Chess Traps vs Pocket Chess
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chess Traps
Learn to exploit opponent errors with strategic chess maneuvers. This game focuses on tactical traps to gain an advantage.
- Exploit opponent mistakes
- Strategic chess maneuvers
- Tactical trap learning
- Gain positional advantage
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Chess trappings can effectively exploit the opponent's mistakes.
Pocket Chess
Enhance your chess skills with hundreds of challenging chess problems and puzzles. This app focuses on simplified boards to help you quickly recognize chess patterns and improve your game.
- Hundreds of chess problems
- Checkmate in 2 and 4 puzzles
- Simplified boards for pattern recognition
- Improve chess game
- Learn chess patterns faster
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Pocket Chess helps you improve and brush up on your Chess by offering hundreds of thought provoking Chess problems and Chess puzzles. From Checkmate in 2 to Checkmate in 4 and much more! Pocket Chess is a new way to learn and improve at Chess. Featuring boards that are small and simple, important pieces are in focus so that you can learn to recognise Chess patterns faster and quicker. Improve your Chess Game and Download Now for free!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pocket Chess at 4.6 against Chess Traps's 4.0. Pocket Chess also leads on ratings volume (15K vs 2) and chart position (#119 vs unranked). Chess Traps's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 9) and ads (none vs shown). On price 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. Pocket Chess sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Chess Traps asks for nothing beyond the download.
Pocket Chess holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pocket Chess has 15K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Chess Traps's written reviews are positive against 61% of Pocket Chess's.
| Parameter | Chess Traps | Pocket Chess |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) | 4.6 (15K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 61.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 15K — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | — | #119 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 68 MB | 199 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nguyen Dinh Anh | Lessmore GmbH |
Customer experience
Chess Traps
Pocket Chess
Bugs and requests
Chess Traps
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Pocket Chess
Reported bugs
3 issues- Progress data loss
- Incorrect checkmate solutions
- Game freezing after certain moves
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to review past puzzles
- More advanced puzzles and levels
- Option to disable audio/music
- Sync progress across devices
In-app purchases
Chess Traps
No in-app purchases
Pocket Chess
- Small Coin Bundle$1.99
- Remove Ads2 variants$4.99
- Starter Package2 variants$4.99
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- Event Offer$4.99
- Medium Coin Bundle$5.99
- Large Coin Bundle$11.99
- Super Coin Bundle$25.99
Questions
Is Chess Traps free?
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