Comparison

Chess Widget vs Simple Logarithm PRO

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

Head to head
About

Chess Widget

This app brings chess puzzles and games directly to your Home Screen. Solve daily puzzles, play against AI, analyze historical games, or even play multiplayer with friends nearby, all without an internet connection.

Highlights
  • Home screen chess puzzles
  • Play against AI
  • Analyze historical games
  • Board editor mode
  • Offline multiplayer
  • Daily new puzzles
Features
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Chess Widget is a simple, focused way to keep chess close: solve daily puzzles on your Home Screen, train in the app, play online, review classic games, and set up your own positions. Solve over 11,000 chess puzzles and explore over 100,000 games by outstanding players—from historical classics to modern grandmaster games. Sharpen your tactics and study games move by move. Add a chess puzzle widget to your iPhone or iPad and come back to a fresh position every day. Open the app to solve tactics, analyze the board, or continue with a full chess experience built for quick sessions and thoughtful play. Play online with your Lichess account, find opponents, create invite links, accept challenges, offer draws, resign, and follow the game clock directly in the app. You can also play nearby multiplayer with a friend, practice against AI, or explore famous classic games move by move. Chess Widget also includes a board editor with FEN support, so you can create positions, test ideas, save setups, and jump straight into play. Coach mode Review completed Lichess games with a move-quality score, an evaluation graph, and a breakdown of inaccuracies, mistakes and blunders. Return to a critical position and try a better move on the board, ask for a hint, or explore the best continuation. Compare White’s and Black’s thinking time with paired bars and time labels for both players. Tap the graphs or use the navigation buttons to explore the game move by move. Start another online search from Coach with your saved settings. Features: • Over 11,000 chess puzzles and a widget with a new puzzle every day on your Home Screen • Online play with Lichess • Invite links and incoming challenges • Nearby multiplayer • Play against AI • Over 100,000 games by outstanding players to study move by move • Board editor with FEN • Move history, themes, sounds, and focused chess settings Whether you want one quick puzzle, a real online game, or a quiet board to study, Chess Widget keeps chess ready when you are. Questions or feedback? Write to me at oleg.v.soloviev@gmail.com Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Simple Logarithm PRO

This app simplifies complex logarithm and exponentiation calculations with step-by-step solutions. It supports various input types, including decimals, fractions, and negative values, and provides a history of all calculations.

Highlights
  • Logarithm and exponentiation modes
  • Step-by-step solution display
  • Support for decimals, fractions, and negative values
  • Calculation history
  • Transformation between logarithm and exponentiation
  • Logarithm rules infographic
  • Solution sharing
Features
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Using logarithm is a complicated task, but this app helps out! You can choose between 4 standard shapes of this topic. Then you can enter what you have to calculate what you need - base, exponent, antilogarithm, the logarithmic result, even the x-value of a term as exponent. The connection between logarithm and exponentiation is shown aswell. An infographic gives a deeper insight into some calculation rules of the logarithm. Decimals, fractions and negative values are supported. The solution is shown step by step. All calculations are stored in the history. The final solution can be shared. [ Contents ] - modes for logarithm - modes for exponentiation - exponent, base and some more values can be entered - results are calculated and shown in detail - transformations between logarithm and exponentiation are taken into account - shortened list of logarithm rules - history function to save the input - detailed solution - negative values, decimal numbers and fractions are supported - no ads! [ Usage ] - there are fields for entering values using a special keyboard - press the check mark button at the bottom right to start the calculation - if values are missing, the relevant field is highlighted in yellow - if the values are wrong, the affected field will be highlighted in red - the entries in the history can be deleted or sorted - if you select an entry in the history, it will be automatically loaded for the calculation - the whole history can be deleted by pressing a button - solutions can be shared - touching the question mark button displays information about the topic

Screenshots

Chess Widget4 screens
Simple Logarithm PRO4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Chess Widget at 67% against Simple Logarithm PRO's 0%. Chess Widget also leads on price (Free vs $1.99) and update cadence (weekly vs monthly). Simple Logarithm PRO's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6). On ads, 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

Chess Widget is free to download; Simple Logarithm PRO costs $1.99 up front. Chess Widget sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Simple Logarithm PRO asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Chess Widget ships an update weekly, Simple Logarithm PRO monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Chess Widget versus Simple Logarithm PRO: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChess WidgetSimple Logarithm PRO
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating4.5 (14 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings14 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB180 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOleg SolovievGlindemann, Sennoun, Langer GbR

Customer experience

Chess Widget

All ratings14 ratings
Positive92.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative7.1%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

Simple Logarithm PRO

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Chess Widget

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Yearly Subscription14 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time4
  • 1 coffee$4.99
  • 2 coffees$9.99
  • 5 coffees$24.99
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  • 10 coffees$49.99
None

Simple Logarithm PRO

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Chess Widget free?
Chess Widget is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Simple Logarithm PRO free?
Simple Logarithm PRO costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Chess Widget or Simple Logarithm PRO have ads?
Neither Chess Widget nor Simple Logarithm PRO shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Chess Widget or Simple Logarithm PRO?
Chess Widget ships an update weekly, and Simple Logarithm PRO monthly. Most recently, Chess Widget was updated on October 14, 2026 and Simple Logarithm PRO on October 2, 2026.

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