Inventioneers vs VR MasterChef Junior
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Inventioneers
Unleash creativity by building unique inventions with the help of tiny characters. Explore real-time physics concepts like air, fire, and magnetism. Share your creations with friends and educators.
- Create custom inventions
- Learn physics concepts
- Use tiny helper characters
- Solve pre-made inventions
- Share creations with friends
- Classroom sharing option
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* FROM THE CREATORS OF PETTSON'S INVENTIONS DELUXE * *** Winner of Parents' Choice Gold Award *** BE CREATIVE! In this game you can create your own crazy, fun inventions! With the help of the Inventioneers, our tiny helpers with unique characteristics, you can invent fun, creative and often quite weird inventions. A lot of inventions are included in the game, the more you solve the more parts you receive for your own inventions! LEARN ABOUT PHYSICS! Inventioneers is an outstanding tool for learning about realtime physics and the science behind different features like air, fire, magnetism and jumping bunnies. What you can do with the tool is virtually endless. SHARE WITH FRIENDS! Invite friends to share their crazy inventions and you can share yours too! If you are a teacher you can set up the whole classroom as a user and share with other classes! ONE TIME FEE TO BUY THE FULL VERSION To make it easier for families to try the game before buying, we have implemented a one time fee to buy the full game. There are no recurring in app purchases or consumables. It is important for us to protect the integrity of the children. Features in the free version: • First chapter with 15 inventions • The first Inventioneer - "Windy" • Create! - A fully working tool to create your own inventions • 50+ different objects to use in the inventions • Share up to 4 inventions with your friends! The full version (purchase: one time fee): • 7 more chapters with a total of 105 new inventions! • 50+ new objects • 18 characters that you can help • 7 more Inventioneers with unique features - "Blaze", "Bunny", "Sporty", "Zappy", "Magneta", "Freezy" and "Maggie" Family Sharing Note! You can't share IAPs with other members in your family. Please download the full version of Inventioneers instead.
VR MasterChef Junior
Learn to cook in an immersive virtual reality kitchen with guidance from a MasterChef Junior alum. This app uses AR and VR to make recipes easy to follow, building essential skills, confidence, and imagination in young food lovers.
- Immersive VR cooking experience
- AR step-by-step recipe videos
- Learn food and kitchen safety
- Build cooking skills and confidence
- Interactive recipe book
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Make cooking fun, informative and delicious! Learn to cook with MasterChef Junior alum in the MasterChef kitchen in immersive VR! The VR MasterChef Junior Interactive Recipe book gives young food lovers everything they need to succeed in the kitchen. Using virtual and augmented reality (AR), each recipe is made totally foolproof and easy to follow. Features AR step by step videos to help beginners get excited about cooking. VR MasterChef Junior is the ultimate kids cookbook, using VR and AR to help them build essential skills, practice food and kitchen safety, and gain confidence and imagination.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Inventioneers at 78% against VR MasterChef Junior's 20%. Inventioneers also leads on rating (4.3 vs 3.4) and ratings volume (317 vs 28). VR MasterChef Junior's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Inventioneers sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. VR MasterChef Junior asks for nothing beyond the download.
Inventioneers holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Inventioneers has 317 ratings behind it against 28, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of Inventioneers's written reviews are positive against 20% of VR MasterChef Junior's.
Inventioneers ships an update monthly, VR MasterChef Junior every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Inventioneers | VR MasterChef Junior |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (317 ratings) — better | 3.4 (28 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 77.7% of reviews — better | 20.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 317 — better | 28 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 189 MB | 2.2 GB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Filimundus AB | Abacus |
Customer experience
Inventioneers
VR MasterChef Junior
Bugs and requests
Inventioneers
Reported bugs
3 issues- Levels not saving properly
- Crashes when trying to purchase full version
- Compatibility issues on older devices
Requested features
4 requests- More free levels and content
- Ability to save custom levels
- Faster download speeds
- Improved level editor tools
VR MasterChef Junior
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Inventioneers
- Open up!$0.99
- Full Version$4.99
VR MasterChef Junior
No in-app purchases
Questions
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