Chess Openings vs Draft It! 38
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chess Openings
Master chess openings with this trainer. Memorize popular professional game sequences, explore over 1750 openings, and test your recall with randomized drills. Learn a new opening daily to enhance your chess strategy.
- Memorize popular openings
- Explore 1750+ openings
- Test memory with randomized openings
- Daily opening learning
- Learn grandmaster variations
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- Learn: Memorize the most popular openings played in professional games. - Browse: Explore 1750+ openings. - Test: Test your memory by going through randomized openings that you've memorized. - Daily Openings: Learn one random opening a day. Learning different opening sequences is critical in improving in chess. Chess Openings is an app that makes it easier for you to memorize all of your favorite openings. Browse through 1700 openings and learn variations of openings that grandmasters use.
Draft It! 38
Build your ultimate soccer team from a vast player pool and simulate a full season. Draft a manager to influence your team's style and strategy for ultimate domination.
- Build your dream starting XI
- Simulate a full soccer season
- Draft players from top leagues
- Recruit former players and legends
- Choose a manager for strategic flair
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Can you do the impossible? Can you do what no team has ever done before? Build your dream starting XI from the 2026/27 English top flight and simulate a full season and compete in the ultimate test of club soccer. With hundreds of players, you can build the ultimate team to dominate the English league. Choose from players only in England, or gather players from major teams and leagues around Europe and globally. Even bring back former players and legends to compete for your club. Draft a manager for extra style and flair, will you play attacking or park the bus? Your whole team and season may be drastically changed by the manager
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Draft It! 38 at 5.0 against Chess Openings's 3.2. Draft It! 38 also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 60%) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). Chess Openings's advantage is ratings volume (6 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). 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. Chess Openings sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Draft It! 38 asks for nothing beyond the download.
Draft It! 38 holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of Chess Openings's written reviews are positive against 100% of Draft It! 38's.
Chess Openings ships an update every 4 months, Draft It! 38 every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chess Openings | Draft It! 38 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hodgepodge Apps LLC | DYLAN YITAO WANG |
Customer experience
Chess Openings
Draft It! 38
In-app purchases
Chess Openings
- Remove Ads$2.99
- Unlimited Engine$2.99
- Extra Openings$3.99
Draft It! 38
No in-app purchases
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