Chess Peace vs VertiGrid
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chess Peace
Engage in a peaceful chess puzzle experience offline, with no ads or account required. It offers thousands of challenges suitable for all skill levels, from beginners to grandmasters, with daily puzzles and extensive customization options.
- Offline play
- No ads or account required
- Thousands of puzzles
- Daily Puzzle feature
- Extensive customization
- Progress syncing via iCloud
- Accessibility options
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• A peaceful chess puzzle, played offline with no ads or account • No chess knowledge required — a new challenge for grandmasters and beginners alike • Thousands of puzzles plus a free Daily Puzzle every day • Available on iPhone, iPad & Mac, with your progress & settings synced via iCloud With over 26,500 unique puzzles across three difficulties and five different puzzle types, and a new Daily Puzzle every day, you play with just the board and six piece types — King, Queen, Rook (Castle), Bishop, Knight and Pawn — to find each satisfying solution. -- Daily Puzzles -- Build your streak by playing a new Daily Puzzle every day, share with other players via our Wordle-style solve grid, as well as a customised image showing the puzzle alongside the stats of your solve. -- Five Unique Puzzle Modes -- • Classic: One of each piece, one board, no captures. • Multiples: Some pieces are copies of each other. Same rule applies: no captures, only peace. • Two-Colour: White and black pieces share the board. Pieces only threaten the opposing colour. • Islands: Two boards, one puzzle. Only the Knight can jump the gap. • Presets: Some positions are revealed, but the pieces remain unknown. -- Find Your Zen through endless customisation -- Unprecedented personal customisation of the gameplay screen and menus, including subtly animated backgrounds, on/off toggles for nearly every visual element, and three distinct sets of gameplay sounds. Find your own Chess Peace in every puzzle, with customisation synced across devices. Also choose from many app-wide colour themes, board styles, and over 30 alternate app icons. -- Great chess learning tool, with no experience required -- If you're not a chess player, don't worry — Chess Peace teaches you everything you need to know, with a quick refresher on hand whenever you need it, as well as an optional possible moves system that shows every move possible by any piece on the board. -- Complete play history & in-depth statistics -- Replay your every solve move-by-move, and track your progress with granular statistics. Not your thing? Hide them using Zen and never seem them again. -- No data connection or account -- Everything is stored inside the app, with no connection required and no data collected. Your progress is synced via iCloud, available only to you. -- Home & Lock Screen Widgets -- Add some Chess Peace to your home and lock screens and jump straight into your next puzzle, or keep up your Daily Puzzle streak. -- Accessibility -- As well as supporting iOS Accessibility options, several additional accessibility features make Chess Peace as inclusive as possible, including colourblind mode, high contrast, bold icons, letters instead of piece icons, large text, reduced motion, and adaptable controls that can be brought to the top or bottom of the screen.
VertiGrid
Navigate intricate mazes by moving the grid itself, not the ball. Each swipe creates new paths and possibilities, challenging your logic and problem-solving skills. Discover the correct sequence of moves to guide the ball to the goal while avoiding hazards.
- Grid-based maze navigation
- Swipe controls
- Handcrafted puzzles
- Daily challenges
- Minimalist visuals
- Logic and planning focus
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VertiGrid - Maze navigation, reimagined through up & down swipes. Move the grid, guide the ball, and discover the right path to the goal. Every level is a handcrafted puzzle where each swipe changes the path ahead. You never control the ball directly. Instead, you move the grid, using obstacles to guide the ball to the goal while avoiding hazards. Every solution is discovered one swipe at a time. Simple to learn. Tricky to master. How to Play: - Swipe up and down to move the grid - Guide the ball using obstacles instead of direct controls - Avoid hazards and dead ends - Discover the correct swipe sequence to reach the goal Why You'll Enjoy VertiGrid - A fresh take on classic maze games - Handcrafted puzzles designed to challenge your logic - Every swipe creates new possibilities - Instant retries that encourage experimentation - A new "Daily Challenge" every day - Clean, minimalist visuals that keep the focus on solving Designed Around Precision The ball only moves when it touches an obstacle, making every swipe a meaningful decision. The same obstacle can produce completely different outcomes depending on its angle, the direction of your swipe, and where the ball makes contact. As the puzzles become more challenging, success comes from planning ahead, experimenting, and discovering the right sequence of moves. Daily Challenge A brand-new handcrafted puzzle awaits every day. Build your streak, sharpen your problem-solving skills, and come back tomorrow for your next challenge. Ready to Master the Grid?! VertiGrid delivers bite-sized logic puzzles that reward curiosity, experimentation, and clever thinking. Download VertiGrid today and discover a whole new way to navigate a maze.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Chess Peace at none against VertiGrid's shown. Chess Peace also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and ratings volume (141 vs 2). On price, rating, update cadence 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. Chess Peace sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and VertiGrid sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Chess Peace against 5.0 for VertiGrid. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chess Peace has 141 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Chess Peace ships an update fortnightly, VertiGrid every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Chess Peace | VertiGrid |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (141 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 89.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 141 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 186 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sam Shepherd | Elvis Zageris |
Customer experience
Chess Peace
VertiGrid
In-app purchases
Chess Peace
- Premium Unlock$8.99
- Premium Unlock$11.99
VertiGrid
- Multi Ball Madness$0.99
- 1000 Coins$0.99
- 3000 Coins$1.99
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- 5000 Coins$3.99
- Remove Ads$8.99









