# Chef Friends: Cooking Game

> Cook and Makeover Restaurants!

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1586951898](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1586951898)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1586951898`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Mytona
- **Category:** Simulation
- **Rating:** 4.90 / 5 (21,627 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.48.05
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-11
- **First published:** 2023-07-05
- **Size:** 805 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-16
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chef-friends-cooking-game/id1586951898)
- **Website:** [http://www.mytona.com/](http://www.mytona.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.mytona.com/privacy-policy.html](https://www.mytona.com/privacy-policy.html)

## Description

Play as a virtuoso chef in a vibrant cooking puzzle game where you renovate cafes and restaurants worldwide. Master diverse cuisines, upgrade kitchens, design interiors, and lead a team of restorers through delicious challenges.

Defend the culinary world from the greedy Fast Food Empire, participate in events, and team up with other chefs. Free updates add new restaurants, levels, and rewards in the Cooking Diary universe.

## Rankings

- #10,861 — Overall
- #39 — friend
- #89 — project

## Review summary

Players praise Chef Friends for its visuals, story, customization, ad-free experience, and fair progression without mandatory spending, plus responsive support. The main negatives center on monetization: levels often gated by purchases, currency balancing issues, and recurring performance problems after updates. Several reviews also note paywall-like design choices and level design that pressures spending.

### Pros

- Stunning graphics, engaging story, and satisfying restaurant-building customization.
- Ad-free gameplay with no mandatory ads.
- Progression is possible without forcing purchases; upgrades are affordable.
- Well-paced difficulty and enjoyable challenge.
- Responsive, helpful customer support from the developers.

### Cons

- Pay-to-progress gating: many levels feel blocked unless you spend gems/diamonds or time extensions.
- In-game currency balancing issues: coins and rubies are scarce or devalue between levels, making upgrades frustrating.
- Frequent loading and performance problems, including lag and slow loading after updates, sometimes on newer devices.
- Updates that increase costs or pressure to monetize, making progression feel less fair.
- Some levels seem designed to push purchases to pass, creating a paywall impression.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1586951898)