Comparison

Pocket Kitchen vs Balloon

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

Balloon

Features
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Draw the wind. Guide a balloon through a continuous sky—city, clouds, storm, sunset, night, and the edge of space. Wind is a limited resource. Obstacles are fair. Near misses reward precision. Wish Fragments unlock looks, never power.

Screenshots

Pocket Kitchen4 screens
Balloon4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Balloon at Free against Pocket Kitchen's $3.99. Pocket Kitchen's advantage is chart position (#198 vs unranked) and device support (3 vs 1). On 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

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

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Pocket Kitchen versus Balloon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPocket KitchenBalloon
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (12 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews88.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings12 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
Best chart rank#198 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size247 MB2 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperLoredana LaniaYasin Dinc

In-app purchases

None

Pocket Kitchen

No in-app purchases

None

Balloon

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pocket Kitchen free?
Pocket Kitchen costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Balloon free?
Balloon is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pocket Kitchen or Balloon have ads?
Neither Pocket Kitchen nor Balloon shows ads.

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