Basic AI Chess vs RetroArch
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Basic AI Chess
Learn and practice chess with guided gameplay. This app offers an intuitive interface for players of all levels to improve their skills on the go. Enjoy a lightweight experience designed for various Apple devices.
- Guided board patterns
- AI opponent practice
- Practice against yourself
- Lightweight design
- Play anywhere anytime
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Easy to play easy to use works on a wide range of devices. Take the experience on the go play anywhere anytime. You can easily practice against yourself or practice against the AI. Learn while playing with guided board patterns that help show you how to play along the way. Built with Swift for a compact light weight app design.
RetroArch
This application serves as a versatile frontend for emulators and game engines, supporting a vast array of systems through downloadable cores. It offers advanced features like netplay, save states, and customizable controls for an enhanced gaming experience.
- Supports numerous gaming systems via libretro cores
- Netplay for multiplayer gaming
- Save states and fast forward/rewind
- Controller support and key remapping
- Customizable shaders and overlays
- RetroAchievements integration
- AI translations for games
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RetroArch is a free, ad-free, open source, and cross platform frontend/framework for emulators, game engines, video games, media players, and other applications. Supported systems come in the form of libretro cores. The following systems are supported through various cores: * 2048 * Acorn - BBC Micro * Amstrad - CPC/GX4000 * Anarch * Arcade * Arduboy * Atari - 2600 * Atari - 5200 * Atari - 7800 * Atari - Jaguar * Atari - Lynx * Bandai - WonderSwan/Color * Cave Story * Coleco - ColecoVision * Commodore - Amiga * Commodore - C128 * Commodore - C64 * Commodore - C64 SuperCPU * Commodore - CBM-II 5x0 * Commodore - CBM-II 6x0/7x0 * Commodore - PET * Commodore - PLUS/4 * Commodore - VIC-20 * Dinothawr * Doom * DOS * Fairchild ChannelF * Flashback * GCE - Vectrex * Game Music Emu * Handheld Electronic * MSX/SVI/ColecoVision/SG-1000 * Mattel - Intellivision * Mega Duck / Cougar Boy * Mr.Boom * NEC - PC Engine / SuperGrafx / CD * NEC - PC-FX * NEC - PC-98 * Nintendo - DS * Nintendo - Game Boy / Color * Nintendo - Game Boy Advance * Nintendo - NES / Famicom * Nintendo - Nintendo 64 * Nintendo - Pokemon Mini * Nintendo - SNES / SFC * Nintendo - Virtual Boy * Palm OS * PocketCDG * Quake * Quake II * Rick Dangerous * SNK - Neo Geo AES/MVS * SNK - Neo Geo CD * SNK - Neo Geo Pocket / Color * ScummVM * Sega - MS/GG/MD/CD/32X * Sega - MS/GG/SG-1000 * Sega - Saturn * Sharp - X68000 * Sinclair - ZX Spectrum * Sony - PlayStation * Sony - PlayStation Portable * Texas Instruments TI-83 * The 3DO Company - 3DO * Thomson - MO/TO * Vircon32 * VirtualXT * WASM-4 * Watara - Supervision RetroArch supports a broad range of features, including: * Netplay * Soft patching * RetroAchievements * Save states * MFi controller support * Key remapping per core or per game * Gyro * Cheats * Custom overlays * Shaders * Fast forward and rewind * Game artwork * AI translations * Advanced latency management **RetroArch and Libretro are in no way affiliated with Nintendo. The name "Nintendo" and all associated game console names are registered trademarks of Nintendo Co., Ltd.**
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: RetroArch at 1.8K against Basic AI Chess's 2. RetroArch also leads on rating (4.3 vs 4.0) and review sentiment (69% vs 50%). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
RetroArch holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RetroArch has 1.8K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Basic AI Chess's written reviews are positive against 69% of RetroArch's.
| Parameter | Basic AI Chess | RetroArch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) | 4.3 (1.8K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 69.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 1.8K — better |
| Update frequency | — | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple TV, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple TV |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 652 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Elliot Williams | Libretro |
Customer experience
Basic AI Chess
RetroArch
Bugs and requests
Basic AI Chess
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
RetroArch
Reported bugs
5 issues- N64 games not loading textures properly
- Crashes when changing settings or cores
- Bios files not being recognized
- Inconsistent performance across devices
- Saved settings not persisting
Requested features
5 requests- Add support for PS2, GameCube, and 3DS emulation
- Improve iCloud/cloud storage integration
- Implement customizable button layouts
- Add a more user-friendly setup wizard
- Provide better documentation and tutorials
In-app purchases
Basic AI Chess
No in-app purchases
RetroArch
No in-app purchases
