Pocket Chess vs Ouk 3D
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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!
Ouk 3D
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Ouk 3D brings two traditional Khmer board games to your phone: Ouk, Cambodia's own form of chess, and Rek, a fast, tactical game of capture and encirclement played on the same board. Play the way you like — a clean 2D board or a full 3D table, switchable at any time. Challenge friends, get matched with players worldwide in online multiplayer, or sharpen your skills against the AI at five difficulty levels. Climb the leaderboard in each game, chat with your opponent, and ask for a rematch when it's close. Whether you grew up playing Ouk and Rek or are discovering them for the first time, Ouk 3D delivers an authentic, faithful experience of Cambodia's classic games of strategy.
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Verdict
Pocket Chess and Ouk 3D are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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 and Ouk 3D sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pocket Chess ships an update every 2 months, Ouk 3D every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pocket Chess | Ouk 3D |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (15K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 61.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 15K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 199 MB | 187 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Lessmore GmbH | Socheat Rath |
Bugs and 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
Ouk 3D
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
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
Ouk 3D
- Coins 4,000$0.99
- Gems 10$0.99
- Gems 25$1.99
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- Coins 8,500$1.99
- Gems 60$4.99
- Coins 21,000$4.99
- Coins 50,000$9.99
- Gems 130$9.99
Questions
Is Pocket Chess free?
Is Ouk 3D free?
Do Pocket Chess or Ouk 3D have ads?
Which is updated more often, Pocket Chess or Ouk 3D?
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