Deep Green vs Helpmate Puzzles
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Helpmate Puzzles
Engage in a unique chess puzzle experience where both sides work together to checkmate the opponent. This game offers over 1300 challenging puzzles, ranging from simple one-move solutions to complex multi-move scenarios.
- Cooperative checkmate puzzles
- Over 1300 puzzles
- 1 to 4.5 mover puzzles
- Challenging gameplay
- Addicting puzzle variety
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Helpmate puzzles are a fun variation of regular chess puzzles! The twist is that both sides cooperate in order to checkmate black. The puzzles are challenging and addicting! This app is loaded with over 1300 puzzles from simple 1 movers all the way up to very challenging 4.5 movers in half move increments. For even more chess puzzle challenges check out these apps: - Mate in 1 Puzzles - Mate in 2 Puzzles - Mate in 3 Puzzles - Mate in 4+ Puzzles
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Deep Green at 66% against Helpmate Puzzles's 17%. Deep Green also leads on price (Free vs $0.99) and rating (3.9 vs 3.3). Helpmate Puzzles's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.4). 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
Deep Green is free to download; Helpmate Puzzles costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Deep Green holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Deep Green has 76 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 66% of Deep Green's written reviews are positive against 17% of Helpmate Puzzles's.
Deep Green ships an update every 4 months, Helpmate Puzzles every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Deep Green | Helpmate Puzzles |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 3.9 (76 ratings) — better | 3.3 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.0% of reviews — better | 16.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 76 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cocoa Stuff | Gano Technologies LLC |
Customer experience
Deep Green
Helpmate Puzzles
Bugs and 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
Helpmate Puzzles
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Deep Green
No in-app purchases
Helpmate Puzzles
No in-app purchases
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