Checkers+ vs Original Checkers
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Checkers+
Enjoy classic checkers with a friend or AI. Features beautiful boards, enforced rules, and subtle visual cues for legal moves. Choose from three AI difficulty levels, perfect for all ages.
- 1 or 2 player modes
- Enforced game rules
- 3 AI difficulty levels
- Multiple board themes
- Visual legal move indicators
- Pieces glide into position
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1 or 2 players, rules enforced, pieces glide into position, no ads. Play checkers with a friend or play against one of 3 robot players on your choice of beautiful wood, metal or glass checkerboards. Pieces and squares subtly glow to show you all legal moves and pieces slide into position when released. Set your opponent to Easy, and even the youngest players can win. Tap the Settings button to make one side or the other a human player (or both), or just set both sides to robot players and watch the battle unfold.
Original Checkers
Engage in classic checkers gameplay against AI, a local opponent, or online players. Capture all opponent pieces by strategically moving your checkers diagonally and making captures. The objective is to eliminate all of the opposing checkers to win.
- Play against AI
- Local multiplayer (same device)
- Online multiplayer
- Diagonal checker movement
- Capture opponent pieces
- Objective: capture all opponent checkers
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Play a game of standard checkers against the computer, a friend on the same device, or someone over the internet. To play the game, each player moves one of their checkers diagonally, one square at a time. If one of the other player's checkers is on a diagonal square next to yours, then you can capture it, if the next square behind it is empty. To win the game, you need to capture all of the other player's checkers.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Original Checkers at Free against Checkers+'s $0.99. Checkers+'s advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). On rating, update cadence, 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
Original Checkers is free to download; Checkers+ costs $0.99 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 — 5.0 for Checkers+ against 5.0 for Original Checkers. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
Checkers+ ships an update every 9 months, Original Checkers every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Checkers+ | Original Checkers |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 5 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 107 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | fishdog.net | MOBILEFUSION APPS LTD |
Customer experience
Checkers+
Original Checkers
In-app purchases
Checkers+
No in-app purchases
Original Checkers
No in-app purchases
Questions
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