Comparison

Brain Lines vs MindChess

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Brain Lines

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■Game Overview "Brain Lines: Train Your Brain!” offers an intuitive experience that anyone can enjoy. Simply draw lines with a single touch to connect dots of the same color! From casual gameplay to serious challenges, this game has something for everyone. ■How to Play Easy to start, hard to master! •Connect dots of the same color – that’s it! •Use clever techniques to change dot colors and master tricky puzzles. •Experience new brain-stimulating challenges as dots and mechanics evolve with each stage! ■Features • 100 Levels of Fun and Challenge! From beginner-friendly levels to advanced puzzles, enjoy endless variety and excitement! • Skip & Retry Options Stuck on a tough level? No problem! Skip to your favorite stages anytime. • Replay Any Stage Anytime Go back to previously cleared stages to improve your score or try out new strategies! • Play Anytime, Anywhere! Perfect for commuting, breaks, or any spare moment. ■Recommended For: •Players who want to challenge their minds with simple yet engaging mechanics. •Those who love getting lost in an immersive puzzle experience. •Friends and families who want to compete in stage completion! Download now and enter a world of brain-boosting puzzles! Your intuition and creativity will be put to the ultimate test!

About

MindChess

Enhance your chess skills with daily training sessions, tactical puzzles, and bot matches. Analyze your games, build opening repertoires, and track your progress with detailed statistics. This app offers a comprehensive suite of tools for chess improvement.

Highlights
  • Daily chess training drills
  • Themed tactical puzzles
  • Play against AI bots
  • Import and analyze your games
  • Opening repertoire builder
  • Progress tracking and statistics
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
Features
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MindChess is a daily chess gym and a study companion. Train board vision, memory and calculation in 60-second sessions, sharpen your tactics, play bots, and take what you learn to your own games. THE GYM • Thirteen short drills: Square Color, Coordinates, Same Color, Same Diagonal, Bishop Captures, Two Knights, Collision, Memory, Mate in 1, Fork Finder, Piece Snapshot, Knight Distance and Opening Flash. • Timed mode (60 seconds, Game Center leaderboards) and Training mode (3 lives). • A daily challenge and a daily streak, with streak freezes and an optional reminder. • 39 achievements: badges at 10, 50 and 100 games of every drill, also in Game Center. TACTICS • Themed puzzles in four modes: Rated, with your own tactics rating; Practice, with free hints; Streak, until your first miss; and Time trial, 3 or 5 minutes with 3 lives. • Pick one of 24 themes or Mix, and review the puzzles you miss. PLAY BOTS • Nine characters with their own style, from beginner to advanced, plus Stockfish at the strength you choose. • Download the free Maia-2 model and some bots play like people at their level. Everything runs on your device. YOUR GAMES • Connect your Lichess or Chess.com account and import your games. • Game databases, PGN import and a viewer with variations, notes and marks. • Analysis: Stockfish 19 on your device, offline, with an evaluation bar and the top 3 lines. With Pro, the game report marks your mistakes, the key moments and your brilliant moves. OPENINGS • Repertoire: play through your lines and the app brings each one back right before you'd forget it. • Learn mode walks you through every new line, with its comments and arrows, before the first question. • Opening explorer: what Masters, Lichess players and you have played from any position, with a linked Lichess account. Save the moves to your repertoire. PROGRESS AND TOOLS • Statistics that tell you what to improve in your training, repertoire and games. • Widgets for your Home Screen and Lock Screen: daily challenge, reviews, streak, personal bests and shortcuts. • Diagram scanner: snap a diagram and get the position ready to edit. Free. • Chess clock: increments, stages and time odds, for games with your phone on the table. • Notation your way: English, Spanish or figurines. The same board, with your look, across the app. ON EVERY SCREEN MindChess works on iPhone, iPad, iPhone Duo and Mac. MINDCHESS PRO Pro unlocks every drill, tactics and bots with no daily limit, Stockfish analysis and the game report, unlimited repertoires, lines and imports, lines from your own games, full statistics, unlimited game databases and clock controls, and 11 Pro piece sets. Free stays useful: the basic drills, 15 tactics puzzles a day, a daily game against the beginner bots, game import, the opening explorer, the scanner and the PGN viewer. MindChess is not an online chess server. It is the place where you train between your games. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Brain Lines4 screens
MindChess4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: MindChess at none against Brain Lines's shown. Brain Lines's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On price, 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. Brain Lines sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and MindChess sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Brain Lines ships an update every 5 days, MindChess every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Brain Lines versus MindChess: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBrain LinesMindChess
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size145 MB150 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLU ENHANCE Inc.omar megdadi

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Brain Lines

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$3.99
2 purchases

MindChess

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly subscription$0.991 Month
  • Yearly subscription$9.991 Year

Questions

Is Brain Lines free?
Brain Lines is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is MindChess free?
MindChess is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Brain Lines or MindChess have ads?
Brain Lines shows ads; MindChess does not.
Which is updated more often, Brain Lines or MindChess?
Brain Lines ships an update every 5 days, and MindChess every 3 weeks. Most recently, Brain Lines was updated on October 27, 2026 and MindChess on November 5, 2026.

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