Daily Chess Puzzles vs Tiny Machinery
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Daily Chess Puzzles
Engage in thousands of chess puzzles to sharpen your tactical skills. A daily challenge awaits, with puzzles sourced from a top chess platform. Compete with friends and climb global leaderboards to track your progress.
- Thousands of chess puzzles
- Daily Challenge
- Learn tactics and tricks
- Game Center integration
- Worldwide leaderboard
- Improve chess game
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Solve a chess puzzle every day, train at your level, and learn the tactics that win games. DAILY PUZZLE The same puzzle for everyone, every day, from chess.com. Solve it to keep your streak going. QUICK PLAY Five puzzles find your level. After that, every puzzle is picked for you from more than 26,000, and your rating grows as you improve. LEARN Lessons in 18 tactics: forks, pins, skewers, back-rank and smothered mates, rook endgames and more. A lesson is eight puzzles. PLAY ANYWHERE Quick play and Learn work offline, on a plane or on the subway. Your rating, streak and lessons move with your iCloud between iPhone and iPad, and come back when you reinstall. No account needed. Game Center achievements and leaderboards are there if you want them. ------- The app icon is from vectorportal.com
Tiny Machinery
Immerse yourself in a virtual dimension to solve intricate puzzles and escape a mysterious experiment. Use your intellect to manipulate complex machinery and unlock the secrets of your confinement. Experience a unique escape room adventure with creative 3D graphics and atmospheric audio.
- Escape room-style puzzles
- Creative 3D graphics
- Intricate mechanisms
- Atmospheric audio
- Hint system
- Unlockable story notes
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You've been kidnapped by unknown scientists and your brain has been plugged into a sophisticated machine to run an experiment: travel into a virtual dimension to unlock weird machinery. Use your imagination and IQ to crack puzzles and complete all intricate levels to save your life. Can you make it? A CLEVER PUZZLE GAME Embark into an escape room-style adventure full of riddles! CREATIVE 3D GRAPHICS Explore weird machines that will impress you with their unique art style INTRICATE MECHANISMS Enjoy tons of original puzzles, interact with buttons, levers, and little wheels to complete each level ATMOSPHERIC AUDIO Play the game with your headphones to get immersed in the game at best TRY FOR FREE Play the first 4 levels for free, with the option to unlock all the levels with a small In-App purchase, which will make you experience the whole story and puzzles HINTS In case you get stuck on a level, click the bulb button to get a hint that will help you solve the riddles STORY NOTES You will unlock a new story paragraph for each level you will complete. Discover how your kidnappers have threatened you and how it ends! ------------------------------------------------ XSGames is an independent solo startup from Italy. Find out more at xsgames.co Follow me @xsgames_ on both X and Instagram
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Daily Chess Puzzles at 4.7 against Tiny Machinery's 4.2. Daily Chess Puzzles also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months) and monetization model (ad-supported vs free with in-app purchases). Tiny Machinery's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, in-app purchases 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. Daily Chess Puzzles sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Tiny Machinery sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Daily Chess Puzzles holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Daily Chess Puzzles has 445 ratings behind it against 48, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 65% of Daily Chess Puzzles's written reviews are positive against 54% of Tiny Machinery's.
Daily Chess Puzzles ships an update every 2 weeks, Tiny Machinery every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Daily Chess Puzzles | Tiny Machinery |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (445 ratings) — better | 4.2 (48 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 65.2% of reviews — better | 54.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 445 — better | 48 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 142 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Stefan Stangl | XSGames |
Customer experience
Daily Chess Puzzles
Tiny Machinery
Bugs and requests
Daily Chess Puzzles
Reported bugs
3 issues- Link to chess.com not working
- App crashes randomly
- Privacy consent link does not work
Requested features
10 requests- Button to go back and review solution
- Navigate back to previous puzzles
- Rewind feature after solving
- Ability to play around with puzzle situations
- Sound effects for moving pieces
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- Option to replay moves after solving
- Fix privacy consent link
- Remove timer on puzzle solving
- Explain puzzle challenges/goals
- Adjust message box location after solving
Tiny Machinery
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Daily Chess Puzzles
- Remove Ads$3.99
- Unlock All Lessons$5.99
- Ads Off + All Lessons$8.99
Tiny Machinery
- Full Game$3.99
- Full Game + Coffee$4.99
- Full Game + Love$7.99
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