Comparison

Chess Peace vs Keepsweeper

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

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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

Keepsweeper

Engage in strategic kingdom building combined with Minesweeper-style deduction. Uncover tiles, develop your settlement, and explore hidden treasures. Choose from multiple quest paths or compete with friends in multiplayer modes.

Highlights
  • Minesweeper-style tile deduction
  • Real-time kingdom building
  • Economic simulation
  • Multiple quest paths
  • Offline play
  • Online multiplayer
  • Map editor
Features
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It starts with a grid. Then you build a kingdom. Keepsweeper mixes Minesweeper-style deduction with a living, real-time fantasy kingdom. Read the number clues. Send workers to uncover tiles. Turn a small clearing into farms, homes and defenses. Then decide whether you're ready to wake the dragon. A LITTLE KINGDOM. BIG POSSIBILITIES. Build an economy that works together. Windmills support farms. Blacksmiths equip your soldiers. Chapels keep the army fighting. Discover combinations that turn a modest settlement into something wonderfully overpowered. EVERY SQUARE HAS A STORY Hidden gold, treasure chests, goblin lairs, crypts and sleeping dragons wait beneath the grid. Explore forests, cross lakes and settle mountain country. Dig carefully. The numbers are trying to tell you something. CHOOSE YOUR ADVENTURE Follow four quest paths: Dragon Hunt, Royal Treasury, Reclaim the Realm and Rival Kingdoms. The full game adds two twenty-level campaigns: Into the Badlands, with ruined roads, buried archives and Ancient Gates, and Beyond the Pines, where outlaw strongholds and dragon-summoning wizards hide in the northern forests. Head into the Wilds for a larger expedition, or see how long you can survive endless Siege. A NEW REALM EVERY DAY Explore a shared Daily Realm with special objectives. Record your victories in the Realm Journal and earn Royal Seals for first completions. MAKE THE NEXT RUN YOURS Earn Royal Seals and spend them in Research. Unlock new buildings, upgrades and permanent Passives for future runs. Discover treasures that change the rules: sunbeam-firing towers, floating settlements, unlikely allies and creatures you probably shouldn't have disturbed. FRIENDS, RIVALS AND YOUR OWN WORLDS Play online with two to four players. Fight for the last Keep standing, form teams, face AI kingdoms together or hold the line in Co-op Siege. Share an invitation link and friends join your game for free. Build and play your own scenarios in the Map Editor. OLD-SCHOOL WINDOWS. LIVING PIXELS. A familiar beveled interface opens onto busy little worlds. Workers harvest. Soldiers march. Dragons breathe fire. An adaptive fantasy soundtrack follows the action. Pause solo play whenever you need a moment to think. TRY IT. KEEP IT. Play the first two levels of Dragon Hunt, Royal Treasury, Reclaim the Realm and Rival Kingdoms for free, with unlimited randomized replays. Try one Daily Realm for free, with unlimited retries of that selected realm. One optional purchase unlocks the full game, including the remaining quest levels, Into the Badlands, Beyond the Pines, Daily Realm, Wilds, Siege, hosting multiplayer games and Map Editor. Solo quests, Wilds, Siege and local custom maps can be played offline. Daily calendar updates, optional reminders, online multiplayer, community maps, purchases and restoring purchases need an internet connection. Progress is saved on your device.

Screenshots

Chess Peace4 screens
Keepsweeper4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Keepsweeper at none against Chess Peace's 1. Keepsweeper also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 2 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Chess Peace's advantage is ratings volume (133 vs 27). On price, rating, review sentiment 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Chess Peace sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Keepsweeper asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Chess Peace against 4.9 for Keepsweeper. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 133 and 27 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 89% of Chess Peace's written reviews are positive against 92% of Keepsweeper's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Chess Peace ships an update every 2 weeks, Keepsweeper daily. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Chess Peace versus Keepsweeper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChess PeaceKeepsweeper
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (133 ratings)4.9 (27 ratings)
Positive reviews89.1% of reviews92.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings133 — better27
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size185 MB37 MB
Age rating+49+
DeveloperSam ShepherdFlarup Industries

Customer experience

Chess Peace

All ratings133 ratings
Positive98.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative1.5%
Written reviews46 reviews
Positive89.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.9%

Keepsweeper

All ratings27 ratings
Positive96.3%
Neutral3.7%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews26 reviews
Positive92.3%
Neutral7.7%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Chess Peace

One-time1
  • Premium Unlock$8.99
None

Keepsweeper

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Chess Peace free?
Chess Peace is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Keepsweeper free?
Keepsweeper is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Chess Peace or Keepsweeper?
Chess Peace and Keepsweeper are both rated 4.9 out of 5 on the App Store, from 133 and 27 ratings respectively.
Do Chess Peace or Keepsweeper have ads?
Neither Chess Peace nor Keepsweeper shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Chess Peace or Keepsweeper?
Chess Peace ships an update every 2 weeks, and Keepsweeper daily. Most recently, Chess Peace was updated on October 15, 2026 and Keepsweeper on October 17, 2026.

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