Chess & Variants vs Chess Mega Bundle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chess & Variants
Explore a vast collection of chess variations beyond the classic game. Play against AI offline or challenge real players online with features like saved games and leaderboards.
- 45 chess variations
- Play against AI offline
- Online multiplayer
- Create/join tables
- Invite friends
- Full rules description
- Replay saved games
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* Open up your Chess horizon * Jocly's Chess Variants is by far the most complete mobile application for playing Chess variations. In addition to regular Chess, it offers 45 variants, all of them featuring: - artificial intelligence to play alone / offline - server connectivity to play real people, create or join tables, invite friends - full rules description - live games are saved and can be replayed - ELO based leaderboard - and many more ... Supported variants: - Classic Chess - XiangQi (Chinese Chess) - Gardner Chess - MiniChess4x4 - MiniChess4x5 - MicroChess - Baby Chess - Malett Chess - Los Alamos - Chess Attack - Courier (Middle-Age Chess) - Makruk (Thai Chess) - Shako (10x10 board with elephants and cannons) - Shatranj - Raumschach (5x5x5) - Glinski Chess (hexagonal) - Brusky Chess (hexagonal) - DeVasa Chess (hexagonal) - McCooey Chess (hexagonal) - Shafran (hexagonal) - Modern circular Chess (on a round board) - Byzantine Chess (on a round board, as played in the Xth century) - 3D Chess (6x8x3) - Cylinder Chess - RollerBall (Chess on an unusual board) - Chess960 (randomized start position) - Metamachy (big board) - Capablanca Chess - Carrera Chess - Gothic Chess - Janus Chess - Grand Chess - Modern Chess - Chancellor Chess - Wildebeest Chess - Smess (give it a try) - Demi Chess (half a regular board) - Romanchenko Chess - Amazon Chess - Duke of Rutland Chess - Gustav III Chess - Hyderabad Chess - Kaiser Chess - SultanGame Chess - Reformed Courier Chess - Tutti-Frutti Chess
Chess Mega Bundle
Explore hundreds of unique chess variants. Challenge friends or AI opponents locally or online. Discover new ways to play the classic game.
- Hundreds of unique chess variants
- Local multiplayer
- Online multiplayer
- Play against AI
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Hundreds of unique variants! Play locally or online multiplayer!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Chess & Variants at none against Chess Mega Bundle's shown. Chess & Variants also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 17.1). Chess Mega Bundle's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 4.1) and ratings volume (127 vs 14). On price, review sentiment, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Chess & Variants sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Chess Mega Bundle sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Chess Mega Bundle holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chess Mega Bundle has 127 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 56% of Chess & Variants's written reviews are positive against 50% of Chess Mega Bundle's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Chess & Variants ships an update every 17 months, Chess Mega Bundle every 15 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chess & Variants | Chess Mega Bundle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (14 ratings) | 4.6 (127 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 55.6% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 14 | 127 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 17 months | Every 15 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 17.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 96 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | ACLAP | GammaLateral LLC |
Customer experience
Chess & Variants
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In-app purchases
Chess & Variants
- Remove ads$0.99
Chess Mega Bundle
- Remove Ads$9.99
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