Ari's Kitchen vs Backstage
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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.
Backstage
Manage a fictional artist's music career from obscurity to stardom. Write music, make career choices, and climb the charts. Design your artist and manage relationships in this single-player simulation.
- Write and record music
- Manage artist career choices
- Climb music charts
- Design artist look
- Manage artist relationships
- Single-player simulation
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Backstage is a single-player music-career simulation. Take one fictional artist from garage obscurity to the top of the charts — your choices, your sound, your rise. WRITE THE MUSIC Cut tracks in the Studio: pick a genre, a theme, and an era, then split your effort across lyrics, melody, and production. Smart pairings chart harder — but repeat yourself and the songs go stale. Every release rolls a quality score worth chasing. RUN THE CAREER Every week the industry throws something at you — a gig, a feud, a label offer, a lucky break. Every choice costs something. There's no perfect move, only the one you can live with. CLIMB THE CHARTS Watch your singles debut on the Top 40 and fight for #1. Build a loyal audience, grow your reach from the garage to the arena, and bank streaming and merch royalties that keep accruing between sessions. MAKE IT YOURS Design your artist's look in a hand-drawn print style, name your own songs, and manage the relationships — allies and rivals — that shape your run. No accounts. No servers. No ads once you go full-time. Just you, one artist, and one shot. Backstage features entirely fictional artists, songs, and labels. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://backstage-game.vercel.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Ari's Kitchen at 5.0 against Backstage's 2.0. Ari's Kitchen also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 9) and ads (none vs shown). Backstage's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Backstage sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Ari's Kitchen asks for nothing beyond the download.
Ari's Kitchen holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively.
| Parameter | Ari's Kitchen | Backstage |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 2.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | JASON STEVEN WASHINGTON | Mehmet Efe Aytas |
In-app purchases
Ari's Kitchen
No in-app purchases
Backstage
- Backstage VIP Monthly$1.991 Month
- Energy Refill$0.79
- Studio Boost$0.79
- Neon Nights$1.49
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- Festival Season$1.49
- Underground$1.49
- Silver Screen$1.49
- All Access$3.99
- Full Unlock$7.99
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