Chess Peace vs ECHO
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chess Peace
Engage in a peaceful, ad-free chess puzzle experience offline. No prior chess knowledge is needed to enjoy thousands of daily challenges and five unique puzzle modes. Customize your gameplay and track progress with detailed statistics.
- Offline play with no ads
- Thousands of unique puzzles
- Daily puzzle challenges
- Five distinct puzzle modes
- Extensive customization options
- iCloud sync for progress
- Home & Lock Screen Widgets
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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.
ECHO
This puzzle game challenges you to cooperate with recordings of your past actions. Solve intricate levels by coordinating with your "echoes" to overcome obstacles and complete complex sequences.
- Time-loop gameplay
- 100 campaign levels
- Daily puzzles
- Endless Zen mode
- Time challenge mode
- Offline play
- Live synthesized music
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Your echoes are your teammates. ECHO is a time-loop puzzle: every run is recorded, and when you press ECHO, your past self replays it - step by step, loop after loop. Hold plates for each other, open doors across time, and thread paths no single runner could ever take. EASY TO LEARN, DEEP TO MASTER - 100 campaign levels across ten decades, from gentle first steps to choreographed finales - Mechanics that weave together: chained doors, counter-doors, double doors, fragile floors, beat walls, paradox boards and mirror echoes that replay your run backwards - Handcrafted signature levels where every single step must be planned FOUR WAYS TO PLAY - Campaign: 100 levels with a carefully tuned difficulty curve - Daily puzzle: one fresh board every day - keep your streak alive - Zen: endless generated puzzles in six difficulties - Time challenge: how many boards can you solve in one run against the clock? MADE WITH CARE - Completely offline: no account, no ads, no tracking, no data collection - Music is synthesized live on your device - no two sessions sound the same - Home-screen widget that grows with your streak - and hides a secret level - Game Center leaderboards and achievements - Available in 7 languages ECHO is free and complete from the first minute. The only purchases are voluntary tips for the developer - they unlock nothing. Your past self is waiting.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Chess Peace at 4.9 against ECHO's 4.0. Chess Peace also leads on ratings volume (142 vs 4) and device support (3 vs 1). ECHO's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly). On price, ads, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Chess Peace sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. ECHO asks for nothing beyond the download.
Chess Peace holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chess Peace has 142 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Chess Peace ships an update fortnightly, ECHO every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chess Peace | ECHO |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (142 ratings) — better | 4.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 89.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 142 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 185 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sam Shepherd | Lucas Hesseldieck |
In-app purchases
Chess Peace
- Premium Unlock$8.99
- Premium Unlock$11.99
ECHO
No in-app purchases









