Checkers Premium vs Checkers Primo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Checkers Premium
Enjoy a classic game of Checkers with enhanced features. Play against friends or a challenging AI with turn-based multiplayer options. Track scores and customize your experience with great graphics and sound.
- Turn-based multiplayer
- Play against AI
- Configurable difficulty
- Score tracking
- Undo function
- Forced captures option
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The #1 Checkers app for iOS just got better. Play against your Game Center friends or random opponents using our new turn-based multiplayer feature! Checkers Premium supports both 1 player and 2 player gameplay, so you can play against friends or test your skills against a challenging computer opponent. Our new turn-based network play feature allows you to play up to 16 simultaneous network games against your Game Center friends or random network opponents over Wi-Fi or 3G. Checkers Premium includes a host of exciting features, including: * Great graphics and awesome sound effects * Configurable player names and score tracking * Outstanding AI engine provided by renowned AI researcher Martin Fierz * Fully configurable 1 player difficulty level * Undo function * Option to enable / disable forced captures * Automatic save when you exit the app Checkers Premium currently plays according to American Checkers / English Draughts rules.
Checkers Primo
Enjoy classic checkers with customizable themes and AI opponents. Play against friends or a computer with intuitive controls and visual move indicators.
- 1 or 2 player mode
- 3 AI difficulty levels
- Wooden, metal, and glass themes
- Legal move highlighting
- Slide or tap-to-move controls
- Customizable player roles
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1 or 2 players, rules enforced, pieces glide into position. Play checkers with a friend or play against one of 3 robots on a beautiful wooden checkerboard, or alternatively choose the metal or glass themes. Pieces and squares subtly glow to show you all legal moves. To move, you can either slide a piece or tap a piece and a destination square. Tap the settings to make one side or the other a human player (or both), or just set both sides to computer players and watch the battle unfold.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Checkers Primo at Free against Checkers Premium's $4.99. Checkers Premium's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (78% vs 61%). On rating, ratings volume, update cadence and in-app purchases 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
Checkers Primo is free to download; Checkers Premium costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Checkers Premium against 4.6 for Checkers Primo. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.3K and 1.5K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 78% of Checkers Premium's written reviews are positive against 61% of Checkers Primo's.
Checkers Premium ships an update every 4 months, Checkers Primo every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Checkers Premium | Checkers Primo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.5 (1.3K ratings) | 4.6 (1.5K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 78.3% of reviews — better | 60.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.3K | 1.5K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Ad-supported — better |
| Best chart rank | #94 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Optime Software LLC | fishdog.net |
Customer experience
Checkers Premium
Checkers Primo
User reviews
Checkers Premium
From 1.3K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Good for passing time
- 👍 Simple to play
- 👍 Good practice
- 👍 Fun and challenging
- 👍 Great game
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes
- 🐛 Ads don't work
- 🐛 Network play issues
- 👎 Too hard
- 👎 Lousy as an internet game
Checkers Primo
From 1.5K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Fun game
- 👍 Helps improve skills
- 👍 Great childhood experience
- 👍 Excellent game
- 👍 Best checkers game
Room to improve
- 🐛 Freezes up during gameplay
- 🤖 Robot needs training
- 🤔 Forced capturing is frustrating
- 🤔 Game can be too easy
Bugs and requests
Checkers Premium
Reported bugs
5 issues- Crashes
- Network play issues
- Refusing double jump doesn't work
- Freezing during computer's turn
- Opponent's chips become player's and vice versa when refusing draw
Requested features
7 requests- Different level settings
- Notification for turn in network play
- Option to change colors
- Flying kings
- Chat function for premium users
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- Save high score
- Rename player name
Checkers Primo
Reported bugs
1 issue- Freezing issues during gameplay
Requested features
2 requests- Option to disable forced capturing
- Higher difficulty level
In-app purchases
Checkers Premium
No in-app purchases
Checkers Primo
No in-app purchases
Questions
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