ChessPen vs Eat Chess
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ChessPen
Record and manage chess games with a user-friendly interface. This app offers robust data storage and export options for players of all levels, from casual to tournament participants.
- Chess notation recording
- Sleek interface
- Easy-to-use UI
- Powerful data storage
- Data export capabilities
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Chess Notation app for casual, club, and tournament players alike. Sleek interface, easy-going UI, and powerful data storage & export capabilities.
Eat Chess
This game transforms chess into a unique puzzle experience where the goal is to capture all enemy pieces, including the king, to clear each course. Chain captures to boost your score and utilize special abilities to overcome challenges.
- Capture all enemy pieces to win
- Chain captures for score multipliers
- Shared move budget with capture bonuses
- 50 bite-sized puzzle courses
- Multiple difficulty levels
- Special power-up abilities
- Collectible chess sets
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Snack Attack turns chess into a bite-sized puzzle feast. Capture enemy pieces to clear each course, and eat the king to win the board. Checkmate is not required. How it plays Tap one of your pieces, then tap what it can capture. Chain captures back to back to build your Feast multiplier and pile on points. You get a shared move budget for the whole run; every move costs one, but each piece you eat earns one back, so a long chain of captures is practically free. Clear all 50 courses to finish a run, and watch out: some boss kings need more than one bite. Modes and difficulty Tactics: take your time and plan the perfect meal. Blitz: one countdown covers the whole run. Successful completion earns one bonus based on the time remaining. Pick Easy, Normal, Hard, or a punishing GM difficulty. Your utensils Teleport a piece across the board or plate an extra Chess Piece to set up a capture. A Banana protects your Feast streak. Also on the menu A dozen collectible chess sets are on the menu. Your best scores appear in the Hall of Feasts, while Board Review shows recorded course activity and available analysis. Today’s Special A shared daily lineup for players choosing the same mode and difficulty, refreshed at midnight UTC. It draws from the free board pool eligible for phones. The optional Levels Pack expands board access subject to device size and difficulty. It does not make every board available on every device or difficulty. Snack Attack is a family project, cooked and served by the Lew family to share the joys of eating and playing chess. It is ad-free; optional In-App Purchases just help keep it that way. Pull up a chair. Service is on.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Eat Chess at 5.0 against ChessPen's 4.3. Eat Chess also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 25 months). ChessPen's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4). On price, ratings volume, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Eat Chess sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. ChessPen asks for nothing beyond the download.
Eat Chess holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 3 respectively.
ChessPen ships an update every 25 months, Eat Chess every 10 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | ChessPen | Eat Chess |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 25 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ENVISIONAIRY LLC | David Lew |
Customer experience
ChessPen
Eat Chess
In-app purchases
ChessPen
No in-app purchases
Eat Chess
- All Levels$0.99
- 100x Feast Max$0.99
- GM Difficulty$0.99
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- Gray Chess Set$1.99
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