Go vs Chess Path App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Go
Enjoy the classic game of Go with a friend in person. This app offers a straightforward, no-account-required experience for two players sharing a device. Perfect for quick matches and learning the game together.
- Local multiplayer for two players
- No account required
- Simple interface
- Play on a single device
- Classic Go gameplay
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Play the game of Go with a friend across from you. No account required (though no networked games or ai). Simple as that!
Chess Path App
Learn chess through interactive board positions and tactical puzzles. Progress from basic piece movements to advanced checkmates with guided lessons and practice games against an AI opponent. Play offline and track your rating and progress.
- Interactive board position lessons
- Hundreds of tactical puzzles
- AI opponent for practice games
- Learn popular chess openings
- Offline play functionality
- Progress tracking and rating system
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Chess Path teaches chess the way you actually learn it: by moving the pieces. No lectures. Every lesson is a position on the board, and you solve it. Start wherever you are. Never played? Begin with how the pieces move. Already play? Jump into forks, pins, back-rank mates, and the hundreds of tactics lessons that follow, arranged as one path from your first move to real checkmates. LEARN 446 interactive lessons. Each one sets up a position, asks you to find the move, and tells you why it works. Get it wrong and Rookie explains it, then lets you try again. PLAY Games against Rookie, a chess engine who is unreasonably invested in your chess. She is proud when you win. When she loses she takes it very badly, and it is very funny. OPENINGS The Italian, Sicilian, French, London, Caro-Kann, Ruy Lopez and more, one move at a time. Every move we teach is the top choice in the masters database, so you learn what strong players actually play. BASICS How each piece moves, what check means, how to win. Short, on the board, done in minutes. YOUR RATING A Chess Path rating that climbs as you finish lessons and win games, and a streak for showing up, so you can see yourself getting better. WORKS OFFLINE Every lesson, every opening, and the engine are on your phone. Airplane mode is fine. Free. No ads.
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Verdict
Go and Chess Path App both sit at 4.4 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Chess Path App's written reviews are positive against 50% of Go's. Chess Path App also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 months) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Go's advantage is ratings volume (24 vs 5). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Go against 4.4 for Chess Path App. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 24 and 5 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of Go's written reviews are positive against 100% of Chess Path App's.
Go ships an update every 6 months, Chess Path App fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Go | Chess Path App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (24 ratings) — better | 4.4 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 24 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 111 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Flower From Rock, LLC | LEARN THROUGH STORIES LLC |
Customer experience
Go
Chess Path App
In-app purchases
Go
No in-app purchases
Chess Path App
No in-app purchases
