BlueChess vs Mini Chess 5x4
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BlueChess
Engage in strategic gameplay with powerful chess engines. Choose between the BlueChess engine or the highly-rated Stockfish engine for your matches.
- Play against BlueChess engine
- Play against Stockfish engine
- Strategic gameplay
- Free to play
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Play a game of chess against the BlueChess engine or the Stockfish engine.
Mini Chess 5x4
Experience a unique tactical challenge with a smaller board in this classic strategy game. It offers puzzles, achievements, and an endless mode with randomly generated positions. Play completely offline with no ads or data collection.
- 5x4 chess board variant
- Tactical complexity
- Multiple puzzles
- Achievements and unlockables
- Endless position generator
- Offline play
- No ads
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A mini version of the worlds most popular board game. It may look simple on first sight, but do not underestimate the new tactical complexity of a small board. I created multiple puzzles, achievements and unlockables. When you finish all puzzles you unlock and endless position generator, which allows you to play on forever in randomly generated positions. This app is free and has no ads. We also collect no personal data and the app works completely offline. Thanks for giving it a try! :-).
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Verdict
BlueChess and Mini Chess 5x4 both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Mini Chess 5x4's written reviews are positive against 50% of BlueChess's. Mini Chess 5x4 also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 4 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for BlueChess against 5.0 for Mini Chess 5x4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of BlueChess's written reviews are positive against 100% of Mini Chess 5x4's.
BlueChess ships an update every 4 months, Mini Chess 5x4 fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BlueChess | Mini Chess 5x4 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | GreenChess.com | Rudolf Dr. Jagdhuber |
Customer experience
BlueChess
Mini Chess 5x4
In-app purchases
BlueChess
No in-app purchases
Mini Chess 5x4
No in-app purchases
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