Comparison

Advanced Mill Lite vs Uncommon Chess

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

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About

Advanced Mill Lite

Experience the classic Nine Men's Morris board game on your iOS device. Challenge an advanced AI with adjustable difficulty, utilize an undo function, and get helpful hints. Track your game stats and save progress for later.

Highlights
  • Play against CPU with two difficulty levels
  • Undo function for moves
  • CPU hints available
  • Track game time and turns
  • Save and load games
  • Optional beginner hints
  • Display available moves
Features
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Advanced Mill is an iOS adaptation of the traditional board game Mill. The game also known as Merils and Nine Men's Morris. This app is the ad supported version of the game. Features: Play against CPU - Advanced AI with two difficulty levels. Undo function to take back moves. Getting CPU hint during a move. Displaying elapsed time, number of turns, reason of win at the end of the game. Checking and handling tie situations. Optional hints for beginner players. Displaying available moves. Saving and loading games from Main Menu. Thanks for your continuous support and reviews. Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vtdevinfo

About

Uncommon Chess

Experience chess with unique animated duels for every capture. Learn the game with interactive tutorials, play against AI or friends, and explore fun novelty modes. Dive into a study of chess games with clear explanations.

Highlights
  • Animated capture duels
  • Interactive learning tutorials
  • AI and local multiplayer
  • Online 1v1 and 2v2 modes
  • Novelty game modes
  • Chess game study and analysis
Features
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Chess, but the pieces fight for the square. Every capture in Uncommon Chess is a hand-animated duel between two original characters — the ivory Bone Court against the blued iron of the Iron Court. Thirty-five of them, one for every attacker and defender pairing, each choreographed separately. A pawn taking a rook does not look like a queen taking a pawn. LEARN TO PLAY A whole screen for somebody who has never played. How each piece moves, shown on a real board, plus the rules that look like exceptions — check, checkmate, stalemate, castling, en passant, promotion. The diagrams are played by the game's own rules engine, so they cannot be wrong. SEE IT YOUR WAY Turn the board, tilt it, zoom in. Watch the fight from wherever you like. PLAY HOW YOU LIKE Against the computer at four strengths. Two players passing one device. Four players, two a side. Or online through Game Center — 1v1 and 2v2, with your turn waiting for you whenever you pick the phone up. FUN MODES Optional novelty rules for a single match. Anoint a Champion that survives the first attack on it, a Berserker that strikes twice, or a Phantom that slips through anything in its way. Strict chess is the default, is complete, and costs nothing. THE MATRIX A real study of 162,000 games between two engines, and — unusually — a plain explanation of what its numbers mean. What a margin of error is. Why more games help only slowly. What the experiment cannot tell you. Written for a child and true for everybody. No account. No subscription. No data collected.

Screenshots

Advanced Mill Lite4 screens
Uncommon Chess4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Uncommon Chess at 5.0 against Advanced Mill Lite's 4.3. Uncommon Chess also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 months). Advanced Mill Lite's advantage is ratings volume (46 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Uncommon Chess holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Advanced Mill Lite has 46 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Advanced Mill Lite ships an update every 5 months, Uncommon Chess every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Advanced Mill Lite versus Uncommon Chess: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAdvanced Mill LiteUncommon Chess
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (46 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings46 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedAd-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB46 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperVTDev Informatikai KftTAMAS HALASZ

Customer experience

Advanced Mill Lite

All ratings46 ratings
Positive78.3%
Neutral10.9%
Negative10.9%
Written reviews21 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral14.3%
Negative52.4%

Uncommon Chess

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Advanced Mill Lite

No in-app purchases

None

Uncommon Chess

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Advanced Mill Lite free?
Advanced Mill Lite is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Uncommon Chess free?
Uncommon Chess is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Advanced Mill Lite or Uncommon Chess?
Uncommon Chess is rated higher. Advanced Mill Lite averages 4.3 out of 5 from 46 ratings, while Uncommon Chess averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Advanced Mill Lite or Uncommon Chess have ads?
Both Advanced Mill Lite and Uncommon Chess show ads.
Which is updated more often, Advanced Mill Lite or Uncommon Chess?
Advanced Mill Lite ships an update every 5 months, and Uncommon Chess every 2 weeks. Most recently, Advanced Mill Lite was updated on October 11, 2026 and Uncommon Chess on October 7, 2026.

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