Nimtastic vs Pocket Chess
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Nimtastic
Master the classic mathematical game of strategy. Learn to win by taking turns removing objects from distinct heaps. Impress your friends with your newfound strategic prowess.
- Mathematical strategy game
- Turn-based gameplay
- Object removal from heaps
- Learn winning strategies
- Impress friends
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Nim is a mathematical game of strategy in which two players take turns removing objects from distinct heaps or rows. On each turn, a player must remove at least one object, and may remove any number of objects provided they all come from the same heap or row. This game will teach you how you can win and impress your friends.
Pocket Chess
Enhance your chess skills with hundreds of challenging chess problems and puzzles. This app focuses on simplified boards to help you quickly recognize chess patterns and improve your game.
- Hundreds of chess problems
- Checkmate in 2 and 4 puzzles
- Simplified boards for pattern recognition
- Improve chess game
- Learn chess patterns faster
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Pocket Chess helps you improve and brush up on your Chess by offering hundreds of thought provoking Chess problems and Chess puzzles. From Checkmate in 2 to Checkmate in 4 and much more! Pocket Chess is a new way to learn and improve at Chess. Featuring boards that are small and simple, important pieces are in focus so that you can learn to recognise Chess patterns faster and quicker. Improve your Chess Game and Download Now for free!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pocket Chess at 4.6 against Nimtastic's 4.0. Pocket Chess also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 14 months) and ratings volume (15K vs 8). Nimtastic's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (75% vs 61%). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Nimtastic sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Pocket Chess sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pocket Chess holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pocket Chess has 15K ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 75% of Nimtastic's written reviews are positive against 61% of Pocket Chess's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Nimtastic ships an update every 14 months, Pocket Chess every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Nimtastic | Pocket Chess |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (8 ratings) | 4.6 (15K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better | 61.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8 | 15K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 14 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | — | #118 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 199 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Stewart Lynch | Lessmore GmbH |
Customer experience
Nimtastic
Pocket Chess
Bugs and requests
Nimtastic
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Pocket Chess
Reported bugs
3 issues- Progress data loss
- Incorrect checkmate solutions
- Game freezing after certain moves
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to review past puzzles
- More advanced puzzles and levels
- Option to disable audio/music
- Sync progress across devices
In-app purchases
Nimtastic
- Remove Ads$0.99
Pocket Chess
- Small Coin Bundle$1.99
- Remove Ads2 variants$4.99
- Starter Package2 variants$4.99
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- Event Offer$4.99
- Medium Coin Bundle$5.99
- Large Coin Bundle$11.99
- Super Coin Bundle$25.99
Questions
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