Cold Stone vs Mukjah
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cold Stone
Order custom ice cream creations, shakes, or cakes for pickup or delivery. Save your favorite orders, earn rewards, and enjoy exclusive birthday treats through a loyalty program.
- Order ice cream creations, shakes, and cakes
- Pickup at store or delivery to door
- Save favorite orders and re-order easily
- Unlimited customizations
- Earn points and redeem rewards
- Birthday Buy One, Get One FREE offer
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The Cold Stone Creamery® app lets you order our made-fresh Ice Cream in a Creation™, Shake or Cake and have it ready for pickup at your favorite store or delivered right to your door! Sign in to your My Cold Stone Rewards account and you can save favorite orders, earn points and redeem rewards! ABOUT MY COLD STONE CLUB REWARDS + Earn 1 point for every $1 + Receive a $5 Reward with every 50 points + Enjoy a Buy One, Get One FREE on your birthday FEATURES + Order ahead and pick up at the store + Or, get your order delivered right to your door + Easily re-order with favorites and recent orders + Enjoy The Ultimate Ice Cream Experience® in app with unlimited customizations
Mukjah
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Mukjah answers one question: what exactly should you order, and why should you trust that answer? Most food apps hand you a restaurant and a star rating. Mukjah hands you a dish — and the person who actually ate it. INSIDER ORDER CARDS Every recommendation is one dish at one restaurant, written by someone who ate it there. What they ordered, why they ordered it, and how to order it — including the small things only regulars know. VERIFIED VISITS, NOT OPINIONS Every card begins at the verification step - the counter code, your receipt, or a photo or video from that day. Cards backed by a confirmed visit carry a "Visit verified" mark, and only confirmed visits count toward becoming a Regular at that restaurant. TASTE, MEASURED Every dish carries a seven-axis flavor profile — sweet, salty, sour, bitter, savory, refreshing, hearty. Build your own profile and find dishes that match how you actually eat, not what happens to be trending. KOREAN OR AMERICANIZED One slider on every card shows how traditional or how Americanized a dish is, so you know what you are walking into before you sit down. STANDING YOU EARN, RESTAURANT BY RESTAURANT Your relationship with each place is tracked on its own. Keep coming back and you become a Regular there — at that restaurant, not on a global leaderboard. THE OWNER'S TABLE Restaurants get a place to speak in their own words: what they would serve their mother, their grandmother, or a close friend. PARKING, ACTUALLY Every restaurant page tells you whether there is a lot, whether there is valet, and how long it is free. In Koreatown that is not a detail. WHAT MUKJAH IS NOT No star ratings. No rankings. No leaderboards. No paid placement. Nothing about a restaurant can be bought. WHERE IT WORKS Mukjah currently covers Koreatown, Los Angeles. Korean and English, with Korean-first content that is never machine-translated.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Mukjah at every 5 days against Cold Stone's every 3 weeks. Cold Stone's advantage is chart position (#138 vs unranked). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Cold Stone ships an update every 3 weeks, Mukjah every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cold Stone | Mukjah |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (23K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 19.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 23K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Best chart rank | #138 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 88 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kahala Management, L.L.C. | JooHyung Yi |
Bugs and requests
Cold Stone
Reported bugs
4 issues- Payment processing errors
- Inability to change pickup location
- Rewards not updating properly
- App crashes when trying to add gift cards
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to reorder previous orders
- Option to select custom ice cream flavors
- Integration with mobile wallets (Apple Pay, Google Pay)
- Easier way to apply rewards and discounts
- Clearer communication on store closures and order availability
Mukjah
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Cold Stone
No in-app purchases
Mukjah
No in-app purchases









