Draftable vs Chess
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Draftable
Compete with friends by drafting lists for any topic, from sports to music. Everyone votes on the best drafts in real-time, with winners earning bragging rights. Play with or without the app via a shareable web link.
- Snake-draft party game
- 200+ diverse categories
- Real-time multiplayer
- Live voting and leaderboards
- Shareable web link for non-users
- Create or join rooms with friends
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Who's got the best taste? Prove it. Draftable is the party draft game that turns any topic into a competition. Pick a category, draft your list, then let your group chat vote on who drafted best. THREE WAYS TO PLAY • CLASSIC: Snake draft anything. Type your picks, defend your choices. • MONEYBALL: The viral $20 draft. Everyone gets a budget, and every name has a price tag. Stars cost $7, bargains cost $1. Can you build a winner without going broke? • AUCTION: Put a name on the block and bid against your friends. Every bid resets the clock, and the high bidder when time runs out wins it. Bluff, bait, and blow your budget. HOW IT PLAYS → Create or join a room with friends → Pick a mode and a category (NBA Players, NHL Legends, Fast Food, Movie Villains...) → Draft, sign, or bid your way to a full roster → Vote in the app or share the poll. It works for anyone, no app needed → Winner takes the bragging rights WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT • 200+ Classic categories across Sports, Food, Music, TV & Film, Games, and more • 38 price-tagged boards with nearly 2,000 names: NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, soccer, WNBA, Olympians, tennis, golf, F1, UFC, boxing, and more • Real-time multiplayer: see every pick and bid land live • Vote right inside iMessage, in the app, or by a shareable web link • Share every roster in one image, or copy them all as text • No group handy? Play solo against bots for free • Bring 5 new friends into a game and get a free week of Pro DRAFTABLE PRO Set your own prices, unlock every board (in rooms and in solo play), add a pick timer, and track wins on a room leaderboard. When a Pro member hosts, everyone in the room gets Pro. Draftable Pro is $1.99/week and auto-renews until canceled. Manage it anytime in your App Store settings. Terms: https://timestampgame.com/terms.html Privacy: https://timestampgame.com/privacy-draftable.html Download free and start a room in seconds.
Chess
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Chess with one capture rule changed — and that one change rewires how you think. THE RULE Pieces can only capture the same type. • Pawns capture pawns • Knights capture knights • Queens capture queens • Kings still capture anything (like normal chess) Everything else is normal: check, checkmate, castling, en passant, promotion. WHY PLAY THIS Regular chess rewards muscle memory. Openings on autopilot. Patterns you stop questioning. Here, every capture is a decision. Positions that look like blunders aren’t. Safe-looking pieces suddenly aren’t. It’s a workout for calculation — the kind that transfers back when you return to standard chess. FEATURES • Full games vs CPU (multiple strengths) or pass-and-play • Offline — no account required • Weird-rule mate puzzles built for this capture rule • Themes and piece sets • Optional clocks If you’re stuck in the same games, try a rule that won’t let your hands play for you.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Draftable at none against Chess's 1. Draftable also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (daily vs every 5 days). On price, device support 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 sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Draftable asks for nothing beyond the download.
Draftable ships an update daily, Chess every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Draftable | Chess |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Andrew Maxwell | David Medawar |
In-app purchases
Draftable
No in-app purchases
Chess
- Unlock Full Game$1.99









