Comparison

iPlay Chess vs NoFluff

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

Head to head
About

iPlay Chess

Engage in chess matches against powerful AI engines with customizable difficulty and playing styles. Enhance your skills with opening books, move hints, and detailed play statistics. Enjoy a personalized experience with custom boards, pieces, and sounds across multiple devices.

Highlights
  • Play against 6 top chess engines
  • Customizable boards, pieces, and sounds
  • Variety of opening books for all levels
  • Adjustable opponent playing style
  • Move highlights and hints
  • Play statistics tracking
  • iPad split screen support
Features
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Play against 6 of the best chess engines, including Stockfish 13 and Leela Chess Zero. More engines will be added with next updates. Great interface for all platforms with custom boards and pieces, sounds and spoken moves. A variety of opening books for all levels can help you improve your game. You can customize your opponent's playing style by adjusting various options like engine strength, move time and increment, opening books variations. Other features: - highlights and hints for moves - support for multiple opening books - play stats - iPad split screen Constant updates will bring more features. Discover the planned roadmap in settings.

About

NoFluff

Enjoy a straightforward chess experience without any distractions. This game offers multiple difficulty levels and a two-player mode for local fun. It's a challenging opponent, even on its easiest setting.

Highlights
  • Ad-free experience
  • No in-app purchases or fees
  • Four difficulty levels
  • Two-player mode
  • Offline gameplay
  • Challenging AI opponent
Features
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All the fun of a simple chess game, without all that annoying fluff. That's right, no ads, no fees, not even leader boards or online games. Not now, not ever. Enjoy! In all seriousness, a weekend fun project - a chess solver, turned into an interactive chess game for the mobile. The app currently supports 4 difficulty levels and a 2 player option if you wanna have fun with friends. Be ware, the opponent is quite strong, even on the easiest mode - I did not manage to beat it even once. With that said, I am not a chess professional myself either, only a developer who likes challenges. Ohh, the timer only stops once you won - or more possibly, lost your current game. So don't even think about moving the app to the background. I hope you will like it and will make your day just a little bit better. Enjoy!

Screenshots

iPlay Chess4 screens
NoFluff4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: NoFluff at none against iPlay Chess's shown. NoFluff also leads on rating (4.5 vs 4.0) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, ratings volume, 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

NoFluff holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 17 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
iPlay Chess versus NoFluff: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriPlay ChessNoFluff
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (6 ratings)4.5 (17 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings617 — better
Update frequencyEvery 25 months—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size200 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBEYTEK MUHENDISLIK SANAYI VE TICARET ANONIM SIRKETIActegon Solutions KeS Kft.

Customer experience

iPlay Chess

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

NoFluff

All ratings14 ratings
Positive92.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative7.1%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

None

iPlay Chess

No in-app purchases

None

NoFluff

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is iPlay Chess free?
iPlay Chess is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is NoFluff free?
NoFluff is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, iPlay Chess or NoFluff?
NoFluff is rated higher. iPlay Chess averages 4.0 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while NoFluff averages 4.5 from 17 ratings.
Do iPlay Chess or NoFluff have ads?
iPlay Chess shows ads; NoFluff does not.

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