Lala's Kitchen

Kevin Wood Games iPhoneiPadiPod touch

Lala's Kitchen is a free Games app for iPhone and iPad by Kevin Wood. Requires iOS 15.1. Updated August 11, 2026.

Price: Free; on the App Store
Size: 47 MB; Age 4+
Updated: Aug 11; 2026 · v1.2

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About Lala's Kitchen

Welcome to Lala's Kitchen, a calm, cozy match-3 puzzle game built for players who want to unwind, not race a clock. There's no timer counting down. No energy meter forcing you to wait. No pressure to keep up. Just warm, hand-illustrated ingredients, satisfying matches, and a kitchen that's always ready when you are. FEATURES - Dozens of handcrafted levels, each with its own gentle challenge - Collect recipe cards as you play, building a real cookbook of rewards - Special combinations that spark satisfying chain reactions - A calm, player-controlled hint if you ever get stuck, never forced on you - Optional sound and haptics, off by default, because quiet is often better - Nothing to buy. Ever. Just play. Lala's Kitchen was built with one simple idea in mind: a puzzle game should feel like a warm afternoon in a kitchen you love, not another notification demanding your attention. Come cook, come relax, and take exactly as long as you'd like. The pot's always warming.

What’s new

Version 1.2 · Updated August 11, 2026

- Motion overhaul: swaps and falls now use real spring physics and distance-based timing (matching Candy Crush/Royal Match), replacing the old flat animations. Swap-anchor and spawn-anchor bugs fixed so special pieces fire and spawn exactly where you played them. - Distinct effect identity: every special-piece effect (sweeps, blasts, chain reactions, combos) now has its own real motion — a directional stretch, a radial pulse, sprite-crop debris — instead of a shared color wash. - Visual refresh: redesigned HUD built around Lala's mascot, a Home screen facelift, and a new illustrated, curved Level Map — including this session's fix for landmark art that was showing visible background blocks, plus a new seamless tiled backdrop. - Real audio: licensed match/cascade/win sound effects replace the old synthesized placeholders. - Engagement: "next recipe" hints on Home and the win screen, a real win-celebration moment, loop variety and win-tier rewards. - Bug fixes: escort pieces no longer favor the same starting columns, a manual-shuffle bug leaving a tile invisible for several moves, banner stacking behind tiles, and several smaller visual glitches. - Infrastructure: OTA update support is fully wired now, so future content-only updates (like today's art fix) can reach players without a store review cycle.

App privacy

The developer, Kevin Wood, reported these privacy practices to Apple.

Data Used to Track You

The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:

Location: Coarse Location
Identifiers: Device ID
Usage Data: Product Interaction, Advertising Data
Other Data: Other Data Types

Data Not Linked to You

The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:

Location: Coarse Location
Identifiers: Device ID
Usage Data: Product Interaction, Advertising Data
Other Data: Other Data Types

Used for: Third-Party Advertising

App details

Lala's Kitchen is a free Games app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, developed by Kevin Wood. It requires iOS 15.1 or later and is 47 MB to download. It was first released on July 18, 2026 and last updated on August 11, 2026.

Category: Games
Price: Free
Version: 1.2
Size: 47 MB
Requires: iOS 15.1 or later
Compatibility: iPhone, iPad, iPod touch
Languages: English
Age rating: 4+
Released: July 18, 2026
Last updated: August 11, 2026
Developer: Kevin Wood

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