Pocket Chess vs Sparkfall
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!
Sparkfall
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Pop. Build bombs. Chain combos. Sparkfall is a bright, friendly bubble-popping puzzle. Tap a group of matching bubbles to pop it, reach each level's goals before you run out of moves, and earn up to three stars. • 500 levels in 20 colourful worlds, with new surprises along the way: bombs, crates, tough crates, ice, double ice and gems to bring down. • Pop 5 or more bubbles to make a bomb. Bombs that touch set off huge combos. Hold a colour bomb and slide to choose its colour. • A short intro card explains every new element the first time you meet it. • Fair by design: no ads during a level, the same board for everyone, a free gift of extra moves after repeated defeats, and a hammer you earn with stars. • Every level shows its difficulty before you start. • Available in 10 languages. Sparkfall is free to play and contains ads between levels, plus optional videos for extra moves or lives. A one-time purchase removes the ads between levels and gives unlimited lives.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Sparkfall at daily against Pocket Chess's every 2 months. Pocket Chess's advantage is chart position (#113 vs unranked) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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 and Sparkfall sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pocket Chess ships an update every 2 months, Sparkfall daily. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pocket Chess | Sparkfall |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (15K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 61.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 15K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Daily — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Best chart rank | #113 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 199 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lessmore GmbH | ALESSANDRO VINCENZO DEL BALZO |
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
Sparkfall
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
Sparkfall
- Remove Ads$3.99
Questions
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