Comparison

Cooking Dash™ vs Crazy Cooking Star Chef

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

Head to head
About

Cooking Dash™

Experience fast-paced time management as you prepare, cook, and serve dishes in exotic restaurants. Earn profits, upgrade your kitchen, and become a celebrity chef. Compete in challenges and customize your character with outfits and pets.

Highlights
  • Fast-paced kitchen action
  • Prepare, cook, and serve dishes
  • Upgrade food and appliances
  • Collect outfits and pets
  • Compete in Series Finales and Trial of Style
  • Spin daily prize wheels
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This game includes optional in-game purchases of virtual currency that can be used to acquire virtual in-game items, including a random selection of virtual in-game items. Flo cooks her way to TV fame as a celebrity chef in this fast-paced time management game – COOKING DASH! Sharpen your skill as you prepare, cook, and serve delicious menu items in each exotic restaurant… in front of a live studio audience! Hear them gasp and cheer as you earn profits in each exciting episode! Quirky customers, superstar VIPs, fast-paced kitchen action, and TV fame await! Excel as a chef to beat Series Finales and compete in the Trial of Style, where you can earn adorable Pets & Outfits! COOK YOUR WAY TO STARDOM! Control the fast-paced chaos as you dash your way around the kitchen, preparing meals for crazy customers! Collect tons of tips for excellent service and make those profits! YOU ARE DESTINED FOR FABULOUS TV CHEF MEGA-FAME! HUNDREDS OF EPISODES TO COMPLETE! Tons of fun cooking play across unique restaurant shows like the Vegas-themed Table Steaks, crazy Taco Train, and trendy Hip Stir Cafe with many more on the way! COLLECT AND UPGRADE! Wanna get more successful and famous? Spend your profits on upgrades for food and appliances for your restaurant! Upgrade to shiny stoves, fancy food prep stations, and more to ensure all customers get three-star service! PRIZE WHEELS! Introducing Weldon Brownie’s brand new game show - Spin to Win! Spin a free Prize Wheel every day to win prizes like Gold, Prep Recipes, VIP Tickets, Auto Chefs, Outfits, Pets, and more! OUTFITS & PETS! Dress up Flo in fun outfits themed for each Show, and equip Pets to help you out in the kitchen by auto-serving Prep Recipes! SERIES FINALES! Want to test your skill? Face a gauntlet of challenging levels in a Venue’s Series Finale - experts only! Beat every episode in a Venue with 4 or more Stars to unlock! TRIAL OF STYLE! Try your luck in the Trial of Style! This multiplayer event features different Venues each time - do you have what it takes to be the best? PREP AWESOME RECIPES FOR MORE CUSTOMERS! Make special Recipes in the Prep Kitchen and attract customers with their favorite dishes! They’ll get you more and more famous, drop cool items, and give you special powers to blast your coffers with mega-profits and keep your star on the rise! BECOME SUPER-FAMOUS! Fan the flames of your fame as you start your OWN SHOW full of the most elite VIPs coming to see YOU and your amazing cheffing skills! It’s FOOD and FAME for you as you host the hippest dinner parties in the WORLD in front of MILLIONS of VIEWERS! It’s a TV Chef dream come true! PLAY WITH FRIENDS! Exchange gifts and compete with friends on your never-ending quest to be the best! WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?!? Show your stuff and feed the hungry stomachs -- and fragile egos -- of the guests and VIPs! Download the FREE Cooking Dash® today! THIS IS THE MOST INSANELY FUN DASH GAME EVER! COOKING DASH now supports iPhone X in true wide-screen! See your favorite Venues in all their glory! PLEASE NOTE: - This game is free to play, but you can choose to pay real money for some extra items, which will charge your iTunes account. You can disable in-app purchasing by adjusting your device settings. - Please buy carefully. - Advertising appears in this game. - This game permits users to interact with one another (eg. chat rooms, player to player chat, messaging). Linking to social networking sites are not intended for persons under age 13. - A network connection is required to play. - A network connection is required to enable certain features/access certain content. - For information about how Glu collects and uses your data, please read our privacy policy at: www.Glu.com/privacy - If you have a problem with this game, please contact us at: www.Glu.com/support

About

Crazy Cooking Star Chef

Manage a bustling diner, serving burgers, fries, and milkshakes to hungry customers. Upgrade your kitchen and dining area to expand your culinary empire. Master fast-paced cooking challenges to earn tips and unlock new recipes.

Highlights
  • Serve burgers, fries, and milkshakes
  • Upgrade kitchen appliances
  • Expand to new restaurants
  • Master fast-paced cooking
  • Earn tips for improvements
  • Unlock new recipes
Features
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Crazy Cooking Star Chef is a unique cooking game that serves burger, BLT, fries and milkshakes in a classic dinner! Can you act fast enough to deal with tons of orders like a real master chef?

With the dream to make delicious food and serve hungry customer, let’s start with this dinner, upgrade the kitchen and dining room, and expand to the world eventually!  Multiple Levels Cooking games will hone your cooking skills, you will be able to cope with the cooking dash at the fastest manner and provide the impeccable service for restaurant visitors. The high-level service will let you to get a lot of tips which you are able to spend for improvement of kitchen game appliances and optimize your master chef processes much quicker with new recipes. Become a Burger Master Exceed the expectations of restaurant clients. Get the tasty food ahead of time, turn the milkshake on and fry the French fries constantly. Cooking food do not forget about the stove’s temperature and do not let your food to be burnt! Serve the good burger games and sandwich with accurate client’s order. New cooking games will demand fast food ideas and to handle the kitchen chaos. All you need to reach 3Stars to build the restaurant empire! Download this incredible cooking simulator game and conquer the restaurant mania. Join us at Facebook to get the newest updates and share your ideas! https://www.facebook.com/CrazyCookingGame Get in touch for any questions: Email: dream.win@live.com

Screenshots

Cooking Dash™4 screens
Crazy Cooking Star Chef4 screens

Verdict

The call

Cooking Dash™ and Crazy Cooking Star Chef both sit at 4.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 55% of Crazy Cooking Star Chef's written reviews are positive against 33% of Cooking Dash™'s. Cooking Dash™'s advantage is chart position (#162 vs unranked) and ratings volume (112K vs 21K). On price, rating, 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. Cooking Dash™ sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Crazy Cooking Star Chef sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Cooking Dash™ against 4.6 for Crazy Cooking Star Chef. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cooking Dash™ has 112K ratings behind it against 21K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 33% of Cooking Dash™'s written reviews are positive against 55% of Crazy Cooking Star Chef's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cooking Dash™ ships an update every 5 weeks, Crazy Cooking Star Chef monthly. Both last shipped on November 12, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Cooking Dash™ versus Crazy Cooking Star Chef: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCooking Dash™Crazy Cooking Star Chef
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (112K ratings) — better4.6 (21K ratings)
Positive reviews32.6% of reviews55.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings112K — better21K
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksMonthly — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#162 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size206 MB400 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGlu Games LLCShenzhen Runqian Technology Limited

Customer experience

Cooking Dash™

All ratings111,690 ratings
Positive91.2%
Neutral3.9%
Negative4.8%
Written reviews959 reviews
Positive32.6%
Neutral18.0%
Negative49.3%

Crazy Cooking Star Chef

All ratings20,853 ratings
Positive88.6%
Neutral5.5%
Negative5.9%
Written reviews824 reviews
Positive55.2%
Neutral15.4%
Negative29.4%

User reviews

Cooking Dash™

From 112K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Fun and addictive gameplay
  • 👍 Variety of restaurants and recipes
  • 🚀 Challenging levels and time management

Room to improve

  • 💰 Expensive to progress without spending money
  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs
  • 🔍 Difficult to earn enough gold/currency
  • 📥 Issues with video ads and rewards not working

Crazy Cooking Star Chef

From 21K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Fast paced
  • 👍 Fun and addictive
  • 🎨 Great graphics
  • 🎢 Diverse restaurants

Room to improve

  • 💰 Expensive upgrades
  • 🔍 Hard to earn gems/diamonds
  • 🤖 Too many ads
  • 🐛 Glitches and bugs
  • 🕰️ Repetitive after a while

Bugs and requests

Cooking Dash™

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Game crashes when trying to play certain levels
  • Rewards and progress not saving properly
  • Inability to connect to Facebook to save progress

Requested features

3 requests
  • Bring back free gold from watching ads
  • Reduce cost of upgrades and new restaurants
  • Improve customer service and bug fixes

Crazy Cooking Star Chef

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Freezing and crashing issues
  • Incorrect level/progress tracking
  • Ads not functioning properly

Requested features

4 requests
  • More ways to earn gems/diamonds
  • Ability to reset progress
  • Improved sound/music controls
  • Smoother dragging mechanics

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Cooking Dash™

One-time10
  • Handful of Gold$0.99
  • Handful of Coins$0.99
  • Ticket Bundle Low$1.99
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  • Handful of Gold$2.99
  • Handful of Coins$2.99
  • Starbucks Promo!$4.99
  • Stack of Coins$4.99
  • Bucket of Gold$9.99
  • Bucket of Coins$9.99
  • Case of Gold$19.99
8 purchases

Crazy Cooking Star Chef

One-time8
  • 6000 coins$1.99
  • 30 gems$1.99
  • Special Offer3 variants$2.99
Show 5 more
  • 21000 coins$4.99
  • half pack 1$4.99
  • 90 gems$4.99
  • 48000 coins$9.99
  • 210 gems$9.99

Questions

Is Cooking Dash™ free?
Cooking Dash™ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Crazy Cooking Star Chef free?
Crazy Cooking Star Chef is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Cooking Dash™ or Crazy Cooking Star Chef?
Cooking Dash™ is rated higher. Cooking Dash™ averages 4.7 out of 5 from 112K ratings, while Crazy Cooking Star Chef averages 4.6 from 21K ratings.
Do Cooking Dash™ or Crazy Cooking Star Chef have ads?
Both Cooking Dash™ and Crazy Cooking Star Chef show ads.
Which is updated more often, Cooking Dash™ or Crazy Cooking Star Chef?
Cooking Dash™ ships an update every 5 weeks, and Crazy Cooking Star Chef monthly. Most recently, Cooking Dash™ was updated on November 12, 2026 and Crazy Cooking Star Chef on November 12, 2026.

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