100 Squares vs Deep Green
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
100 Squares
Fill a 100-box grid by strategically placing numbers, leaving specific gaps horizontally, vertically, and diagonally. Compete with others by checking and adding your scores to a network leaderboard. Enjoy a simple yet challenging puzzle experience.
- Fill 100 boxes
- Strategic placement rules
- Help mode available
- Undo moves
- Network scores and comments
- Leaderboard functionality
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Rule of the game Your goal : To fill the 100 boxes! - Begin with a box of your choice - You have to fill the grid leaving 2 boxes for horizontal and vertical, and 1 for diagonals. Help mode is available. - You can cancel a play many times, but not twice. Good luck! - Check out the scores on the network and add yours with a breif comment. Warning don't shake too hard ! © JF Pautex 2010-2017
Deep Green
This app provides a classical chess experience with a clean, native interface and customizable piece designs. It supports open game formats, offers a unique chess engine with adjustable strength, and features a private, ad-free environment.
- Clean, native user interface
- Customizable chess piece designs
- Open game format (PGN/FEN)
- Adjustable strength chess engine
- Private and ad-free experience
- System-level integration
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A no-nonsense classical chess app. - CLEAN UI: Deep Green offers a distraction-free experience in a clean, native user interface, with Liquid Glass on iOS 26 and later. - CUSTOM PIECE DESIGN: Beautiful chess set designed specifically for Deep Green and rendered at high resolution in both outline and 3D throughout the app. - MADE FOR IPAD: Dedicated menu bar, multiple windows, and refined trackpad, mouse, and Apple Pencil support. Squares highlight as you hover over the board. - MADE FOR IPHONE DUO: Adapts to both displays and every pose. The board centers on the fold like a folding chess board, and the game controls follow the system into the vertical bar. - TIGHT SYSTEM INTEGRATION: System-level sharing, drag and drop, AirDrop, undo/redo, contextual menus, Quick Look previews of chess files, Dark Mode, high contrast support and more. - OPEN GAME FORMAT: Games can be shared, saved, copied, pasted, imported, exported in the ubiquitous, open source PGN and FEN formats. Deep Green can open chess files straight from the Files app. - UNIQUE CHESS ENGINE: Enjoyable opponent with adjustable strength, praised for its humane gameplay, developed for Deep Green on the Apple Newton more than 25 years ago. - TWEAKABLE APPEARANCE: Engage the knights in the game by having them turn towards the center of the board, apply a humane, slightly random placement of the pieces. - IN YOUR LANGUAGE: Available in English, German, and Danish. - MODERN ARCHITECTURE: Written in Swift as a fully native app – modern, maintainable, and prepared for the future. - PRIVATE, AD-FREE: No ads, no tracking, no analytics, no nonsense. If you like Deep Green, please rate it favorably on the App Store.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Deep Green at 3.9 against 100 Squares's 3.0. Deep Green also leads on update cadence (every 4 months vs every 21 months) and ratings volume (77 vs 1). 100 Squares's advantage is monetization model (free vs paid) and review sentiment (100% vs 66%). On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Deep Green holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Deep Green has 77 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of 100 Squares's written reviews are positive against 66% of Deep Green's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
100 Squares ships an update every 21 months, Deep Green every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 100 Squares | Deep Green |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) | 3.9 (77 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 66.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 77 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 21 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.1 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jean-Francois Pautex | Cocoa Stuff |
Customer experience
100 Squares
Deep Green
Bugs and requests
100 Squares
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Deep Green
Reported bugs
4 issues- App crashes when promoting pawns
- Board orientation issues when rotating device
- Unresponsive UI elements
- Compatibility problems with newer iOS versions
Requested features
5 requests- Game saving and loading functionality
- Online/multiplayer mode
- Customizable board/piece themes
- Difficulty settings for beginners
- Indicators for check, checkmate, and draw
In-app purchases
100 Squares
No in-app purchases
Deep Green
No in-app purchases
Questions
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