Comparison

Triple Chess Timer vs Auric

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

Head to head
About

Triple Chess Timer

Features
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Triple Chess Timer is a chess clock designed specifically for three-player chess on a physical board. Place your iPhone or iPad where every player can reach it. After each move, tap your color to pass the turn in white–red–black order. Features: • Three independent chess clocks • Preset or custom playing time in seconds • Landscape and portrait timer layouts • Pause or remove a player at any time • Choose whether the game ends when a clock reaches zero or continues with the remaining two players • Designed for both iPhone and iPad No account is required. Choose a time and start playing.

About

Auric

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There’s a moment in every run when the screen fills with light, motion, and gold. Your aura hums. The next challenge is forty seconds away. You keep moving, collecting, and choosing. Magnet, or Power? Faster blades, or more of them? Auric: Eclipse is that moment, stretched out. A fast arcade bullet-heaven built for one thumb. Your abilities activate automatically. You move, collect gold, and choose what to upgrade. No menus during gameplay. No aiming. Just movement, timing, and builds that grow every minute. Wave after wave, the sky grows darker. Every coin strengthens your build. Every level changes the direction of the run. Every minute brings a new challenge with new patterns to learn. Hold on long enough and the eclipse breaks. INSIDE • 4 weapons, each upgradeable through 5 tiers • 6 passive stats — Magnet, Regen, Power, Speed, Heart, Luck • Dozens of build combinations every run • 4 enemy types — drifters, runners, tanks, shooters • A major challenge every 60 seconds with unique patterns • Endless scaling and persistent high scores • Fully offline on iPhone and iPad NOT INSIDE • Energy meters · timers · pay-to-win · forced ads • Interruptions during gameplay · pop-ups · Wi-Fi requirement • Battle passes · daily login screens · cluttered menus One optional rewarded ad per run — watch to continue from a difficult moment. That’s it. Auric: Eclipse is designed for phone-speed play. Two minutes between classes or thirty during a flight — same feeling. Jump in, learn, improve, repeat. The kind of game where “one more run” quietly becomes four. The eclipse keeps growing. Stay bright long enough to outlast it. — Genre: bullet-heaven · survivors-like · roguelite · arcade Controls: touch joystick (any thumb position) / WASD Age: 0+ · fantasy arcade action

Screenshots

Triple Chess Timer4 screens
Auric4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Auric at daily against Triple Chess Timer's every 67 months. Auric also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Triple Chess Timer ships an update every 67 months, Auric daily. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and July 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Triple Chess Timer versus Auric: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTriple Chess TimerAuric
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 67 monthsDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMartinJan GaasbeekArsenii Borodin

In-app purchases

None

Triple Chess Timer

No in-app purchases

None

Auric

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Triple Chess Timer free?
Triple Chess Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Auric free?
Auric is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Triple Chess Timer or Auric have ads?
Neither Triple Chess Timer nor Auric shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Triple Chess Timer or Auric?
Triple Chess Timer ships an update every 67 months, and Auric daily. Most recently, Triple Chess Timer was updated on September 17, 2026 and Auric on July 22, 2026.

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