Lucid Chess vs Chess Evolutions
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lucid Chess
Engage in a focused single-player chess experience with AI opponents. Analyze your games with move-quality feedback and compare candidate moves highlighted by color. Customize your play with various themes and helpful controls.
- AI opponent levels 1-9
- Lucid Lens candidate move highlighting
- Recent game review panel
- Move-quality feedback
- Multiple board themes
- Undo and hint controls
- Blunder alerts
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Lucid Chess is a focused single-player chess game built for mobile play. Choose white or black, set the AI level from 1 to 9, and start a match on a clear 8x8 board. When you select a piece, Lucid Lens marks candidate moves with colors so you can compare good, stable, and risky options before moving. The recent game panel lets you replay the latest saved move record in a read-only review mode and check accuracy with move-quality feedback. The game also includes Classic, Ocean, Forest, and Mono board themes, plus new game, undo, hint, and blunder alert controls.
Chess Evolutions
Explore a reimagined chess experience with custom armies and unique pieces. Discover new strategies and gameplay modes beyond traditional chess. This game is designed for continuous growth with future updates.
- Customizable armies with point budgets
- Fairy chess pieces
- New gameplay modes
- Traditional chess matches
- Strategic experimentation
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Chess Evolutions reimagines the classic game of chess with new pieces, custom armies, and new ways to play. Build your own army within a point budget, experiment with fairy chess pieces, and discover strategies that aren't possible in traditional chess. Play classic-style matches or explore more advanced ways to build and battle. Chess Evolutions is designed to grow over time with new pieces, features, and ways to play.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Chess Evolutions at none against Lucid Chess's shown. Chess Evolutions also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, rating, ratings volume and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Lucid Chess against 5.0 for Chess Evolutions. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | Lucid Chess | Chess Evolutions |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 82 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Seori Labs | FAITH ILYSE KAUFMAN |
In-app purchases
Lucid Chess
No in-app purchases
Chess Evolutions
No in-app purchases
