Comparison

Lana's Cat vs Chess64

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

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About

Lana's Cat

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Lana's Cat is a cosy puzzle collection starring 10 hand‑crafted cats, each with their own name, personality and backstory. Pick your cat, pick a mode, pick a difficulty, and race the clock! THREE GAME MODES • Jigsaw Puzzles: Easy (3×3), Medium (4×4), or Hard (5×5) • Word Search: Easy (5×5, horizontal), Medium (6×6, +vertical), or Hard (7×7, +diagonals) • Sudoku: Easy 4×4, Medium 6×6, Hard 9×9 (unlimited puzzles, freshly generated, one solution each) FEATURES • 10 unique cats: Captain Lloyd, Princess Paws, Sir Fluffington, Luna Meowsworth and more • Themed word pools: every cat has its own word list (sea adventure, garden, bakery, dreamland…) • Sudoku puzzles with different levels of difficulty • Daily Challenge: a new jigsaw every day to keep your streak alive • Unlock system: build streaks and earn XP to unlock new cats • Hints when you're stuck, leaderboards to chase your best score • Beautiful art, gentle music, and chunky haptics • Works on iPhone and iPad • No ads, no tracking, no internet required - 100% offline Made with love by Baba and Lana.

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Chess64

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Chess64 is a checkmate trainer. The puzzles never ask you for the best move, only for the forced one: every one ends in mate, and the whole difficulty is how deep the line runs and whether you can see all of it before you touch a piece. WHAT YOU GET • Eight depths, from a one-move mate to the long forcing lines of mate in 8+. 400k+ puzzles, completely offline, 50,000 at every depth. Each one is generated for this app and verified by a chess engine: the mate is forced, at exactly the depth stated. • Spaced-repetition training. A puzzle you have solved comes back at growing intervals, timed to reach you just before the pattern would have faded. You set how many new puzzles and reviews a day. Beside it, a library of openings and their traps. Every trap line is proved by a chess engine, and drilling one joins the same review queue. • Five bots to play against, each with a style of its own. Win enough recent games against one and the app says whether the next one up is a fair fight. Afterwards the review analyses the game: the tactics that were there, which of them you found, and the move you missed. • A coach. It reads your games, puzzles and drills and writes what to work on next: five areas, over any period, by the AI model on your phone. Nothing leaves it. It needs iOS 26; everything else works on iOS 17. • Pass and play: two people, one device, and no engine in the middle. Free. Turn the whole board between moves, or only the black pieces. Play with a clock or without, and start a piece up or down. These games never touch your record or statistics. • New to chess? A free beginner guide on the home screen starts at the very beginning. • A daily puzzle: the same mate in 3 for everyone, every day. • A timed challenge: as many as you can before the clock runs out. • Statistics that keep accuracy and solve rate apart instead of blurring them, plus an activity calendar, results by depth and time-of-day performance. Export it all as CSV (Pro). WHAT IT DOES NOT DO No ads. No tracking, no analytics, no third-party data collection of any kind. No account, no sign-in, no email address. FREE AND PRO Free covers mate in 1 and mate in 2, with 5,000 puzzles at each, plus the daily puzzle, full games against the first two bots, pass and play, streaks, badges, core statistics and the streak widget. No ads and no time limits. Chess64 Pro unlocks the other three bots and the review that follows a game, the coach's analysis, mate in 3 to 8+ with the full 50,000 puzzles at every depth, a difficulty filter from Beginner to Master, the timed challenge, spaced-repetition training, the openings library and its traps, hints, full statistics with CSV export, and the medium widget. Later updates are included. YOUR DATA There are no Chess64 servers. Your progress backs up to your own private iCloud, comes back when you sign in on a new device, and syncs without passing through anything in between. Turn iCloud off, or use no iCloud account at all, and Chess64 works the same way it always does; your progress simply stays on the one device. Every puzzle ships inside the app and the bots think on your device, so you can play with no connection at all. SUBSCRIPTION Chess64 Pro is an auto-renewable subscription in two lengths: Monthly (a rolling one-month subscription) and Annual (a one-year subscription). The free version of the app stays free to use. Prices are shown in the app and on the App Store in your local currency. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel any time in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://chess64.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://chess64.app/privacy

Screenshots

Lana's Cat4 screens
Chess644 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Lana's Cat at none against Chess64's 1. Chess64's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Chess64 sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Lana's Cat asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lana's Cat ships an update every 3 weeks, Chess64 every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Lana's Cat versus Chess64: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLana's CatChess64
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB200 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDaniel ParksEljin Ltd

In-app purchases

None

Lana's Cat

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Chess64

One-time1
  • Chess64 Pro$6.99

Questions

Is Lana's Cat free?
Lana's Cat is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Chess64 free?
Chess64 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Lana's Cat or Chess64 have ads?
Neither Lana's Cat nor Chess64 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Lana's Cat or Chess64?
Lana's Cat ships an update every 3 weeks, and Chess64 every 10 days. Most recently, Lana's Cat was updated on October 18, 2026 and Chess64 on October 20, 2026.

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