Tasty Tale vs Cooking Master
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tasty Tale
Embark on a culinary adventure combining match-3 puzzles with cooking. Prepare and serve delicious dishes from hundreds of recipes across diverse global locations. Compete with friends and overcome challenging levels in this engaging puzzle game.
- Match-3 ingredient puzzles
- Over 1000 challenging levels
- Global restaurant settings
- Hundreds of recipes
- Compete with friends on leaderboards
- Unlock Super Ingredients and boosters
- Daily rewards from fortune wheel
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Do you enjoy cooking and match 3 puzzle games? Mix and match colorful and yummy ingredients to solve over 1000 levels in Tasty Tale, a highly amusing and addictive free puzzle adventure. You are the chef in restraurants around the world preparing and serving tasty dishes from hundreds of recipes like salads, burgers, cookies, candy, cakes or pizza by combining vegetables, fruits, meat, fish and many more. Travel the world and serve up your classic creations to wonderfully amusing cute characters such as Grandma, Pinocchio, The Three Little Pigs, Red Riding Hood and many more in places like „Petit Paris“, „El Sombrero“, „Mermaid Kingdom“, „The Candy Factory“ or the „Casino Palace“. Can you cook better than your friends? Why don't you jump in and cook your way up to the top? Enjoy the challenge and come and see why Tasty Tale is such an entertaining and funny treat. REVIEWS: „I love this game! It's fun and very addictive.“ ***** „This game is addictive. Can‘t stop playing everyone should try this game“ ***** „Love this game so much. It entertains me and makes me hungry to eat for each level...Hahaha! :)“ ***** 5 STAR FEATURES: - Easy to learn, hard to master - Colorful and vivid graphics - Over 1000 yummy levels with challenging obstacles - Leaderboards to compete with and crush your friends - Unlock and master the power of Super Ingredients - Seamless synchronization with Facebook to play on PC, phone or tablet - Boosters to help you through tough levels - Amusing Characters - Spin the wheel of fortune to get your daily reward Last, but not least, a big THANK YOU goes out to everyone who has played Tasty Tale! Already a fan of Tasty Tale? Like us on Facebook for the latest news and events: https://www.facebook.com/tastytalegame So what are you waiting for? Plenty of yummy recipes are waiting for you to be cooked in the most exquisite match 3 puzzle adventure. Play now! Please note that Tasty Tale is completely free to play but some in-game items such as extra moves or lives will require payment. Imprint: https://www.sweetnitro.com/legal.php?site=tt Terms of use: https://www.sweetnitro.com/tou.php?site=tt
Cooking Master
Engage in a fun puzzle game where you strategically place food slices into outer circles to complete food items. Clear circles to advance, but be mindful of available spaces to avoid game over. Utilize helpful props to clear slices and unlock new challenges.
- Strategic slice placement
- Complete food circles
- Adjacent circle blasting
- Game over condition
- Clean prop for clearing
- Level progression with new slices
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Do you like doughnut or biscuit? Help cute cook to complete delicious food in Food Circle! How to play: 1. Tap in one of the outer circles to place the current slice. 2. Complete a circle and put the food into target plate along with adjacent circles blasting. 3. Be careful! Game over if there is no corresponding space in outer circles to place the current slice. 4. Use Clean prop, you can remove all slices of any outer circle. 5. Accomplish food in targeted number, complete levels to play with new slices!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Cooking Master at none against Tasty Tale's shown. Cooking Master also leads on update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 13.0). Tasty Tale's advantage is review sentiment (74% vs 63%). On price, rating, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Tasty Tale sells 7 one-off in-app purchases and Cooking Master sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Tasty Tale holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4.6K and 3.5K respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 74% of Tasty Tale's written reviews are positive against 63% of Cooking Master's.
Tasty Tale ships an update every 3 months, Cooking Master every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tasty Tale | Cooking Master |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (4.6K ratings) — better | 4.5 (3.5K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 73.7% of reviews — better | 62.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4.6K — better | 3.5K |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 106 MB | 86 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sublinet | 爱泉 杨 |
Customer experience
Tasty Tale
Cooking Master
User reviews
Tasty Tale
From 4.6K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Enjoyable game
- 🎨 Lovely graphics
- ⏱️ Good time-passer
- 🧠 Challenging but not too difficult
Room to improve
- 🔍 Lack of written recipe information
- 🤖 Irrelevant hazards (bombs)
- 🔊 Repetitive background music
- 💰 Progression blocked without purchases
- 📢 Intrusive ads
Cooking Master
From 3.5K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🎉 Fun and entertaining
- 🧠 Challenging and engaging
- 🎨 Great graphics and visuals
- 🕹️ Relaxing gameplay
- 👍 Enjoyable for all ages
Room to improve
- 🙄 Repetitive levels
- 🤯 Frustrating difficulty spikes
- 💸 Excessive ads and in-app purchases
- 🐛 Bugs and glitches
- 🤔 Lack of customization options
Bugs and requests
Tasty Tale
Reported bugs
4 issues- Game freezes and crashes
- Progress not saving properly
- Linking to Facebook causes reset
- Levels not loading correctly
Requested features
5 requests- Add written recipe details
- Remove unnecessary hazards
- Provide more background music variety
- Improve progression without requiring purchases
- Reduce ad frequency and interruptions
Cooking Master
Reported bugs
4 issues- Game freezes or crashes
- Incorrect piece placements
- Levels not loading properly
- Ads interfering with gameplay
Requested features
5 requests- More variety of food items and levels
- Ability to skip ads or purchase ad-free version
- Difficulty settings or progression system
- Saving and resuming gameplay progress
- Multiplayer or competitive modes
In-app purchases
Tasty Tale
- 10 bucks$0.99
- 20 bucks$1.99
- Starter Pack$2.99
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- 50 bucks$4.99
- 100 bucks$9.99
- 200 bucks$19.99
- 500 bucks$49.99
Cooking Master
- 10 Cleans$0.99
- No ads$2.99
- 55 Cleans$4.99
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- 110 Cleans$8.99
Questions
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