Chess Log vs Beast Chess
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chess Log
Catalog, organize, and analyze your chess games with a clean interface. Save and annotate moves, explore openings, and get move suggestions to improve your play. Elevate your chess strategy with powerful analytical tools.
- Game catalog and organization
- Detailed move annotation
- Opening explorer
- Move suggestions
- PGN editor
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The ultimate chess game tracker, analyzer, and PGN editor. Easily catalog, organize, and analyze your chess games with a clean, intuitive interface. Save every game, tag key moments and revisit your moves to track improvement. Whether studying openings, mastering endgames or refining tactics, Chess Log provides powerful tools to elevate your game. Key features: - Game Catalog: Store and organize all your games in one place. - Detailed Annotation: Tag and annotate moves. - Opening Explorer: Compare your moves to peers and masters alike. - Move Suggestions: See top moves and find out where you or your opponent went wrong.
Beast Chess
Engage in strategic turn-based combat on an 8x8 board, commanding mythical beasts with unique abilities. Infect and merge your pieces to create powerful units and outmaneuver opponents in various game modes, including online multiplayer and AI battles.
- Mythical beast abilities
- Infect and merge pieces
- Online matchmaking
- AI practice modes
- Tutorial mode
- Real-time multiplayer
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Command Mythical Beasts in Epic Strategic Battles! Beast Chess combines classic board game strategy with unique mythical beast abilities. Choose from four legendary creatures - Azure Dragon, White Tiger,Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise - each with special powers that can turn the tide of battle. GAME FEATURES Four Legendary Beasts - Azure Dragon: Resist infections with life force - White Tiger: Eliminate enemies with killing instinct - Vermilion Bird: Resurrect from defeat like a phoenix - Black Tortoise: Redirect infections to other factions Multiple Game Modes - Tutorial Mode: Learn with interactive guidance - Online Matchmaking: Battle players worldwide - Private Rooms: Play with friends using room codes - Smart AI: Practice against intelligent bots Strategic Gameplay - Infect enemy pieces to convert them to your side - Merge pieces to create powerful enhanced units - Unique passive abilities trigger automatically - Turn-based tactical combat on 8x8 board KEY HIGHLIGHTS - Real-time multiplayer with smooth synchronization - Beautiful mythical beast artwork and animations - Quick matchmaking with automatic bot filling - Skill-based competition - no pay-to-win - Multiple language support (English & Chinese) - Free to play with optional ads HOW TO PLAY 1. Choose your mythical beast 2. Move pieces to adjacent tiles or jump with enhanced pieces 3. Infect enemies by landing next to them 4. Merge two pieces to create enhanced units 5. Dominate the board and eliminate opponents OPTIMIZED FOR iOS - Designed for iPhone and iPad - Smooth 60 FPS gameplay - Works on iOS 15.0 and later - Low battery consumption Download now and unleash the power of mythical beasts!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Beast Chess at 5.0 against Chess Log's 4.0. Beast Chess also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 6 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Chess Log's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and in-app purchases 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.
Beast Chess holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Chess Log ships an update every 6 weeks, Beast Chess daily. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chess Log | Beast Chess |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Daily — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 198 MB | 123 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Luis De Zutter | 尚森 李 |
Customer experience
Chess Log
Beast Chess
In-app purchases
Chess Log
No in-app purchases
Beast Chess
No in-app purchases









