Comparison

Donut Doodle vs Make Cake

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

Head to head
About

Donut Doodle

Create realistic gourmet donuts from scratch with a variety of doughs, frostings, and toppings. This app offers a fun and educational experience, helping develop fine motor skills, sequencing, reading comprehension, and artistic creativity.

Highlights
  • Create donuts from scratch
  • Multiple donut types
  • Customizable frosting
  • Extensive topping options
  • Fun decorations
  • Develops fine motor skills
  • Teaches sequencing and reading
Features
Currently charting
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Become a donut master, and create realistic gourmet donuts from scratch on your iPhone or iPad. Crack the eggs, sift the flour, shake the salt, and pour in the vanilla. After cooking your confection in our splatter-free frier, cover it with frosting of any color in the rainbow. Each donut type has different frosting styles so you can add multiple layers. Finally, complete your masterpiece with nuts, sprinkles, candies, and decorations. Donuts: * Raised * Cinnamon Roll * Chocolate * Plain Cake * Blueberry * Cranberry * Twist * Old Fashioned * French Cruller * Churros Includes: * Eight different make it your self recipes, plus quick to make instant mixes * 24 standard Frostings * Unlimited mix your own frostings * Tons of toppings, including sprinkles, nuts, candies, bacon, eggs, and more * Fun decorations for personalization Fun and educational. Helps develop: * Fine Motor Skills: Making the dough includes activities that help develop fine motor skills: tapping, pinching, tilting, twisting, shaking, and stirring. * Sequencing: Each recipe has a variety of sequential steps required to make a donut. Each recipe is slightly different, with some more complex than others. * Reading and pre-reading: The ingredients text and images are on the same screen. As ingredients are added, they are checked off to assist with word-picture association. * Artistic Creativity: Explore color, shape, and design.

About

Make Cake

Design, bake, and decorate your own virtual cakes with a wide variety of flavors, shapes, and decorative elements. Enjoy the creative process without the mess of a real kitchen and share your edible masterpieces with friends or savor them yourself.

Highlights
  • Virtual cake creation and baking
  • Multiple cake flavors and shapes
  • Extensive decorating options
  • Custom frosting tools
  • Share or save creations
  • No kitchen mess
Features
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Make, Bake and Decorate your very own Cake! Mmmm.. Love Cake? or need a Cake for that special day? Cake Fun! is for you! Choose your flavor and start adding your ingredients! Once you've baked your Cake, its time to get creative… Choose from a huge range of Decorations, Toppers, Tips and yummy Frosting flavors! There are hundreds of different decorating combinations! Once you've finished decorating your yummy masterpiece, if you're feeling generous you can share your Cake with friends OR more likely, you can have a quick nibble without worrying about the calories! So leave the mess of the kitchen, and start having Cake Fun! Main Features - Multiple cooking steps (without the kitchen mess!) - Choose from loads of Cake shapes! - Lots of different Cake flavors to choose from, each with unique cooking steps! - Bake your Cake in the Oven. Overcooking feature to test your cooking skills! - Decorating stage with a vast range of options to personalize your Cake design - Custom frosting tools to make your creation extra tasty! - Choose from a huge range of Tips for your Cake. - Eat or share your Cake via email or Facebook, or save it to your photo album to show your friends. 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. Terms of Use: https://www.bluebear.ie/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.bluebear.ie/privacy

Screenshots

Donut Doodle4 screens
Make Cake4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Make Cake at Free against Donut Doodle's $0.99. Make Cake also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 12 months) and rating (4.7 vs 4.4). Donut Doodle's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 7) and ads (none vs shown). On device support and iOS requirement 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

Make Cake is free to download; Donut Doodle costs $0.99 up front. Make Cake sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Donut Doodle asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Make Cake holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Make Cake has 1.5K ratings behind it against 258, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 89% of Donut Doodle's written reviews are positive against 72% of Make Cake's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Donut Doodle ships an update every 12 months, Make Cake every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 2 level
Donut Doodle versus Make Cake: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDonut DoodleMake Cake
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.4 (258 ratings)4.7 (1.5K ratings) — better
Positive reviews89.4% of reviews — better72.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2581.5K — better
Update frequencyEvery 12 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#83 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.013.0
Further details — not scored
Size45 MB72 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShoe the GooseBluebear Technologies Ltd.

Customer experience

Donut Doodle

All ratings258 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral6.6%
Negative7.8%
Written reviews94 reviews
Positive89.4%
Neutral7.4%
Negative3.2%

Make Cake

All ratings1,495 ratings
Positive93.2%
Neutral2.7%
Negative4.0%
Written reviews125 reviews
Positive72.0%
Neutral12.8%
Negative15.2%

Bugs and requests

Donut Doodle

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App incompatible with iOS 11 and later
  • Update fails to install on newer iOS versions
  • App crashes when attempting to update
  • No update available despite iOS incompatibility

Requested features

16 requests
  • Jelly-filled and cream-filled donuts
  • Donut holes option
  • More donut types and varieties
  • More frosting flavors and toppings
  • Donut box/bakery feature to save creations
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  • Ability to fill donuts with different fillings
  • Eat all donuts in batch functionality
  • Custom donut shape creation
  • Bakery/shop mode to sell donuts
  • Better animation quality
  • Cupcake Doodle app
  • Pottery Doodle app
  • Ability to draw and stamp designs on donuts
  • Freestyle frosting application
  • Different frosting tip options
  • More interactive gameplay elements

Make Cake

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Donut Doodle

No in-app purchases

7 purchases

Make Cake

Subscriptions5
  • Food Pass3 Days trial$4.997 Days
  • Bluebear FoodPass Monthly$6.991 Month
  • Bluebear FoodPass Monthly7 Days trial$6.991 Month
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  • Bluebear FoodPass Annual$29.991 Year
  • Bluebear FoodPass Annual7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time2
  • Unlocks Everything & Remove Ads$3.99
  • Bluebear FoodPass Lifetime$39.99

Questions

Is Donut Doodle free?
Donut Doodle costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Make Cake free?
Make Cake is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Donut Doodle or Make Cake?
Make Cake is rated higher. Donut Doodle averages 4.4 out of 5 from 258 ratings, while Make Cake averages 4.7 from 1.5K ratings.
Do Donut Doodle or Make Cake have ads?
Make Cake shows ads; Donut Doodle does not.
Which is updated more often, Donut Doodle or Make Cake?
Donut Doodle ships an update every 12 months, and Make Cake every 2 weeks. Most recently, Donut Doodle was updated on October 31, 2026 and Make Cake on October 29, 2026.

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