Board Brain vs Instructions Not Included
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Board Brain
This app helps chess players of all levels enhance their skills through interactive games and exercises. It focuses on mastering chessboard coordinates, understanding piece movements, and recognizing square colors to improve overall game vision.
- Interactive games
- Skill-building exercises
- Chessboard coordinate mastery
- Piece movement understanding
- Square color recognition
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BoardBrain is designed to help both novice and experienced chess players improve their skills. It offers interactive games and exercises that focus on mastering chessboard coordinates, understanding piece movements, and recognizing square colors.
Instructions Not Included
A unique counter app that synchronizes across all your devices. It's presented as a social experiment, inviting users to set personal goals or explore its functionalities.
- Cross-device synchronization
- Social experiment concept
- Global counter
- API exploration
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This is a counter that syncs between all devices, it’s a social experiment, and quite possibly a bad idea. So, whatever will you do? Attempt to reach one million? Attempt to keep the counter perpetually at 42? Attempt to find and exploit the unsecured API?
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Board Brain at every 6 days against Instructions Not Included's fortnightly. Board Brain also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.5). 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 Board Brain against 5.0 for Instructions Not Included. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 4 respectively.
Board Brain ships an update every 6 days, Instructions Not Included fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Board Brain | Instructions Not Included |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Selvarajan Thangavel | Kenna Blackburn |
Customer experience
Board Brain
Instructions Not Included
In-app purchases
Board Brain
No in-app purchases
Instructions Not Included
No in-app purchases
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