51
BU Score
Solid
Dinosaur Chess: Learn to Play!
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Dinosaur Chess: Learn to Play! is an iOS app from Universis Technology in the News category, currently rated 3.8★ across 38 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Our BU Score puts it at 51: Solid (established niche player). For a News app, that means established niche player.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
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💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 8 of 8 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Mature app (15y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (38 ratings)METRIC | −$300 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🗓️ Snapshot Timeline
HISTORYEach bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 34 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 8.0+🔖 v2.51🔄 updated 9y ago🌐 EN📂 News💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2010 (15y old)
📝 About this app
** Appysmarts.com: 97/100 EDITOR'S FAVORITE!
** Previously nominated for a BAFTA (Best Interactive Media)! **
** Featured by Apple in it's "New & Noteworthy" section! **
** No Ads. No In-App-Purchases **
** Universal App optimized for iPad, iPhone. Retina Graphics.
Dinosaur Chess is the fun way to learn and play chess. Designed to be non-intimidating:
-- Learn how to play chess with 11 bite-sized interactive lessons.
-- Over 20 mini games and puzzles.
-- Play simplified and full chess against 6 beautifully animated dinosaurs.
-- Entertaining and challenging.
-- Learning and playing chess encourage concentration, improves cognitive abilities and rational thinking.
-- Can now play as a Boy Student or as a Girl Student.
-- Multi-student support
For more advanced learners:
-- 8 chess Tactics lessons.
-- The 'Amazing Chess Tactics Machine' game to practice chess tactics/puzzles.
-- Chess Engine can be set to Easy/Medium/Hard
Sign up to Professor MacDinosaur's chess class. You will grow from a hatchling, fresh from the egg, to a huge dinosaur ready to take on the Trex.
The action takes you through different parts of the dinosaur's world from jungles to forests. Here you learn the chess skills that will help you grow enough to defeat the other dinosaurs in battle.
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Some Reviews:
*Excellent step by step approach by Jurassienne_Dole
Lots of examples of the basic moves and tactics and some amusing side games involving dinosaurs. Fun for kids and adults alike and plenty of challenges at all levels.
*Dinosaur Chess by Mls968
This is a great program. The lessons are interesting, and play levels go from easy to difficult. My 4 and 6 year olds are learning the game, and it's helping novice players like my wife and I too. Highly recommended to anyone who wants to introduce their children to chess!
*An excellent app by Adg6
A wonderful app. Ideal for anyone new to chess. It is even fun for experienced chess players.
*Highly Recommended - by doled
"This is a fantastic chess teaching game. This game alone makes it worth buying an iPad. My three year old now knows the piece names and basic moves. My six year old is well on her way to playing a full game. Our family has had an iPad since the day the iPad was released and this is one of the best apps we have."
*Great! - by TonySchleizer
"This game has gotten my 5 year old interested in chess. Great tutorials that get progressively harder as skills improve."
* Great for getting started - by Milfordthelargebonedgorilla
"This has been fantastic for my five year old son...using this in addition to a real board and pieces has helped him immensely in understanding each of the pieces, how they move, their strengths and weaknesses...a terrific way to introduce young ones to the game without overwhelming them"
* Great learning tool - by Triplescoop
"I have an adopted 7 year old boy with fetal alcohol syndrome. It is very hard for him to learn to play games. Checkers was very hard for him to learn. I thought that chess would be something that he would have to wait to learn. I bought this app even though there were no reviews. So glad I did! What a great teaching tool! I love the mini games that teach the directions that each piece can move. We play slowly but my son can play chess! I recommend this for anyone who wants to learn the basics of the game. This app is for beginners. Great for kids! Thank you to the developers of this app!"
*Super! - by Chess player
"Hats off to the developers. A fun program for kids."
*Ideal For kids - by Kingkot
"This game is ideal to teach the kids in the chess."
** Previously nominated for a BAFTA (Best Interactive Media)! **
** Featured by Apple in it's "New & Noteworthy" section! **
** No Ads. No In-App-Purchases **
** Universal App optimized for iPad, iPhone. Retina Graphics.
Dinosaur Chess is the fun way to learn and play chess. Designed to be non-intimidating:
-- Learn how to play chess with 11 bite-sized interactive lessons.
-- Over 20 mini games and puzzles.
-- Play simplified and full chess against 6 beautifully animated dinosaurs.
-- Entertaining and challenging.
-- Learning and playing chess encourage concentration, improves cognitive abilities and rational thinking.
-- Can now play as a Boy Student or as a Girl Student.
-- Multi-student support
For more advanced learners:
-- 8 chess Tactics lessons.
-- The 'Amazing Chess Tactics Machine' game to practice chess tactics/puzzles.
-- Chess Engine can be set to Easy/Medium/Hard
Sign up to Professor MacDinosaur's chess class. You will grow from a hatchling, fresh from the egg, to a huge dinosaur ready to take on the Trex.
The action takes you through different parts of the dinosaur's world from jungles to forests. Here you learn the chess skills that will help you grow enough to defeat the other dinosaurs in battle.
________________________________
Some Reviews:
*Excellent step by step approach by Jurassienne_Dole
Lots of examples of the basic moves and tactics and some amusing side games involving dinosaurs. Fun for kids and adults alike and plenty of challenges at all levels.
*Dinosaur Chess by Mls968
This is a great program. The lessons are interesting, and play levels go from easy to difficult. My 4 and 6 year olds are learning the game, and it's helping novice players like my wife and I too. Highly recommended to anyone who wants to introduce their children to chess!
*An excellent app by Adg6
A wonderful app. Ideal for anyone new to chess. It is even fun for experienced chess players.
*Highly Recommended - by doled
"This is a fantastic chess teaching game. This game alone makes it worth buying an iPad. My three year old now knows the piece names and basic moves. My six year old is well on her way to playing a full game. Our family has had an iPad since the day the iPad was released and this is one of the best apps we have."
*Great! - by TonySchleizer
"This game has gotten my 5 year old interested in chess. Great tutorials that get progressively harder as skills improve."
* Great for getting started - by Milfordthelargebonedgorilla
"This has been fantastic for my five year old son...using this in addition to a real board and pieces has helped him immensely in understanding each of the pieces, how they move, their strengths and weaknesses...a terrific way to introduce young ones to the game without overwhelming them"
* Great learning tool - by Triplescoop
"I have an adopted 7 year old boy with fetal alcohol syndrome. It is very hard for him to learn to play games. Checkers was very hard for him to learn. I thought that chess would be something that he would have to wait to learn. I bought this app even though there were no reviews. So glad I did! What a great teaching tool! I love the mini games that teach the directions that each piece can move. We play slowly but my son can play chess! I recommend this for anyone who wants to learn the basics of the game. This app is for beginners. Great for kids! Thank you to the developers of this app!"
*Super! - by Chess player
"Hats off to the developers. A fun program for kids."
*Ideal For kids - by Kingkot
"This game is ideal to teach the kids in the chess."
🆕 What's New · v2.51
This update from Apple will improve the functionality of this app. No new features are included.
Added audio help message. Minor graphics changes.
Added audio help message. Minor graphics changes.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Dinosaur Chess: Learn to Play!
- Developer
- Universis Technology
- Bundle ID
- com.dinosaurchess.dinosaurchess
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- www.universis.co.uk
- Tagline
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- ML model estimate / mo
- $1.2K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US News
- All-time revenue
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- Name
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- X / Twitter
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⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 3.35★ · 42.9% 5★ · 26.5% 1★
5★21 (43%)
4★6 (12%)
3★4 (8%)
2★5 (10%)
1★13 (27%)
+0 ratings/week
Praise: great ×19 love ×16 recommend ×5 fantastic ×4 awesome ×2Complaints: crash ×7 broken ×4 bug ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Love it
My 6 years old kid love it. I love it too.…
★★★★★ Great!
My 4.5 year old has been wanting to learn chess and it has been a bit frustrating to teach him. We got this app and He LOVES it! It makes it very fun to learn and complete the learning games before he can actually play the game. I know he w…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ No audio
Audio stop working a while ago…
★☆☆☆☆ Sound does not work!!
Sound works on all other aps, but not on this app.…
📈Ratings growth38 ratings+3700% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (55 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Geographic ReachNot ranked
This app is currently outside the top 100 grossing in all 9 countries we monitor (US, UK, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN). Niche or new apps often launch this way — popularity rankings appear once daily revenue clears the regional threshold.
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Dinosaur Chess: Learn to Play!: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
