Comparison

Star Chef™ vs Windborne

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

Windborne

Experience a calming one-tap sky runner game. Guide an origami bird through five beautifully hand-painted worlds, enjoying a stress-free and mindful journey. Play offline with no ads or timers.

Highlights
  • One-tap controls
  • Five hand-painted worlds
  • Stress-free gameplay
  • Offline play
  • No ads or timers
  • Mindful moments
Features
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Lift off and let the wind carry you away. Windborne is a healing one-tap sky runner where stress melts into clouds. Guide a tiny origami bird through five hand-painted worlds — from clear morning blue to golden deserts, from willow whispers to a sea of starlight — and let every run calm your mind. ONE TAP, TOTAL FLOW Touch to rise, release to glide. No complicated controls, no punishing difficulty — just the pure joy of riding the wind between soft coral clouds and shimmering bead trails. FIVE HAND-PAINTED SKIES · Clear Sky — a fresh morning over endless blue · Willow Grove — soft green breezes and floating leaves · Golden Dunes — warm light at the edge of the desert · Starry Night — glide beneath a glowing moon · Windborne Sea — dive through ocean-blue currents Each world is drawn entirely in code with layered gradients, paper-cut textures and living particles — zero stock images, every pixel original. LIVING, BREATHING ATMOSPHERE Three layers of parallax drift by as you fly. Ambient particles dance around your wings, radiant beads sparkle along the path, and golden bursts trail every catch. MADE FOR MINDFUL MOMENTS No ads flash in your face. No timers rush you. A forgiving five-heart shield lets you learn at your own pace. Start a run, breathe, and find your rhythm — Windborne is the game you open to unwind, not to grind. 33 LANGUAGES, FOLLOWS YOUR SYSTEM Windborne speaks your language the moment you install it, following your system language automatically. YOUR DAILY POCKET OF PEACE Three minutes in the clouds is all it takes. Free, offline, and always ready to gift you a quiet sky. Take a breath. One tap. Fly.

Screenshots

Star Chef™4 screens
Windborne4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Windborne at 5.0 against Star Chef™'s 4.4. Windborne also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 11) and ads (none vs shown). Star Chef™'s advantage is ratings volume (11K vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On price 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 11 one-off in-app purchases. Windborne asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Windborne holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Star Chef™ has 11K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Star Chef™ versus Windborne: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStar Chef™Windborne
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (11K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews76.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings11K — better1
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size304 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer99GamesBeijing 1023 Technology CO., Ltd

Customer experience

Star Chef™

All ratings10,499 ratings
Positive87.1%
Neutral8.4%
Negative4.5%
Written reviews2,195 reviews
Positive76.5%
Neutral8.8%
Negative14.7%

Windborne

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Windborne

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

11 purchases

Star Chef™

One-time11
  • 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
  • Hit the Jackpot$19.99
None

Windborne

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Star Chef™ free?
Star Chef™ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Windborne free?
Windborne is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Star Chef™ or Windborne?
Windborne is rated higher. Star Chef™ averages 4.4 out of 5 from 11K ratings, while Windborne averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Star Chef™ or Windborne have ads?
Star Chef™ shows ads; Windborne does not.

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