Chess Tutor vs BlockIn
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chess Tutor
This app guides new players from novice to skilled chess players through interactive tutorials, mini-games, and puzzles. It offers various learning modules, practice challenges, and the ability to play full games against a computer opponent with adjustable difficulty.
- Interactive tutorials on piece movement and rules
- Skill-honing mini-games and puzzles
- Checkmate challenges for all skill levels
- Play against a computer opponent with 5 difficulty levels
- Customizable board colors and piece sets
- Knight's Tour puzzle
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Chess Tutor has been specifically developed for beginners and new chess players. It can take you through from complete novice to a good chess player. It makes learning and developing in chess fun by a range of tutorials, mini-games and puzzles that hone skills before the full chess game is tackled. Of course, you can just play it at chess if you please! The main features are: >Tutor Levels - How pieces move - The rules of the game - Special moves such as forks, pins, skewers and en-passant - Practice challenges to be completed in less than 1 minute - Puzzles - Can you check mate in as few moves as challenged - Ranging from beginner to advanced - Complete puzzles to unlock more > Minigames - Play games against the computer - Games for beginners and more experienced players - Games that teach end game techniques and practice specific pieces - Complete games to unlock more games and challenges > Challenges - Challenge style puzzles - Puzzles for beginners and more advanced players - The famous "Knight's Tour" puzzle > Play Chess - Computer opponent with 5 levels of difficulty - 3 piece sets to choose from - 3 board colours - animated pieces - Sounds - Undo/take back - Play White or Black - Integrated opening book
BlockIn
A relaxing puzzle game where you slide tiles of the same color to connect them. Strategize to overcome challenges and win all levels without a time limit. Enjoy this brain-training experience anytime, anywhere.
- Slide tiles to connect same colors
- Combine tiles for strategic play
- No time limit for relaxed gameplay
- Challenging levels
- Brain training puzzles
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Slide and relax! Block In: Puzzle Game is a game for relaxing with many challenges. With this game, all you need to do is to slide the tiles with the same color to connect together as sample provided. But be careful because when tiles with same color are close to each other, they will combine together and cannot be moved any more. No time limit, you can enjoy game for any time, anywhere. Find out the best strategy and win all levels to prove that no obstacles can hinder your way to success. Enjoy your time!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: BlockIn at 5.0 against Chess Tutor's 2.3. BlockIn also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks). Chess Tutor's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (4 vs 1). On price 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. BlockIn sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Chess Tutor asks for nothing beyond the download.
BlockIn holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.
Chess Tutor ships an update every 2 weeks, BlockIn every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chess Tutor | BlockIn |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 12.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | R.D. Hare | Le Huu Nghia |
Customer experience
Chess Tutor
BlockIn
In-app purchases
Chess Tutor
No in-app purchases
BlockIn
- In-App Purchases$0.99









