Chess Remix vs ChipFlip
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chess Remix
Explore diverse chess variants and abstract board games from around the world. Create and share your own unique game rules, or challenge others online. Learn new strategies with guided levels and AI opponents.
- Online competitive play
- Create custom board games
- Learn with guided levels
- Play against AI
- Discover community creations
- Play global chess variants
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A new way to play the world's oldest game Love chess but tired of memorising openings? Our competitive online play is focused on thinking fast not learning patterns. Challenge yourself to overcome opponents in a randomly selected Chess Remix. The games all use the standard chess pieces with alternate rules. Can you think quickly and find new ways to win? The whole world's Chess in one place Chess Remix contains Chess games from around the world. You can try Shogi (Japanese Chess), Xiangqui (Chinese Chess), Janggi (Korean Chess), Makruk (Thai Chess) and more. These games have all been styled to look like the Chess you are used to, making it easier to learn for beginners. A journey through the history of Chess Travel back to where it all began, 6th century India, and try Chaturanga, the original Chess. See the games it developed into as it spread across the globe. Play Courier Chess like a 12th century European or test your skills at Tamerlane Chess. Delve into ancient Shogi and experience the progression through different eras of Japanese history. Enjoy a marathon game of the massive Dai Shogi or a quick game of Mini-Shogi. You can even play Hnefatafl, the Chess of the Vikings. Chess 2.0 Chess Remix lets you change the rules and make your own game. Will you invent the next Chess? It's your game play by your rules. You could win by losing the game, start in random places or just have En Passant be a forced move. Don't like casting? You can turn it off. Want a Rook that also moves like a Knight? You got it. There are limitless possibilities (okay technically there is a limit, but there are so many options you could never play all of them). Not just Chess We have so many options to customise your Chess game you can even play Checkers. The app comes pre loaded with a variety of Checkers games from around the world and some ancient versions of the game. You can even play some other abstract board games like Three Men's Morris or even Tic-Tac-Toe. Become more than a Chess Master A standard Chess game has 6 pieces. Chess Remix starts with more than 100. To help you learn them we have hand designed levels to help you understand and use every piece in Chess history and the new rules you might encounter. Unleash your creativity Have you created the next great board game? Or just something cool you would like to show off. Share your creations with the Remix community. Want to play unique games? Need some inspiration? Check out our discover section to see what other players have made. Features: - Competitive online play - Create your own original board games - Levels to help you learn and master Chess - Play against ai - Highly customisable app that reflects your style - Share your creations or play other people games
ChipFlip
This strategy game challenges players to strategically place chips to flip their opponent's pieces. Inspired by classic board games and cellular automata, it features an AI opponent with multiple difficulty levels.
- Strategic chip placement
- Piece flipping mechanic
- AI opponent with multiple difficulties
- Inspired by Conway's Life
- Classic board game elements
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ChipFlip combines elements of classic board games with a novel mechanic where pieces can flip based on their neighborhood. The game challenges players to think several moves ahead and consider the cascading effects of each placement. ChipFlip was developed as a graph-paper-and-pencil game by one of us in the early 1970s. Influenced by Conway's Life, it is an exploration of emergent gameplay from simple rules. The AI opponent uses a minimax algorithm with alpha-beta pruning to provide a challenging experience across multiple difficulty levels. How to Play :Place white chips strategically on the board to flip your opponent's black chips. Chips flip when they have 4 or more neighbors of the opposing color. The player with the most chips when the board is full wins! See the **Rules** section for complete gameplay details.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ChipFlip at none against Chess Remix's 5. ChipFlip also leads on ads (none vs shown). Chess Remix's advantage is rating (4.4 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (115 vs 1). On price and iOS requirement 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. Chess Remix sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. ChipFlip asks for nothing beyond the download.
Chess Remix holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chess Remix has 115 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Chess Remix | ChipFlip |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (115 ratings) — better | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 75.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 115 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alexander Everett | LocalMinimum LLC |
Customer experience
Chess Remix
ChipFlip
In-app purchases
Chess Remix
- Remix Royalty$0.991 Month
- Remix Royalty$2.996 Months
- Remix Royalty$4.991 Year
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- Remix Royalty7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Remix Royalty$14.99
ChipFlip
No in-app purchases









