Comparison

Christmas Cookie vs Tanabata Monogatari

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

Head to head
About

Christmas Cookie

Swap and match festive cookie tiles to create power-ups and clear the board. Complete unique objectives before your moves run out to help Santa prepare for the holidays. Enjoy thousands of levels of crunchy Christmas fun.

Highlights
  • Match Christmas cookies
  • Complete unique objectives
  • Create power-ups
  • Blast through rows
  • Thousands of levels
Features
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What's the biggest way to satisfy your sweet tooth this holiday season? By grabbing a handful of cookies and swapping until Christmas day arrives! Christmas Cookie is an amazing match 3 game that's all about tapping, swiping, and combining cookie flavors to earn power-ups and clear the screen as fast as you can. It's delicious, partially nutritious, and crazy Christmas fun, too! What better way to get into the holiday spirit then playing fun Christmas games? Santa is getting ready for the holiday season, and there's nothing he likes better than a handful of Christmas cookies. Help the big guy out by swapping tiles to make matches of three or more cookies at a time. Clear some space with a clever match 3 combination, then keep puzzle solving while more cookies, candies, and desserts fall from above. Get Santa excited and watch how he celebrates by dancing and singing Merry Christmas! Work fast and match smart to complete the objectives before your moves run out. If they do, Santa will have to go without his holiday treats! Christmas Cookie takes match 3 puzzles to a new level with many different power-up combinations. Open gift boxes, melt troublesome snowmen, break out the Christmas stockings and more! Match lots of cookies to create Christmas ornaments, arrow tiles and other power-ups, each perfectly suited for clearing huge groups of cookies all at once. Feel the crunch! The countdown to Christmas has started! Getting into the holiday spirit and playing fun Christmas games is a must if you want to be on Santas nice list. So what are you waiting for, download the number one Christmas match 3 game today! You can play regular match 3 puzzle games all year round. Features: - Match tons of different crunchy Christmas cookies, one swap at a time! - Complete unique objectives without running out of moves. - Blast through entire rows and groups of cookies. - Create huge combos and earn exciting power-ups. - 3100 levels of delicious puzzle challenge. If you're like everyone else, the holiday Christmas countdown means stress! That means preparing your Christmas list and checking it twice. So next time when you go Christmas shopping, and you're stuck waiting for your loved up to finish shopping. Pull out Christmas Cookie and get back into the holiday spirit. While playing Christmas Games is way more fun then Christmas Shopping, we do hope you enjoy the Christmas holidays with your friends and family. If you're like many of our fans, Christmas Cookie will keep you entertained all year long. The game is updated regularly, so come back and get into the Christmas spirit year round. We truly hope you enjoy playing our Christmas themed match 3 puzzle game. We thank you for your support this year and RV AppStudios wishes you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

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Tanabata Monogatari

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Perfect for Tanabata, the Japanese star festival on July 7! On this night, families write wishes on strips of paper and hang them on bamboo. The festival comes from an old legend: Orihime and Hikoboshi, two stars separated by the Milky Way, are allowed to meet only once a year, when magpies gather to form a bridge across the sky. In this game, parents and children live that legend together. Note: the game's text is in Japanese (simple hiragana for young children). Play is one tap and needs no reading, so families anywhere can enjoy it, and it is a lovely way to share a Japanese festival. ■ Work, then run Tap anywhere to complete four little chores, one at a time. Each tap shows your progress: a new row of cloth, a new sprout, one more stitch, a little more water in the bucket. When the work is done, the magpies become a bridge and the run begins. ■ Easy to play Tap to jump over gaps and obstacles. That's it! ■ Catch shooting stars Every star you catch brings everyone's wishes closer. Reach the goal and the two stars meet again, with a picture of their reunion (and a special one if you never fell). Then it's on to next year's Tanabata. ■ Five ways to run - Easiest and Easy: short bridges for the littlest children - Hard: a longer bridge with tricky gaps - Heavy Rain: the biggest challenge, on a rainy night - Fireworks Night: the easy bridge under a festival sky ■ More to enjoy - Golden shooting stars: jump high to catch them for extra wishes - A magpie rescue if you fall, once per run - A "Perfect!" badge for reaching the goal without falling - A wish collection with 101 wishes, plus wishes you write yourself ■ For parents - The game's text is Japanese. Menus are short, and the pictures show what to do. - A run takes about 10 to 30 seconds. If your child falls, a magpie lifts them back up once; after a second fall, a soft "almost!" screen lets them try again. - Ads appear only outside play: a small banner on the title screen and sometimes a full-screen ad after tapping "Run again." No ads appear during the run. Ads are set to family-friendly content and are not personalized. You can skip the chores once a day for free, with no ad. - No in-app purchases. Game records are saved only on this device. Will Orihime and Hikoboshi meet again this year? Run across the Milky Way and make everyone's wishes come true.

Screenshots

Christmas Cookie4 screens
Tanabata Monogatari4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tanabata Monogatari at none against Christmas Cookie's 12. Christmas Cookie's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence and ads 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. Christmas Cookie sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. Tanabata Monogatari asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Christmas Cookie versus Tanabata Monogatari: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChristmas CookieTanabata Monogatari
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (976 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews72.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings976 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size335 MB85 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperRV AppStudios LLCKentaro Miura

Bugs and requests

Christmas Cookie

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Game crashing on launch
  • Levels not progressing properly
  • Daily gifts/rewards disappearing

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to pause and replay tutorials
  • Landscape mode support
  • More frequent content updates
  • Improved in-app purchase experience

Tanabata Monogatari

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

11 purchases

Christmas Cookie

One-time11
  • Stack Of Coins$0.99
  • Startup Special Offer: 80% Off2 variants$0.99
  • Special Holiday Sale - 60% Off$1.99
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  • Startup Special Offer: 60% Off$1.99
  • Festival Sale:Celebration Time$2.99
  • Remove Ads$2.99
  • Chest Of Coins$4.99
  • Piles of Coins$9.99
  • Special Holiday Sale - 30% Off$9.99
  • Vault of Coins$19.99
  • Bag of Coins$29.99
None

Tanabata Monogatari

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Christmas Cookie free?
Christmas Cookie is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tanabata Monogatari free?
Tanabata Monogatari is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Christmas Cookie or Tanabata Monogatari have ads?
Both Christmas Cookie and Tanabata Monogatari show ads.
Which is updated more often, Christmas Cookie or Tanabata Monogatari?
Christmas Cookie ships an update every 2 months, and Tanabata Monogatari every 2 months. Most recently, Christmas Cookie was updated on October 24, 2026 and Tanabata Monogatari on October 28, 2026.

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