Comparison

Ashes Dice Roller vs Chess Climb

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Ashes Dice Roller

Features
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Dice roller and life tracker for the tabletop game Ashes: Ascendancy. All dice types featured. No need for physical dice with the help of this app. Supports up to two characters, including Phoenixborn, Dragonborn, and Chimera!

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

Screenshots

Ashes Dice Roller4 screens
Chess Climb4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Chess Climb at every 10 days against Ashes Dice Roller's every 6 months. Ashes Dice Roller's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ashes Dice Roller ships an update every 6 months, Chess Climb every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Ashes Dice Roller versus Chess Climb: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAshes Dice RollerChess Climb
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—7 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS14.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB90 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPlaid Hat Games LLCNAVID SAMIEI

In-app purchases

None

Ashes Dice Roller

No in-app purchases

None

Chess Climb

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ashes Dice Roller free?
Ashes Dice Roller is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Chess Climb free?
Chess Climb is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Ashes Dice Roller or Chess Climb have ads?
Neither Ashes Dice Roller nor Chess Climb shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ashes Dice Roller or Chess Climb?
Ashes Dice Roller ships an update every 6 months, and Chess Climb every 10 days. Most recently, Ashes Dice Roller was updated on October 30, 2026 and Chess Climb on November 6, 2026.

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