1.99
  • Valentine's Cupcakes$1.99
  • More Decorations$2.99
  • More Flavors$4.99
  • More Icings$5.99
  • Master Cupcake Maker$15.99
12 purchases

Cake Pop Maker

Subscriptions3
  • Food Pass3 Days trial$4.997 Days
  • Bluebear FoodPass Monthly$6.991 Month
  • Bluebear FoodPass Annual$29.991 Year
One-time9
  • Remove Ads$0.99
  • Unlock Sticks Pack$1.99
  • Unlock Fun Pack$1.99
Show 6 more
  • Unlock Backgrounds Pack$1.99
  • Unlock Toppings Pack$1.99
  • Unlock Batters Pack$2.99
  • Unlock Dippings Pack$2.99
  • Unlock Everything & Remove Ads$4.99
  • Bluebear FoodPass Lifetime$39.99

Questions

Is Cupcake Maker Games free?
Cupcake Maker Games is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Cake Pop Maker free?
Cake Pop Maker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Cupcake Maker Games or Cake Pop Maker?
Cake Pop Maker is rated higher. Cupcake Maker Games averages 4.4 out of 5 from 106 ratings, while Cake Pop Maker averages 4.7 from 1.5K ratings.
Do Cupcake Maker Games or Cake Pop Maker have ads?
Neither Cupcake Maker Games nor Cake Pop Maker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cupcake Maker Games or Cake Pop Maker?
Cupcake Maker Games ships an update every 3 months, and Cake Pop Maker weekly. Most recently, Cupcake Maker Games was updated on November 1, 2026 and Cake Pop Maker on November 1, 2026.

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