Comparison

Brain Sharp vs ChessBased

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Millions of games database
  • Stockfish 18 engine evaluations
  • Win-loss statistics
  • Move-by-move exploration
  • Save favorite lines
  • Seamless UI
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Brain Sharp3 screens
ChessBased3 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Brain Sharp versus ChessBased: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBrain SharpChessBased
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (57 ratings) — better4.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings57 — better1
Update frequency—Every 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS11.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHanja DeviENVISIONAIRY LLC

Customer experience

Brain Sharp

All ratings57 ratings
Positive91.2%
Neutral3.5%
Negative5.3%

ChessBased

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Brain Sharp

One-time1
  • Remove Ads Forever Feature$2.99
1 purchases

ChessBased

One-time1
  • ChessBased: Stockfish 18$4.99

Questions

Is Brain Sharp free?
Brain Sharp is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ChessBased free?
ChessBased is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Brain Sharp or ChessBased?
Brain Sharp is rated higher. Brain Sharp averages 4.7 out of 5 from 57 ratings, while ChessBased averages 4.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Brain Sharp or ChessBased have ads?
Neither Brain Sharp nor ChessBased shows ads.

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