“pay to win game. every uogrades need to use gems which force you to purchase from store rather than complete stories for gaining gems. and those gems they only provide very little only”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 808 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-06.
4.6 ★1,370,906 ratings
10M+Downloads
12+Age rating
761 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
BECOME THE RULING CHEF OF A CULINARY EMPIRE AND JOIN THE BEST COOKING GAME, LOVED BY MILLIONS OF PLAYERS AROUND THE WORLD! FUN, IMMERSIVE, AND FREE!
Return to your hometown to revive your grandfather's culinary legacy and rise from humble beginnings to become a top chef. Along the way, experience both personal and professional growth as you embrace self-expression and develop your unique style. Become part of the family as you rebuild and strengthen the bonds that connect you. Together, bring the family business back to its former glory—help your grandfather save the family restaurant chain, restore your family's good name, and honor the values that unite you all.
Here's the recipe for Cooking Diary's success:…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
App Store
This analysis describes version 2.57.3 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-06 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 2.57.3, updated 2026-09-24.
Google Play
This analysis describes version 2.57.4 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 2.57.4, updated 2026-09-25.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to at least 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
2 themes reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
65–79% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
Developer says data deletion can be requested
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
What we saw: The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
One source only — shown, not confirmed 2
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Pay to progress
Advancement or competition is gated behind spending money rather than playing.
What we saw: Pay to progress: raised by 9 distinct reviewers (1.7% of 532 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Price keeps rising
The price of the paid tier has been raised on existing users.
What we saw: Price keeps rising: raised by 8 distinct reviewers (2.9% of 276 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“it's fun to play but they make stages really hard on purpose to get you to purchase stuff online... and it's very frustrating because one of the games challenges is to spend more money to progress to the next level”
“I’ve been playing this game since 2018. I've tried so many games now, but they're all pay-to-win. This one still has no ads in 2026 and it’s still the best—I had to play it all over again! :)”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 2.57.3.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown10
Lowest$0.99
Highest$9.99
Bag of rubies$4.99
Handful of rubies$0.99
Amateur's Bundle$1.99
Dazzling Bundle$7.99
Tasty Pass 4.99$4.99
Show 5 more purchases
Golden Ticket$4.99
Appetizing offer$4.99
Purse of rubies$9.99
Tempting offer$1.99
Juicy offer$9.99
Google Play does not publish per-purchase prices.