Checkmate vs Boppn
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Checkmate
Discover your compatibility with others by answering questions about yourself and scanning friends. This app uses advanced technology to calculate your long-term odds together, helping you find your best match.
- Answer personality questions
- Scan friends for compatibility
- Calculate long-term odds
- Discover best matches
- Powered by Nobel Prize technology
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1. Answer questions about who you are and what you care about 2. Scan someone 3. Calculate your long-term odds together Powered by the Nobel Prize-winning technology behind the Marriage Pact. ▶ 157,300,000+ matches evaluated so far Scan anyone you want... until we change our minds (; Who's your best match? Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Boppn
Compete in exciting in-person scavenger hunts by joining teams to solve riddles and complete challenges. Strategically choose which tasks to attempt to earn points and uncover hidden advantages. The team with the highest score wins the hunt.
- Team-based scavenger hunts
- Solve riddles and clues
- Complete point-based challenges
- Submit photos/videos for challenges
- Discover hidden city advantages
- Strategic challenge selection
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The Boppn App supports team building events and competitions such as scavenger hunts, bar crawls, and boppn around a neighborhood. Each event brings people closer to their city and to each other. Join a private event, try one of our public events, or even create your own event. Boppn presents opportunities for participants to complete activities and earn points through picture submission, video submission, and geolocation. Competition drives the engagement and fun. The individual/team with the most points is crowned winner. Boppn is great for Orientations, Birthday Parties, Community Building, Corporate Outings, Bucket Lists, School Activities, Camp Activities, Festivals.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Boppn at 100% against Checkmate's 31%. Boppn also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). Checkmate's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs fortnightly) and ratings volume (995 vs 20). On price, ads 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. Checkmate sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days. Boppn asks for nothing beyond the download.
Boppn holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Checkmate has 995 ratings behind it against 20, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 31% of Checkmate's written reviews are positive against 100% of Boppn's.
Checkmate ships an update every 2 days, Boppn fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Checkmate | Boppn |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (995 ratings) | 5.0 (20 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 31.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 995 — better | 20 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Marriage Pact | Boppn LLC |
Customer experience
Checkmate
Boppn
Bugs and requests
Checkmate
Reported bugs
4 issues- Unable to receive verification codes
- Inability to answer new questions due to errors
- Onboarding issues and lost progress
- Compatibility scans not working for many users
Requested features
5 requests- Add MBTI or personality type feature
- Allow users to search and add friends
- Implement a 'send all' option for questions
- Add privacy controls for scan updates
- Improve retrospective analysis of compatibility
Boppn
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Checkmate
- Checkmate Gold$6.997 Days
- Checkmate Gold$39.991 Year
Boppn
No in-app purchases
