Upgrades
Cookie Clicker has 875 upgrades. The table below lists every upgrade with its effect and type. Normal upgrades are bought with cookies and most boost a specific building (tiered upgrades double a building's output) or your clicking; 67 are prestige (heavenly) upgrades unlocked in the Heavenly Chips tree, bought with the prestige currency you gain by ascending. Filter by type and building to plan which upgrades to prioritise for cookies-per-second growth.
| Name ▲ | Description |
|---|---|
| Persistent memory | Subsequent research will be <b>%1 times</b> as fast. |
| Bunny biscuit | Triggers <b>%1 season</b> for the next 24 hours.<br>Triggering another season will cancel this one.… |
| Box of macarons | Contains an assortment of macarons. |
| Box of brand biscuits | Contains an assortment of popular biscuits. |
| Permanent upgrade slot I | Click to activate. |
| Starsnow | Christmas cookies drop <b>%1%</b> more often. |
| Starterror | Spooky cookies drop <b>%1%</b> more often. |
| Starlove | Heart cookies are <b>%1%</b> more powerful. |
| Startrade | Golden cookies appear <b>%1%</b> more often during %2. |
| Angels | You now <b>keep making cookies while the game is closed</b>, at the rate of <b>%1%</b> of your regu… |
| Heavenly luck | Golden cookies appear <b>%1%</b> more often. |
| Lasting fortune | Golden cookie effects last <b>%1%</b> longer. |
| Decisive fate | Golden cookies stay <b>%1%</b> longer. |
| Divine discount | All buildings are <b>%1% cheaper</b>. |
| Divine sales | All upgrades are <b>%1% cheaper</b>. |
| Divine bakeries | Cookie upgrades are <b>%1 times cheaper</b>. |
| Starter kit | You start with <b>%1</b>. |
| Starter kitchen | You start with <b>%1</b>. |
| Halo gloves | Clicking is <b>%1%</b> more powerful. |
| Kitten angels | — |
| Unholy bait | Wrinklers appear <b>%1 times</b> as fast. |
| Sacrilegious corruption | Wrinklers explode into <b>%1% more cookies</b>. |
| Kitten accountants | Allows you to purchase a <b>crumbly egg</b> once you have earned 1 million cookies. |
| Chimera | Synergy upgrades are <b>%1% cheaper</b>. |
| Golden switch | Unlocks the <b>golden switch</b>, which passively boosts your CpS by %1% but disables golden cookie… |
| Classic dairy selection | Unlocks the <b>milk selector</b>, letting you pick which milk is displayed under your cookie.<br>Co… |
| Fanciful dairy selection | Contains more exotic flavors for your milk selector. |
| Belphegor | Unlocks the <b>golden cookie sound selector</b>, which lets you pick whether golden cookies emit a … |
| Basic wallpaper assortment | Unlocks the <b>background selector</b>, letting you select the game's background.<br>Comes with a v… |
| Legacy | This is the first heavenly upgrade; it unlocks the <b>Heavenly chips</b> system.<div class="line"><… |
| Elder spice | You can attract <b>%1 more wrinklers</b>. |
| Residual luck | While the golden switch is on, you gain an additional <b>+%1% CpS</b> per golden cookie upgrade own… |
| Five-finger discount | All upgrades are <b>%1% cheaper per %2</b>. |
| Synergies Vol. II | Unlocks a new tier of upgrades that affect <b>2 buildings at the same time</b>.<br>Synergies appear… |
| Heavenly cookies | Cookie production multiplier <b>+%1% permanently</b>. |
| Wrinkly cookies | Cookie production multiplier <b>+%1% permanently</b>. |
| Distilled essence of redoubled luck | Golden cookies (and all other things that spawn, such as reindeer) have <b>%1% chance of being doub… |
| Stevia Caelestis | Sugar lumps ripen <b>%1</b> sooner. |
| Diabetica Daemonicus | Sugar lumps mature <b>%1</b> sooner. |
| Sucralosia Inutilis | Bifurcated sugar lumps appear <b>%1% more often</b> and are <b>%2% more likely</b> to drop 2 lumps. |
| Lucky digit | <b>+%1%</b> prestige level effect on CpS.<br><b>+%2%</b> golden cookie effect duration.<br><b>+%3%<… |
| Lucky number | <b>+%1%</b> prestige level effect on CpS.<br><b>+%2%</b> golden cookie effect duration.<br><b>+%3%<… |
| Lucky payout | <b>+%1%</b> prestige level effect on CpS.<br><b>+%2%</b> golden cookie effect duration.<br><b>+%3%<… |
| Kitten assistants to the regional manager | Each unspent sugar lump (up to %1) gives <b>+%2% CpS</b>.<div class="warning">Note: this means that… |
| Sugar craving | Once an ascension, you may use the "Sugar frenzy" switch to <b>triple your CpS</b> for 1 hour, at t… |
| Sugar aging process | Each grandma (up to %1) makes sugar lumps ripen <b>%2</b> sooner. |
| Ichor syrup | You gain another <b>+%1%</b> of your regular CpS while the game is closed. |
| Inspired checklist | Unlocks the <b>Buy all</b> feature, which lets you instantly purchase every upgrade in your store (… |
| Label printer | Mouse over an upgrade to see its tier.<br><small>Note: only some upgrades have tiers. Tiers are pur… |
| Heralds | You now benefit from the boost provided by <b>heralds</b>.<br>Each herald gives you <b>+1% CpS</b>.… |
| Keepsakes | Seasonal random drops have a <b>1/5 chance</b> to carry over through ascensions. |
| Sugar crystal cookies | Cookie production multiplier <b>+%1% permanently</b>. |
| Box of maybe cookies | Contains an assortment of...something. |
| Box of not cookies | Contains an assortment of...something. |
| Box of pastries | Contains an assortment of delicious pastries. |
| Genius accounting | Unlocks <b>extra price information</b>.<br>Each displayed cost now specifies how long it'll take yo… |
| Shimmering veil | Unlocks the <b>shimmering veil</b>, a switch that passively boosts your CpS by <b>%1%</b>.<br>You s… |
| Cosmic beginner's luck | Prior to purchasing the <b>%1</b> upgrade in a run, random drops are <b>%2 times more common</b>. |
| Kitten wages | Through clever accounting, this actually makes kitten upgrades <b>%1% cheaper</b>. |
| Pet the dragon | Unlocks the ability to <b>pet your dragon</b> by clicking on it once hatched. |
| Cat ladies | Each kitten upgrade boosts %1 CpS by <b>%2%</b>. |
| Milkhelp® lactose intolerance relief tablets | Each rank of milk boosts %1 CpS by <b>%2%</b>. |
| Aura gloves | Cursor levels boost clicks by <b>%1%</b> each (up to cursor level %2). |
| Luminous gloves | <b>%1</b> are now effective up to cursor level %2. |
| Kitten admins | Tiered upgrades for <b>%1</b> provide an extra <b>+%2%</b> production.<br>Only works with unshackle… |
| Sound test | Unlocks the <b>jukebox</b>, which allows you to play through every sound file in the game. |
| Wrapping paper | You may now send and receive gifts with other players through buttons in the top-right of the %1 me… |