Batak vs BlueChess
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Batak
Experience a popular trick-taking card game, a variant of Spades, known by many names worldwide. Bid on the number of tricks you'll win and aim to meet your bid in this engaging card game.
- Trick-taking gameplay
- Bidding mechanics
- Simple and auction game modes
- Standard 52-card deck
- Follow suit rules
- Trump card mechanics
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Batak is a variant of popular trick-taking card game Spades. Batak is also known by many other names, including Oh Hell!, Blackout, Nomination Whist, Elevator (l'Ascenseur in France), Boerenbridge or 10 op en neer in the Netherlands, German Bridge in Hong Kong. A standard 52 card deck is used. The cards in each suit rank (from high to low) A K Q J 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2. 13 cards are dealt to each player. A player leads the first card. Each player must follow the suit led, if he can. If not, he should play the trump, or any suit if he has no trump. The player who has played the card with the highest value ( the trump card or the card of the suit led, if no trump was played) wins the trick. That player then leads to the next trick. Continue until all tricks have been played and won. The game has two modifications: simple and auction. In the simple game the object is for each player to bid the number of tricks he thinks he can take in the hand, then to take at least that number of tricks. In the auction game a player offering higher bid wins the auction. He has to take bid number of tricks or more. Other players have to win at least one trick. Enjoy simple interface and attractive game view!
BlueChess
Engage in strategic gameplay with powerful chess engines. Choose between the BlueChess engine or the highly-rated Stockfish engine for your matches.
- Play against BlueChess engine
- Play against Stockfish engine
- Strategic gameplay
- Free to play
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Play a game of chess against the BlueChess engine or the Stockfish engine.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: BlueChess at Free against Batak's $0.99. BlueChess also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.4). Batak's advantage is review sentiment (80% vs 50%) and ratings volume (24 vs 2). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
BlueChess is free to download; Batak costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
BlueChess holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Batak has 24 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 80% of Batak's written reviews are positive against 50% of BlueChess's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Batak ships an update every 3 months, BlueChess every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Batak | BlueChess |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.4 (24 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.2% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 24 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 55 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Adikus | GreenChess.com |
Customer experience
Batak
BlueChess
In-app purchases
Batak
No in-app purchases
BlueChess
No in-app purchases
