Comparison

Star Chef™ vs Cooking Fever

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

Cooking Fever

Manage and cook delicious meals and desserts from around the world in this time-management game. Practice various cooking techniques across unique restaurant settings, upgrade appliances, and decorate to attract more customers. Enjoy thousands of levels and hundreds of dishes.

Highlights
  • Cook global dishes with quality ingredients
  • Variety of unique restaurant locations
  • Hundreds of kitchen appliance upgrades
  • Decorate restaurants to attract customers
  • Thousands of levels to complete
Features
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Cook delicious meals and desserts from all over the world in this FREE addictive time-management game! With a wide choice of unique locations and restaurants, from Desserts and Fast Food to Indian and Chinese cuisines, you will be able to practice your skills in a variety of settings and cooking techniques. Use hundreds of delicious ingredients to cook the best quality dishes. Try all the possible kitchen appliances, from coffee makers and rice cookers to pizza ovens and popcorn makers. Decorate your restaurants to attract more clients. Make your own freebies, such as cookies or cupcakes, to make your customers’ experience more personal and memorable – just like in real life! Upgrade your kitchen and produce an even greater variety of dishes. Oh, and did we say that this game is as addictive and as engrossing as fever? Have fun cooking and don’t forget to share your delicious meals with your friends on Facebook! Features: • Thousands of delicious dishes to cook using hundreds best quality ingredients • Huge choice of world famous cuisines • More than a 1000 levels to complete • Hundreds and hundreds of upgrades for your kitchen appliances and interior IMPORTANT NOTE: Cooking Fever requires access to the internet in order to play. The game uses a small amount of data for features like our daily rewards, restoring lost game progress, tournaments, challenges, and other gameplay improvements. Terms and conditions https://nordcurrent.com/privacy/general-nordcurrent-terms-and-conditions/

Screenshots

Star Chef™4 screens
Cooking Fever4 screens

Verdict

The call

Star Chef™ and Cooking Fever both sit at 4.4 stars, but that hides the real split: 77% of Star Chef™'s written reviews are positive against 43% of Cooking Fever's. Cooking Fever's advantage is ratings volume (342K vs 10K) and chart position (#28 vs unranked). On price, rating, ads 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 11 one-off in-app purchases and Cooking Fever sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Star Chef™ against 4.5 for Cooking Fever. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cooking Fever has 342K ratings behind it against 10K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 77% of Star Chef™'s written reviews are positive against 43% of Cooking Fever's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Star Chef™ ships an update monthly, Cooking Fever fortnightly. Both last shipped on September 24, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Star Chef™ versus Cooking Fever: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStar Chef™Cooking Fever
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (10K ratings)4.5 (342K ratings) — better
Positive reviews76.5% of reviews — better42.7% of reviews
Number of ratings10K342K — better
Update frequencyMonthlyFortnightly — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#28 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size304 MB263 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer99GamesNordcurrent UAB

Customer experience

Star Chef™

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

Cooking Fever

All ratings342,191 ratings
Positive88.1%
Neutral5.0%
Negative6.9%
Written reviews4,634 reviews
Positive42.7%
Neutral16.9%
Negative40.4%

User reviews

Star Chef™

From 10K 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

Cooking Fever

From 342K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Addictive and fun gameplay
  • 🔍 Realistic cooking simulation
  • 🎨 Visually appealing graphics
  • 🤖 Helpful auto-cook feature

Room to improve

  • 💎 Difficult to obtain gems for upgrades
  • 🎰 Casino feature is a 'rip-off'
  • 🕰️ Customers too impatient
  • 💰 Expensive to progress without spending money

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

Cooking Fever

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Progress rollback issue
  • Disappearing in-app purchases
  • Forced ads that crash the game

Requested features

4 requests
  • More ways to earn gems without spending money
  • Reduce gem requirements for upgrades and new restaurants
  • Add a 'collect all' button for daily restaurant earnings
  • Increase customer patience levels

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
Show 8 more
  • 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
10 purchases

Cooking Fever

One-time10
  • Crispy Pack$1.49
  • Diner Pack$1.49
  • Chef's Mystery Box$2.49
Show 7 more
  • Delicious Pack$3.99
  • Bistro Pack$3.99
  • Tasty Pack$6.49
  • Buffet Pack$6.49
  • Chefs Special Piggy Bank$6.49
  • Cafeteria Pack$12.99
  • Restaurant Pack$24.99

Questions

Is Star Chef™ free?
Star Chef™ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Cooking Fever free?
Cooking Fever is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Star Chef™ or Cooking Fever?
Cooking Fever is rated higher. Star Chef™ averages 4.4 out of 5 from 10K ratings, while Cooking Fever averages 4.5 from 342K ratings.
Do Star Chef™ or Cooking Fever have ads?
Both Star Chef™ and Cooking Fever show ads.
Which is updated more often, Star Chef™ or Cooking Fever?
Star Chef™ ships an update monthly, and Cooking Fever fortnightly. Most recently, Star Chef™ was updated on September 24, 2026 and Cooking Fever on September 24, 2026.

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