Comparison

Hello Kitty Lunchbox vs Hello Kitty Discovering World

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

Head to head
About

Hello Kitty Lunchbox

Create and customize delicious lunch recipes for Hello Kitty. Complete challenges to earn rewards and decorate your lunchbox with fun stickers and backgrounds. Enjoy a virtual meal with Hello Kitty in the school cafeteria!

Highlights
  • Create 4 unique lunchtime recipes
  • Customize lunchbox decorations
  • Complete cooking challenges
  • Earn supercute rewards
  • Design lunchboxes with stickers and colors
  • Eat lunch with Hello Kitty
Features
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Join Hello Kitty in the school cafeteria to choose what scrumptious lunch to prepare. If you make your recipe just the way Hello Kitty wants, she’ll give you supercute rewards to decorate your lunchbox and make it extra special! Fun food and cooking games for kids! FEATURES • Create and customize 4 unique lunchtime recipes! • Complete challenges to create the lunch Hello Kitty is hoping for! • Use Hello Kitty appliances and decorations to make an extra yummy meal • Unlimited ways to design your lunchbox! • Earn supercute rewards to make your lunchboxes extra special! • Eat your lunch with Hello Kitty in the school cafeteria! RECIPES • Supercute Cupcakes! • Teatime Sandwiches! • Yummy Soup! • Hello Kitty Kabobs REWARDS • Supercute lunchbox shapes! • Fun stickers! • Many colors to draw with! • Cute lunchbox backgrounds! PRIVACY & ADVERTISING Budge Studios takes children's privacy seriously and ensures that its apps are compliant with privacy laws. This application has received the “ESRB (Entertainment Software Rating Board) Privacy Certified Kids’ Privacy Seal”. For more information, please visit our privacy policy at: https://budgestudios.com/en/legal/privacy-policy/, or email our Data Protection Officer at: privacy@budgestudios.ca Before you download this app, please note that it is free to try, but some options may only be available via in-app purchases. In-app purchases cost real money and are charged to your account. To disable or adjust the ability to make in-app purchases, change your device settings.This app may contain contextual advertising (including the option to watch ads for rewards) from Budge Studios regarding other apps we publish, from our partners and from third parties. Budge Studios does not permit behavioral advertising or retargeting in this app. The app may also contain social media links that are only accessible behind a parental gate. Please note that this app gives users the ability to take and/or create photos in-app that can be saved locally to their devices. These photos are never shared with other users in-app, nor are they shared by Budge Studios with any unaffiliated third party companies. This app may require an Internet connection to play. TERMS OF USE / END-USER LICENSE AGREEMENT This application is subject to an End-User License Agreement available through the following link: http://www.budgestudios.com/en/legal/eula/ . ABOUT BUDGE STUDIOS Budge Studios™ was founded in 2010 with the mission to entertain and educate children around the world, through innovation, creativity and fun. Its high-quality app portfolio consists of original and branded properties, including Barbie, PAW Patrol, Bluey, My Little Pony, Thomas & Friends, Strawberry Shortcake, Caillou, The Smurfs, Miss Hollywood, Hello Kitty and Crayola. Budge Studios maintains the highest standards of safety and age-appropriateness, and has become a global leader in children’s apps for smartphones and tablets. Budge Playgroup™ is an innovative program that allows kids and parents to actively participate in the creation of new apps. Visit us: www.budgestudios.com Like us: facebook.com/budgestudios Follow us: @budgestudios Watch our app trailers: youtube.com/budgestudios HAVE QUESTIONS? We always welcome your questions, suggestions and comments. Contact us 24/7 at support@budgestudios.ca SANRIO®, HELLO KITTY® and associated logos are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Sanrio Co., Ltd. used under license by Budge Studios Inc. Hello Kitty® Lunchbox application © 2023 Budge Studios Inc. All artwork in application © 1976, 1979, 1988, 1993, 1996, 2015 SANRIO CO., LTD. All rights reserved. BUDGE and BUDGE STUDIOS are trademarks of Budge Studios Inc.

About

Hello Kitty Discovering World

Embark on a global adventure with Hello Kitty, visiting over 50 countries. Build a zoo, cook for Hello Kitty, and dress her in traditional attire. Learn geography, collect items, and create a personalized album of your discoveries.

Highlights
  • Build a zoo with animals from around the world
  • Cook and prepare food for Hello Kitty
  • Dress Hello Kitty in traditional clothing
  • Learn geography, country facts, and flags
  • Collect animals, monuments, and food
  • Create a personalized photo album
Features
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Are you ready to discover the world traveling with Hello Kitty? Now, with Hello Kitty Discovering the World you can travel to more than 50 countries and you will be able to... - Build your own Zoo with animals from all countries. - Prepare the food for Hello Kitty in her incredible kitchen. - Dress Hello Kitty with the traditional clothes and accessories of each country. - Learn Geography, know the countries, their location, their data, their flag and much more. Prepare the suitcase and start your trip. You just have to select a country to visit... The United States, Italy, Germany ... .In each country you will know and follow its form and characteristics, draw its flag, place it on its continent and the most important thing ... you can get food, animals, monuments or dresses from each of them. Collect all the animals from each of the countries and build the best zoo in the world: - Choose the terrain of each zone. - Build the roads. - Place the fences and doors. - Put each of the animals in their proper habitat. - And you can give it life by adding kiosks, Hello Kitty characters, vehicles, etc ... Prepare Hello Kitty food with the food of each country: - A complete kitchen where there is nothing missing. - Use your imagination to make your own creations and surprise Hello Kitty. - Use the blender, the pan, the fryer or the grill for cooking. - Season the food with sauces and spices. - Feed Hello Kitty and she will show you if she likes it, if it is horrible or if she does not even want to try it. Dress up Hello Kitty: - Get the traditional dresses of each country. - Use the accessories of each dress. - Dress up Hello Kitty with more than 50 dresses and accessories. - Have fun combining dresses and accessories from different countries and cultures. - Only you choose how you want to dress her. Collect the wonders of the world - Get images of the most characteristic objects, monuments or places. - Create your own album of memories by placing the photos in the Hello Kitty album. - Bring the map to life by unlocking the monuments of each country. - Learn with the file and characteristics of each country. CHARACTERISTICS: - Fun interactive games for girls and boys from 4 years old. - Encourages autonomous learning. - With Hello Kitty children learn geography by placing countries and continents on the map, tracking them and drawing their flags. - Power imagination and creativity. - They make their own meals mixing ingredients, cooking and testing if Hello Kitty likes it. - Build your own zoo by selecting the terrain, roads, characters and add your animals. - Develop creativity by combining dresses and accessories typical of all countries. - Motivate learning with gamification systems for children. - Get food, animals, monuments and dresses from each country you visit. - Application supervised by child educators. - Available in 7 languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Russian, and Portuguese. For more detailed information about Hello Kitty Discovering the World, please visit: http://www.taptaptales.com Free download only allows access to some app sections, extra app sections may be purchased individually. In Tap Tap Tales we care about your opinion. For this reason, we encourage you to rate this app and if you have any comments please send them to our e-mail address: hello@taptaptales.com. Web: http://www.taptaptales.com

Screenshots

Hello Kitty Lunchbox4 screens
Hello Kitty Discovering World4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Hello Kitty Lunchbox at 4.5 against Hello Kitty Discovering World's 3.7. Hello Kitty Lunchbox also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 16 months). Hello Kitty Discovering World's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Hello Kitty Lunchbox sells 13 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Hello Kitty Discovering World sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Hello Kitty Lunchbox holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hello Kitty Lunchbox has 129K ratings behind it against 362, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Hello Kitty Lunchbox's written reviews are positive against 51% of Hello Kitty Discovering World's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hello Kitty Lunchbox ships an update every 3 months, Hello Kitty Discovering World every 16 months. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Hello Kitty Lunchbox versus Hello Kitty Discovering World: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHello Kitty LunchboxHello Kitty Discovering World
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (129K ratings) — better3.7 (362 ratings)
Positive reviews74.5% of reviews — better51.3% of reviews
Number of ratings129K — better362
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 16 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size220 MB110 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBudge StudiosTap Tap Tales, SL

Customer experience

Hello Kitty Lunchbox

All ratings127,646 ratings
Positive87.6%
Neutral6.2%
Negative6.2%
Written reviews2,284 reviews
Positive74.5%
Neutral10.3%
Negative15.1%

Hello Kitty Discovering World

All ratings356 ratings
Positive65.4%
Neutral9.3%
Negative25.3%
Written reviews230 reviews
Positive51.3%
Neutral15.2%
Negative33.5%

User reviews

Hello Kitty Lunchbox

From 129K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🥰 Nostalgic childhood game
  • 😊 Cute and relaxing gameplay
  • 🎨 Fun decorating lunchboxes
  • 🤩 Brings back fond memories

Room to improve

  • 🔒 Too many locked features
  • 💰 Expensive in-app purchases
  • 🥱 Repetitive gameplay (only sandwiches)
  • 🤯 Frustrating lack of free options

Hello Kitty Discovering World

From 362 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🎨 Cute and creative design
  • 🌍 Engaging world exploration
  • 👍 Fun gameplay and activities
  • 🎓 Educational elements

Room to improve

  • 🎟 Limited travel tickets
  • 💰 Paywall for more tickets
  • 🐛 Glitchy kitchen and plate mechanics
  • 🤖 Inappropriate ads

Bugs and requests

Hello Kitty Lunchbox

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Lunchbox decorations not saving properly
  • Cutting animations/mechanics not working well
  • Game crashing after watching ads

Requested features

4 requests
  • More free food options to cook
  • Ability to make different dishes besides sandwiches
  • Unlock more content through gameplay progression
  • Add more Sanrio characters as customers

Hello Kitty Discovering World

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Plate constantly moving and breaking in kitchen
  • Freezing and crashing issues
  • Incorrect country/flag representations
  • Wardrobe items not unlocking properly

Requested features

5 requests
  • More countries and locations to explore
  • Daily ticket rewards or mini-games to earn tickets
  • Ability to reset or restart the game
  • Multilingual support
  • Improved stability and bug fixes

In-app purchases

13 purchases

Hello Kitty Lunchbox

Subscriptions5
  • Monthly Subscription$4.991 Month
  • Monthly Subscription1 Month trial2 variants$9.991 Month
  • Monthly Subscription$9.991 Month
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  • Monthly Subscription$12.991 Month
  • Monthly Subscription1 Month trial$12.991 Month
One-time8
  • Kitchen Tools Pack!2 variants$3.99
  • Yummy Soup & rewards!2 variants$3.99
  • Supercute Cupcakes & rewards!2 variants$3.99
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  • Hello Kitty Kababs & rewards!2 variants$3.99
  • Hello Kitty Club Sandwich$3.99
  • Teatime Sandwiches & rewards!$3.99
  • Unlock all recipes, kitchen tools, and appliances$9.99
  • Unlock all recipes, kitchen tools, and appliances$13.99
2 purchases

Hello Kitty Discovering World

One-time2
  • Remove Unwanted Ads$0.99
  • Unlock all activities.$4.99

Questions

Is Hello Kitty Lunchbox free?
Hello Kitty Lunchbox is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Hello Kitty Discovering World free?
Hello Kitty Discovering World is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Hello Kitty Lunchbox or Hello Kitty Discovering World?
Hello Kitty Lunchbox is rated higher. Hello Kitty Lunchbox averages 4.5 out of 5 from 129K ratings, while Hello Kitty Discovering World averages 3.7 from 362 ratings.
Do Hello Kitty Lunchbox or Hello Kitty Discovering World have ads?
Hello Kitty Discovering World shows ads; Hello Kitty Lunchbox does not.
Which is updated more often, Hello Kitty Lunchbox or Hello Kitty Discovering World?
Hello Kitty Lunchbox ships an update every 3 months, and Hello Kitty Discovering World every 16 months. Most recently, Hello Kitty Lunchbox was updated on October 30, 2026 and Hello Kitty Discovering World on October 29, 2026.

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