Stitch Sort vs Chess Climb
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Stitch Sort
Engage in a colorful puzzle game where you tap on threads to transfer them and sort them into rope layers. Strategically fill the layers to complete each challenge.
- Tap on colorful stitches
- Transfer ropes
- Sort and fill rope layers
- Engaging puzzle gameplay
- Color-based challenges
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-Tap on colorful Stitches! -Find ways to transfer ropes! -Sort and fill the Rope Layers!
Chess Climb
This app offers an endless stream of personalized chess puzzles that adapt to your skill level and focus on areas needing practice. Review missed puzzles, get hints, and analyze your progress with detailed statistics. Enjoy offline play with no ads or in-app purchases.
- Personalized puzzle feed
- Adaptive skill rating
- Review missed puzzles
- Offline play
- Detailed progress tracking
- Optional hints and solutions
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Chess Climb is an endless feed of chess puzzles picked for you. Solve one and the next is ready, matched to your rating and aimed at the themes you most need to practice. EVERY PUZZLE COUNTS • Your rating moves with every rated puzzle, and each theme gets a skill rating of its own: forks, pins, back-rank mates, endgames and dozens more. • Missed a puzzle? It comes back for review after 12 hours, and a similar puzzle follows soon after, so the idea sticks. • Stuck? A hint shows which piece to move, or give up and watch the solution play out. • Take your time. The clock is optional, and time never affects your rating. • Choose how hard: relaxed, balanced or challenging. STUDY WHAT YOU PLAYED • Go back to any finished puzzle and step through the solution move by move. • Turn on the built-in chess engine to analyze the position and try your own ideas. • Replay recent puzzles from your history, or export your history as a CSV file. SEE YOURSELF CLIMB • Your rating over the last week, month or three months. • Your strengths and the themes to train next, each explained in plain English. • Day streak, solve rate, and how fast you solve each theme. • Practice one theme at a time, straight from your progress page. PLAY ANYWHERE • A million puzzles live on your phone, so everything works offline. • No account, no ads, no purchases and no tracking. • Nine board colors and nine piece sets. The puzzles come from the Lichess open puzzle database, which is in the public domain. Chess Climb is not affiliated with Lichess. The engine is Arasan.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Chess Climb at none against Stitch Sort's shown. Chess Climb also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Stitch Sort's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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 — 4.9 for Stitch Sort against 5.0 for Chess Climb. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 7 respectively.
Stitch Sort ships an update fortnightly, Chess Climb every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Stitch Sort | Chess Climb |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (14 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 261 MB | 90 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kemal kaan Uysal | NAVID SAMIEI |
Customer experience
Stitch Sort
Chess Climb
In-app purchases
Stitch Sort
No in-app purchases
Chess Climb
No in-app purchases
