Rapid Chess vs iPlay Chess
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Rapid Chess
Engage in fast-paced online chess matches with a beautifully designed, user-friendly interface. Review past games to learn from mistakes and climb the leaderboard by challenging other players.
- Rapid, bullet, and blitz time controls
- Review past games for learning
- Challenge other users
- Create random matches
- Learn from other users' games
- Top 50 leaderboard
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Play a rapid online chess game when you are on the go. Enjoy playing your favorite game in an app, which is designed from the ground up with beauty and simplicity in mind. With its beautiful dark mode interface, which is easy on the eyes, this app will allow you to enjoy the game even more. • Play games with rapid, bullet and blitz style time controls • Learn from your mistakes by reviewing your past games. • Challenge other users • Create and play a random match with other users • Learn from other users by reviewing their games and scores • Get a spot on Top 50 leaderboard by winning more games and increasing your score
iPlay Chess
Engage in chess matches against powerful AI engines with customizable difficulty and playing styles. Enhance your skills with opening books, move hints, and detailed play statistics. Enjoy a personalized experience with custom boards, pieces, and sounds across multiple devices.
- Play against 6 top chess engines
- Customizable boards, pieces, and sounds
- Variety of opening books for all levels
- Adjustable opponent playing style
- Move highlights and hints
- Play statistics tracking
- iPad split screen support
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Play against 6 of the best chess engines, including Stockfish 13 and Leela Chess Zero. More engines will be added with next updates. Great interface for all platforms with custom boards and pieces, sounds and spoken moves. A variety of opening books for all levels can help you improve your game. You can customize your opponent's playing style by adjusting various options like engine strength, move time and increment, opening books variations. Other features: - highlights and hints for moves - support for multiple opening books - play stats - iPad split screen Constant updates will bring more features. Discover the planned roadmap in settings.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Rapid Chess at 5.0 against iPlay Chess's 4.0. Rapid Chess also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). iPlay Chess's advantage is ratings volume (6 vs 2). On price, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Rapid Chess holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 6 respectively.
| Parameter | Rapid Chess | iPlay Chess |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.0 (6 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 25 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.4 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 200 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Farid Rahmani | BEYTEK MUHENDISLIK SANAYI VE TICARET ANONIM SIRKETI |
Customer experience
Rapid Chess
iPlay Chess
In-app purchases
Rapid Chess
No in-app purchases
iPlay Chess
No in-app purchases
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