Simple chess board vs Chess Clock Premium
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.
Chess Clock Premium
A free, simple, and easy-to-use game timer designed for over-the-board chess matches. It offers pre-set timer controls for various chess formats like Blitz, Classical, and Bullet, with support for increment time controls.
- Free to use
- Simple and easy interface
- Pre-set timer controls
- Supports Blitz, Classical, Bullet chess
- Increment time control support
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Play over the board chess with this FREE chess game timer! This clock is simple and easy to use. Use one of the many pre-set timer controls for Blitz, Classical, or Bullet chess. Support for increment time controls as well. Customizable chess time controls is coming soon! This is a new app so we appreciate your patience.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Chess Clock Premium at none against Simple chess board's 1. Chess Clock Premium also leads on ads (none vs shown). Simple chess board's advantage is update cadence (every 10 months vs every 75 months) and review sentiment (88% vs 67%). On price, rating 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
Both are free to download. Simple chess board sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Chess Clock Premium asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Simple chess board against 4.4 for Chess Clock Premium. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Simple chess board has 67 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 88% of Simple chess board's written reviews are positive against 67% of Chess Clock Premium's.
Simple chess board ships an update every 10 months, Chess Clock Premium every 75 months. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and August 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Simple chess board | Chess Clock Premium |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (67 ratings) — better | 4.4 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 88.0% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 67 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months — better | Every 75 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Luis Lopez | Daniel Ricciotti |
Customer experience
Simple chess board
Chess Clock Premium
In-app purchases
Simple chess board
- Remove ads$0.99
Chess Clock Premium
No in-app purchases
