Solo Chess vs Pocket Chess
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Solo Chess
Engage in a challenging solo chess experience that adapts to your skill level. From beginner puzzles to expert challenges, this game offers a relaxing yet demanding way to improve your chess game.
- Solo chess gameplay
- Adaptive difficulty
- Challenging puzzles
- Skill progression
- Relaxing experience
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Solo Chess is a fun, relaxing, yet challenging chess game you can play by yourself! The puzzles start out easy, but they'll get more complex as you move on, always adapting to your skill level. Whether you want to learn how to play chess or you are already a chess expert, prepare for a challenge. Will you become a Solo Chess grandmaster?
Pocket Chess
Enhance your chess skills with hundreds of challenging chess problems and puzzles. This app focuses on simplified boards to help you quickly recognize chess patterns and improve your game.
- Hundreds of chess problems
- Checkmate in 2 and 4 puzzles
- Simplified boards for pattern recognition
- Improve chess game
- Learn chess patterns faster
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Pocket Chess helps you improve and brush up on your Chess by offering hundreds of thought provoking Chess problems and Chess puzzles. From Checkmate in 2 to Checkmate in 4 and much more! Pocket Chess is a new way to learn and improve at Chess. Featuring boards that are small and simple, important pieces are in focus so that you can learn to recognise Chess patterns faster and quicker. Improve your Chess Game and Download Now for free!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Solo Chess at none against Pocket Chess's 9. Solo Chess also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). Pocket Chess's advantage is ratings volume (15K vs 16) and rating (4.6 vs 4.3). On price, review sentiment, ads 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. Pocket Chess sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Solo Chess asks for nothing beyond the download.
Pocket Chess holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pocket Chess has 15K ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Solo Chess's written reviews are positive against 61% of Pocket Chess's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
| Parameter | Solo Chess | Pocket Chess |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (16 ratings) | 4.6 (15K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 61.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 16 | 15K — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | — | #118 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 199 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Create Neptune LLC | Lessmore GmbH |
Customer experience
Solo Chess
Pocket Chess
Bugs and requests
Solo Chess
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Pocket Chess
Reported bugs
3 issues- Progress data loss
- Incorrect checkmate solutions
- Game freezing after certain moves
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to review past puzzles
- More advanced puzzles and levels
- Option to disable audio/music
- Sync progress across devices
In-app purchases
Solo Chess
No in-app purchases
Pocket Chess
- Small Coin Bundle$1.99
- Remove Ads2 variants$4.99
- Starter Package2 variants$4.99
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- Event Offer$4.99
- Medium Coin Bundle$5.99
- Large Coin Bundle$11.99
- Super Coin Bundle$25.99
Questions
Is Solo Chess free?
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