Comparison

Checkers Prime vs Checkers `

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

Head to head
About

Checkers Prime

This app offers a classic checkers experience with customizable difficulty levels and game modes. Play against friends or a challenging AI, with features for learning and advanced strategy. Save games, undo moves, and enjoy a visually appealing interface.

Highlights
  • One player and two player modes
  • Challenging AI with flexible difficulty
  • Start game from any position
  • Save and load games
  • Show legal moves for novices
  • Undo and redo moves
  • Rotate board option
Features
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- Importance of checkers - Checkers (also known as Draughts) is one of the ancient games in the world. Checkers has become increasingly popular. Checkers can teach important pre-math and life skills, such as cause and effect, logical thinking, reasoning, a sense of confidence, a self-worth and the communication skills. ••• Why Checkers Prime? ••• Checkers Prime is one of the best designed checkers games for the iPad / iPhone. It provides learning support for novice players, a real challenge for the experienced players and fun. Checkers Prime supports both ‘one player’ and ‘two player’ game play, so you can play against your friends or against a challenging computer opponent. You can even start your game from different position that allows you to test your skills in different game phases, common positions, solve checkers puzzles, etc. Also you can save your game and then re-load it anytime you want. If you are novice player you may take advantage of the feature that shows all legal moves for current piece. -The full list of features:- • Excellent graphics, sound effects and music • Configurable player names • Great AI engine with a flexible difficulty level that suits both novice players and experts • Versatile openings • SETUP game: Start the game from any desirable position with any number of pieces • UNDO function if you accidentally hit wrong piece or square. • REDO function if you missed the opponent’s move. Just press EYE button and Checkers Prime will show you the last opponent’s move. • SAVE / LOAD feature gives you an opportunity to finish the game later or to play the checkers puzzle which you can setup in the “Setup Game” module. • Option to show the LEGAL MOVES for current piece (very useful for novice players) • Option to ROTATE the board in ‘two player’ mode. • Option to limit ‘think time’ in ‘one player’ mode to 5, 15 or 30 seconds • Option to choose piece color: Red/Black, Red / White or White / Black • Option to choose first move • Option to enable / disable forced captures • Option to switch on / off sound effects and / or music • Automatically saves the current state of the game, so the game state would be automatically restored if you quit the application • Universal app (supports iPad / iPod touch / iPhone) Checkers Prime plays accordingly to the American Checkers / English Draughts rules. Enjoy!

About

Checkers `

Experience the classic board game of Checkers, also known as Draughts. Play against a friend or challenge your phone with customizable rules. The objective is to capture all of your opponent's pieces by jumping over them diagonally.

Highlights
  • Play against a friend
  • Play against AI
  • Customizable rules
  • Diagonal piece movement
  • Capture opponent's pieces
Features
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One player has dark pieces, and one player has light pieces. They take turns moving their pieces. Players move their pieces diagonally from one square to another square. When a player jumps over their opponent's (the other player's) piece, he takes that piece from the board. By default a potential piece will have to be taken but you can set custom rules and disable this rule. The player's goal is to take all the pieces of its opponent. With this version of Checkers (also known as Draughts) , you can play with a friend who sits next to you or play against your phone.

Screenshots

Checkers Prime4 screens
Checkers `4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Checkers Prime at none against Checkers `'s shown. Checkers Prime also leads on review sentiment (77% vs 62%) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.0). Checkers `'s advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 43 months) and monetization model (ad-supported vs paid). On price, rating, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.4 for Checkers Prime against 3.4 for Checkers `. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 17 and 79 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 77% of Checkers Prime's written reviews are positive against 62% of Checkers `'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Checkers Prime ships an update every 43 months, Checkers ` every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Checkers Prime versus Checkers `: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCheckers PrimeCheckers `
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.4 (17 ratings)3.4 (79 ratings) — better
Positive reviews77.4% of reviews — better61.5% of reviews
Number of ratings1779 — better
Update frequencyEvery 43 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB82 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVinta GamesShawn Mottley

Customer experience

Checkers Prime

All ratings17 ratings
Positive52.9%
Neutral17.6%
Negative29.4%
Written reviews31 reviews
Positive77.4%
Neutral9.7%
Negative12.9%

Checkers `

All ratings79 ratings
Positive57.0%
Neutral8.9%
Negative34.2%
Written reviews39 reviews
Positive61.5%
Neutral2.6%
Negative35.9%

Bugs and requests

Checkers Prime

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Checkers `

Reported bugs

8 issues
  • Game freezes
  • Pieces freeze and become unmovable
  • Pieces disappear after resuming game
  • AI cheats by kinging pieces on occupied spaces
  • Game incorrectly declares wins as losses
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  • Mandatory jumps only enforced on player, not AI
  • Visual glitch with crowned piece image
  • Flashing green on first row

Requested features

7 requests
  • Make a legacy edition available
  • Allow rollback to previous version
  • Add different levels of difficulty
  • Remove ads
  • Add tutorial for features
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  • Allow changing AI difficulty
  • Add two-player mode

In-app purchases

None

Checkers Prime

No in-app purchases

None

Checkers `

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Checkers Prime free?
Checkers Prime is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Checkers ` free?
Checkers ` is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Checkers Prime or Checkers `?
Checkers ` is rated higher. Checkers Prime averages 3.4 out of 5 from 17 ratings, while Checkers ` averages 3.4 from 79 ratings.
Do Checkers Prime or Checkers ` have ads?
Checkers ` shows ads; Checkers Prime does not.
Which is updated more often, Checkers Prime or Checkers `?
Checkers Prime ships an update every 43 months, and Checkers ` every 5 weeks. Most recently, Checkers Prime was updated on October 23, 2026 and Checkers ` on October 24, 2026.

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