An alo app · iPhone
Chess, Backgammon, Go, Hnefatafl, Senet and 15 more — hand-crafted with real wood textures, gold-leaf framing, and a working AI for each. Play solo, with a friend nearby, or online. Pay once.
Most multi-game collections feel like a spreadsheet of recycled assets. Boardalo treats every game like its own product — full rules, working AI, the animations that make a board feel alive. From a five-minute round of Drop Four to a Backgammon match with doubling and gammons, each game stands on its own.
Play solo against an AI with four difficulty tiers. Pass the phone for pass-and-play. Pair two phones in the same room for Play Nearby over the local network — no internet needed. Or invite a Game Center friend for Play Online, one move at a time, with push notifications when it's your turn.
Chess, Drop Four and Tic-Tac-Toe are free with the Casual AI. A single one-time purchase unlocks the harder AI tiers on those games plus all 17 other games at full depth. Family Sharing supported. There is no Boardalo account, and nothing leaves your phone unless you actively choose to play someone online.
Each one with proper rules and a working AI.
Full rules — castling, en-passant, promotion. Four AI tiers, hint system, move history and an optional chess clock (Blitz / Rapid / Classical / Unlimited).
Gravity, smooth falling discs, four-in-a-row detection. A perfect five-minute game.
A perfect minimax AI plus an easy mode for younger players.
Chain captures, the must-capture rule, kinging, and undo. Known as Draughts in the UK.
Corner strategy, pass-handling, and a positional AI that knows when an early lead is a trap.
Pip count, doubling cube, gammon scoring and match play to 1, 5, 7 or 11 points.
Four-token race with capture and safe squares.
Square-by-square token walk. A classic for younger players.
Mesopotamian race with rosettes and re-rolls — the world's oldest known board game.
Ancient Egyptian race with house hazards on squares 26–29.
Proper Mancala with capture-on-empty and extra-turn rules.
Full three-phase play — placement, movement, flying.
The classic connection game on an 11×11 hex board.
9×9, 13×13 and 19×19 boards. Ko rule, territory scoring, proper komi rounding.
The Viking siege game — asymmetric king-vs-attackers, a thousand years old.
Five in a row on a 13×13 board. Subtler than it looks.
Corner-to-corner race across a star-shaped board.
The larger jump-race that Chinese Checkers grew out of.
Single-player puzzle. Hint system included for when you're stuck.
The block variant. Full hand and a working boneyard.
Free games at Casual difficulty: Chess, Drop Four, Tic-Tac-Toe. The premium unlock opens the harder AI tiers on those plus all 17 other games at full depth.
Not in the menus. Not on the game-over screen. Not at all. Ever.
One payment unlocks everything. No "season pass". No expiry. Family Sharing supported.
No analytics SDKs. No advertising IDs. No Chardie account. We don't sell data — because we never collected it.
Solo and pass-and-play work with no signal at all. Useful on flights, trains and waiting rooms.
iCloud-friendly. Pause a match on your phone, pick it up later.
A fresh puzzle every day to keep your hand in — filtered to the free games for non-premium players.
Chess and Checkers pieces lift and float as you drag them — with a target highlight and a ghost showing the start square.
By one person, in SwiftUI, with @Observable and a stupid amount of care about animations.
Coming to the App Store. Three games free, seventeen unlocked with a single one-time purchase.
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