Comparison

Chess vs Tangle Ropes

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

Tangle Ropes

A relaxing puzzle game where you untangle colored ropes on a grid. Manipulate the ropes by switching positions, rotating, flipping, and changing colors to successfully untie them all.

Highlights
  • Untangle colored ropes
  • Grid-based puzzle
  • Switch positions
  • Rotate angles
  • Flip up and down
  • Change rope colors
Features
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“Tangle Ropes" is a Relax and Untangle Game. HOW TO PLAY? -------------- 1. On the six Palace grid, some colored ropes are distributed in random order; 2. You can adjust the board layout by switching positions, rotating angles, flipping up and down, and changing colors; 3. Make all color ropes untied to make the challenge successful -------------- We appreciate any feedback you may have and will apply it to future updates and features. With your continued support we'll do our best to turn out quality Apps.

Screenshots

Chess4 screens
Tangle Ropes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tangle Ropes at none against Chess's 1. Tangle Ropes also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 weeks). Chess's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 75%). On price, ratings volume, device support and iOS requirement 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. Tangle Ropes asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Chess holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 13 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Chess's written reviews are positive against 75% of Tangle Ropes's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Chess ships an update every 6 weeks, Tangle Ropes every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Chess versus Tangle Ropes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChessTangle Ropes
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (11 ratings) — better4.2 (13 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1113 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better9.0
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB44 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChess King其跃 吴

Customer experience

Chess

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

Tangle Ropes

All ratings13 ratings
Positive84.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative15.4%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Chess

One-time1
  • Full course$3.99
None

Tangle Ropes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Chess free?
Chess is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tangle Ropes free?
Tangle Ropes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Chess or Tangle Ropes?
Chess is rated higher. Chess averages 4.5 out of 5 from 11 ratings, while Tangle Ropes averages 4.2 from 13 ratings.
Do Chess or Tangle Ropes have ads?
Tangle Ropes shows ads; Chess does not.
Which is updated more often, Chess or Tangle Ropes?
Chess ships an update every 6 weeks, and Tangle Ropes every 3 weeks. Most recently, Chess was updated on September 25, 2026 and Tangle Ropes on October 12, 2026.

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