Mini Chess 5x4 vs ChessHere
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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! :-).
ChessHere
Engage in real-time or correspondence chess matches, challenge friends, and participate in tournaments. Improve your game with puzzles, opening studies, and game analysis. Stay connected with messaging and notifications in a clean, focused interface.
- Real-time and correspondence chess
- Challenge friends and opponents
- Join tournaments
- Solve daily puzzles
- Study openings
- Game analysis and tracking
- Messaging and notifications
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Play chess, understand your games, and actually get better. ChessHere combines fast online play with a personal Coach that tells you what happened on the board and what to work on next. PLAY YOUR WAY - Live chess: bullet, blitz and rapid against players around the world - Correspondence chess: take hours or days per move, with a reminder when it's your turn - Challenge friends with a link, or get matched instantly - Tournaments: arenas and round robins with live standings LEARN FROM EVERY GAME - Coach: after each game, get a clear explanation of the key moments, your mistakes and your best moves, in plain language, not engine numbers - Full game analysis with evaluation and best lines - Lessons and courses from first moves to rook endgames TRAIN DAILY - Daily puzzle, Puzzle Rush and themed tactics - Opening trainer: learn and drill the lines you actually play - Track your rating, streaks and progress over time A CALM PLACE TO PLAY - Clean, focused design with light and dark themes and board styles - Follow players, chat in game and send messages - Available in 25 languages - Your games sync with chesshere.com on the web CHESSHERE PREMIUM Daily mistake review, more drills and focus areas, unlimited puzzles from your own games, deeper analysis, a weekly progress report, and your own tournaments. Available as a monthly or annual subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.chesshere.com/privacy Whether you have one minute or one week per move, ChessHere is where your next move happens.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mini Chess 5x4 at none against ChessHere's 2. Mini Chess 5x4 also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). ChessHere's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly). 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. ChessHere sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.00 per month. Mini Chess 5x4 asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Mini Chess 5x4 against 5.0 for ChessHere. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.
Mini Chess 5x4 ships an update fortnightly, ChessHere every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mini Chess 5x4 | ChessHere |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rudolf Dr. Jagdhuber | Khaled Jouda |
Customer experience
Mini Chess 5x4
ChessHere
In-app purchases
Mini Chess 5x4
No in-app purchases
ChessHere
- ChessHere Premium$7.001 Month
- ChessHere Premium$70.001 Year
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