Pocket Chess vs ThoseWho24
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!
ThoseWho24
Engage your mind with a math puzzle game. Combine four numbers using basic operations to reach 24, practicing arithmetic and problem-solving skills. It's a fun way to boost your mental math abilities.
- Four number arithmetic puzzles
- Reach the target number 24
- Use addition, subtraction, multiplication, division
- Builds mental math skills
- Improves problem-solving
- Enhances arithmetic speed
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A mental math puzzle where players use four numbers and the basic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division) to reach the number 24, using exactly each number once. This game helps build mental math, problem solving, and arithmetic speed.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: ThoseWho24 at 100% against Pocket Chess's 61%. ThoseWho24 also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 9) and ads (none vs shown). Pocket Chess's advantage is ratings volume (15K vs 10) and chart position (#104 vs unranked). On price 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
Both are free to download. Pocket Chess sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. ThoseWho24 asks for nothing beyond the download.
ThoseWho24 holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pocket Chess has 15K ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of Pocket Chess's written reviews are positive against 100% of ThoseWho24's.
Pocket Chess ships an update every 2 months, ThoseWho24 weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pocket Chess | ThoseWho24 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (15K ratings) | 5.0 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 15K — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #104 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 199 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lessmore GmbH | Priscilla Ye |
Customer experience
Pocket Chess
ThoseWho24
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
ThoseWho24
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
ThoseWho24
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Pocket Chess free?
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