Revello (オセロ) vs Piccolo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Revello (オセロ)
Experience a classic board game with a modern interface. Play against AI opponents of varying difficulty, learn strategies with move highlighting, and challenge friends or random players online. Features a beginner tutorial and achievements.
- Five AI difficulty levels
- Display and highlight best moves
- Online multiplayer with random opponents
- Challenge friends directly
- Game Center achievements and leaderboard
- Beginner tutorial
- HD Retina display support
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If you like to play Reversi, chess or mill, then you will enjoy this board game with its next generation interface design and a great features! • Computer AI with five levels • Display possible moves • Highlight the best move against the computer to learn strategies • Challenge random opponents online or your friends directly • Game Center achievements and leaderboard • Tutorial for beginners • HD for Apple Retina displays • Designed for iPhone/iPod and iPad • Appealing UI with animations and sound effects APPEALING DESIGN Revello brings you the game in a clean and attractive way with a fast and enjoyable user experience. Revello is designed for iPhone/iPod and iPad with HD for all retina displays. TURN-BASED MULTIPLAYER Searching for random opponents online works in background and you can play as many games as you want to the same time! You also can challenge your Game Center friends directly. Discover the best of turn-based playing and continue the game with your turn any time. STRATEGY COACH Your success to win depends on your skills, tactics and strategy. Highlight the best move against the computer to learn how the champion would play. Develop your strategies to defeat them all! The intuitive interface makes the game easy to pickup. COMPUTER AI You have five computer opponents and the Champions Mode is very powerful, but it’s responding fast without making long calculations for the next move! Check out the web edition revello.io and and experience the sophisticated AI for yourself. The iOS app has some additional features. BEGINNERS TUTORIAL This board game is easy to learn but hard to master. All game rules are explained with samples and images on five screen pages. It’s easy to understand and will enable every beginner to play right away! It takes a minute to learn and a lifetime to master.
Piccolo
Experience the classic strategy board game with a powerful AI and a polished interface. Customize your game with beautiful themes, play online with friends or strangers, and enjoy a seamless experience across devices. Includes fun iMessage stickers.
- Strong, customizable AI engine
- Polished native user interface
- Variety of beautiful themes
- Local and online multiplayer
- Automatic game saves and move undo
- iMessage stickers
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• #1 Most Downloaded Game (April, May, June, July 2021) — Japan Mac App Store! • Featured in Apple's "What We're Playing", "Games We Love" and "Best Games Made in France"! • "Beautiful, minimalistic and highly addictive." — TouchArcade • "A simple but captivating game." — Mac4Ever • "From us, this small but fine application therefore receives an absolute recommendation." — Appgefahren • "Whether you're a fan of the game or not, Piccolo will make you love Othello." — MaxiApple Piccolo® is the best Othello app for iPhone®, iPad® and Mac®. It features a strong, fast AI on top of a polished user interface, with beautiful themes, advanced features, online play and more. Piccolo is available in 20 languages and comes with no ads or tracking. It's an Othello app made for Othello players by Othello lovers. • Strong AI: Piccolo features a custom Othello AI engine written in the Rust programming language, designed to be fast, challenging and customizable. The AI's default Level 1 difficulty can be beaten by beginners, while its Level 8 difficulty is likely to challenge even top Othello masters around the world. Designed from scratch, the Piccolo AI engine is sure to give seasoned Othello players a new type of opponent to play against, with often surprising and creative strategies. • User Experience: Piccolo features a native user experience designed for iOS and macOS. A modern design lets you focus on the game, with helpful move indicators, the ability to undo moves, and automatic game saves between every move in case you close the app by mistake or your phone's battery runs out. Multiplayer play is supported both locally and online. • Themes: Piccolo features a variety of beautiful themes to customize and breathe fresh life into your Othello experience. Othello veterans might enjoy sticking to the Classic theme, while others might prefer the handsome Seasoned Wood theme, the adorable Sailor Moon theme or even the Persian Spray theme, inspired by traditional Iranian ceramics. Additional themes designed by guest artist Aline Corrêa are also available, giving you access to an Othello game on top of an alligator lake, inside an ancient castle, next to Egyptian pyramids, and more! • Play Online: Piccolo Online is a free online service that lets you connect with friends via easily exchangeable Game Codes to play friendly Othello games wherever you are around the world. Piccolo Online also supports automatic matchmaking so that you can quickly play games with random opponents worldwide. Piccolo Online features quick, stable connections, and benefits from a strong privacy policy. • Cute iMessage Stickers: Send cute “chibi”-style iMessage stickers to your friends with Piccolo's bundled iMessage Sticker Pack! Featuring 36 custom illustrations drawn by anime artist Erica Li, the stickers feature Piccolo's adorable mascot in different relatable situations. • No Ads, No Tracking: Unlike a majority of games on the App Store today, Piccolo has no terms you need to accept before playing. Piccolo will never show you a single ad, and will never track you. The app is entirely a labor of love for the game of Othello, made by players for players. • Available in 20 Languages: Thanks to contributions from players around the world, Piccolo has been translated from English into Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish and Vietnamese. No matter where you are, Piccolo's interface will be easy to understand. Othello® is a registered trademark of MegaHouse Corporation. Piccolo: Othello is an independent implementation of the underlying game, which is placed in the public domain.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Piccolo at none against Revello (オセロ)'s shown. Piccolo also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly) and rating (4.7 vs 4.5). Revello (オセロ)'s advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 26.0). On price, review sentiment, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Revello (オセロ) sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Piccolo sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Piccolo holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 141 and 603 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 83% of Revello (オセロ)'s written reviews are positive against 77% of Piccolo's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Revello (オセロ) ships an update fortnightly, Piccolo every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Revello (オセロ) | Piccolo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (141 ratings) | 4.7 (603 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 82.8% of reviews — better | 76.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 141 | 603 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 61 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Felix Weiss | Symbolic Software |
Customer experience
Revello (オセロ)
Piccolo
Bugs and requests
Revello (オセロ)
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Piccolo
Reported bugs
4 issues- AI getting extra moves in certain situations
- Settings button not functioning properly
- Game freezing or crashing on some devices
- Inconsistent piece size on different screen sizes
Requested features
5 requests- Add online multiplayer mode
- Implement an undo move feature
- Add a tutorial or tips section for new players
- Introduce a 'watch AI vs AI' mode
- Allow customization of game board and piece themes
In-app purchases
Revello (オセロ)
- Strategy Coach$1.99
- Remove Ads$1.99
Piccolo
- Theme Pack: Around the World$2.99
- Theme Pack: Great Painters$2.99
Questions
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