Comparison

Number Chain Pro vs Chess

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Number Chain Pro

A puzzle game where players create chains of three or more consecutive or identical numbers to clear them from the board. Achieve high scores by creating longer chains and triggering "Rensa" combos.

Highlights
  • Chain matching gameplay
  • Score multiplier for long chains
  • Automatic chain removal
  • Rensa combo system
  • Leaderboards and achievements
  • Automatic game saving
Features
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Video demo at Support Web Site or Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXhknhcfSx4) This is an incredibly amazing game! You can easily win hundreds of points; you can also carefully play the game and win millions of points. All in your hands! *** Purpose Build as many as possible removable chains so as to achieve incredible scores and challenge the longest chains! ***Rules When three or more than three same or consecutive numbers are aligned together, they constitute one removable chain that will be automatically removed. Once the chain is removed, another removable chain may be constituted and removed automatically. It goes on until there is no more removable chain. The longer the removed chain is, the higher the score is. It is called "RENSA" when chains are removed one by one. You can view the demo of 25 Rensa inside the game (see screenshots). *** Details * There are 10 different digital numbers from 1 to 10, and each can be used 12 times; Game ends when all numbers are used up. * When the chain length is longer than three, Final Number of 0 will be rewarded. It is used to remove all numbers at final stage. * When game ends with no number in the pool, score is doubled. *** Others * Support Chinese, English, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, and Swedish. * Support leaderboards and achievements in Game Center. * Support saving game automatically. * Support Game Center Agency to report scores achieved in Mac OS.

About

Chess

Enhance your chess skills with over 1500 tactical exercises drawn from real games. This app provides hints, explanations, and refutations to help beginners improve their play and learn new combinations. It acts as a personal coach, adapting to your progress and offering interactive lessons.

Highlights
  • Over 1500 tactical exercises
  • Hints and explanations
  • Refutations of mistakes
  • Interactive theoretical lessons
  • Progress monitoring (ELO rating)
  • Offline play
Features
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If you are a beginner, you just cannot afford to give away your piece in 1 move, presuming, of course, that you wish to improve your play! Another thing you cannot afford is to miss a chance of grabbing an undefended piece of your opponent's! This course includes more than 1500 exercises with lots of pieces on the board. Such a great number of exercises makes this course an excellent tool for quick training of chess beginners. The course is intended for players who are already acquainted with the rules of the game. Even if you study and solve only 20% of exercises you are sure to improve your chess skills and not to miss a chance to take an undefended piece in your practical game! All the exercises are taken from practical games and arranged according to the names of pieces and difficulty levels. This course is in the series Chess King Learn (https://learn.chessking.com/), which is an unprecedented chess teaching method. In the series are included courses in tactics, strategy, openings, middle game, and endgame, split by levels from beginners to experienced players, and even professional players. With the help of this course, you can improve your chess knowledge, learn new tactical tricks and combinations, and consolidate the acquired knowledge into practice. The program acts as a coach who gives tasks to solve and helps to solve them if you get stuck. It will give you hints, explanations and show you even striking refutation of the mistakes you might make. Advantages of the program: • High quality examples, all double-checked for correctness • You need to enter all key moves, required by the teacher • Different levels of complexity of the tasks • Various goals, which need to be reached in the problems • The program gives hint if an error is made • For typical mistaken moves, the refutation is shown • You can play out any position of the tasks against the computer • Interactive theoretical lessons • Structured table of contents • The program monitors the change in the rating (ELO) of the player during the learning process • Test mode with flexible settings • Possibility to bookmark favorite exercises • The application is adapted to the bigger screen of a tablet • The application does not require an internet connection The course includes a free part, in which you can test the program. Lessons offered in the free version is fully functional. They allow you to test the application in real world conditions before releasing the following topics: 1. Part 1 1.1. Winning a knight 1.2. Winning a bishop 1.3. Winning a rook 1.4. Winning a queen 2. Part 2. Win a piece 2.1. Level 1 2.2. Level 2 2.3. Level 3 2.4. Level 4 2.5. Level 5 2.6. Level 6 2.7. Level 7 2.8. Level 8

Screenshots

Number Chain Pro4 screens
Chess4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Chess at 100% against Number Chain Pro's 0%. Chess also leads on price (Free vs $0.99) and rating (4.5 vs 1.0). Number Chain Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Chess is free to download; Number Chain Pro costs $0.99 up front. Chess sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Number Chain Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Chess holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chess has 11 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Number Chain Pro's written reviews are positive against 100% of Chess's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Number Chain Pro ships an update every 4 months, Chess every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Number Chain Pro versus Chess: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNumber Chain ProChess
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating1.0 (1 ratings)4.5 (11 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings111 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.08.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShen ZhongyuanChess King

Customer experience

Number Chain Pro

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Chess

All ratings11 ratings
Positive81.8%
Neutral9.1%
Negative9.1%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Number Chain Pro

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Chess

One-time1
  • Full course$3.99

Questions

Is Number Chain Pro free?
Number Chain Pro costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Chess free?
Chess is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Number Chain Pro or Chess?
Chess is rated higher. Number Chain Pro averages 1.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Chess averages 4.5 from 11 ratings.
Do Number Chain Pro or Chess have ads?
Neither Number Chain Pro nor Chess shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Number Chain Pro or Chess?
Number Chain Pro ships an update every 4 months, and Chess every 6 weeks. Most recently, Number Chain Pro was updated on November 1, 2026 and Chess on November 2, 2026.

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