Mills vs Hamle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mills
Experience the classic Nine Men's Morris strategy game on your device. Challenge friends locally or test your skills against AI opponents with adjustable difficulty. Master strategic placement and movement to outmaneuver your opponents and win.
- Nine Men's Morris gameplay
- Local multiplayer mode
- AI opponent with 3 difficulty levels
- Strategic piece placement and movement
- Classic board game experience
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Mills – Board Game brings the timeless Nine Men's Morris experience to your device. This classic strategy game, also known as Cowboy Checkers or Merels, challenges you to form mills while blocking your opponent's moves on the traditional board. Play with a friend on the same device or challenge the AI with three difficulty levels – from beginner to expert. Place your nine men strategically, move them wisely, and create three-in-a-row formations to capture opponent pieces. Every Nine Men's Morris match becomes a tactical battle where positioning determines victory. With sharp AI opponents, local multiplayer gameplay, and elegant design, this Nine Men's Morris game tests your strategic thinking like the cowboys and settlers who played Cowboy Checkers generations ago. The Mills board game mechanics are simple to learn but impossible to master. Can you master the Mills strategy, control the board, and outmaneuver every opponent? The ancient challenge of Nine Men's Morris awaits!
Hamle
Explore 15 classic strategy board games, including Chess, Go, and Checkers, with options to play offline against a friend or computer, or compete online in real-time. Features include selectable themes, detailed rulebooks, and customizable profiles.
- 15 classic strategy board games
- Offline 2-player mode
- Play against AI
- Online multiplayer
- Detailed rulebooks
- Customizable themes and profiles
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Hamle brings 15 timeless strategy board games together in one beautifully crafted app. Play offline with a friend, challenge the built-in computer or compete online in real time. ◆ 15 CLASSIC STRATEGY GAMES MILL GAMES • Nine Men's Morris — align and capture pieces in this ancient mill game, with flying enabled at three pieces. • Three Men's Morris — quick tactical duels on a 3x3 board. DRAUGHTS & CAPTURE GAMES • Draughts (Checkers) — play Turkish Draughts (Dama), featuring orthogonal movement and flying kings, or International Draughts, with diagonal movement and forced capture chains. • Alquerque — the medieval ancestor of checkers. • Fanorona — Madagascar's classic game of capture by approach and withdrawal. • Lau Kata Kati — a traditional Indian strategy game full of tactical captures. THE CHESS FAMILY • Chess — complete rules including castling, en passant, promotion and draw detection. • Xiangqi — Chinese chess with its river, palace and cannons. Choose symbols, Chinese script or letters. • Shogi — Japanese chess where captured pieces return as your own. Choose symbol, kanji or letter notation. TERRITORY • Go (Baduk, Weiqi) — play on a 19x19 board with Chinese or Japanese scoring, komi and dead-stone marking. HUNT GAMES • Hnefatafl — Viking chess in which one side defends the king while the other hunts him. Includes an optional 3D board. • Bagh-Chal — Nepal's tigers-and-goats duel, with warnings when a tiger can pounce. SOWING • Mangala — Turkish mancala using official TMOF tournament rules: 12 pits and 48 stones. BOARD CONTROL • Disc Flip — flip opposing discs and fight to control the corners. • Surakarta — the Indonesian classic where captures travel around looping corner arcs. ◆ PLAY YOUR WAY • LOCAL 2-PLAYER — pass and play on one device with no internet required. Ideal for family game nights, travel and classrooms. • VS COMPUTER — choose Easy, Medium or Hard difficulty and tap Hint when you need help. • ONLINE MULTIPLAYER — invite a friend to a private room with a short code or use random matchmaking to meet players worldwide. ◆ SMOOTH ONLINE PLAY • Instant room codes for quick invitations • Reliable reconnection after connection drops • One-tap rematches with automatic side swapping • Quick-message chat with a safety filter ◆ DESIGNED FOR STRATEGY LOVERS • Selectable board themes for each game • Distraction-free fullscreen mode • Profiles, custom avatars and match statistics • 102 interface languages with full right-to-left support for Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Urdu • Faithful rules covering forced captures, mill detection, threefold repetition, superko and more • Clean, fast and lightweight, with no paywalls, energy systems or waiting timers ◆ WHY HAMLE? Every game includes a built-in rulebook explaining setup, movement, captures, winning conditions and history. Learn the rules, practise against the computer and then take your skills online. Instead of offering just one game, Hamle provides a curated library with consistent design and accurate rules. These classics have crossed cultures and centuries; now the whole collection fits in your pocket. Hamle is completely free. Every game and every online or offline mode is available without subscriptions, locked content or hidden fees.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Hamle at every 4 days against Mills's every 15 months. Hamle also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment 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 Mills against 5.0 for Hamle. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Mills ships an update every 15 months, Hamle every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mills | Hamle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 15 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | Moritz Berger | IBRAHIM ERDOGAN |
Customer experience
Mills
Hamle
In-app purchases
Mills
No in-app purchases
Hamle
No in-app purchases








