Comparison

Star Chef™ vs Kitchen Clout

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

Head to head
About

Star Chef™

Build and manage your dream restaurant, from a cozy cafe to a five-star establishment. Cook diverse global cuisines, grow your own ingredients, and expand your culinary empire. Connect with friends and cater special events to become a renowned chef.

Highlights
  • Build and customize restaurants
  • Cook and serve global cuisines
  • Grow fresh ingredients in a backyard garden
  • Trade items in the Chef's Store and Food Truck
  • Cater events beyond your restaurant
  • Connect with friends and visit their restaurants
Features
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Over 20 Million Downloads Worldwide! Play Star Chef, Best Cooking Simulation Game & Best of App Store! Take your love of food and stir it in a cooking simulation game that celebrates delicious flavours. Run your own café and 5 star restaurant and experience the joy of building it from the ground up! Enjoy dicing fresh ingredients with experienced chefs while exploring your passion for cuisines across the world! Star Chef is an addictive cooking and restaurant management game that blends your love for food with the beautiful art of cooking! Run your own restaurant, cater to the insatiable desires of every customer through an expanding menu of worldly cuisines, and build the restaurant of your dreams! In your journey of becoming a Star Chef, explore special dishes from every continent with skilled staff having exceptional cooking skills, who handle state-of-the-art kitchen and restaurant appliances. This is your chance to follow your passion in a cooking game that’s exciting, fun, filled with food and offers a backyard to harvest the freshest crops! Realize your dream of becoming a Culinary Master! Play Star Chef: Cooking & Restaurant Game! Game Features: • PERSONALISED GAMEPLAY: Serve worldly cuisines by cooking and serving hungry FOODIES walking into your restaurant! 
 • UPGRADES & CUSTOMIZATIONS: Wall decals, floor decors, fountains, and MANY MORE!
 • VEGETABLE GARDEN: Grow your own veggies in the BACKYARD of your restaurant to prepare fresh food! 
 • CHEF’S STORE & FOOD TRUCK to trade cookbook secrets, veggies and YUMMY dishes!
 • CATERING SERVICE: Expand worldly cuisines BEYOND your restaurant by cooking and catering for events! 
 • CHEF’S CIRCLE: Add friends on Facebook and Game Center to VISIT their restaurant and see what they've been cooking. 
 ---------- Hungry for more? Check Star Chef out on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/starchefgame Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/starchefgame Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/starchefgame YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpli7mmzh90baRptig83nTQ ---------- Facing issues while playing Star Chef or have suggestions/feedback? We would love to hear from you – Contact us at https://99games.helpshift.com/a/star-chef-cooking-game/ ---------- NOTE (on iOS) - Please use Game Center if you wish to continue your game progress on another device. The game is not optimized for iPod touch 4th Gen or Lower. Star Chef is Free-to-Play, but some items like Virtual Currency can be purchased for Real-World Money. Star Chef may contain Sponsored messages from 3rd Party Advertising partners - you can learn more here - https://m.facebook.com/ads/ad_choices Privacy Policy: http://www.99games.in/modules/privacy/privacy.html Terms of Service: http://www.99games.in/termsofservice.html Play in Luxury is a subscription service that allows you to make the most of your culinary journey with 12 exclusive benefits which can be subscribed in 3 Luxury Packs. All payments will be charged on your iTunes Account after purchase and when the subscription auto-renews. The 3 Luxury Packs are as below: • Restaurant Pack - 1 Week with 3 Days Free Trial period costing 4.99 USD (or local equivalent) • Bistro Pack - 1 Month with 1 Week Free Trial period costing 14.99 USD (or local equivalent) • Diner Pack - 3 Months with 2 Weeks Free Trial period costing 37.99 USD (or local equivalent) Subscriptions will renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. Cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period. Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited once you purchase a subscription.

About

Kitchen Clout

Become a world-famous chef in this addictive time management cooking game. Prepare delicious dishes, manage your kitchen efficiently, and keep customers happy to earn tips and unlock new levels. Serve food quickly across the globe and overcome exciting challenges.

Highlights
  • Time management cooking
  • Become a world-famous chef
  • Manage kitchen on the clock
  • Bake, grill, and serve dishes
  • Upgrade restaurant and unlock levels
  • Feed customers globally
Features
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Ever heard of competitive cooking? Whip up world-class cuisine as a chef in this fun cooking game. Be quick! Time is ticking. Cook your favorite dishes as you become a world-famous chef in this addictive time management cooking game. Be a top chef and make your restaurant famous. Run around efficiently in the kitchen flipping burgers, baking cakes, or grilling pizzas in a jiffy while keeping your customers happy! Because that’s the secret to online cooking fame…fast delivery and happy customers. Are you ready to roll, chef? Anyone can be a chef, and win! • Manage your kitchen on the clock to earn more tips • Bake or grill your favorite dishes in a tap • Cook breakfast, lunch, dinner, tea, and more • Upgrade your restaurant and unlock new levels • Feed customers across the globe and overcome new challenges Up your time management skills • Cook and serve in time to gain positive reviews and reach new levels • Get special pans for burnproof cooking • Grow your menu with every city you cook in • Serve food fast to win timed levels Time management game with 100+ levels • Cook exciting dishes across continents in an engaging time-management game • Strategize to win time-limited rounds on a tasty quest • Grill, bake and serve in restaurants around the world • Earn positive reviews, and large tips, and be the best chef in the world Download for hours of fun.

Screenshots

Star Chef™4 screens
Kitchen Clout4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Kitchen Clout at none against Star Chef™'s shown. Star Chef™'s advantage is review sentiment (77% vs 50%) and ratings volume (11K vs 1.1K). On price, rating, update cadence and in-app purchases 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. Star Chef™ sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Kitchen Clout sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Kitchen Clout holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Star Chef™ has 11K ratings behind it against 1.1K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 77% of Star Chef™'s written reviews are positive against 50% of Kitchen Clout's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Star Chef™ ships an update monthly, Kitchen Clout every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Star Chef™ versus Kitchen Clout: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStar Chef™Kitchen Clout
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (11K ratings)4.6 (1.1K ratings) — better
Positive reviews76.5% of reviews — better50.5% of reviews
Number of ratings11K — better1.1K
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.1
Further details — not scored
Size304 MB331 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer99GamesTymedia Productions, LLC

Customer experience

Star Chef™

All ratings10,499 ratings
Positive87.1%
Neutral8.4%
Negative4.5%
Written reviews2,196 reviews
Positive76.5%
Neutral8.8%
Negative14.7%

Kitchen Clout

All ratings1,070 ratings
Positive89.3%
Neutral4.9%
Negative5.9%
Written reviews101 reviews
Positive50.5%
Neutral23.8%
Negative25.7%

User reviews

Star Chef™

From 11K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Fun and addictive game
  • 💡 Relaxing gameplay
  • 🚀 Great graphics and design

Room to improve

  • ⏱️ Extremely long cooking/waiting times
  • 💰 High costs for new appliances and expansions
  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs
  • 📢 Too many ads and in-app purchases

Kitchen Clout

From 1.1K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Representation of Black characters and culture
  • 🚀 Addictive and fun gameplay
  • 💡 Unique cooking game concept
  • 👍 Reasonable pricing and monetization

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Glitches, bugs, and crashes
  • 🔧 Unresponsive touch controls
  • 🔧 Difficulty balancing and progression issues
  • 🔧 Missing features and lack of updates

Bugs and requests

Star Chef™

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Game freezing or crashing on launch
  • Inability to restore purchases on new devices
  • Disappearing game progress and restaurant data

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to cancel or reject orders
  • More efficient way to earn coins/currency
  • Faster growth of ingredients
  • Increased storage capacity

Kitchen Clout

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Lost progress and saved data after updates
  • Customers requesting unavailable items
  • Inconsistent or missing in-app purchases
  • Frequent crashes and freezes

Requested features

4 requests
  • More levels and locations to explore
  • Improved tutorial and onboarding
  • Better customer feedback and satisfaction mechanics
  • Increased earning potential and upgrade options

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Star Chef™

One-time10
  • Chef's Magic Goodie pack 1$0.99
  • Fortune Bowl of Cash$1.99
  • Chef's Magic Goodie pack 2$1.99
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  • Combo Pack 1.99$1.99
  • Big Plate of Cash$2.99
  • Large Stack of Coins$2.99
  • Goodie Booster Pack 1$3.99
  • Lucky Basket of Cash$4.99
  • Grand Basket of Coins$4.99
  • Fat Sack of Cash$9.99
8 purchases

Kitchen Clout

One-time8
  • 50 K-stars2 variants$0.99
  • Beginner Bundle$1.99
  • 300 K-stars2 variants$4.99
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  • Next Level Bundle$6.99
  • 750 K-stars$9.99
  • Flash Sale$9.99
  • Super Bundle$12.99
  • World Famous Bundle$34.99

Questions

Is Star Chef™ free?
Star Chef™ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Kitchen Clout free?
Kitchen Clout is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Star Chef™ or Kitchen Clout?
Kitchen Clout is rated higher. Star Chef™ averages 4.4 out of 5 from 11K ratings, while Kitchen Clout averages 4.6 from 1.1K ratings.
Do Star Chef™ or Kitchen Clout have ads?
Star Chef™ shows ads; Kitchen Clout does not.
Which is updated more often, Star Chef™ or Kitchen Clout?
Star Chef™ ships an update monthly, and Kitchen Clout every 6 weeks. Most recently, Star Chef™ was updated on November 9, 2026 and Kitchen Clout on November 6, 2026.

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