Comparison

Pocket Chess vs Alibi

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Hundreds of chess problems
  • Checkmate in 2 and 4 puzzles
  • Simplified boards for pattern recognition
  • Improve chess game
  • Learn chess patterns faster
Features
Currently charting
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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!

About

Alibi

Features
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Alibi turns your phones into the game master of your party games. Create a game, share the 5-letter code, and everyone joins from their own phone. No account needed: pick a nickname and play. KILLER Each player gets a secret target and a secret mission. Pull off your mission on your target to eliminate them, inherit their target, and be the last one standing. • Classic mode: missions and targets, pure strategy. • Powers mode: special abilities such as Shield, Saboteur, Transfer, Ghost, Oracle, Fate Exchanger, Sleep and Alchemist. • Mission themes: classic, humour, manipulation, party, dinner, ski, après-ski, Halloween, Christmas and bachelor party. WEREWOLF The classic social deduction game, with the app as your narrator. • Hidden roles: werewolves, seer, witch, protector, hunter, cupid, fox, judge, black werewolf, infect father of wolves, elder, village idiot, angel… • Night and day phases, votes, mayor election and role actions, all guided on screen. • Your role card stays face down: flip it to see your role and play your turn, flip it back so nobody around you can peek. AND ALSO • Real-time updates for every player • Notifications when it's your turn • Game history and end-of-game recap • Pixel-art style, in English, French, Spanish, Italian and German Gather your friends, share the code, and trust no one.

Screenshots

Pocket Chess4 screens
Alibi4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Alibi at none against Pocket Chess's 9. Alibi also leads on ads (none vs shown). Pocket Chess's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months) and chart position (#145 vs unranked). On price, device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Pocket Chess sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Alibi asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pocket Chess ships an update every 2 months, Alibi every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Pocket Chess versus Alibi: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPocket ChessAlibi
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (15K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews61.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings15K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 4 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#145 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size199 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLessmore GmbHRobin Tanzilli

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

Alibi

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Pocket Chess

One-time7
  • 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
None

Alibi

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pocket Chess free?
Pocket Chess is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Alibi free?
Alibi is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pocket Chess or Alibi have ads?
Pocket Chess shows ads; Alibi does not.
Which is updated more often, Pocket Chess or Alibi?
Pocket Chess ships an update every 2 months, and Alibi every 4 months. Most recently, Pocket Chess was updated on October 23, 2026 and Alibi on October 20, 2026.

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