Checkers Gold vs HexBoard
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Checkers Gold
Enjoy a classic checkers experience with no ads or tracking. Play against a friend or the AI on various gameboards, with intuitive controls and visual cues for legal moves. Pieces smoothly glide into place for an engaging game.
- 1 or 2 player modes
- Rules enforced
- Pieces glide into position
- 11 included gameboards
- Legal move indicators
- No ads or tracking
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No ads, no tracking. Checkers game for 1 or 2 players, rules enforced, pieces glide into position. Play checkers with a friend or against your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch on any of 11 included gameboards. Pieces and squares subtly glow to show you all legal moves, and pieces slide into position when released.
HexBoard
Play Chinese Checkers against AI or friends on various board sizes. Enjoy a portable game experience with accessibility features for VoiceOver users.
- Play against computer opponents
- Multiplayer with friends
- Three different sized gameboards
- Portable gameboard on phone/tablet
- VoiceOver accessibility
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With HexBoard you can play chinese checkers in two ways: - Against one or multiple computer opponents in two, three, four, five and six player modes. - With your friends. Hexboard has three different sized gameboards. Small gameboard has three marbles per each player, medium has six. Full gameboard has total of ten marbles per player. With HexBoard you have a portable gameboard with you all the time in your phone or tablet, and it's easy to start a game at any time. We have also done our best to make HexBoard accessible with VoiceOver.
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Verdict
Checkers Gold and HexBoard both sit at 3.9 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Checkers Gold's written reviews are positive against 0% of HexBoard's. Checkers Gold also leads on update cadence (every 12 months vs every 40 months) and chart position (#195 vs unranked). On price, rating, 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
Checkers Gold costs $0.99 and HexBoard $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Checkers Gold holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Checkers Gold has 26 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Checkers Gold's written reviews are positive against 0% of HexBoard's.
Checkers Gold ships an update every 12 months, HexBoard every 40 months. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Checkers Gold | HexBoard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | $0.99 |
| Rating | 3.9 (26 ratings) — better | 3.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 26 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months — better | Every 40 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #195 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | fishdog.net | Iiro Viitanen |
Customer experience
Checkers Gold
HexBoard
In-app purchases
Checkers Gold
No in-app purchases
HexBoard
No in-app purchases
