Comparison

Numbers search vs Chess

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Numbers search

A puzzle game where players find and cross out numbers within a digit matrix. It offers two distinct modes and three difficulty levels, with randomly generated puzzles for endless replayability.

Highlights
  • Find and cross out numbers
  • Two layout modes: straight line or random curve
  • Three difficulty levels: easy, medium, hard
  • Customizable game scene
  • Randomly generated puzzles
Features
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puzzle game where you have to find and cross out all given numbers in digits matrix. * two modes: numbers can be layout in strait line or in random curve; * 3 levels: easy, medium, hard; * ability to customize game scene; * randomly generated puzzles, that means infinitive number of different puzzles

About

Chess

Enhance your chess skills with over 1500 tactical exercises drawn from real games. This app provides hints, explanations, and refutations to help beginners improve their play and learn new combinations. It acts as a personal coach, adapting to your progress and offering interactive lessons.

Highlights
  • Over 1500 tactical exercises
  • Hints and explanations
  • Refutations of mistakes
  • Interactive theoretical lessons
  • Progress monitoring (ELO rating)
  • Offline play
Features
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If you are a beginner, you just cannot afford to give away your piece in 1 move, presuming, of course, that you wish to improve your play! Another thing you cannot afford is to miss a chance of grabbing an undefended piece of your opponent's! This course includes more than 1500 exercises with lots of pieces on the board. Such a great number of exercises makes this course an excellent tool for quick training of chess beginners. The course is intended for players who are already acquainted with the rules of the game. Even if you study and solve only 20% of exercises you are sure to improve your chess skills and not to miss a chance to take an undefended piece in your practical game! All the exercises are taken from practical games and arranged according to the names of pieces and difficulty levels. This course is in the series Chess King Learn (https://learn.chessking.com/), which is an unprecedented chess teaching method. In the series are included courses in tactics, strategy, openings, middle game, and endgame, split by levels from beginners to experienced players, and even professional players. With the help of this course, you can improve your chess knowledge, learn new tactical tricks and combinations, and consolidate the acquired knowledge into practice. The program acts as a coach who gives tasks to solve and helps to solve them if you get stuck. It will give you hints, explanations and show you even striking refutation of the mistakes you might make. Advantages of the program: • High quality examples, all double-checked for correctness • You need to enter all key moves, required by the teacher • Different levels of complexity of the tasks • Various goals, which need to be reached in the problems • The program gives hint if an error is made • For typical mistaken moves, the refutation is shown • You can play out any position of the tasks against the computer • Interactive theoretical lessons • Structured table of contents • The program monitors the change in the rating (ELO) of the player during the learning process • Test mode with flexible settings • Possibility to bookmark favorite exercises • The application is adapted to the bigger screen of a tablet • The application does not require an internet connection The course includes a free part, in which you can test the program. Lessons offered in the free version is fully functional. They allow you to test the application in real world conditions before releasing the following topics: 1. Part 1 1.1. Winning a knight 1.2. Winning a bishop 1.3. Winning a rook 1.4. Winning a queen 2. Part 2. Win a piece 2.1. Level 1 2.2. Level 2 2.3. Level 3 2.4. Level 4 2.5. Level 5 2.6. Level 6 2.7. Level 7 2.8. Level 8

Screenshots

Numbers search4 screens
Chess4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Numbers search at 5.0 against Chess's 4.5. Numbers search also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1). Chess's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 4 months). On price, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Chess sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Numbers search asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Numbers search holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 11 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Numbers search ships an update every 4 months, Chess every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Numbers search versus Chess: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNumbers searchChess
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better4.5 (11 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings411 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS12.08.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size55 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLiutauras StravinskasChess King

Customer experience

Numbers search

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Chess

All ratings11 ratings
Positive81.8%
Neutral9.1%
Negative9.1%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Numbers search

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Chess

One-time1
  • Full course$3.99

Questions

Is Numbers search free?
Numbers search is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Chess free?
Chess is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Numbers search or Chess?
Numbers search is rated higher. Numbers search averages 5.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Chess averages 4.5 from 11 ratings.
Do Numbers search or Chess have ads?
Numbers search shows ads; Chess does not.
Which is updated more often, Numbers search or Chess?
Numbers search ships an update every 4 months, and Chess every 6 weeks. Most recently, Numbers search was updated on November 1, 2026 and Chess on November 2, 2026.

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