Brain Sharp vs ChessBased
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Brain Sharp
Sharpen your mind with a vast collection of fun, tricky, and challenging riddles. This game offers hundreds of hand-picked puzzles suitable for all ages, with easily accessible answers. Play offline and enjoy various riddle types.
- Hundreds of riddles and brain teasers
- Accessible answers with scratch
- Various riddle types (Who am I, Brain Riddles)
- Suitable for all age groups
- Offline play
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Sharp your brain with hundreds of fun, tricky and challenging riddles. This app contains only the best hand picked riddles for people of all ages (kids, teen and adults!). Features: ● Hundreds of riddles and brain teasers. ● All riddles have answers that are accessible easily with scratch. ● Contains various types of riddles such as Who am i and Brain Riddles suitable for all age group. ● No internet connection required to play this game.
ChessBased
Analyze chess openings with millions of games and advanced engine evaluations. Prepare like a grandmaster with a seamless interface, win-loss statistics, and move-by-move exploration. Save your favorite lines for later study on your iPhone or iPad.
- Millions of games database
- Stockfish 18 engine evaluations
- Win-loss statistics
- Move-by-move exploration
- Save favorite lines
- Seamless UI
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Now with Stockfish 19!! The only chess app with the strongest chess player on the planet in your pocket. ChessBased:Stockfish 19 takes opening analysis to a whole new level. At a glance, users see a seamless UI of openings databases with millions of games, win-loss statistics, and depth 60+ (!!) Stockfish 19 evaluations. That's right. With trillions of positions in the engine database, we did the hard work for you when it comes to looking at evals in your favorite chess openings. Now you can prepare like Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura, without having to spend thousands on expensive hardware. Explore openings move by move, compare master-game trends, review engine-backed recommendations, and save your favorite lines in Lichess-like fashion for later study. ChessBased is built for fast, focused preparation on iPhone and iPad, whether you’re checking a tournament line, building a repertoire, or just curious what a depth 60+, 192 core engine thinks. Simple UI. Powerful engine. Better prep.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Brain Sharp at 4.7 against ChessBased's 4.0. Brain Sharp also leads on ratings volume (57 vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Brain Sharp sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and ChessBased sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Brain Sharp holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Brain Sharp has 57 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Brain Sharp | ChessBased |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (57 ratings) — better | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 57 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hanja Devi | ENVISIONAIRY LLC |
Customer experience
Brain Sharp
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In-app purchases
Brain Sharp
- Remove Ads Forever Feature$2.99
ChessBased
- ChessBased: Stockfish 18$4.99
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