ChessHere vs GameHaven
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ChessHere
Engage in real-time or correspondence chess matches, challenge friends, and participate in tournaments. Improve your game with puzzles, opening studies, and game analysis. Stay connected with messaging and notifications in a clean, focused interface.
- Real-time and correspondence chess
- Challenge friends and opponents
- Join tournaments
- Solve daily puzzles
- Study openings
- Game analysis and tracking
- Messaging and notifications
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ChessHere is a modern chess app built for players who want a clean, focused place to play, improve, and stay connected. Play real-time games, start correspondence matches, challenge friends, join tournaments, solve puzzles, study openings, track your games, follow players, and keep up with messages and notifications from one native mobile experience. Whether you have two minutes for a quick game or a few days to think through a correspondence position, ChessHere keeps your games organized and your next move close at hand. What you can do with ChessHere: - Play online chess in real time - Enjoy correspondence chess with longer time controls - Challenge friends and discover new opponents - Join tournaments and track standings - Solve daily puzzles and Puzzle Rush - Study and practice openings - Review active and finished games - Follow players and view profiles - Send messages and game chat - Get notifications when it is your turn ChessHere is designed to feel calm, fast, and premium: a low-clutter chess space for focused games, steady improvement, and the social side of chess. Download ChessHere and make your next move. ChessHere Premium is an optional auto-renewable subscription. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage your subscription and turn off auto-renewal in your App Store account settings after purchase. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ ChessHere Terms of Service: https://chesshere.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://chesshere.com/privacy
GameHaven
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Twelve beloved classics. A vault of bonus games. One beautiful app. GameHaven brings together the games everyone knows — Chess, Checkers, Trivia, Sudoku, Word Search, Crossword, Tic Tac Toe, Ultimate Tic Tac Toe, Dots & Boxes, Memory Match, Rocket Blast Off, and Hex — all free to play solo against a smart AI, with Pass & Play and local Wi-Fi multiplayer included for everyone. THE BONUS VAULT — INCLUDED WITH PREMIUM Premium opens a growing library of bonus games, organized into themed shelves: • Strategy classics from around the world — Nine Men's Morris, Fanorona, Surakarta, Yut Nori, Seega, Alquerque, Fox and Geese, Hare and Hounds, Backgammon, Mancala, Reversi, Four in a Row, Naval Standoff, Mystery Who • Brain training — memory, logic, number, visual, and speed rounds, from Number Memory and Shape Rotation to Reaction Grid and Color Clash • Deduction mysteries — Logic Grid, Who Owns What?, Truth or Lie, Mystery Object and more • Word play — Letter Jumble, Word Sprint, Hidden Word, Common Thread, Anagrams, and the fill-in-the-blanks storyteller Story Scramble • Block puzzles — Twin Blocks, where every hand deals you two pieces and both have to fit New games join the shelves over time, and Premium includes every one of them, automatically. FRESH EVERY SINGLE DAY Daily challenges rotate through the classics with rewards for finishing the set — and subscribers get an extra bonus-game challenge every day on top. AI-generated trivia, crossword clues, word lists, stories, and brain puzzles mean you never replay the same content twice. PLAY TOGETHER Pass & Play on one device and local Wi-Fi multiplayer are free for everyone. Premium adds online cross-network 1v1, async Score Match rounds you can play on your own schedule, tournaments with up to 16 players, and a Friends system with match invites. EARN, UNLOCK, SHOW OFF Level up through XP, chase 700+ achievements from Bronze all the way to Diamond, and spend the coins you earn in a shop of 300+ cosmetics — avatars, board themes, victory effects, trails, and emotes that let your personality shine at every table. MADE TO FEEL AT HOME Fully localized in 18 languages. Cloud save across devices with Sign in with Apple. Home-screen widgets, a built-in AI help assistant, VoiceOver labels and Reduce Motion support throughout, and family-friendly name filtering everywhere. GAMEHAVEN PREMIUM Unlock the full experience with Premium — just $3.99/month or $34.99/year. Premium members get every bonus game, ad-free gameplay, online multiplayer (cross-network 1v1 and async Score Match), tournaments, Friends + match invites, the full cosmetics shop, advanced stats, AI-generated puzzles and trivia, and 2x coins & XP on every game you complete. Free players enjoy all 12 classic games — solo against the AI plus free Pass & Play and local Wi-Fi multiplayer — with daily content limits, supported by occasional full-screen ads between games, plus optional rewarded ads to keep playing past a limit. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions by going to your account settings on the App Store after purchase. Privacy Policy: https://www.garbageapps.com/gamehaven/legal Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ChessHere at none against GameHaven's 2. ChessHere also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. GameHaven sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. ChessHere asks for nothing beyond the download.
ChessHere ships an update every 4 days, GameHaven every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on August 25, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ChessHere | GameHaven |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 88 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Khaled Jouda | GarbageApps LLC |
In-app purchases
ChessHere
No in-app purchases
GameHaven
- GameHaven Premium Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- GameHaven Premium Yearly7 Days trial$34.991 Year





