Comparison

Chess411 vs Knightmare

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

Head to head
About

Chess411

Features
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Review your games with Stockfish 18, as many as you like, and get told in plain English where each one turned. Game review Type your Chess.com or Lichess username and your recent games are there to pick from, or paste a PGN from anywhere. Every move gets a verdict, from best move to blunder, and both players get an accuracy score. The part you will actually use is the coach: after each mistake it says what you missed, what the engine would have played, and why that mattered, in words rather than centipawns. Scrub through the evaluation graph, jump straight to the critical moments, and step through the line the engine wanted on the board. Puzzles Tactics puzzles sorted by rating and theme, with no daily limit. Ask for forks, pins, back rank mates or rook endgames, or let the app choose. The board is made for solving: drag pieces with your thumb, hear them land, and go straight to the next one. Daily challenge Everyone gets the same puzzles each day. Three lives, one attempt, and a streak to protect. Next move Set up any position and Stockfish shows the best move with its top three lines. The engine runs on your phone, so it works with no signal and the position never leaves the device. If the position is in a screenshot from another app or a website, the scanner reads the board off the picture for you. Made to look right Six board colours and ten piece sets, the walnut board by default. A real dark mode that you switch yourself. Move sounds and a soft haptic tick, each with its own switch.

About

Knightmare

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One knight. A very long night. Knightmare is a turn-based chess survival game. You are a lone knight on a chessboard. Enemy pieces are added over time as you battle them for your survival one move after the other. No king to protect. No checkmate to chase. How long can you survive?

Screenshots

Chess4114 screens
Knightmare3 screens

Verdict

The call

Chess411 and Knightmare are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

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

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Chess411 versus Knightmare: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChess411Knightmare
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Every 8 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.416.4
Further details โ€” not scored
Size59 MB38 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMPL Ventures, LLCFaraz Patankar

In-app purchases

None

Chess411

No in-app purchases

None

Knightmare

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Chess411 free?
Chess411 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Knightmare free?
Knightmare is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Chess411 or Knightmare have ads?
Neither Chess411 nor Knightmare shows ads.

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