Category: Apps

I’ve listened to 27 days’ worth of music on Spotify in 2017 – how much did the artists earn from me?

Post author By Barry Collins
Post date December 9, 2017
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Slight return: Spotify doesn't pass on a great deal of revenue to artists

If you’re a Spotify subscriber, you’ll likely have an email this week telling you how many minutes you’ve spent streaming music over the past year.

Given that I spend many working days with Spotify playing in the background and my kids are constantly streaming via Alexa (hence the Olly Murs pic, honest), I suspect my annual tally of almost 40,000 minutes – that’s 1 hour 48 mins per day – is on the heavy side. Several friends have tweeted figures in the 5,000 to 15,000-minute range, and I’ve not yet seen anyone top my tally.

So, given I’m probably in the middle to top end of Spotify’s listenership, I wondered how much of my £10 per month subscription fee was being passed onto the artists. Was my streaming habit costing Spotify a fortune or is it still making a tidy profit?

How much does Spotify pay to artists?

Spotify doesn’t publicly disclose how much it pays in streaming royalties, and I strongly suspect it has different rates for different labels/artists, but most calculations gravitate towards the same figure. The Trichordist bases its figures on an indie label that had around 115m streams in 2016, and it claimed the average royalty payout was $0.00437 in 2016. It’s not clear where Information is Beautiful got its figures from, but it reports Spotify’s average rate per stream is $0.0038. So for the sake of convenience, I’m going to assume a Spotify stream is worth $0.004 in royalties.

How much did they earn from me?

According to this fascinating piece on Wired, the average track length has grown from around three to four minutes over the past couple of decades. So by dividing my listening time by four minutes, I listened to somewhere in the region of 9,778 tracks over the course of the year.

That would result in a total royalties payout of $39.11 to the labels, or £29.24 at the current exchange rate.

Given that I’ve paid Spotify £120 over the course of the year, that doesn’t seem an awful lot. Only a quarter of the sum I’ve paid Spotify has reached the labels, and all the anecdotal indications are that I’m a heavy user. Many users will have generated much less revenue for the labels.

I’ve never been hugely sympathetic to musicians moaning about paltry streaming rates. But when you see the figures broken down like this, you can’t help feeling they have a point.

Update – 11th December 2017

The best (and often the worst) thing about publishing online is that you get a chance to read comments about your articles, and there are a few comments on Reddit about this piece that I think are worth responding to.

First, TheBrainSlug makes the excellent point that half of Spotify’s users are on the free tier, not paying subscribers. Spotify still has to compensate the labels for those people too, so it’s a little unfair to judge Spotify’s royalty rates purely through the prism of a paying subscriber and how little of my money is returned to the artists. While I’m self-flagellating, I also neglected to consider VAT, which means Spotify only gets to keep £8.33 of my £10 monthly fee.

Linuxwes also points out that I’m confusing labels for artists, and that the labels will of course take a cut from the royalties first, meaning even less ends up in the pockets of the people writing and performing the songs.

Thanks all for the feedback.

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Android Apps Phones Software

How do you stop Android tracking you?

Post author By Max Figgett
Post date December 5, 2017
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How can I hide my location from Google?

In November, it emerged that Google had been effectively tracking Android phone users’ locations since January 2017. Even when the smartphone’s location services were switched off; even when no apps were being used; even when no SIM card was installed in the device. So how do you stop Android tracking you?

Let’s first understand Google’s modus operandi. A report by Quartz revealed that “Android phones have been collecting the addresses of nearby cellular towers – even when location services are disabled – and sending that data back to Google”.

Although Google says that the tower lqocations were never saved and assured Quartz that the practice would be stopped at the end of November, the fact that it took an investigation for the tech giant to come clean about the extent of its cell tower data collection is troubling.

Even Android devices that had been reset to default settings, with location services completely disabled, were tracked. Moreover, if SIM-less smartphones were connected to Wi-Fi, they would still send the tower addresses to Google.

The tech giant’s privacy policy is quite open about location data collection:

“When you use Google services, we may collect and process information about your actual location. We use various technologies to determine location, including IP address, GPS, and other sensors that may, for example, provide Google with information on nearby devices, Wi-Fi access points and cell towers.”

However, there is no mention of what happens when location services are switched off, with the firm telling Quartz that the way it controls messages and push notifications is “distinctly separate from Location Services, which provide a device’s location to apps”.

“Hang on,” I hear you splutter. “Apps are doing it, too?!” Yep. In fact, according to the French research organisation Exodus Privacy and Yale University’s Privacy Lab, more than three in four Android apps house a third-party tracker. That includes staples such as Spotify, Uber (which, in August, ceased its practice of tracking users for five minutes after their journey had ended) and even Tinder.

Stop Android tracking you: General settings

This doesn’t mean we should all fling our Android phones into the sea. If Google is to be believed, it has now ceased collecting the addresses of cell towers, meaning the best way to (hopefully) stay incognito is to turn off the general location services and the ones for specific apps. Here’s how:

Head to Settings | Location services (or Settings | Advanced settings | Location services). You will then be confronted with the following screen.

To switch off location services completely, aka the nuclear option, simply toggle the top slider. This may generate a warning that you won’t be able to find your phone if it’s lost. If you want to take that risk, tap Okay.

This switch can also be accessed directly through the Google Maps app. Tap the three-line “burger” icon in the top-left of the screen and scroll down to Settings | Google location settings.

Stop Android tracking you: Individual apps

As mentioned above, many apps will request access to your location by default. If you’re unsure which are tracking you, it’s very easy to view and disable their permissions.

Scroll down and tap “Your location”, which will bring up a list of your apps – each with an enable/disable slider next to them.

You may be surprised at some the apps that have been granted permission and it’s worth checking back regularly just in case one slips through the net.

Read this next: Google Pixelbook review: The best device you don’t need?

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Apps Hardware iPhone Phones

Replacing the iPhone X home button: How can I survive without it?

Post author By dartiss
Post date December 2, 2017
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Never mind the lack of a home button - why look at a phone when you can admire the sea?

With its nearly edge-to-edge screen there was no longer a place for an iPhone X home button, so all the many functions that required it needed to be allocated elsewhere. Here’s what Apple did and, remarkably, why it works so well…

iPhone X: Waking up & unlocking

You tap the screen to wake up the iPhone X, or press the button on the right-hand side. Note I didn’t call this the ‘power button’: because it’s no longer used to power off the iPhone, that would be a misnomer.

To unlock, as everyone knows by now, the iPhone X uses Face ID instead of Touch ID. Rather than press your finger against a reader, infrared sensors identify your face, even if you’re wearing sunglasses or a scarf. It’s not quite as quick as Touch ID but it’s very effective. Swipe at the same time and you can be on your home page almost as quick as you were before.

iPhone X: Returning to the home screen

So with no home button, how do you return to the home screen? Simple. No matter which app you’re in, you now swipe up from the bottom of the screen.

iPhone X: Reachability

Did you use the Reachability feature on previous iPhones? Many didn’t but it was actually really useful, effectively shifting the screen down when you were trying to use the phone one-handed – this ensured everything on-screen remained within a finger’s reach.

It was achieved by lightly double-tapping the home button. Do it again to get the screen to return to normal. For the iPhone X, you have to first switch Reachability on. Go to Settings > General > Accessibility and activate Reachability from here.

For the next bit, you need to understand what the Gesture bar is. This is the horizontal bar you’ll see at the bottom of each screen – it can actually be used for other things but, in this case, we’re going to use it for Reachability. You can see the Gesture bar at the bottom of the following screenshot, in white. (Apologies to republicans in advance.)

It wasn’t so widely reported, but Kate was also thrilled by the removal of the home button from the iPhone X

Whenever you’re in an app, simply swipe your finger down over the Gesture bar – the screen should now move down. Swipe up over the Gesture bar to return it to normal.

iPhone X: App switching

Double-clicking the home button on previous iPhones displayed a history of your app usage, making it easy to switch between them. With the iPhone X, it’s more complicated but, once you get the hang of it, it feels quick and perfectly natural. Promise.

When you’re in an app, swipe up from the bottom, as if you were closing it. However, pause when you get part way up and you’ll find the slowly minimising screen joins the others as the app switcher appears.

You can also close apps from the switcher but this too has changed – instead of swiping them away, you now need to press and hold on the app icon. A red minus icon will appear in the corner of each minimised app window. Tap on these to close them. Tap elsewhere to return back to the switcher.

If you’re using the Handover feature (where you can transfer usage of an app across devices) then any such apps will appear at the bottom of the app switcher (see screenshot below for an example).

Fear not, you can still close apps quickly and easily on the iPhone X

But that’s not all, as they say in all the best infomercials, as there’s a second way to switch quickly between apps. You remember the Gesture bar at the bottom of the screen? Swipe left and right across that and you can easily glide between apps.

iPhone X: the Control Center

On previous iPhones the Control Center was accessible by swiping up from the bottom of the screen, giving you access to Airplane mode, brightness controls and suchthelike. Now you just need to swipe down from the top-righthand corner of the screen (i.e. to the right of the ‘notch’).

iPhone X: Powering off

As I said earlier, pressing that button on the right-hand side won’t work. To power off you now hold the volume down and right-hand button at the same time. From the same screen, you can also send out an emergency SOS and display important medical information.

And, finally…

Notifications – Swipe down from the top-left of the screen (to the left of the ‘notch’).

Taking screenshots – Hold down the volume up and right-hand button simultaneously.

Siri – Hold down the right-hand button.

Apply Pay – Double-click the right-hand button.

Now read this: Can I swim with an Apple Watch?

Tags Apple, iOS 11, iPhone, iPhone X

Apps Online Software

Who is reading your Expensify receipts?

Post author By dartiss
Post date November 23, 2017
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Read receipt: is it Expensify staff scanning your expenses?

Expensify is a popular service for making company expenses easy to process. For example, the app allows you to quickly snap a picture of your receipts using your phone, making it easier to submit expense claims.

It also has a feature named SmartScan – this will read your receipt and automatically complete the expense information. But, in the past week, the security of this feature has been questioned. What if anybody could potentially be reading your receipts?

What’s the issue with SmartScan?

According to Expensify’s own website:

If our OCR technology can’t read the receipt, we will make sure it’s flagged for human review by one of our secure technicians.

(The company’s emphasis there, not mine.)

However, last week, it was found that receipts, traceable to Expensify, were online for anybody to view, via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service.

https://twitter.com/Rochelle/status/933515448741535744

Mechanical Turk lets anyone perform manual tasks in exchange for small amounts of money. It was believed that Expensify were using Mechanial Turk to process SmartScan receipts.

Why is this a problem?

When asked about what information could be seen on these receipts, Ryan Schaffer, Expensify’s Director of Strategy and Marketingsaid:

They don’t see anything that can personally identify you. They see a date, merchant, and amount. Receipts, by their very nature, are intended be thrown away and are explicitly non-sensitive. Anyone looking at a receipt isunable to tell if that receipt is from me, you, your neighbor, or someone on the other side of the world.

Except this isn’t always true. Receipts can take many forms and some contain more information than others. Uber receipts can contain ride information, for example, and I’ve certainly submitted electronic receipts containing order numbers and full contact details. To make this publicly accessible (you don’t even need to sign into Mechanical Turk to see them) is a valid security concern.

How to switch off SmartScan

If you’re an Expensify user, you might be worried by now. Immediately, I’d recommend switching off SmartScan, which you can from your website account.

Sign into Expensify
Click your avatar in the top right-hand corner
Click on the Account Settings button
On the left-hand menu, click on the option named SmartScanning
You can now switch off SmartScanning with a simple slider

What is Expensify saying about this?

At the weekend, Ryan Schaffer, Expensify’s Director of Strategy and Marketing, responded to these claims on Twitter. The company also released a blog post, indicating that the receipts were part of a new feature test, which is due to be launched next year. This feature will allow larger clients to do the SmartScan analysis themselves, using Mechanical Turk. Schaffer also reaffirmed that, right now, SmartScan receipts are actioned via Expensify’s own in-house staff.

This does still leave a very important question about security, however. There was evidence of thousands of receipts on Mechanical Turk (which disappeared at the weekend), going back to at least September. Where did these receipts come from? If they’re from Expensify customers, did they know they were part of this test and their receipts would be exposed? When we put this to Ryan, he didn’t respond.

Since then, in an interview with The Verge, Expensify’s CEO, David Barrett, has stated that testing on Mechanical Turk started on 20th September and with only receipts from the company’s own employees. On November 15th, it then started processing 10% of non-paying user receipts that required human review through Mechanical Turk. At this stage, however, only its own staff were able to process them. This then changed on November 22nd when the receipts were opened up to anyone on Turk to process – it was the day after that the receipts were noticed and reported by users on Twitter. He also stated that during this latter processing the receipts (numbering in the hundreds) belonged to three of their employees. This was all clarified in another blog post by Expensify.

So, does this answer the questions being asked? Not quite.

David Barrett is also quoted as saying, “The only users who can access receipts are the Mechanical Turk workers”. Their blog post worded this even stronger…

There was no breach of data. No user data was seen by anybody who hasn’t accepted a binding and enforceable confidentiality agreement. No paying customer after 2013 has had their receipt processed by a Mechanical Turk worker.

What this doesn’t explain is why they were visible by anyone, with or without Turk access. Also, the fact that the visible receipts, all recently dated, came from only three employees does seem… unusual.

At this point you’d expect Expensify to be keeping a low profile to allow this to all blow-over. However, today it has been emailing customers to let them know of a new Terms of Service (TOS), which I’ve been reading into further.

First of all, the TOS screen indicates that it was actually changed on November 14th. This is relevant as it’s the day before Expensify uploaded live receipts into Turk. There are a few changes (I compared the new set to an old version I found online) but two stand out…

Under “Intellectual Property” it now states:

you hereby grant to Expensify a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use data generated as a result of your use of the Expensify Service

There is also a new Confidentiality clause which says:

you will not disclose, transfer, use (or seek to induce others to disclose, transfer or use) any Confidential Information

Whether this would prevent Expensify users, like myself, from disclosing this information in future is something that probably a lawyer could best answer. However, it is concerning the this has suddenly been added.

Main pic credit: ben_osteen/Flickr

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Apps

What’s the best app for keeping track of Christmas presents?

Post author By Max Figgett
Post date November 17, 2017
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'Tis the season to panic-buy from Amazon

“It’s the least wonderful time of the year,” sang a frazzled Andy Williams as he desperately flicked through the Argos catalogue, searching in vain for the perfect Christmas present for great-auntie Nina. Probably.

With the Big Day a mere 39 days, 14 hours, 31 minutes and 11 seconds away at the time of writing, the traditional gift panic is looming fast – did you get uncle Bill socks last year? How much can you spend on the office Secret Santa without looking like a Scrooge-like cheapskate? What circle of hell did the Luvabella doll climb out of? Luckily, a simple app can help you cope with the festive stress.

Christmas Gift List, available for Android (there’s a near-identical app for iOS called The Christmas Gift List Lite), isn’t going to win any awards for complexity, but it’s a potential Yuletide lifesaver. The app is essentially a tool for keeping track of the Christmas presents you have – and haven’t – bought and wrapped.

To add a recipient, click on the top-right “Add a Person” face icon, before inputting their name and your budget for their gift. As you already know, The Big Tech Question has been particularly good this year…

Repeat the process for everyone you’re giving a present. It’s a laborious slog, but it’ll pay off in the long run. You can then update their profile with gifts by pressing the icon in the top-right corner of the screen. As the app hails from the US, you’ll need to change the “$” to a “£”. Tap the top-left menu button, head to Settings | Currency and then change the symbol.

Once you’ve started the painful process of shopping, Christmas Gift List will give you a status bar for each person, with the useful option to select if the gift has been wrapped yet.

Tapping on the Stats tab will also bring up an overview of how the purchasing is going – along with an ominous countdown.

Yes, you could easily make your own present-planning “app” in Excel, but, with Black Friday next week, who’s got the time for that? Plus, Christmas Gift List will guarantee that you’re not left red-faced at a family gathering when your mum asks “what have you got your long-lost cousin-three-times-removed Alan, who has walked all the way from Sheffield to open your present?”

PS You only have a few days to sign up for the reddit Christmas present exchange!

Tags Christmas, Gifts, shopping

Apps Online Software

How do I stop unwanted phone calls?

Post author By dartiss
Post date November 6, 2017
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Cold call: put the ambulance chasers on hold

Barely a day passes without at least one call to my mobile phone with someone claiming that they’ve heard I’ve been involved in a rather vaguely worded ‘accident’. They promise to take me off their database but then I get the same call on another day, albeit from a different phone number and company.

Well, help is, kind of, at hand.

The Telephone Preference Service (TPS) is an opt-out register, where individuals can register their wish not to receive unsolicited sales and marketing telephone calls. It is a legal requirement that companies do not make such calls to numbers registered on the TPS. It’s free, easy to use, can be used for both mobile and landline numbers and you only need to register each number once.

How does the TPS stop unwanted phone calls?

This is the important bit.

The legislation only covers businesses in the UK, however this does include UK businesses who employ overseas marketing companies to cold-call. It also only includes ‘live’ conversations – not pre-recorded or silent phone calls.

For pre-recorded phone nuisance, this has to be reported to The Information Commissioner’s Office (The ICO) and silent calls to Ofcom. Yeah, it’s a pain.

How to register

Head to the TPS website and select the ‘Make a Complaint‘ option
Select what purpose the phone is used for (if it’s a business phone, different rules apply)
Now you enter the telephone numbers that you wish to register
On the next screen, you provide your postcode, followed by a drop-down for you to select your specific address
The next few screens are the usual marketing questions – why you’re using the service and how you heard about them
Finally, you provide them with an email address and your name and, that’s it, your numbers are registered

Give it 28 days and, after that, UK businesses should not cold-call you. Theoretically.

I still got called! I want to complain

You can do this via the TPS website. Here’s a quick summary of when you can complain:

Your phone number has been registered with TPS for more than 28 days
You had a ‘live’ conversation with someone attempting to sell/market their products/services to you
The call was not arranged (i.e. it was truly a ‘cold call’)
If it was from a UK number OR it was from an international number but they were ringing on behalf of a UK business

It’s best to get as much information from the call as possible – the number that called you, the name of the company, and the reason for ringing is pretty much the minimum required. Oh, and TPS will pass some of your information onto the company that you raise the complaint with, which is a slight concern in itself.

They’ve got apps!

Who hasn’t these days? The TPS has Android and Apple apps available to make it easy to look up, block and report phone numbers. They’re not brilliant but for free it’s hard to argue too much.

Alternative measures

Although registering with the TPS can do no harm, its efficacy is questionable, especially when dealing with the rogue ambulance chasers. Technology might prove a more effective filter. Handset manufacturers are beginning to get wise to this nuisance. The phone app on Samsung handsets, for example, displays when a caller is suspected to be a marketer or nuisance caller, letting you reject the call without wasting any more of your time. Google’s own handsets do likewise.

If your Android phone doesn’t offer that automatically, a third-party dialler such as TrueCaller will do the job. It also displays the identity of unknown callers by using a phone book generated from other users. The downside is your contacts’ names and numbers will be sucked into the TrueCaller database, which is a potential hack waiting to happen. A hack that might be used to gather numbers for cold calling…

Main image credit: Bryce Johnson/Flickr

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Apps Smart Home

Forget the quantified self: Should you quantify your cat?

Post author By Tim Danton
Post date October 31, 2017
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Smoky, you rascal, what were you up to last night?

Don’t worry, Fitbit hasn’t created a watch for cats. Yet. But British company Sure Petcare really does think you should use the microchip that’s already in your pet to monitor its movements, eating habits and overall health. Yes, it wants to quantify your cat.

Before you strike this idea off as another ridiculous piece of IoT technology looking for a purpose, as I must admit that I initially did, consider this scenario. Your cat looks a bit off this morning. So, you fire up the app and see that little Flipper was out for two hours in the early hours, when she normally only stays out for half an hour at a time.

Against her wishes, you examine her and find puncture wounds in her leg. Twenty minutes later you’re at the vet and Flipper is on the road to recovery, rather than suffering from pain all day, and possibly getting worse.

If that all sounds a bit far-fetched, it’s based on a true story – the Coen brothers have optioned the rights – from a Sure Petcare customer who bought its Microchip Pet Door Connect product. As the name so subtly hints, it’s a pet door that uses the microchip to recognise your cat and is connected to the internet.

The Sure Petcare app in action – welcome to the future

Quantify your cat: Hot topic

In future, there’s a good chance that Sure Petcare will be able to track the body temperature of your pets too. Two years ago it “joined” (code for “was bought by”) the Allflex group, a much bigger company that produces microchips for animals, and it’s pushing vets to use a version with temperature-sensing abilities.

In fact, the more you think about this the more quantified cats, quantified dogs, quantified hamsters and all the rest makes sense. Who knows, by sidestepping endless tests it might even save on some of those horrendous vet’s bills too.

Tags IoT, Pets

Apps Online Software

How can I learn to play the theremin online?

Post author By Max Figgett
Post date October 21, 2017
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It’s September 1951 and “teen-agers” all over America are flocking to downtown cinemas to watch the newest B-movie sensation, The Day the Earth Stood Still. The suspense gradually racks up until, seven minutes into the film, an eerie sound heralds the entrance of a terrifying apparition…

While Gort the robot and his tank-melting vision may look naff to jaded 2017 eyes, Bernard Herrmann’s theremin soundtrack remains as unnerving as ever. But how can you recreate the haunting sound at home without paying a penny?

How to play the theremin online: Browser

The best online theremin by far comes courtesy of Luke Phillips. The tool is incredibly simple to use: click on the yellow area of the screen and drag the cursor around to generate a sound. You can then fiddle with the delay, feedback and scuzz sliders, as well as change the waveform shape, to get the weird tone you desire. You’ll be playing Somewhere Over the Rainbow in no time.

If you’re more than a part-time thereminist, it’s also worth downloading the app (available on Android and iOS) for a couple of quid. This not only allows you to play with multiple fingers, but also record and replay your creations to bemused family or friends. However, to be very honest, my compositions all sound like a riot on the Clangers’ planet…

How to play the theremin online: App

I had more success with the excellent Leon app for Android and even created something resembling a tune. Again, moving your fingers gently across the screen will emulate the theremin sound, but Leon is a lot more intuitive than the previous app offering. More importantly, it also sounds better, with a range of frequency and wavelength sliders helping you generate that genuine 1950s vibe.

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Apps Gaming Reviews

Really Bad Chess review: is it actually really good?

Post author By Barry Collins
Post date October 18, 2017
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If Kevin Keegan ever played chess, it would be Really Bad Chess. You can forget about the boring defenders (pawns) and set-pieces (en passant, anyone?). Really Bad Chess gives you five rooks, two queens, a handful of bishops and is all about attack. Keegan would love it, love it.

Really Bad Chess, as developer Zach Gage explains, “removes the boring restrictions and flips chess on its head”. There’s no point learning an encyclopedia’s worth of opening gambits or end-games, because every match starts with a random selection of pieces and no two games are the same. It’s chess for the short-attention-span generation. And it’s bloody good fun.

There are a variety of game modes. Daily Board gives you (and all the other players) a new board every day to defeat. Each game starts with the regulation 16 pieces aside, but they can be almost any combination of pieces and each side will normally have different pieces, too. The only constant is that you’ll only have one king each, for obvious reasons. Weekly Challenge is the same, but with the board only changing once every seven days.

Ranked Mode is perhaps the most interesting. You start with a lowly rank, meaning you’re afforded a more powerful set of pieces than your computer opponent. As you earn victories and increase your rank, your arsenal is reduced while the computer gets more powerful pieces at its disposal. The computer’s intelligence level always remains constant, it just gets better or worse pieces as you move up and down the ranks. There’s Freeplay mode, too, in which you can manually adjust your rank.

Gameplay is tough. It’s enormously challenging to comprehend all the potential moves when there are so many strong pieces on the board and the starting positions change every game. The computer doesn’t hold back, either. Within about three moves, it’s normally bombing forward with a battery of queens and rooks, laying siege to your end of the board. Or perhaps that’s just me. I never was very good at chess.

Really Bad Chess is free to play on iOS and Android, but you can pay £2.99 to “unlock full features”, which includes changing the colour of the board, turning off the largely unobtrusive ads, a 1 vs 1 mode and a hundred undos – the option to take back your last move.

Want to play chess properly? Then read our guide to the best free chess apps on Android (many of which are also on iOS).

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