Chess Puzzles vs Glyphe
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chess Puzzles
Enhance your chess tactics with over 100,000 offline puzzles. Train anytime, anywhere, regardless of internet access. Features adaptive difficulty, detailed stats, and various puzzle themes for all skill levels.
- 100K+ chess tactics and puzzles
- Fully offline functionality
- Adaptive difficulty adjustment
- Detailed progress tracking
- Multiple puzzle themes
- Smart hint system
- Customizable board themes
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Sharpen your chess skills Offline with 100,000+ chess puzzles! No Wi-Fi needed, train tactics anytime, anywhere. Perfect for beginners to masters! OffChess offers a massive collection of 100K+ offline chess puzzles designed to challenge and improve your tactical play. Features of OffChess: 1. 100K+ Chess Tactics & Chess Puzzles – Endless tactical challenges, from beginner to master level. 2. Fully Offline – No Wi-Fi? No problem! Solve puzzles anywhere. 3. Adaptive Difficulty – Chess puzzles adjust to your skill level as you improve. 4. Detailed Stats – Track your chess progress, puzzle streaks, and success rate. 5. Multiple Modes – Practice puzzles with specific themes like Checkmate, Mate in 1 chess puzzles, Mate in 2 puzzles, Mate in 3 puzzles, openings, tactics (forks, pins, sacrifices, pawn promotions, zugzwang), and more. 6. Smart Hints – Stuck? Get a nudge in the right direction. 7. Beautiful Themes – Customize your chess board for a personalized experience. 8. Real Chess Games – All chess puzzles are taken from real chess games that you can browse up to move one. 9. Openings - Get chess puzzles that occur in real chess games with the opening you choose like French, Caro-Kann, Ruy Lopez etc. 10. No ads & privacy friendly chess app 11. Rating - Get your chess rating up by solving puzzles, check stats on how many puzzles you have solved and what's the longest streak you have made. Chess is one of the most popular board and strategy game in the world and you can train chess offline on offChess app with so many puzzles to pick from. For All Levels – Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned chess player, there’s always a new chess tactic for you to try. Train smarter, play better with offline and free chess puzzles on OffChess — rush and download today!
Glyphe
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A secret code of 4 glyphs. Five guesses. One puzzle a day, the same for everyone. Glyphe is a game of pure logic and deduction: no luck, no vocabulary, no trivia. Only what you can work out — in three minutes, offline, with no sign-up. NEW IN VERSION 2.1 • The Order, a second puzzle every day: place the six glyphs on a line so that every relation holds ("touch", "left of", "2 cells between"…). Three checks, not one more. • Competition: a daily leaderboard (Code + Order, ties broken by time), a weekly one since Monday, and the Masters, your 30-day average. • Rebuilt game screens: drag and drop glyphs, illustrated clues, help always one tap away. • Daily and weekly Game Center leaderboards. • Redesigned layout on iPad. HOW TO PLAY Six glyphs exist: circle, diamond, triangle, star, hexagon, drop. Four of them make up the code of the day. After each attempt, the grid answers you: • gold — right glyph, right place • teal — the glyph is in the code, but elsewhere • grey — that glyph is not in it Two logical clues are given up front: the structure of the code, and a positional relation between two glyphs. Cross-reference them. No guessing, only deduction. PROGRESS • Streak: how many days in a row can you hold? • A score that follows the day's target: beat par and you gain, exceed it and you lose • Daily, weekly and Masters leaderboards • Game Center supported COMFORT • Light and dark themes, or automatic system matching • Colour-blind mode: every cell carries a symbol as well as a colour • Clean interface, fully vector, no emoji, no clutter • Offline: the daily puzzle plays without a connection • Spoiler-free sharing: friends see your performance, never the answer PRICING, PLAINLY Glyphe is free with no subscription: the daily puzzle, unlimited practice, the hints, the leaderboard and the streaks are open to everyone. The game is funded by advertising, never while you are thinking: one interstitial at the end of a game, and an optional video if you want one more hint. Glyphe+ is a single purchase, never a subscription: it removes all advertising and unlocks unlimited hints, for good. The code of the day is waiting. You have five guesses.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Chess Puzzles at none against Glyphe's shown. Chess Puzzles also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 4 weeks). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Chess Puzzles sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Glyphe sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Chess Puzzles ships an update weekly, Glyphe every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chess Puzzles | Glyphe |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (39 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 91.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 39 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Avadhesh Bhunwaliya | Nicolas Zanette |
In-app purchases
Chess Puzzles
- OffChess Unlimited$3.99
Glyphe
- Glyphe+$3.99
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