SherlockForms vs Hexpawn
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Shape identification challenges
- Progressive difficulty with smaller shapes
- Visual acuity assessment tool
- Engaging gameplay for children
- Designed for visually impaired users
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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.
Hexpawn
This game features a chess AI that learns from every game you play. It starts with minimal knowledge but improves with each win, making it increasingly challenging. Experience a unique take on machine learning through strategic gameplay.
- Adaptive AI opponent
- Learns from player wins
- Increasing difficulty
- Simple pawn-only moves
- Machine learning demonstration
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Think you're smarter than a mindless iPhone app? Think again! HEXPAWN is just that: a computer that fits in your pocket and knows almost nothing. What does it know? Only the moves a pawn can make in chess. Oh yeah, and one other thing. Like the proverbial elephant or your seventh grade algebra teacher, it never forgets. So play HEXPAWN. You'll probably win the first few games. But every time you win, HEXPAWN remembers. And it will never make the same mistake twice... which means eventually, HEXPAWN will be impossible to defeat. Don't believe me? Go ahead. Try. See how long you can last against this brainless robot. I bet it won't be long. Enjoy this small dip into the world of machine learning and the eventual domination of the human race at the hands of our machine overlords.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Hexpawn at 4.5 against SherlockForms's 1.0. Hexpawn also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 12 months) and ratings volume (6 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Hexpawn holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hexpawn has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
SherlockForms ships an update every 12 months, Hexpawn every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on June 24, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SherlockForms | Hexpawn |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 4.5 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 10.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Amicale du Personel de l'institut pour Deficients Visuels | Garrett Milovich |
Customer experience
SherlockForms
Hexpawn
In-app purchases
SherlockForms
No in-app purchases
Hexpawn
No in-app purchases
