Comparison

Pocket Chess vs Sortcery

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

Sortcery

Features
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Welcome to Sortcery - a cozy, brain-teasing sorting puzzle set in a candle-lit wizard's world. Pour glowing souls between enchanted shelves until each one holds a single colour. Simple to learn, wonderfully tricky to master - the perfect relaxing brain workout. HANDCRAFTED LEVELS A gentle start that quickly blooms into clever, satisfying puzzles, with fresh ones added over time. Every level is solvable - no random walls, just pure logic. CAST REAL SPELLS Levels come alive with magical modifiers: - Sealed Vault: locked shelves you must earn open - Frost Curse: frozen shelves that thaw as you play - Fog Spell: hidden souls revealed as you sort - Binding Rune: end a shelf in an exact colour - Mana Limit: solve it in a set number of moves UNLOCK MAGICAL REALMS Play across beautifully painted worlds - the Wizard Library, the molten Dragon Sanctuary, and the starlit Celestial Realm - each transforming the whole game. COLLECT SOUL SKINS Earn coins and dress your souls in 18 collectible looks, from Ember Wraiths to crowned Royal souls. DAILY CHALLENGES AND REWARDS A fresh set of challenges every day, a 7-day reward streak, and a vault that grows as you play. PLAY YOUR WAY Relaxing, offline-friendly, no timers unless you want them. Helpful Hint, Undo, Wand and Shuffle spells whenever you are stuck. Sort the souls. Master the spells. Become a Sortcery grandmaster.

Screenshots

Pocket Chess4 screens
Sortcery4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Sortcery at fortnightly against Pocket Chess's every 2 months. Pocket Chess's advantage is chart position (#148 vs unranked). On price, ads, 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. Pocket Chess sells 7 one-off in-app purchases and Sortcery sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pocket Chess ships an update every 2 months, Sortcery fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 9 level
Pocket Chess versus Sortcery: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPocket ChessSortcery
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (15K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews61.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings15K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#148 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size199 MB56 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLessmore GmbHKabas Alkhalaileh

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

Sortcery

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
10 purchases

Sortcery

One-time10
  • 20 Gems$0.99
  • Crack Vault (Bronze)$0.99
  • Crack Vault (Silver)$1.99
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  • Crack Vault (Gold)$2.99
  • 110 Gems$4.99
  • remove ads$4.99
  • Crack Vault (Diamond)$4.99
  • 240 Gems$9.99
  • 600 Gems$19.99
  • 8,000 Coins$49.99

Questions

Is Pocket Chess free?
Pocket Chess is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sortcery free?
Sortcery is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Pocket Chess or Sortcery have ads?
Both Pocket Chess and Sortcery show ads.
Which is updated more often, Pocket Chess or Sortcery?
Pocket Chess ships an update every 2 months, and Sortcery fortnightly. Most recently, Pocket Chess was updated on October 23, 2026 and Sortcery on October 7, 2026.

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