Comparison

Chess Peace vs Terminus

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Offline play
  • No ads or account required
  • Thousands of puzzles
  • Daily Puzzle feature
  • Extensive customization
  • Progress syncing via iCloud
  • Accessibility options
Features
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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.

About

Terminus

Features
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Terminus is a calm logic puzzle about drawing transit maps. Each map is a small city grid. Drag every coloured line from terminus to terminus, serve each station exactly once, and pass straight through the diamond interchanges so two lines cross — one across, one down. When the whole network clicks into place, the line opens. Every map is machine-proven to have exactly one solution. That changes how it feels: you are never guessing, only deducing. If a route seems forced, it is. Follow the logic and the city untangles. Made for the commute it depicts: • One-handed, portrait play. The whole game within a thumb's reach. • Fully offline. Quiet optional sounds; the mute switch always wins. • No ads, no accounts, no tracking — ever. • Stars reward pace; hints are there when you want a nudge, not the answer. • Progress travels with you through iCloud. • Line patterns mode tells lines apart by texture as well as colour. The Ember Line rides free with ten stations, from a gentle 4×4 to a dense 6×7. The Season Ticket opens three further lines — thirty-six more stations up to a severe 7×7 — and every line surveyed in the future. One fare, forever. Mind the gap between you and your station. It is exactly one line wide.

Screenshots

Chess Peace4 screens
Terminus4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Chess Peace at every 10 days against Terminus's monthly. Chess Peace also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Chess Peace sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Terminus sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Chess Peace ships an update every 10 days, Terminus monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Chess Peace versus Terminus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChess PeaceTerminus
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (111 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews89.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings111 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size133 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSam ShepherdDIMITRIS KONTARIS LIMITED

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Chess Peace

One-time1
  • Premium Unlock$8.99
1 purchases

Terminus

One-time1
  • Season Ticket$3.99

Questions

Is Chess Peace free?
Chess Peace is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Terminus free?
Terminus is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Chess Peace or Terminus have ads?
Neither Chess Peace nor Terminus shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Chess Peace or Terminus?
Chess Peace ships an update every 10 days, and Terminus monthly. Most recently, Chess Peace was updated on September 28, 2026 and Terminus on September 24, 2026.

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