Comparison

Border Chess vs Mangus

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

Head to head
About

Border Chess

Features
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Border Chess is chess with room to breathe. The board is 10Ɨ10: standard FIDE chess on the inner 8Ɨ8, plus one empty square on every side. Kings, queens, and edge pawns can use the border for extra maneuvering — same rules you know, with new tactical possibilities. PLAY VS BOT Challenge Fairy-Stockfish, tuned for the border board. Choose your difficulty and improve your game against a strong computer opponent. PLAY WITH FRIEND Pass-and-play on one iPhone. The board automatically flips each turn so both players see the game from their side. BUILT FOR CHESS PLAYERS • Standard rules: castling, en passant, promotion, check, checkmate, stalemate, 50-move rule • Legal move hints, last-move highlight, and check highlight • Clean, modern board inspired by chess.com • Portrait mode, optimized for iPhone NO ONLINE MULTIPLAYER (YET) v1 is offline on your device — bot mode and local two-player only. No account required. OPEN SOURCE Border Chess is free software under the GNU GPL v3. Source code and license: https://github.com/sahasrarjn/chess-app The bot engine uses Fairy-Stockfish (GPL v3). Chess piece artwork from the Lichess Maestro set. Play in your browser too: https://borderchess.org

About

Mangus

Features
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Mangus turns your chess.com games into a coach. Type your username and it pulls your recent games and analyzes every move with Stockfish — right on your phone, no account and no servers. • See each move graded — best, inaccuracy, mistake, blunder — with the win% it cost you. • Tap "Show best move" at any position to see what you should have played. • Understand why you lost each game — the one move that actually decided it. • Spot your patterns across games: hung pieces, allowed tactics, where your blunders happen. • Per-game accuracy and an estimate of how strong you played. Everything runs on-device. Your games, coached.

Screenshots

Border Chess3 screens
Mangus4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Mangus at 3 against Border Chess's 1. Mangus also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
Border Chess versus Mangus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBorder ChessMangus
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB24 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSahasra RanjanWALKER HENRY PATE

In-app purchases

None

Border Chess

No in-app purchases

None

Mangus

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Border Chess free?
Border Chess is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Mangus free?
Mangus is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Border Chess or Mangus have ads?
Neither Border Chess nor Mangus shows ads.

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