Train Chess vs Kalah Board
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Train Chess
Master hundreds of essential positional endgames to elevate your chess skills. Practice against an engine to improve your late-game win rate and conversion. This app focuses on crucial endgame scenarios for strategic improvement.
- Hundreds of positional endgames
- Engine practice
- Improve win rate
- Master endgame conversion
- Strategic improvement
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Train Chess features hundreds of must-know positional endgames that will improve your game. Master positions against the engine and increase your win rate late in the game and master your endgame conversion.
Kalah Board
Enjoy a classic Mancala-style strategy game on your iPhone. Learn the rules with an interactive guide, then challenge the AI or a friend. Features include multiple difficulty levels and helpful hints for strategic play.
- Classic Kalah rules
- Interactive onboarding
- Offline single-player
- Local pass-and-play
- Multiple AI difficulty levels
- Hints for learning
- Undo functionality
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Kalah Board is a polished way to play classic Mancala-style Kalah on iPhone. Learn the rules through a short interactive onboarding, then start a match in seconds. Play against smart AI, or hand the phone to a friend for local pass-and-play. Clear animations show every stone, capture, and extra turn so beginners can learn while experienced players can focus on strategy. Features: - Classic Kalah rules - Interactive teaching for new players - Offline single-player - Local pass-and-play - Multiple AI difficulty levels - Hints for learning better moves - Undo for casual games - Quick rules and guided examples - Clean board themes No account required. No online match setup. Just a fast, thoughtful strategy board game whenever you want to play.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Train Chess at every 4 days against Kalah Board's every 2 weeks. Train Chess also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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 Train Chess against 5.0 for Kalah Board. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
Train Chess ships an update every 4 days, Kalah Board every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Train Chess | Kalah Board |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Camren Todd | Pavel Rudkouski |
In-app purchases
Train Chess
No in-app purchases
Kalah Board
No in-app purchases
