Comparison

Hello Kitty Lunchbox vs Ethereal

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

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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

Ethereal

Features
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Ethereal is a calm, interactive art toy: a whole gallery of living worlds of light that answer your touch. And when the day is done, it becomes something new: a glowing bedside clock that keeps you gentle company all night. It plays on the biggest screen in the house too, cast from your phone. Open a world, reach out with a finger, and watch it respond. Stir a river of stars into a slow vortex. Fling a planet around a burning sun. Gather a swarm of fireflies to your fingertip like a lantern. Set paper lanterns adrift on a midnight river. Strum luminous strings into singing waves. Every world is generative and endlessly re-playable: no levels, no score, no way to lose. Just light, motion, and you. Every world sounds like itself, too. A warm, steady rain-wash soundscape rests under everything, and each world speaks the moment you see it: balloons pop, thunder cracks with the bolt, fireworks boom on the burst, candles light and snuff under your finger, the lava lamp glorps. Sounds pitch with where and what you touch, so nothing ever feels stamped out, with soft haptics and tilt-gravity for the worlds that obey your hands. NIGHTSTAND Turn any charging phone, or the old one in a drawer, into a living bedside clock. • An elegant clock floats over the world of your choice, tinted to match its light • It breathes softly and drifts, or fades and reappears somewhere new each minute, designed to protect your screen from burn-in • Dim the whole scene with a two-finger drag, right down to almost-dark • The screen stays awake while you charge; brightness and sound are one tap away • The calmest worlds keep the night: fireflies blink, candles breathe, rain runs down the glass, lanterns drift downriver, and Fireworks stages its own lazy show while you sleep ON THE BIG SCREEN Cast Ethereal to the TV and take the couch. • Switch worlds, place the clock and change the sound from your phone: it stays the remote • Worlds that live and move on their own play on the TV; the touch-painting worlds stay in your hands, where your fingers are • Pure black by default, made for OLED Made for quiet moments: winding down, finding focus, letting your mind wander somewhere beautiful, and watching over you until morning. FREE, FOREVER • Ripples: send rings rippling across a still pool • Solar: fling planets from a living solar system; hold the sun to charge a flare • Nebula: a flowing river of silken star-trails; stir it into a vortex • Starlines: trace your own constellations between the stars • Trails: draw with a glowing, colour-shifting ribbon • Bloom: grow unfolding mandalas of light • Frost: grow branching crystals of frost Nightstand is free too, with Ripples, Solar and Nebula keeping the night. THE FULL GALLERY, WITH PRO Bounce a festival of Balloons. Pop rising Bubbles. Wipe Rain from night glass. Light a row of Candles. Send lanterns down a midnight River, or release sky Lanterns into the stars. Warm a neon Lava lamp. Startle a Reef of glowing fish. Bend the Aurora. Gather Fireflies. Hatch Jellyfish from the deep. Call down Starfall. Stage Fireworks. Pop drifting Orbs. Pump the Spectrum equaliser. Paint in Kaleido symmetry. Fork Tempest lightning. Stir molten Plasma. Weave points of light into Orbit. Strum the Harp. Drop Ink into water. Reshape Ferro's magnetic field. Ethereal Pro is a single one-time purchase, yours for good, every future world included, one unlock across iPhone and iPad. CALM BY DESIGN • No ads · No accounts · No subscriptions Ethereal uses the network for the store's billing for the one-time purchase, and for casting to your TV if you use it. Best with the sound on and the lights low, and when you close your eyes, let the light keep watch.

Screenshots

Hello Kitty Lunchbox4 screens
Ethereal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Ethereal at every 10 days against Hello Kitty Lunchbox's every 3 months. 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

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 Ethereal sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hello Kitty Lunchbox ships an update every 3 months, Ethereal every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Hello Kitty Lunchbox versus Ethereal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHello Kitty LunchboxEthereal
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (128K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews74.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings128K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size220 MB49 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBudge StudiosZone7 Studios

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

Ethereal

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

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
1 purchases

Ethereal

One-time1
  • Ethereal Pro$2.99

Questions

Is Hello Kitty Lunchbox free?
Hello Kitty Lunchbox is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ethereal free?
Ethereal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Hello Kitty Lunchbox or Ethereal have ads?
Neither Hello Kitty Lunchbox nor Ethereal shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hello Kitty Lunchbox or Ethereal?
Hello Kitty Lunchbox ships an update every 3 months, and Ethereal every 10 days. Most recently, Hello Kitty Lunchbox was updated on October 25, 2026 and Ethereal on October 18, 2026.

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