Comparison

Block Words vs Chess Peace

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Block Words

Features
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Every tile can be used only four times. Spend those uses carefully, turn the board gold and uncover the hidden Block Word. Block Words gives you one fresh strategic word grid each day. Trace adjacent letters to spell words, build your score and beat the target. Longer words score more, fully used tiles earn bonuses, and the strongest runs finish with a platinum celebration. FOUR WAYS TO PLAY - Daily: solve the day's puzzle and find its hidden Block Word - Classic: race the clock while longer words earn time bonuses - Extra: untimed strategic play without the hidden-word objective - Extra Classic: a pure timed word hunt FEATURES - Daily puzzles, streaks and a calendar of previous grids - Online leaderboards, with offline play still available - Block Words Mini included free: Block Words, bite-sized on a 3×3 grid - Block Words Mega: a huge 5×5 grid with two hidden Block Words and only three uses per tile - English plus Spanish, French, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Polish, Russian, Arabic, Turkish, Indonesian, Japanese and Simplified Chinese editions - A guided tutorial - Optional rewarded hints - A one-time purchase to remove automatic interstitial ads Block Words and Block Words Mini are free to play and supported by advertising. Block Words Mega, language editions and Remove Ads are available as non-consumable in-app purchases.

About

Chess Peace

Engage in a peaceful chess puzzle experience offline, with no ads or account required. It offers thousands of challenges suitable for all skill levels, from beginners to grandmasters, with daily puzzles and extensive customization options.

Highlights
  • Offline play
  • No ads or account required
  • Thousands of puzzles
  • Daily Puzzle feature
  • Extensive customization
  • Progress syncing via iCloud
  • Accessibility options
Features
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• A peaceful chess puzzle, played offline with no ads or account • No chess knowledge required — a new challenge for grandmasters and beginners alike • Thousands of puzzles plus a free Daily Puzzle every day • Available on iPhone, iPad & Mac, with your progress & settings synced via iCloud With over 26,500 unique puzzles across three difficulties and five different puzzle types, and a new Daily Puzzle every day, you play with just the board and six piece types — King, Queen, Rook (Castle), Bishop, Knight and Pawn — to find each satisfying solution. -- Daily Puzzles -- Build your streak by playing a new Daily Puzzle every day, share with other players via our Wordle-style solve grid, as well as a customised image showing the puzzle alongside the stats of your solve. -- Five Unique Puzzle Modes -- • Classic: One of each piece, one board, no captures. • Multiples: Some pieces are copies of each other. Same rule applies: no captures, only peace. • Two-Colour: White and black pieces share the board. Pieces only threaten the opposing colour. • Islands: Two boards, one puzzle. Only the Knight can jump the gap. • Presets: Some positions are revealed, but the pieces remain unknown. -- Find Your Zen through endless customisation -- Unprecedented personal customisation of the gameplay screen and menus, including subtly animated backgrounds, on/off toggles for nearly every visual element, and three distinct sets of gameplay sounds. Find your own Chess Peace in every puzzle, with customisation synced across devices. Also choose from many app-wide colour themes, board styles, and over 30 alternate app icons. -- Great chess learning tool, with no experience required -- If you're not a chess player, don't worry — Chess Peace teaches you everything you need to know, with a quick refresher on hand whenever you need it, as well as an optional possible moves system that shows every move possible by any piece on the board. -- Complete play history & in-depth statistics -- Replay your every solve move-by-move, and track your progress with granular statistics. Not your thing? Hide them using Zen and never seem them again. -- No data connection or account -- Everything is stored inside the app, with no connection required and no data collected. Your progress is synced via iCloud, available only to you. -- Home & Lock Screen Widgets -- Add some Chess Peace to your home and lock screens and jump straight into your next puzzle, or keep up your Daily Puzzle streak. -- Accessibility -- As well as supporting iOS Accessibility options, several additional accessibility features make Chess Peace as inclusive as possible, including colourblind mode, high contrast, bold icons, letters instead of piece icons, large text, reduced motion, and adaptable controls that can be brought to the top or bottom of the screen.

Screenshots

Block Words4 screens
Chess Peace4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Block Words at none against Chess Peace's 2. Block Words also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Chess Peace's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Chess Peace sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Block Words asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Block Words versus Chess Peace: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBlock WordsChess Peace
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.9 (139 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—89.1% of reviews
Number of ratings—139 — better
Update frequency—Fortnightly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size57 MB186 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOne Life Left Ltd.Sam Shepherd

In-app purchases

None

Block Words

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Chess Peace

One-time2
  • Premium Unlock$8.99
  • Premium Unlock$11.99

Questions

Is Block Words free?
Block Words is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Chess Peace free?
Chess Peace is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Block Words or Chess Peace have ads?
Block Words shows ads; Chess Peace does not.

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