Comparison

Reverse Color vs Chess

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Reverse Color

Engage in a strategic board game where the goal is to capture the most disks. Compete against players globally, friends, or AI opponents across various difficulty levels. Unlock achievements and customize your experience with different themes.

Highlights
  • Disk capturing gameplay
  • Global multiplayer matches
  • AI opponents with 3 difficulty levels
  • 2-player local mode
  • Worldwide leaderboards
  • Medal collection system
  • Multiple elegant themes
Features
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The classic board game: place your disc, trap your opponent's pieces and flip them to your color. Easy to learn, hard to master! Play your way: • 3 difficulty levels against the computer, from beginner to expert • 2 players on the same device • Online matches against players from all over the world • Hints that show your possible moves Make it yours: • 4 elegant themes: classic, wood, leather and red • Detailed statistics for every game mode • Game Center leaderboards and achievements • Full VoiceOver support • Designed for iPhone and iPad A quick match or a long challenge: a great way to train your mind and to teach kids a bit of strategy.

About

Chess

Enhance your chess skills with over 1400 tactical exercises designed for beginners. This app offers interactive lessons, hints, and explanations to help you learn new combinations and improve your game.

Highlights
  • Over 1400 tactical exercises
  • Interactive lessons with hints
  • Difficulty levels
  • Refutation of mistakes
  • Play positions against computer
  • Offline play
  • Rating monitoring
Features
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If you are a beginner, you just cannot afford to give away your piece in 1 move, presuming, of course, that you wish to improve your play! Another thing you cannot afford is to miss a chance of grabbing an undefended piece of your opponent's! This course includes more than 1400 exercises with a few pieces on the board. Such a great number of exercises makes this course an excellent tool for quick training of chess beginners. The course is intended for players who are already acquainted with the rules of the game. Even if you study and solve only 20% of exercises you are sure to improve your chess skills and not to miss a chance to take an undefended piece in your practical game! All the exercises are taken from practical games and arranged according to the names of pieces and difficulty levels. This course is in the series Chess King Learn (https://learn.chessking.com/), which is an unprecedented chess teaching method. In the series are included courses in tactics, strategy, openings, middle game, and endgame, split by levels from beginners to experienced players, and even professional players. With the help of this course, you can improve your chess knowledge, learn new tactical tricks and combinations, and consolidate the acquired knowledge into practice. The program acts as a coach who gives tasks to solve and helps to solve them if you get stuck. It will give you hints, explanations and show you even striking refutation of the mistakes you might make. Advantages of the program: • High quality examples, all double-checked for correctness • You need to enter all key moves, required by the teacher • Different levels of complexity of the tasks • Various goals, which need to be reached in the problems • The program gives hint if an error is made • For typical mistaken moves, the refutation is shown • You can play out any position of the tasks against the computer • Interactive theoretical lessons • Structured table of contents • The program monitors the change in the rating (ELO) of the player during the learning process • Test mode with flexible settings • Possibility to bookmark favorite exercises • The application is adapted to the bigger screen of a tablet • The application does not require an internet connection The course includes a free part, in which you can test the program. Lessons offered in the free version is fully functional. They allow you to test the application in real world conditions before releasing the following topics: 1. Part 1 1.1. Winning a knight 1.2. Winning a bishop 1.3. Winning a rook 1.4. Winning a queen 2. Part 2. Win a piece 2.1. Level 1 2.2. Level 2 2.3. Level 3 2.4. Level 4

Screenshots

Reverse Color4 screens
Chess4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Reverse Color at none against Chess's 1. Reverse Color also leads on ratings volume (439 vs 27). Chess's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 66%). On price, rating and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Chess sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Reverse Color asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Reverse Color against 4.7 for Chess. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Reverse Color has 439 ratings behind it against 27, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 66% of Reverse Color's written reviews are positive against 100% of Chess's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Reverse Color ships an update every 4 months, Chess every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Reverse Color versus Chess: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReverse ColorChess
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (439 ratings)4.7 (27 ratings) — better
Positive reviews65.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings439 — better27
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.08.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSonya MarcarelliChess King

Customer experience

Reverse Color

All ratings439 ratings
Positive91.8%
Neutral5.0%
Negative3.2%
Written reviews58 reviews
Positive65.5%
Neutral8.6%
Negative25.9%

Chess

All ratings27 ratings
Positive92.6%
Neutral3.7%
Negative3.7%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Reverse Color

Reported bugs

10 issues
  • App freezes after clearing
  • Screen freezes, requires restart
  • Invalid moves not recognized
  • Computer sets multiple times
  • Some valid moves not allowed
Show 5 more
  • Game freezes when winning
  • Privacy prompts repeated
  • Achievements not awarded
  • Wrench/gear buttons broken
  • Controls inaccessible

Requested features

5 requests
  • Option to pay to remove ads
  • More difficulty levels
  • Online multiplayer option
  • Adjustable AI difficulty
  • Option to play stronger opponents

Chess

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Reverse Color

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Chess

One-time1
  • Full course$3.99

Questions

Is Reverse Color free?
Reverse Color is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Chess free?
Chess is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Reverse Color or Chess?
Chess is rated higher. Reverse Color averages 4.6 out of 5 from 439 ratings, while Chess averages 4.7 from 27 ratings.
Do Reverse Color or Chess have ads?
Reverse Color shows ads; Chess does not.
Which is updated more often, Reverse Color or Chess?
Reverse Color ships an update every 4 months, and Chess every 6 weeks. Most recently, Reverse Color was updated on October 26, 2026 and Chess on October 24, 2026.

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