Simple chess board vs Solitaire GC Online
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simple chess board
This app provides a digital chessboard with unrestricted piece movement and a configurable chess clock. Save and load board positions, undo/redo moves, and even use checker pieces. It's ideal for analyzing games or setting up custom scenarios.
- Free piece movement
- Undo/Redo functionality
- Board rotation
- Checker piece option
- Save/load positions
- Configurable chess clock
- Tweet current position
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A simple chess board and a chess clock without movement restrictions. Free movement as a real board. Current features are: • Move pieces freely, add or remove them. • Undo/Redo last movement. • Rotate board and/or pieces. • Use checkers game pieces. • Save/load positions for later use, or delete them when you don't need them anymore (swipe over them). Starting positions for chess and checkers are available. • Use a chess clock where you can configure initial time, move time increment, increment after a number of movement, hourglass time, ... • Set time independent for black and white if required. • Save/load time settings for later use. Already available some common times. • Tweet your current position.
Solitaire GC Online
Engage in competitive online Klondike Solitaire. Solve thousands of unique layouts and aim for the top score against other players. Master the classic card-stacking gameplay on your iPhone or iPad.
- Online multiplayer competition
- Thousands of solvable layouts
- Classic Klondike Solitaire
- Build suit stacks
- Alternate color descending stacks
- Move multiple cards at once
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Solitaire GC Online - play and compete with other online solitaire players for top score! Tens of thousands of solvable solitaire layouts. Solitaire GC Online is easy to play on your iPhone and iPad. Solitaire GC Online offers the most popular Klondike Solitaire variation. The goal in Solitaire GC is to build four suit stacks on top, starting with aces, 2s, 3s, and so on, all of the same suit. You can use 7 vertical row stacks as temporary holding areas where cards have to be placed in descending order and have to alternate between red cards and black cards. The bottom card in each vertical row stack has to be a King. You can move more than 1 card at a time, for example, by dragging several cards at once from one row stack to the other. You will continue playing until you build up the 4 suit stacks on top.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Solitaire GC Online at none against Simple chess board's shown. Solitaire GC Online also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.5) and review sentiment (100% vs 88%). Simple chess board's advantage is ratings volume (68 vs 7). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Simple chess board sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Solitaire GC Online sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Solitaire GC Online holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Simple chess board has 68 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 88% of Simple chess board's written reviews are positive against 100% of Solitaire GC Online's.
Simple chess board ships an update every 10 months, Solitaire GC Online every 6 months. Both last shipped on October 16, 2026.
| Parameter | Simple chess board | Solitaire GC Online |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (68 ratings) | 4.7 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 88.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 68 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | Every 6 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Luis Lopez | BPS Software |
Customer experience
Simple chess board
Solitaire GC Online
User reviews
Simple chess board
From 68 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simple and straightforward
- 👍 Great for study and practice
- 👍 No restrictions or 'help' functions
- 👍 Allows setting up custom positions
- 👍 Useful for playing through games
Room to improve
- 🤔 Pieces not bound by rules
- 🤔 Graphics can be distracting/ugly
- 🤔 Aggressive board colors
- 🤔 Clocks take up screen space
- 🤔 Pieces can shift unexpectedly
Solitaire GC Online
From 7 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to play
- 😌 Relaxing gameplay
- 🎮 Addictive and fun
- ✨ Great graphics
- 📱 Available on mobile
Bugs and requests
Simple chess board
Reported bugs
7 issues- Keyboard not appearing to enter text/save
- Cannot figure out how to save position
- Pieces shift on their own
- Kings and queens on wrong squares initially
- Save position fails with 'You must insert text' error
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- App froze mid-game
- Write a review tab has trouble
Requested features
20 requests- Add scoresheet functionality
- Export game for analysis
- Move counter
- Portrait view on iPad
- Board expansion to fill screen
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- Ability to turn board around
- More board color options
- Option to hide timers
- PGN save and import facility
- PGN export
- Chess notation feature
- Larger board size (optional timers)
- Change chess set for better viewing
- Fix 'write a review' tab issue
- Delete saved games/setups easily
- Better graphics
- More realistic piece movement enforcement
- Improve piece dragging and selection
- Make piece representations larger
- Add variations
Solitaire GC Online
No bugs or feature requests surfaced in reviews.
In-app purchases
Simple chess board
- Remove ads$0.99
Solitaire GC Online
- Set of 2 $Tickets$2.99
- Set of 7 $Tickets$9.99
Questions
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