Border Chess vs Mangus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Border Chess
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Border Chess is chess with room to breathe. The board is 10Ć10: standard FIDE chess on the inner 8Ć8, plus one empty square on every side. Kings, queens, and edge pawns can use the border for extra maneuvering ā 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 ā 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
Mangus
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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 ā right on your phone, no account and no servers. ⢠See each move graded ā best, inaccuracy, mistake, blunder ā 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 ā 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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Border Chess | Mangus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days | ā |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod ā better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 ā better |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sahasra Ranjan | WALKER HENRY PATE |
In-app purchases
Border Chess
No in-app purchases
Mangus
No in-app purchases









