Comparison

Chess vs SherlockForms

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

Head to head
About

Chess

Enhance your chess skills with over 1500 tactical exercises drawn from real games. This app provides hints, explanations, and refutations to help beginners improve their play and learn new combinations. It acts as a personal coach, adapting to your progress and offering interactive lessons.

Highlights
  • Over 1500 tactical exercises
  • Hints and explanations
  • Refutations of mistakes
  • Interactive theoretical lessons
  • Progress monitoring (ELO rating)
  • Offline play
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 1500 exercises with lots of 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 2.5. Level 5 2.6. Level 6 2.7. Level 7 2.8. Level 8

About

SherlockForms

A simple game designed to help visually impaired children identify shapes. It progresses through levels with increasingly smaller shapes, aiding supervisors in assessing visual acuity while keeping children engaged.

Highlights
  • Shape identification challenges
  • Progressive difficulty with smaller shapes
  • Visual acuity assessment tool
  • Engaging gameplay for children
  • Designed for visually impaired users
Features
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This little game is geared towards visually impaired children. The player is tasked to find a specific shape in a set of various other shapes. Over the course of the levels the shapes get smaller and smaller. The intention is to enable a supervisor to more easily asses the child's approximate visual acuity; all the while keeping the child entertained.

Screenshots

Chess4 screens
SherlockForms3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Chess at 4.5 against SherlockForms's 1.0. Chess also leads on update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 12 months) and ratings volume (11 vs 1). SherlockForms's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On price, ads 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. SherlockForms asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Chess holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chess has 11 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Chess ships an update every 6 weeks, SherlockForms every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and June 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Chess versus SherlockForms: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChessSherlockForms
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (11 ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks — betterEvery 12 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChess KingAmicale du Personel de l'institut pour Deficients Visuels

Customer experience

Chess

All ratings11 ratings
Positive81.8%
Neutral9.1%
Negative9.1%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

SherlockForms

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Chess

One-time1
  • Full course$3.99
None

SherlockForms

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Chess free?
Chess is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SherlockForms free?
SherlockForms is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Chess or SherlockForms?
Chess is rated higher. Chess averages 4.5 out of 5 from 11 ratings, while SherlockForms averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Chess or SherlockForms have ads?
Neither Chess nor SherlockForms shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Chess or SherlockForms?
Chess ships an update every 6 weeks, and SherlockForms every 12 months. Most recently, Chess was updated on September 10, 2026 and SherlockForms on June 24, 2026.

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