Comparison

7 Wonders vs Sealed Move

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

Head to head
About

7 Wonders

Engage in a fast-paced, strategic card game where you develop a civilization. Compete globally or offline, with simultaneous turns ensuring no downtime. Master military, commercial, scientific, or civil development to lead your city to glory.

Highlights
  • Card-based civilization development
  • Global multiplayer competition
  • Offline play against AI
  • Simultaneous player turns
  • Strategic card drafting
  • Multiple development paths
Features
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Strategy/card game. Go up against players from around the globe in the world's leading, award-winning board game. Can be played offline against the computer. Requires an internet connection for the network functions. Recommended devices: iPhone 6, iPad Air or more recent. 7 Wonders is a fast-paced, card-based, civilization development game with incredible strategic depth. The rules are simple and a tutorial will help you quickly master all the game's different concepts. Military, commercial, scientific or civil development... Combine your strategies and lay down your cards to make your city achieve glory for thousands of years to come.   COMPETE ON AN EQUAL FOOTING: no cards to collect, but a card selection mechanism (the draft) that guarantees constantly renewed and different games. Only your strategy will make the difference!   NO WAITING TO PLAY: all the players play at the same time, so you don't have to wait for each player to take their turn.   PRACTICE MODE: play against Artificial Intelligence in single-player games.   MULTI-PLAYER: Up to 7 players can play at the same time.   GAME DURATION: 5 - 8 minutes   LANGUAGES AVAILABLE: English, French, Spanish, German, Polish, Dutch, Italian

About

Sealed Move

This app provides personalized chess coaching by explaining engine evaluations in plain language. It offers interactive explanations, a lexicon of chess terms, and game review features. Practice against an AI that mimics human play and export games as videos.

Highlights
  • AI-powered chess coaching
  • Plain-language explanations of engine moves
  • Interactive lexicon of chess terms
  • Game review timeline
  • Export games as videos
  • Human-like AI opponent
Features
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Sealed Move is a chess coach on your phone. Stockfish makes every factual claim about your game, and a coach who talks like a person turns those claims into plain speech. The coach never analyzes the board on its own, which means it cannot invent a variation. THE ENGINE JUDGES. THE COACH EXPLAINS. Every evaluation, best move, tactic, and opening name comes from the engine. The coach's job is the words: what your move accomplished, what it missed, and what deserves your attention now. When the game genuinely shifts, the coach steps in with a short recap of the moves that caused the swing, then leaves you to play. FEEDBACK THAT WAITS ITS TURN Coaching arrives as cards docked under the board. Read the newest at a glance, tap to expand it, and swipe back through earlier notes whenever you like. Ask a question and a full conversation opens; close it and the board is yours again. TAP THE COACH'S WORDS Every square, piece, and move the coach mentions is live. Tap f7 and the board shows you f7. Tap a move and an annotation pen draws the same red arrow a coach reaches for at a demo board. A LEXICON WITH MOVING PARTS When the coach names a fork, a skewer, or a Najdorf, the word links into a Lexicon of 153 entries: a plain definition plus the pattern played out on an animated board. Every demo line was checked by the engine before it shipped. HINTS THAT LEAVE THE FIND TO YOU Stuck in a sharp position? The coach will tell you what kind of idea you are missing and let you find it. The eval is the engine's, the nudge is the coach's, and the find is still yours. REVIEW THE GAME AS A TIMELINE After the game, the review lays your moves on a scrubber with a dot at each moment that mattered: green where the game swung your way, red where it slipped. Press play and the coach walks you through the moments, two moves of run-up at a time, at reading pace. EXPORT THE GAME AS A VIDEO Turn any finished game into a vertical video. The moves play out on the board with the coach's red arrows or classic highlights, and the coach's notes hold on screen at reading pace. Trim the clip to the stretch that decided the game, then share it or save it from the share sheet. SCAN A BOARD Photograph a puzzle from a book, a newspaper, or a screenshot. Sealed Move reads the position right on your phone, nothing is uploaded, and puts it on an editable board so you can fix any square. Then play it out, have the coach solve it, ask why the key move works, or export the solution as a video. AN OPPONENT WHO PLAYS LIKE A PERSON Practice games run against Maia, a neural network trained on millions of human games, so your opponent misjudges positions the way people do. The level moves with you as you improve. FREE AND PRO The free coach runs entirely on your phone. Nothing leaves the device, there is no account, and free play stays free. Pro Coach ($5.99 a month, first 7 days free) adds our sharpest coaching through cloud AI, with deeper explanations and richer game stories. Positions reach the cloud only on Pro Coach, and only after you agree. OPEN WHERE IT COUNTS Sealed Move embeds Stockfish 11 under the GPLv3 and honors the license fully: the complete client source is public at github.com/tjameswilliams/sealedmove-app, tagged for every release. The claim that the coach cannot invent a line is one you can audit. The name comes from the adjournment era, when a paused game meant sealing your next move in an envelope and going home to analyze. Secret preparation, deep analysis, the resumed game: that is what your coach does between your moves. Terms of Use (Apple standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://sealedmove.com/privacy

Screenshots

7 Wonders4 screens
Sealed Move4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Sealed Move at Free against 7 Wonders's $4.99. Sealed Move also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). 7 Wonders's advantage is ratings volume (512 vs 1) and chart position (#64 vs unranked). On rating, 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

Sealed Move is free to download; 7 Wonders costs $4.99 up front. 7 Wonders sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Sealed Move sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.0 for 7 Wonders against 3.0 for Sealed Move. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: 7 Wonders has 512 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

7 Wonders ships an update every 2 months, Sealed Move weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
7 Wonders versus Sealed Move: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter7 WondersSealed Move
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating3.0 (512 ratings)3.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews41.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings512 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
Best chart rank#64 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size302 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRepos ProductionTim Williams

Customer experience

7 Wonders

All ratings512 ratings
Positive44.5%
Neutral12.5%
Negative43.0%
Written reviews308 reviews
Positive41.6%
Neutral15.3%
Negative43.2%

Sealed Move

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

7 Wonders

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Game freezes when using Halikarnassos wonder
  • Disconnections and inability to rejoin online games
  • Incorrect scoring calculations, especially for military and science
  • App crashes on launch for some users

Requested features

5 requests
  • Pass-and-play mode for local multiplayer
  • Ability to play against specific friends online
  • Detailed scoring breakdowns and statistics
  • Difficulty settings for AI opponents
  • Asynchronous online play

Sealed Move

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

7 Wonders

One-time2
  • Leaders Expansion$1.99
  • Cities Expansion$1.99
1 purchases

Sealed Move

Subscriptions1
  • Pro Coach$5.991 Month

Questions

Is 7 Wonders free?
7 Wonders costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Sealed Move free?
Sealed Move is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, 7 Wonders or Sealed Move?
Sealed Move is rated higher. 7 Wonders averages 3.0 out of 5 from 512 ratings, while Sealed Move averages 3.0 from 1 ratings.
Do 7 Wonders or Sealed Move have ads?
Neither 7 Wonders nor Sealed Move shows ads.
Which is updated more often, 7 Wonders or Sealed Move?
7 Wonders ships an update every 2 months, and Sealed Move weekly. Most recently, 7 Wonders was updated on October 22, 2026 and Sealed Move on October 6, 2026.

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