Checkers Primo vs Checkers `
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Checkers `
Experience the classic board game of Checkers, also known as Draughts. Play against a friend or challenge your phone with customizable rules. The objective is to capture all of your opponent's pieces by jumping over them diagonally.
- Play against a friend
- Play against AI
- Customizable rules
- Diagonal piece movement
- Capture opponent's pieces
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One player has dark pieces, and one player has light pieces. They take turns moving their pieces. Players move their pieces diagonally from one square to another square. When a player jumps over their opponent's (the other player's) piece, he takes that piece from the board. By default a potential piece will have to be taken but you can set custom rules and disable this rule. The player's goal is to take all the pieces of its opponent. With this version of Checkers (also known as Draughts) , you can play with a friend who sits next to you or play against your phone.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Checkers Primo at 4.6 against Checkers `'s 3.4. Checkers Primo also leads on ratings volume (1.5K vs 79) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). Checkers `'s advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 5 months). On price, review sentiment, ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Checkers Primo holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Checkers Primo has 1.5K ratings behind it against 79, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 61% and 62% positive.
Checkers Primo ships an update every 5 months, Checkers ` every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Checkers Primo | Checkers ` |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (1.5K ratings) — better | 3.4 (79 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 60.7% of reviews | 61.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.5K — better | 79 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 82 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | fishdog.net | Shawn Mottley |
Customer experience
Checkers Primo
Checkers `
User reviews
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
Checkers `
From 79 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Enjoyable offline play
- 👍 Simple and intuitive interface
- 👍 Good graphics
- 👍 Addictive gameplay
- 👍 Smooth performance
Room to improve
- 🐛 Game feels jerky/clunky after updates
- 🐛 AI cheats frequently
- 🐛 Hints lead to losses
- 🐛 Pieces freeze or disappear
- 🐛 Mandatory jumps not enforced on AI
Bugs and requests
Checkers Primo
Reported bugs
1 issue- Freezing issues during gameplay
Requested features
2 requests- Option to disable forced capturing
- Higher difficulty level
Checkers `
Reported bugs
8 issues- Game freezes
- Pieces freeze and become unmovable
- Pieces disappear after resuming game
- AI cheats by kinging pieces on occupied spaces
- Game incorrectly declares wins as losses
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- Mandatory jumps only enforced on player, not AI
- Visual glitch with crowned piece image
- Flashing green on first row
Requested features
7 requests- Make a legacy edition available
- Allow rollback to previous version
- Add different levels of difficulty
- Remove ads
- Add tutorial for features
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- Allow changing AI difficulty
- Add two-player mode
In-app purchases
Checkers Primo
No in-app purchases
Checkers `
No in-app purchases
