Michigan Liar's Dice vs RetroPaint
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Michigan Liar's Dice
Play a challenging game of Liar's Dice against a sophisticated AI opponent. This app offers a simple interface for strategic bidding and supports up to three AI opponents. It's a free way to enjoy this classic game of deception.
- Play against AI opponent
- Supports 1-3 AI opponents
- Simple bidding interface
- Complete set of bids
- Special rules for one die
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Liar's dice is an easy-to-learn game requiring the ability to deceive and detect an opponent's deception. Michigan Liar's Dice provides you the chance to play this fun and challenging (and free) game of Liars Dice against a top artificial intelligence (AI) opponent. Designed for both casual and serious players, Michigan Liar's Dice can be played against one to three opponents, and provides a simple interface that helps you make your best bid. The game has the complete set of bids including pushing, exact (spot on), pass, and special rules when a player gets to one die. This game was developed by the Soar research group at the University of Michigan, and uses Soar as the underlying engine for the game AI. Soar is a general cognitive architecture and has been used for developing a wide range of intelligent agents for training, computer games, and robotics. The game AI uses probabilities, heuristics, and even a model of the opponent to determine its bids (but does not include any learning, yet!). Michigan Liars Dice is the first iPhone app powered by Soar. Learn more about Soar at sitemaker.umich.edu/soar.
RetroPaint
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RetroPaint let you paint in beautiful low resolution graphics! Enlarge pixel plotting! Multiple tool options - including shapes, flood fill & text input! You can load or take photo as background, and applied retro looking filters. Load and save paintings in gallery. You can switch among Apple IIGS, Commodore 64 or IBM EGA color palette to simulate old machine feel.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: RetroPaint at every 3 days against Michigan Liar's Dice's every 16 months. Michigan Liar's Dice's advantage is iOS requirement (8.3 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Michigan Liar's Dice ships an update every 16 months, RetroPaint every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Michigan Liar's Dice | RetroPaint |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (21 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 44.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 21 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 16 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.3 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The University of Michigan | Virtual GS |
In-app purchases
Michigan Liar's Dice
No in-app purchases
RetroPaint
No in-app purchases
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