Simple chess board vs Slide Fit Stack
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.
Slide Fit Stack
Stack stone blocks as high as possible in this endless arcade game. Enjoy a simple, elegant design with progressive difficulty and offline play. Challenge friends to beat your world record.
- Infinite gameplay
- Progressive difficulty
- Simple and elegant UI
- Offline play
- Challenge friends
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Stack the stone blocks as high as you can. Simple and beautiful design. Get the best record in the world. Includes the following features: ● Infinite gameplay ● Progressive difficulty ● Flat, simple and elegant user interface ●You can play for FREE! ● All the time without the need to be online. Share with your friends and challenge them to beat your high score.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Slide Fit Stack at 5.0 against Simple chess board's 4.5. Slide Fit Stack also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (100% vs 88%). Simple chess board's advantage is ratings volume (68 vs 1) and update cadence (every 10 months vs every 47 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Slide Fit Stack asks for nothing beyond the download.
Slide Fit Stack holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Simple chess board has 68 ratings behind it against 1, 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 Slide Fit Stack's.
Simple chess board ships an update every 10 months, Slide Fit Stack every 47 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Simple chess board | Slide Fit Stack |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (68 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 88.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 68 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months — better | Every 47 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 77 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Luis Lopez | Fernando Gonzalez Frias |
Customer experience
Simple chess board
Slide Fit Stack
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
Slide Fit Stack
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Simple chess board
- Remove ads$0.99
Slide Fit Stack
No in-app purchases
Questions
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