“so now you have taken away getting energy from watching ads. what have you done are you going to have forced ads now. where you have to watch ads with no rewards”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 1,374 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.6 ★184,276 ratings
10M+Downloads
12+Age rating
512 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Do you know you can enjoy the food around the world without traveling? Do you know you can master the secret of cooking with just a few simple steps? Tie your apron and put your chef hat on! In Merge Cooking, you can cook anything!
- Welcome, Chef! Your assistant Lea is waiting for you to start the adventure of opening restaurants and serving customers around the world. Merge Cooking not only allows you to cook as a star chef and master the world cuisine but also helps you realize your designer dream and renovate Michelin star restaurants!…
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 1.60.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 1.60.0, updated 2026-09-29.
Google Play
This analysis describes version 1.60.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 1.60.0, updated 2026-09-28.
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
3 or more 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
80–89% 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 3
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: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Aggressive ad load: raised by 7 distinct reviewers (1.0% of 701 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Progress pauses until you wait or pay
Use is rationed by an energy/hearts/lives meter that runs out and forces a wait or a purchase.
What we saw: Energy / timer gating: raised by 15 distinct reviewers (2.2% of 673 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
Reviewers repeatedly report that the app is not what its advertising showed. We never see the ad creative itself, so nothing we collect can corroborate or refute this — it is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.
What we saw: Misleading advertising: raised by 20 distinct reviewers (3.0% of 673 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“This game launched for the first time with an unskippable ad about another game. Why?”
“I love playing Merge Cooking. I would even set an alarm so I would remember to collect my daily video bonuses. I played every day until about 72 hours ago. there's a very annoying pop-up ad that comes randomly. it is very annoying. it is…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 1.60.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
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Google Play does not publish per-purchase prices.