Comparison

Pocket Chess vs Echo Ramsey

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

Echo Ramsey

Features
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Echo is a puzzle game built on real open problems in mathematics. Each puzzle is a graph: dots joined by red and blue lines. Your job is simple to learn. Tap a line to flip its color, and break up the "bad cliques" - groups of dots all wired together in a single color. Clear them within your move budget and the puzzle is solved. Here is the twist. Every puzzle is a slice of a genuine research graph, and every solution you find is committed to a shared, growing proof tree. When you solve, your result seeds a brand new puzzle for another player. Their solve seeds the next. Together, the whole community is searching for colorings no person and no computer has ever found. You choose which problem to work on from the home screen: - R(4,4), the practice board - solved long ago, so the search genuinely finishes and you can see the whole engine work end to end - R(4,6), the frontier - an open problem where reaching zero would set a real new record - R(5,5), the legendary one - open for decades, where the prize is the lowest count the network has ever driven it to You do not need to know any of that to play. If you can spot a pattern and tap, you are already contributing. FEATURES - Quick, tactile puzzles you can finish in a minute - Three problems to play, from a winnable warm-up to a famous unsolved one, switchable any time - Five ways to view each graph: circle, spectral, matrix, hub, and density - switch any time to see the structure differently - A living progress screen showing the community's best reach and the proof tree growing in real time - Your lineage: see how many puzzles your solves have seeded for other players - A built-in glossary that explains every term in plain language - No ads, no timers, no pressure Color the graph. Advance the proof. Echo forward.

Screenshots

Pocket Chess4 screens
Echo Ramsey4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Echo Ramsey at none against Pocket Chess's 9. Echo Ramsey also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). Pocket Chess's advantage is chart position (#98 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. Echo Ramsey asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pocket Chess ships an update every 2 months, Echo Ramsey every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Pocket Chess versus Echo Ramsey: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPocket ChessEcho Ramsey
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (15K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews61.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings15K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#98 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size199 MB51 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLessmore GmbHSam Rostami

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

Echo Ramsey

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

Echo Ramsey

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pocket Chess free?
Pocket Chess is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Echo Ramsey free?
Echo Ramsey is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pocket Chess or Echo Ramsey have ads?
Pocket Chess shows ads; Echo Ramsey does not.
Which is updated more often, Pocket Chess or Echo Ramsey?
Pocket Chess ships an update every 2 months, and Echo Ramsey every 3 weeks. Most recently, Pocket Chess was updated on November 4, 2026 and Echo Ramsey on October 25, 2026.

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