Kōnane Lite vs Fidchell
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Kōnane Lite
Experience an ancient Hawaiian board game similar to checkers. Learn the rules with a tutorial, play against the device on a 6x6 board, and customize difficulty. Features beautiful graphics and a Hawaiian glossary.
- Learn to play with tutorial
- Play against device AI
- 6x6 board
- Adjustable difficulty and hints
- Coral and lava rock graphics
- Hawaiian glossary with pronunciation
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Welcome to kōnane, a game played by the ancient people of Hawaii! Legend has is that King Kamehameha could not be defeated. Can you become a master of kōnane as well? --- FEATURES --- - Learn to play by viewing the tutorial. Gameplay is similar to checkers. - Play against the device on a 6 by 6 board. - Various settings to control aspects such as difficulty and the inclusion of hints. - Beautiful graphics to include coral and lava rock playing pieces. - Hawaiian glossary with visual and audio pronunciations. Upgrading to the full version will add the following: - Play games on a larger 8 by 8 board. - Earn your place on leaderboards and obtain achievements using Game Center. - More challenging games when playing against a device. - Share and play.
Fidchell
Experience an ancient Celtic board game with strategic piece capturing. Play against AI or human opponents offline or online, with two distinct game variants.
- Ancient Celtic board game
- Piece trapping capture mechanic
- Two game variants (basic and advanced)
- Offline play vs AI or human
- Asynchronous online multiplayer
- Ad-free option via IAP
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Fidchell, which is also called Faery Chess or Celtic Chess, is an ancient celtic game which was mentioned in multiple Irish epics and chronicles. Under the name of Gwyddbwyll it also appears in the Welsh Mabinogion and seems to have been held in peculiar reverence throughout the British Isles. Faery Chess is what emerged from Nigel Suckling's investigations and speculations about the lost game. The game is played an a board consisting of circles and lines on which the game pieces are placed and can move along. Similar to games like the ancient abstract board game Nine Men's Morris the pieces are first placed onto the board in turn and moved afterwards once all of them have been placed. The capturing of pieces works differently though and is alike to Tafl games: a piece gets captured if a player traps it between two of his own pieces. This even grants him another move with which he may trap another one and so on. The app features two variants of the game: the basic edition which is easier to understand and where both players are treated equally and the advanced version which has different goals for both players. The general goal is to connect the central Naval stone with the border of the board by forming a connected line of stones. This app features both game modes for offline play against a human or the computer/AI and asynchronous online play against humans. The app is ad supported. These ads can be permanently deactivated through an one-time In App Purchase (IAP).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Kōnane Lite at none against Fidchell's 1. Kōnane Lite also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.5 vs 4.1). Fidchell's advantage is review sentiment (80% vs 67%). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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. Fidchell sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Kōnane Lite asks for nothing beyond the download.
Kōnane Lite holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 7 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Kōnane Lite's written reviews are positive against 80% of Fidchell's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Kōnane Lite ships an update every 5 weeks, Fidchell every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Kōnane Lite | Fidchell |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (6 ratings) — better | 4.1 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.3 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 213 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Instant Interactive | Philippe Schober |
Customer experience
Kōnane Lite
Fidchell
In-app purchases
Kōnane Lite
No in-app purchases
Fidchell
- Remove Ads$2.99









