Take The King! vs MindChess
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Take The King!
A unique puzzle game that reimagines chess rules on a crumbling battlefield. Guide the King through dozens of challenges and restore balance to the kingdom by solving intellectual puzzles.
- Reimagined chess rules
- Unique chessboard mechanics
- Dozens of puzzles
- Quest for the King
- Secondary objectives for bonuses
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The august chessboard crumbles. The millennia-old battlefield, foundation of all laws, has been desecrated. Is the era of symmetrical confrontations over? How to govern a crumbling kingdom? How to restore the balance of all things? First victim of this cataclysm, will the brave King be able to survive in his quest for great harmony? Concept Take the King! is a puzzle game based on the rules of chess, reimagined to offer original intellectual challenges. While your pieces move normally, the chessboard is anything but standard, and you have a variety of goals. * Help the King on his great quest. * Try to solve dozens of puzzles the game offers you. * Complete secondary objectives to unlock bonuses.
MindChess
This app offers daily chess training designed to enhance mental visualization and blindfold play. It features mini-games that improve calculation, memory, and concentration, inspired by grandmaster training methods. Practice exercises focus on board elements without needing a physical board.
- Mental visualization training
- Blindfold chess practice
- Calculation and memory improvement
- Concentration exercises
- Mini-games inspired by grandmasters
- Progress tracking
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MindChess is a daily chess gym and a study companion. Train board vision, memory and calculation in 60-second sessions, then take what you learn to your own games. THE GYM • Thirteen short drills: Square Color, Coordinates, Same Color, Same Diagonal, Bishop Captures, Two Knights, Collision, Memory, Mate in 1, Fork Finder, Piece Snapshot, Knight Distance and Opening Flash. • Timed mode (60 seconds, Game Center leaderboards) and Training mode (3 lives). • A daily challenge and a daily streak, with streak freezes and an optional reminder. • 39 achievements: badges at 10, 50 and 100 games of every drill, also in Game Center. THE STUDY TOOLS • Repertoire: play through your opening lines and the app brings each one back right before you'd forget it. • My games: game databases, PGN import and a viewer with variations, notes and marks. • Analysis: Stockfish 19 on your device, offline, with an evaluation bar and the top 3 lines. With Pro, the game report marks your mistakes. • Diagram scanner: snap a diagram and get the position ready to edit. Free. • Chess clock: increments, stages and time odds, for games with your phone on the table. • Notation your way: English, Spanish or figurines. The same board, with your look, across the app. • Public roadmap: see what's coming and vote for ideas. ON EVERY SCREEN MindChess works on iPhone, iPad, iPhone Duo and Mac. MINDCHESS PRO Pro unlocks Stockfish analysis and the game report, unlimited repertoires, lines and PGN imports, full statistics, unlimited game databases and clock controls, every drill every day and 11 Pro piece sets. Free stays useful: the scanner, the PGN viewer and the basic drills. MindChess is not an app for playing online games. It is the place where you train between them. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: MindChess at Free against Take The King!'s $3.99. Take The King!'s advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 months). On 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
MindChess is free to download; Take The King! costs $3.99 up front. MindChess sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Take The King! asks for nothing beyond the download.
Take The King! ships an update every 5 days, MindChess every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Take The King! | MindChess |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 190 MB | 140 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TyGAMES | omar megdadi |
Customer experience
Take The King!
MindChess
In-app purchases
Take The King!
No in-app purchases
MindChess
- Monthly subscription$0.991 Month
- Yearly subscription$9.991 Year
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