Comparison

Marble Solitaire vs Fidchell

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

Head to head
About

Marble Solitaire

This is a classic board game where the objective is to remove marbles by strategically jumping them over each other. It offers a variety of board layouts and a hint feature to help solve puzzles. The game provides hours of strategic fun and a leaderboard for competition.

Highlights
  • Multiple board types
  • Strategic marble jumping
  • Hint feature
  • Leaderboard
  • Hours of fun
Features
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Marble Solitaire is a board game involving movements of marbles on a board with pegs. The goal of the game is to remove marbles from a board till you last possible step.

 ◆ 35 Types of levels ◆ In app purchase - Remove advertisement ◆ Leaderboard 1. Classic - Classic Marble Solitaire board
 2. Random - You can’t make strategy with Marble Solitaire
 3. Marshal - 25 Marble Solitaire square board
 4. Pro - 25 Marble Solitaire square board ( Random )
 5. Alpha - 37 Marble Solitaire octagon board
 6. Master’s - 37 Marble Solitaire octagon board ( Random ) 7. Cross - 6 Marble Solitaire cross board 8. Plus - 9 Marble Solitaire plus board 9. Pyramid - 16 Marble Solitaire pyramid board 10. Arrow - 14 Marble Solitaire arrow board 11. Skull - 25 Marble Solitaire skull board 12. Diamond - 24 Marble Solitaire diamond board 13. Galaxy - 25 Marble Solitaire galaxy board 14. Square - 25 Marble Solitaire invert square board 15. Octagon - 29 Marble Solitaire octagon board 16. Axel - 4 Marble Solitaire Axel board 17. Bender - 4 Marble Solitaire Bender board 18. Rockers - 5 Marbles Rockers board 19. Ferris - 5 Marble Solitaire Ferris board 20. Bosco - 6 Marble Solitaire Bosco board 21. Johnny 5 - 6 Marble Solitaire Johnny 5 board 22. Freddy - 7 Marble Solitaire Freddy board 23. Maverick - 7 Marble Solitaire Maverick board 24. Optimus - 7 Marble Solitaire Optimus board 25. Rambo - 8 Marble Solitaire Rambo board 26. McFly - 8 Marble Solitaire McFly board 27. Magnum - 8 Marble Solitaire Magnum board 28. Spazzy - 8 Marble Solitaire Spazzy board 29. Excellent - 9 Marble Solitaire Excellent board 30. New Wave - 9 Marble Solitaire New Wave board 31. Primo - 9 Marble Solitaire Primo board 32. Chill Pill - 9 Marble Solitaire Chill Pill board 33. Freaks - 10 Marble Solitaire Freaks board 34. Try your luck - 10 Marble Solitaire Try your luck board 35. Enrique - 10 Marble Solitaire Enrique board Marble Solitaire brain game is also known as Brainvita.

To play with this Marble Solitaire game, you need to remove marbles by jumping over them with another marble. You can only make horizontal and vertical jumps. Try to leave the least number of marbles as possible. If no moves are possible and several marbles are still on the board, GAME IS OVER! You must restart to try again.

 Hint feature is available to solve Marble Solitaire. 
It takes deep concentration to find the solution of the Brainvita board game. 
It's just hours of strategic fun! A wonderful, simple, addictive game! 
 Colorful marbles make a stunning combination that looks great on screen. Terms of Service / EULA:
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About

Fidchell

Experience an ancient Celtic board game with strategic piece capturing. Play against AI or human opponents offline or online, with two distinct game variants.

Highlights
  • Ancient Celtic board game
  • Piece trapping capture mechanic
  • Two game variants (basic and advanced)
  • Offline play vs AI or human
  • Asynchronous online multiplayer
  • Ad-free option via IAP
Features
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Fidchell, which is also called Faery Chess or Celtic Chess, is an ancient celtic game which was mentioned in multiple Irish epics and chronicles. Under the name of Gwyddbwyll it also appears in the Welsh Mabinogion and seems to have been held in peculiar reverence throughout the British Isles. Faery Chess is what emerged from Nigel Suckling's investigations and speculations about the lost game. The game is played an a board consisting of circles and lines on which the game pieces are placed and can move along. Similar to games like the ancient abstract board game Nine Men's Morris the pieces are first placed onto the board in turn and moved afterwards once all of them have been placed. The capturing of pieces works differently though and is alike to Tafl games: a piece gets captured if a player traps it between two of his own pieces. This even grants him another move with which he may trap another one and so on. The app features two variants of the game: the basic edition which is easier to understand and where both players are treated equally and the advanced version which has different goals for both players. The general goal is to connect the central Naval stone with the border of the board by forming a connected line of stones. This app features both game modes for offline play against a human or the computer/AI and asynchronous online play against humans. The app is ad supported. These ads can be permanently deactivated through an one-time In App Purchase (IAP).

Screenshots

Marble Solitaire4 screens
Fidchell2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Marble Solitaire at none against Fidchell's shown. Marble Solitaire also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). Fidchell's advantage is monetization model (ad-supported vs free with in-app purchases) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Marble Solitaire sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.49 per month and Fidchell sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.1 for Marble Solitaire against 4.1 for Fidchell. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 16 and 7 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 79% of Marble Solitaire's written reviews are positive against 80% of Fidchell's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Marble Solitaire ships an update every 3 weeks, Fidchell every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Marble Solitaire versus Fidchell: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMarble SolitaireFidchell
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (16 ratings)4.1 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews78.6% of reviews80.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings16 — better7
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size64 MB225 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChintan ShahPhilippe Schober

Customer experience

Marble Solitaire

All ratings16 ratings
Positive68.8%
Neutral12.5%
Negative18.8%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive78.6%
Neutral7.1%
Negative14.3%

Fidchell

All ratings7 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Marble Solitaire

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Plan3 Days trial$0.491 Month
  • Yearly Plan7 Days trial$2.991 Year
One-time2
  • Remove Ads$1.99
  • Lifetime Plan$9.99
1 purchases

Fidchell

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$2.99

Questions

Is Marble Solitaire free?
Marble Solitaire is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Fidchell free?
Fidchell is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Marble Solitaire or Fidchell?
Fidchell is rated higher. Marble Solitaire averages 4.1 out of 5 from 16 ratings, while Fidchell averages 4.1 from 7 ratings.
Do Marble Solitaire or Fidchell have ads?
Fidchell shows ads; Marble Solitaire does not.
Which is updated more often, Marble Solitaire or Fidchell?
Marble Solitaire ships an update every 3 weeks, and Fidchell every 3 months. Most recently, Marble Solitaire was updated on November 2, 2026 and Fidchell on November 3, 2026.

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