Comparison

Pocket Chess vs Digu App

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

Digu App

Features
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Digu is the traditional Maldivian card game, now on your phone. Ten cards in your hand. Draw one, drop one, and race to lock all ten into three sets before anyone else calls DIGU. HOW IT PLAYS On your turn, draw from the deck or take the top of the discard pile, then drop a card. Build runs (same suit in sequence) and groups (same rank) until every card you hold belongs to a meld — two sets of three and one set of four. There are no jokers and no wild cards. Nothing rescues a bad hand, so every card is a decision, and everything you throw is something an opponent may be waiting for. The first player to a complete hand declares DIGU and takes a bonus. Everyone else scores their melds minus the deadwood stranded in their hand, so a round is not over until it is over. CALL "1 CARD" When your hand is a single draw from winning, you can announce it to the table. A red ring appears over your avatar and every player sees it. It changes no rule. It simply tells the others to stop feeding the discard pile, and turns the last few turns of a round into a standoff. Calling is always optional — and staying quiet is a strategy of its own. PLAY WITH FRIENDS Create a private table and share the join code. Pick 2, 3 or 4 seats and a match of 3, 5 or 10 rounds. Or tap PLAY NOW and get seated with whoever is looking for a game. Tables run live, turn by turn, with a clock on every turn so nobody can stall the room. PLAY ON YOUR OWN Practise against bots that genuinely read the table. They track what has been discarded, count the cards that would finish their hand, and push for the declare when they are close. It is a good way to learn the shape of a hand before you sit down with people. SEE WHERE THE POINTS WENT A scoreboard after every round shows who melded what, who was caught holding deadwood, and how the totals moved. Your match history keeps your running record. COINS Your free coins refresh automatically every Sunday night. There is nothing to claim and no login streak to keep alive — miss a week and you are topped straight back up. You can also redeem a voucher code if you have one. Coins are virtual, are only ever spent to sit at a table inside the game, and have no real-world value. Digu has no wagering, and pays out no money or prizes. SIGNING IN Sign in with Apple or Google, or start playing right away as a guest. Turn on notifications and we will tell you when it is your turn. Draw. Drop. Digu.

Screenshots

Pocket Chess4 screens
Digu App3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Digu App at none against Pocket Chess's 9. Digu App also leads on ads (none vs shown). Pocket Chess's advantage is chart position (#133 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. Digu App asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Pocket Chess versus Digu App: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPocket ChessDigu App
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (15K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews61.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings15K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#133 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size199 MB26 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperLessmore GmbHMohamed Wisam Ibrahim

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

Digu App

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

Digu App

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pocket Chess free?
Pocket Chess is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Digu App free?
Digu App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pocket Chess or Digu App have ads?
Pocket Chess shows ads; Digu App does not.

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