ChessDate vs getping!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ChessDate
This app combines chess with social interaction. It uses captured pieces to unlock conversation prompts, allowing users to learn about each other's personalities through gameplay.
- Chess gameplay
- Conversation prompts
- Personality discovery
- Social connection
- Strategic interaction
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ChessDate blends strategy and conversation by turning captured pieces into question-and-answer moments that reveal personality through play.
getping!
Instantly share your professional and social profile with a tap of a ring. Map your connections on a 3D globe and get reminders to follow up with new contacts. Build and customize your profile with essential links and information.
- One-tap profile sharing via ring
- Network mapping on a 3D globe
- Follow-up reminders for new contacts
- Customizable profile with links and socials
- Contact capture without app installation on recipient's device
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ping! helps you share who you are and remember who you meet. Share your profile with a ping! ring, QR code, or link. On a compatible iPhone, recipients can use the App Clip to save your contact without installing the full app or creating an account. Other supported phones can open your profile in a browser. YOUR PROFILE Add your photo, role, company, location, bio, and the links you choose to share. YOUR NETWORK Keep the contacts you choose to add, record where you met, organize relationship notes, and plan follow-ups. Explore contacts with saved meeting locations on a map. SAVE, THEN CHOOSE TO SHARE Recipients can review a prefilled contact form and save it to iPhone Contacts. Sharing their information back to you is optional. When someone chooses to share, their details are added to your Ping network. YOU CONTROL YOUR DATA Choose which contacts to import. Optional AI assistance can be turned off in Settings. The app includes privacy controls, help and feedback, and account deletion. HOW IT WORKS 1. Create your profile. 2. Share it using a link, QR code, or programmed ping! ring. 3. Follow up with the people who choose to connect. A ping! ring is required only for the physical ring-tap feature. Your profile and network work without one. NFC sharing requires a compatible phone and internet access.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: getping! at every 3 days against ChessDate's monthly. getping! also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and review sentiment (100% vs 80%). On price, ratings volume, ads 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.
getping! holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of ChessDate's written reviews are positive against 100% of getping!'s.
ChessDate ships an update monthly, getping! every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ChessDate | getping! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (13 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Parissa Joukar | Ping Ring Inc. |
Customer experience
ChessDate
getping!
In-app purchases
ChessDate
No in-app purchases
getping!
No in-app purchases
