Comparison

Cupcake Café vs Buttercup Cafe

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

Head to head
About

Cupcake Café

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Welcome to Cupcake Cafe! Run your own cozy bakery: line up the cupcake queue, serve each seated customer their perfect treat, and clear every order before the seats fill up. Match colors, plan your moves, and work through 100+ sweet levels of relaxing puzzle fun. Earn coins, collect adorable cosmetic themes, and keep your cafe the tastiest in town. Easy to learn, delightfully tricky to master - perfect for a quick break or a long, sweet session. No pressure, just cupcakes.

About

Buttercup Cafe

Create your own cozy bakery by baking and decorating treats. Customize your baker, visitors, and cafe spaces to build your dream world. Earn tokens through orders to unlock new items and expand your business.

Highlights
  • Bake various treats and drinks
  • Decorate multiple cafe locations
  • Customize baker and visitor characters
  • Earn tokens through customer orders
  • Unlock new furniture and expansions
  • Choose from different music styles
Features
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Make something sweet. Make somewhere yours. Step into Buttercup Cafe, a cozy bakery game where every order helps you create your own little world. Prepare treats, welcome a cast of familiar faces, and spend the tokens you earn on new places and personal touches. BAKE AND GROW Make cinnamon buns, vanilla lattes, strawberry tarts, and berry cloud cakes. Bake one treat at a time or prepare batches of four or eight. Fill counter orders, picnic boxes, and party catering orders to earn tokens and positive reviews from your in-game customers. FOUR PLACES TO MAKE YOUR OWN Discover Buttercup Corner's cupcake cottage, the nautical Seaside Bakehouse, the botanical Garden Tea Room, and the rose-colored Rosewood Patisserie. Expand with a dream kitchen, sitting room, and outdoor terrace. DECORATE AS YOU GO Choose tables, chairs, plates, drinks, plants, lights, and more. See furnishings appear in your room as you choose them. Trade furniture back for part of its token price when you want a fresh look. All rooms, furnishings, and cosmetics can be earned through play. CREATE YOUR CAST Name your baker and customize twelve visitors. Start with a neutral character, choose a natural skin tone or a fantasy rainbow shade, and explore hairstyles, eyebrows, eyelashes, eye colors, freckles, and bright aprons. FIND YOUR CAFE SOUND Choose Flour Power, Indie Crumbs, Sunday Piano, or Neon Oven. Music and sound effects have separate on/off controls. PLAY YOUR WAY Turn your iPhone sideways for a wider view, or keep playing in portrait. Your progress is saved on your device. Cloud synchronization and cross-device save recovery are not included in this version.

Screenshots

Cupcake Café4 screens
Buttercup Cafe3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Buttercup Cafe at none against Cupcake Café's 3. Buttercup Cafe also leads on ads (none vs shown). Cupcake Café's advantage is iOS requirement (13.4 vs 17.0). On price 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

Both are free to download. Cupcake Café sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Buttercup Cafe asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 5 level
Cupcake Café versus Buttercup Cafe: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCupcake CaféButtercup Cafe
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—4 — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size69 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEmre ACAYJENNIFER SUZANNE CHILDRESS

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Cupcake Café

One-time3
  • 100 Coins$0.99
  • 600 Coins$4.99
  • 1400 Coins$9.99
None

Buttercup Cafe

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cupcake Café free?
Cupcake Café is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Buttercup Cafe free?
Buttercup Cafe is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Cupcake Café or Buttercup Cafe have ads?
Cupcake Café shows ads; Buttercup Cafe does not.

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