Comparison

Kachu vs Cheqmate.

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Kachu

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Good gatherings deserve more than a crowded group chat. Kachu brings your plans, people, photos, and memories together in a shared space for each event. From a birthday dinner to a weekend trip, everyone has one place to follow the plan and share the moment. MAKE A PLAN Create an event, set the date and time, and keep the details together. Invite people with a link or code, and manage requests to join when host approval is enabled. KEEP EVERYONE IN THE LOOP Share updates, ask questions, and use polls to make decisions together. Conversations stay with the event, so the details are easy to find. SHARE THE MOMENT Post photos and updates while you are together. Guests can contribute their own moments, comment, and react in the same event space. KEEP THE MEMORIES When the gathering ends, return to its photos and posts in your memory vault. Revisit the people and moments that made it special. MADE FOR YOUR PEOPLE Use Kachu for birthdays, dinners, reunions, trips, and everyday get-togethers with friends and family. Each space centers on one event and the people taking part. Plan it. Live it. Keep the memory.

About

Cheqmate.

Discover real-time activity in your city through live photos and videos from users at various locations. Ask questions to people on-site for instant intel on crowds, wait times, and the general vibe. Connect with friends who are also out and explore new places.

Highlights
  • Live map of city activity
  • Real-time photos and videos
  • Ask questions to users on-site
  • See friends' current locations
  • Explore new venues
  • Anonymized check-ins
Features
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It's 11pm. You walk out of a bar and the night's not over — but now what? You text three group chats: "anyone out?" … "where are you?" … "come meet us?" Half don't answer. The ones who do are across town. By the time you've pieced it together, the moment's gone. Cheqmate fixes that. Open the app and see a live, anonymized map of where your city is actually going — right now. The bars and spots lighting up tonight, in real photos and video from the people already there. Tap a spot and you're watching it live. And here's the part that changes everything: you can ask. Drop a comment on any live cheq-in — "how long's the line?" … "any free tables?" … "is it worth the trek?" — and hear back from people who are literally standing there. No more guessing. No more group-chat roulette. HOW IT WORKS • The Live Map — See where your city's going in real time, in live photos and video. Filter by your friends or by everyone. • Cheq-Ins — A quick photo or video from the spot. One tap tells your friends you're out and lights up the map. Anonymous to strangers, visible to your friends. • Ask the room — Comment on any live cheq-in and get real-time answers from the people there: the line, the wait, the vibe, the cover. Intel you can't get from a week-old review. • Friends out — See which friends are out right now and where, so you can go meet them instead of hunting them down. • Explore — A grid of what's good across the city. Stumble onto spots you'd never have found. WHY CHEQMATE It can't be faked from a couch. A cheq-in happens at the place — so "it's poppin' right now" is real, not a post, and the person you're asking is actually there. Stop texting five group chats. Open Cheqmate and see where the night's going.

Screenshots

Kachu4 screens
Cheqmate.4 screens

Verdict

The call

Kachu and Cheqmate. are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Kachu ships an update every 2 weeks, Cheqmate. weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Kachu versus Cheqmate.: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKachuCheqmate.
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (9 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—9 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.5 — better16.2
Further details — not scored
Size75 MB121 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperPretheesh ThomasAkwi Ohiaeri

In-app purchases

None

Kachu

No in-app purchases

None

Cheqmate.

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Kachu free?
Kachu is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cheqmate. free?
Cheqmate. is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Kachu or Cheqmate. have ads?
Neither Kachu nor Cheqmate. shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Kachu or Cheqmate.?
Kachu ships an update every 2 weeks, and Cheqmate. weekly. Most recently, Kachu was updated on November 7, 2026 and Cheqmate. on November 5, 2026.

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