Lichess vs Watch Your Back
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lichess
Play chess online with millions of users, participate in tournaments, solve puzzles, and analyze games. This free and open-source application offers a comprehensive chess experience for players of all levels, with features for learning and casual play.
- Real-time and correspondence chess
- Arena tournaments
- Chess puzzles
- Game analysis with Stockfish
- Interactive study feature
- Chess clock
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Lichess is a free/libre, open-source chess application powered by volunteers and donations. Today, Lichess users play more than five million games every day. Lichess is one of the most popular chess websites in the world while remaining 100% free. The following features are available right now: - play real time or correspondence chess - play arena tournaments - play against online bots - solve chess puzzles from a wide variety of themes, online or offline - race against the clock in Puzzle Storm - analyse your games with latest Stockfish locally or on the server - board editor - study chess with a collaborative and interactive study feature - learn board coordinates - play over the board with a friend - watch live chess broadcasts from all major chess tournaments - watch Lichess TV and online streamers - use a chess clock for your over the board games - many different board themes and piece sets - custom background themes - translated into 55 languages
Watch Your Back
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Every clearing is a fight for survival. Watch Your Back - Zombies is a top-down arcade survival game built for fast landscape play. Pick your hunter, watch your ammo and keep moving as the dead close in. TAKE ON THE HUNT Explore 18 connected arenas across three regions. Survive endless rounds, plan your route and face a boss every fourth round. BUILD YOUR HUNT ARSENAL Fight with pistols, shotguns, knives and claymores. Upgrade at the Bench, collect Omens, discover powerful relic weapons and recover with Life Kits. PLAY CLASSIC Return to compact forest survival, where positioning, careful reloads and well-timed shots decide how long you last. START FREE Classic levels 1–5 and Hunt rounds 1–5 are freely replayable. A single Lifetime purchase unlocks the later levels and rounds. No subscriptions or ads. Privacy Policy: https://suyai.ch/apps/watch-your-back/privacy-policy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Lichess at none against Watch Your Back's 1. Lichess also leads on chart position (#42 vs unranked) and update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Watch Your Back sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Lichess asks for nothing beyond the download.
Lichess ships an update fortnightly, Watch Your Back monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lichess | Watch Your Back |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (802 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 53.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 802 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Best chart rank | #42 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 109 MB | 72 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | LICHESS.ORG | Jonathan Estuardo Benavides Vallejo |
Bugs and requests
Lichess
Reported bugs
1 issue- Swipe-to-go-back gesture interferes with piece placement
Requested features
3 requests- Name of opening in opening explorer
- Ability to add and subtract additional things on the homepage
- Reset/replay button on puzzles
Watch Your Back
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Lichess
No in-app purchases
Watch Your Back
- Watch Your Back - Lifetime$2.99
Questions
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Do Lichess or Watch Your Back have ads?
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