Hitori vs Lichess
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hitori
A logic puzzle game where players eliminate numbers in a grid. The goal is to ensure remaining numbers appear only once per row and column, with specific adjacency rules for filled cells.
- Grid-based number puzzles
- Eliminate duplicate numbers
- Row and column uniqueness
- Adjacency rules for filled cells
- Single connected component for remaining cells
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Hitori is one of the puzzle game. The rule is simple. Hitori is played with a grid of squares or cells, and each cell contains a number. The objective is to eliminate numbers by filling in the squares such that remaining cells do not contain numbers that appear more than once in either a given row or column. Filled-in cells cannot be horizontally or vertically adjacent, although they can be diagonally adjacent. The remaining un-filled cells must form a single component connected horizontally and vertically.
Lichess
Play chess online with millions of users, participate in tournaments, solve puzzles, and analyze games. This free and open-source application offers a comprehensive chess experience for players of all levels, with features for learning and casual play.
- Real-time and correspondence chess
- Arena tournaments
- Chess puzzles
- Game analysis with Stockfish
- Interactive study feature
- Chess clock
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Lichess is a free/libre, open-source chess application powered by volunteers and donations. Today, Lichess users play more than five million games every day. Lichess is one of the most popular chess websites in the world while remaining 100% free. The following features are available right now: - play real time or correspondence chess - play arena tournaments - play against online bots - solve chess puzzles from a wide variety of themes, online or offline - race against the clock in Puzzle Storm - analyse your games with latest Stockfish locally or on the server - board editor - study chess with a collaborative and interactive study feature - learn board coordinates - play over the board with a friend - watch live chess broadcasts from all major chess tournaments - watch Lichess TV and online streamers - use a chess clock for your over the board games - many different board themes and piece sets - custom background themes - translated into 55 languages
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Hitori at 4.8 against Lichess's 4.1. Hitori also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 16.0). Lichess's advantage is ratings volume (813 vs 6) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Hitori holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lichess has 813 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 40% of Hitori's written reviews are positive against 53% of Lichess's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Hitori ships an update every 2 months, Lichess fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hitori | Lichess |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (6 ratings) — better | 4.1 (813 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews | 53.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 813 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | — | #40 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 109 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yuki Fujimoto | LICHESS.ORG |
Customer experience
Hitori
Lichess
Bugs and requests
Hitori
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Lichess
Reported bugs
1 issue- Swipe-to-go-back gesture interferes with piece placement
Requested features
3 requests- Name of opening in opening explorer
- Ability to add and subtract additional things on the homepage
- Reset/replay button on puzzles
In-app purchases
Hitori
No in-app purchases
Lichess
No in-app purchases
Questions
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