Vexed+ vs Chess Peace
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Vexed+
A modern port of the classic Vexed puzzle game, offering over 2800 challenging levels. Engage your mind with this timeless logic challenge.
- Classic puzzle gameplay
- Over 2800 levels
- Modern port
- Logic challenge
- Timeless game
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Vexed+ is Port of Classic puzzle game 'Vexed'. 2800+ levels are available.
Chess Peace
Engage in a peaceful chess puzzle experience offline, with no ads or account required. It offers thousands of challenges suitable for all skill levels, from beginners to grandmasters, with daily puzzles and extensive customization options.
- Offline play
- No ads or account required
- Thousands of puzzles
- Daily Puzzle feature
- Extensive customization
- Progress syncing via iCloud
- Accessibility options
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• A peaceful chess puzzle, played offline with no ads or account • No chess knowledge required — a new challenge for grandmasters and beginners alike • Thousands of puzzles plus a free Daily Puzzle every day • Available on iPhone, iPad & Mac, with your progress & settings synced via iCloud With over 26,500 unique puzzles across three difficulties and five different puzzle types, and a new Daily Puzzle every day, you play with just the board and six piece types — King, Queen, Rook (Castle), Bishop, Knight and Pawn — to find each satisfying solution. -- Daily Puzzles -- Build your streak by playing a new Daily Puzzle every day, share with other players via our Wordle-style solve grid, as well as a customised image showing the puzzle alongside the stats of your solve. -- Five Unique Puzzle Modes -- • Classic: One of each piece, one board, no captures. • Multiples: Some pieces are copies of each other. Same rule applies: no captures, only peace. • Two-Colour: White and black pieces share the board. Pieces only threaten the opposing colour. • Islands: Two boards, one puzzle. Only the Knight can jump the gap. • Presets: Some positions are revealed, but the pieces remain unknown. -- Find Your Zen through endless customisation -- Unprecedented personal customisation of the gameplay screen and menus, including subtly animated backgrounds, on/off toggles for nearly every visual element, and three distinct sets of gameplay sounds. Find your own Chess Peace in every puzzle, with customisation synced across devices. Also choose from many app-wide colour themes, board styles, and over 30 alternate app icons. -- Great chess learning tool, with no experience required -- If you're not a chess player, don't worry — Chess Peace teaches you everything you need to know, with a quick refresher on hand whenever you need it, as well as an optional possible moves system that shows every move possible by any piece on the board. -- Complete play history & in-depth statistics -- Replay your every solve move-by-move, and track your progress with granular statistics. Not your thing? Hide them using Zen and never seem them again. -- No data connection or account -- Everything is stored inside the app, with no connection required and no data collected. Your progress is synced via iCloud, available only to you. -- Home & Lock Screen Widgets -- Add some Chess Peace to your home and lock screens and jump straight into your next puzzle, or keep up your Daily Puzzle streak. -- Accessibility -- As well as supporting iOS Accessibility options, several additional accessibility features make Chess Peace as inclusive as possible, including colourblind mode, high contrast, bold icons, letters instead of piece icons, large text, reduced motion, and adaptable controls that can be brought to the top or bottom of the screen.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Chess Peace at Free against Vexed+'s $0.99. Chess Peace also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.4) and ratings volume (140 vs 5). Vexed+'s advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly). On 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
Chess Peace is free to download; Vexed+ costs $0.99 up front. Chess Peace sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Vexed+ asks for nothing beyond the download.
Chess Peace holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chess Peace has 140 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Vexed+'s written reviews are positive against 89% of Chess Peace's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Vexed+ ships an update every 3 days, Chess Peace fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Vexed+ | Chess Peace |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.4 (5 ratings) | 4.9 (140 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 89.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 140 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 186 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sanghoon Lee | Sam Shepherd |
Customer experience
Vexed+
Chess Peace
In-app purchases
Vexed+
No in-app purchases
Chess Peace
- Premium Unlock$8.99
- Premium Unlock$11.99









