Comparison

Pocket Kitchen vs Ari's Kitchen

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

Head to head
About

Pocket Kitchen

Run a charming café kiosk, preparing diverse food orders with hands-on gameplay. Unlock new recipes and ingredients with earned coins, and personalize your space. Enjoy a relaxing, accessible experience with extensive customization options.

Highlights
  • Prepare customer orders
  • Unlock new recipes and ingredients
  • Personalize your kiosk
  • Accessible gameplay options
  • Offline play
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Welcome to Pocket Kitchen, a cozy cooking game where you run a small café kiosk, prepare customer orders, and turn a simple little space into your own. Take an order, head to the kitchen, and prepare a growing variety of food through clear, hands-on interactions. Make sure you choose the right ingredients, pay attention to the cooking time, serve each item when it is ready, and try not to let it burn. Begin with a selection of simple recipes, then earn coins by serving customers and use them to unlock more recipes, ingredients, toppings, and sauces. As your menu grows, you will gradually take on more involved orders—including combos with multiple items to manage. As you progress, unlock Creative Mode and choose what to make with the recipes and ingredients you’ve unlocked. Put together your own trays and display your creations on the patio. Use the coins you earn to personalize your kiosk and patio, too. Choose decorations, give your café a name, and shape a warm little place that feels like yours. You can also tend a small garden: unlock seeds, plant your crops, and harvest what you grow. Pocket Kitchen is designed to be welcoming, easy to understand, and satisfying to play at your own pace. Its highly customizable settings include VoiceOver support, a dyslexia-friendly font option, a high-contrast option, optional sound and vibration feedback, and separate controls for music, sound effects, and vibrations. Play completely offline, with no advertisements, subscriptions, or in-app purchases. Pocket Kitchen is a one-time purchase: everything in the game is unlocked by playing. Build your menu, decorate your café, grow your garden, and enjoy cooking your way.

About

Ari's Kitchen

Build and expand your own restaurant by unlocking new recipes and upgrading kitchen equipment. Serve a growing number of customers as your establishment levels up.

Highlights
  • Create and grow a restaurant
  • Upgrade appliances
  • Unlock new dishes
  • Serve customers
  • Expand store
  • Increase level
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Create and grow your restaurant as you upgrade your appliances to unlock new dishes. Keep up with the rush of customers as your store expands and your level increases.

Screenshots

Pocket Kitchen4 screens
Ari's Kitchen4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Ari's Kitchen at Free against Pocket Kitchen's $3.99. Pocket Kitchen's advantage is ratings volume (13 vs 3) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On rating, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

Ari's Kitchen is free to download; Pocket Kitchen costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Ari's Kitchen holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 3 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Pocket Kitchen versus Ari's Kitchen: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPocket KitchenAri's Kitchen
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (13 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews88.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings13 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size247 MB28 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLoredana LaniaJASON STEVEN WASHINGTON

In-app purchases

None

Pocket Kitchen

No in-app purchases

None

Ari's Kitchen

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pocket Kitchen free?
Pocket Kitchen costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ari's Kitchen free?
Ari's Kitchen is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Pocket Kitchen or Ari's Kitchen?
Ari's Kitchen is rated higher. Pocket Kitchen averages 4.8 out of 5 from 13 ratings, while Ari's Kitchen averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Pocket Kitchen or Ari's Kitchen have ads?
Neither Pocket Kitchen nor Ari's Kitchen shows ads.

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