# Cooking Life: Kitchen Diary

> Crazy Chef's Cooking Game

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1523253168](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1523253168)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1523253168`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Removed
- **Publisher:** Art Ocean Inc.
- **Category:** Strategy
- **Rating:** 4.70 / 5 (1,538 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.0.13
- **Last updated:** 2021-01-09
- **First published:** 2020-09-08
- **Size:** 246 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-08-27
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cooking-life-kitchen-diary/id1523253168)
- **Website:** [https://artsocean.com](https://artsocean.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://artsocean.com/privacypolicy/](http://artsocean.com/privacypolicy/)

## Description

Cooking Life: Kitchen Diary is a casual, time-management cooking game where you design your restaurant, prepare top-quality dishes, and serve customers from around the world. Expand your kitchen, customize outfits, decor, and special events to grow your culinary empire.

Play solo or with friends, tackle challenges, mini-events, and tournaments, and enjoy offline play after the initial install. Dive into a fun, flavorful adventure that blends strategy, creativity, and delicious rewards.

## Review summary

Players largely find the game fun and engaging, with reviews noting it as a solid Cooking Diary-like experience. However, major drawbacks repeatedly mentioned are heavy ads, persistent bugs and freezes, limited content and unclear updates, and monetization concerns. Some compare it to Cooking Diary and view it as a clone. Overall sentiment ranges from positive to frustrated, largely depending on tolerance for ads, stability, and content cadence.

### Pros

- Fun, entertaining, and addictive cooking gameplay.
- Similar to Cooking Diary and appealing to fans of the genre.
- Can be relaxing and stress-relieving for players.

### Cons

- Excessive, intrusive ads (including long and forced pop-up ads).
- Frequent bugs and freezes (level/guild freezes, lag, crashes).
- Limited content and unclear update cadence (few restaurants/outfits; sparse updates).
- Monetization feels grindy/expensive (gem-based upgrades, costly upgrades).
- Perceived lack of originality (seen as a copy of Cooking Diary).

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1523253168)