Checkers vs RainCat
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Checkers
Engage in a classic strategy board game for two players. Move your pieces diagonally, capture opponents by jumping, and aim to crown your pieces for enhanced movement. The game concludes when a player loses all their pieces or cannot make a valid move.
- Two-player gameplay
- Diagonal piece movement
- Capturing opponent pieces
- Piece crowning for advanced movement
- Optional mandatory jump rule
- Game ends on piece loss or no moves
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Checkers is a game for 2 players. The players sit on opposite sides of the checkerboard, and position their 12 pieces on the 12 closest dark squares. One player has 12 pieces of one color, the other player has pieces of another color. The player with the darker pieces moves first. Play then alternates between the 2 players. A piece can move diagonally one square toward the opposite side of the board only. If the opponent’s piece is blocking, and the diagonal square beyond is free, a piece is allowed to jump over the opponent’s piece to the 2nd diagonal square and remove the opponent’s piece from the board. From the landing square of the jump, if an additional jump is possible, the player may continue with a 2nd jump. If a player is able to jump and capture an opponent’s piece, the rules require that the jump be made. However, in Settings in this app, this rule can be turned off. When a player’s piece arrives on the furthest forward row of squares (the opponent’s side of the board), the piece gets crowned and can then move or jump in any direction diagonally. The game ends when one player has lost all his pieces or is unable to move.
RainCat
Guide a cat through the rain, using an umbrella to protect it from the elements and collect food. Compete for high scores and enjoy a local multiplayer mode inspired by air hockey.
- Protect cat from rain
- Collect food
- Achieve high scores
- Local multiplayer mode
- Air hockey style gameplay
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RainCat is a simple and satisfying game where you need to protect your feline friend while it roams around to get food. Use your umbrella to protect the cat from the troublesome rain and gain your high score in the process! Protect the kitty, eat the food, up your level, get high scores! Local multiplayer! Play a frantic air hockey style game, but with cats and umbrellas! Learn to make this game! https://medium.com/hello-thirteen23/raincat-lesson-1-79a750ef319f#.c9cm6pllz Check out the source code for the game! https://github.com/thirteen23/RainCat
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: RainCat at 100% against Checkers's 52%. RainCat also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Checkers's advantage is ratings volume (130 vs 5). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
RainCat holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Checkers has 130 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 52% of Checkers's written reviews are positive against 100% of RainCat's.
Checkers ships an update every 10 months, RainCat every 17 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Checkers | RainCat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (130 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 51.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 130 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months — better | Every 17 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | fishdog.net | thirteen23 |
Customer experience
Checkers
RainCat
Bugs and requests
Checkers
Reported bugs
7 issues- Settings for jumping don't work
- Game plays for the user
- Picture sometimes switches to landscape
- Buggy program with absurd moves
- Program does not remember settings
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- Board orientation issues
- Shadows misplaced in graphics
Requested features
4 requests- Add another difficulty level
- Improve AI
- Allow loser of previous game to go first
- Online multiplayer
RainCat
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Checkers
No in-app purchases
RainCat
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Checkers free?
Is RainCat free?
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Do Checkers or RainCat have ads?
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