# Chess With Friends > Social chess game for playing with friends, family, and community members. (iPhone/iPad app by Zynga Inc..) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chess-with-friends/id991759859 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Zynga Inc.](https://appshunter.io/developer/295913422) - Category: Games, Entertainment - Price: Free - Rating: 2.04/5 from 1,145 App Store ratings · 53 written reviews indexed - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 11.0 · 99 MB - Languages: English, German, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish - Released: 2016-06-10 - Data updated: 2026-06-10 - Monetization: free with in-app purchases - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chess-with-friends/id991759859/reviews.md ## What is Chess With Friends? Brought to you by the makers of Words with Friends, New Chess With Friends is the most social and engaging way to play Chess on an iPhone and iPad. Connect with friends and family or easily discover new opponents from the active Chess With Friends community. Play multiple games at the same time, track your moves and improve your stats. Already a Chess With Friends player? All your games, friends, stats carry over into this new version. Download New Chess with Friends and start playing today! ______________________________________ FEATURES • CONNECT with Facebook to play family and friends • DISCOVER new opponents with Smart Match or challenging who's Playing Now • TRACK your record, skill rating, and head-to-head stats to improve your game play
 • CUSTOMIZE your board and pieces in the theme selector • CLIMB the global leaderboard and compare your performance to the best • RELIVE the glory or despair by replaying moves in existing and past games
 • CHAT with your friends or opponents while you play • CUSTOMIZE your board with beautiful background themes and pieces • PLAY multiple games at once across multiple mobile platforms • COMPATIBLE with previous versions - Your friends and games carry over ________________________________________ * Play New Chess With Friends without third party ads between moves if you previously purchased the ad-free version of Chess With Friends on iOS. Be sure to login with Facebook or the email account you used to make the previous purchase to continue to play without third party ads between moves. ________________________________________ Already a fan? Join our active communities to discuss the game, give feedback, or find new friends to play Facebook: www.facebook.com/ChessWithFriends Twitter: www.twitter.com/ChessWFriends Instagram: https://instagram.com/chesswithfriends/ ________________________________________ ADDITIONAL DISCLOSURES • Use of this application is governed by the Zynga Terms of Service. These Terms are available through the License Agreement field below, and at http://m.zynga.com/legal/terms-of-service. • For specific information about how Zynga collects and uses personal or other data, please read our privacy policy at http://m.zynga.com/privacy/policy. Zynga’s Privacy Policy is also available through the Privacy Policy field below. • The game is free to play, however in-app purchase are available for additional content and premium currency. In-app purchases range from $0.99 to $99.99. • This game does permit a user to connect to social networks, such as Facebook, and as such players may come into contact with other people when playing this game. • Terms of Service for Social Networks you connect to in this game may also apply to you. • You will be given the opportunity to participate in special offers, events, and programs from Zynga Inc. and its partners. • Must be 13+ to play. • Use of this application requires a Facebook or Games With Friends account. ## Key features - Connect with friends via Facebook - Discover new opponents - Track game stats and ratings - Customize board themes and pieces - Climb global leaderboards - Replay past games - Chat with opponents ## What do users think of Chess With Friends? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🚀 Smooth gameplay - 👍 Simple and easy to use - 🕹️ Enjoyable chess experience **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent game corruption issues - ⚠️ Unreliable notifications - 📢 Excessive advertisements - 🔒 Lack of security and privacy controls - 🕰️ Opponents taking too long to move **Commonly reported bugs** - Chat text visibility issues in dark mode - Profile picture syncing problems - Screen resizing and layout bugs - Corrupted games with no resolution **Most requested features** - Pre-move option - Game history archiving - Customizable player profiles - Time limit per move - Improved matchmaking and player blocking ## Recent user reviews (10 of 53) All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chess-with-friends/id991759859/reviews.md ### 1/5 — RIP Chess W/ Friends *2023-08-05* I’ve been a user/player on this app for YEARS! Finally going to ditch it. The lack of control over your own profile and inability to screen users/players is unacceptable. I’m done. Its chess, that’s all it should be. However, I’ve been harassed repeatedly by ‘players’ on a regular basis. Many of whom are either attempting to solicit bitcoin or themselves. It’s obnoxious and the app offers no solution to report them. I’ve met a few cool people on this app out of the thousands I’ve been played over the years (which I’ll happily converse with on another app). But it’s really unfortunate that I feel the need to find another place to play the game I love because the OG devs have lost sight of the users that this app was intended to serve. RIP Chess w/ Friends….. ### 1/5 — NO NOTIFICATIONS FOR 3 YEARS!!! *2023-07-29* After a recent much-needed update, they still fixed only a small portion of the issues. Notifications still not working although you darn sure get notifications if "Chess Master" wants to challenge you! Or if Tech support has replied to a message. But NOPE! Not a single notification if a player moves or sends you a chat!!!!! It's such a shame that in 2010 the app worked fantastic. Then it slowly degraded and with an update in February 2020 it all really went to heck in a hand basket!!!!!!! ZYNGA is sorry for not caring. How difficult can it be to repair notifications? They sure work in their "Words With Friends" app!!!! Ridiculous and takes the joy out or playing chess!!!!! ### 1/5 — Anybody Home? *2023-05-24* Hey Zynga, are you guys still moderating and updating this app? Doesn’t look like it! About 3 years ago this app used to be really fun and reliable. Now it’s trash. Two major problems need to be fixed ASAP: 1) The app doesn’t send you notifications when it’s your move. 2) Your opponent can just abandon the game and leave you hanging there waiting for him to make a move. There is no time limit for making moves. Easy for Zynga to fix that. Just set a day limit to five days and if the player doesn’t make a move the app should automatically resign him. The app used to do this. Now it doesn’t. Super annoying. If Zynga fixes these two problems this app has the potential to be fun again. But right now it’s just frustrating. Because you never know when it’s your move. And games can last forever because there is no day limit. Because nobody is receiving move notifications. Hey are there any Zynga employees reading this? You guys have ads that pop up during game play so you must still be making revenue. How about you listen to your customers and make some simple fixes to make your product more enjoyable. A response would be appreciated. Or maybe this negative review will just be lost amongst the dozens of other negative reviews for this app… Hey Zynga anybody home?? ### 1/5 — Rife with scammers *2022-12-21, version 1.45* This used to be a good, casual game to play chess. Now it is loaded with scammers. Unfortunately you can’t look at a players chess profile (games played, losses, etc) prior to playing to try to assess if they are a real player. Then when you get stuck with one and you block dr harassment then it counts as a loss. If they stop playing for some reason it doesn’t time them out so their profile sits there for months as waiting to play. I’ve watched the profile picture change from men to women and back. That has screwed up my ranking and is definitely not worth playing new people anymore. 99% will be hello what’s your name? Where are you from? I want to get to know you better? Where can we talk? Ridiculous. I have 3 people I’ve played against for many years now and that is only reason im still on the game. Don’t get started on this one because the app developers have done nothing about this along with some of the weird bugs that crop up where it is your turn but you can’t move your pieces as well as a few other annoying glitches. ### 2/5 — From bad to worse *2022-09-22, version 1.45* This is the second time, and it will probably be my last one, that I decide to remove the game (unload the application ) from my phone. Why? I keep getting invitations to play from people that only want to chat about selling something, and the latest is that a game against a much higher ranked player that I was winning by far was misteriously blocked and assigned as a win to my opponent. I am here to have fun and enjoy the game, but these people need to be controlled and or blocked. I have a handful of games that were abandoned by suspicious players once I decided not to chat nonsense with them. Hackers? Salespeople? I will give the game another chance ### 1/5 — Please fix this game! *2022-08-24, version 1.45* I have played nearly 1000 games on this app with dozens of opponents. I play every day for years. Whatever you guys did on this most recent update totally blows. In my first ~900 games over many years I had exactly one corrupted game. In the last three weeks I have had 8-10. It keeps happening. I also invited two friends to play with me, had them download the game, and my first three games with each of them corrupted. They are no longer playing the game. Please Fix!!! When it is fixed I’ll give a new review. ### 1/5 — Scammers and System Problems *2022-06-23, version 1.45* If you want scammers to constantly try to sell you crypto currency, or you want to lose games because of system issues, this is the app for you. I played on the app for about 8 years and finally deleted it because I couldn’t stand it any longer! When you tell the scammer you are not interested, they quit playing and they remain in a “pending their move” purgatory as an unfinished game. While they are not help accountable for their time to move, you are held to a strict time period. I lost games because my time ran out when the system didn’t advise me that it was my time to move (no visible evidence on the screen that it was my move). ### 1/5 — Buggy dark mode and heats iPhone *2022-04-23, version 1.45* I’ve been using Chess with Friends for 3+ years now and while I’m happy with how many people I get to play, the app itself is terrible - and Zynga doesn’t appear to give a hoot. I reported the “invisible” text bug when trying chat while phone is in dark mode (their developer appears to have forgotten to invert it from the background) over a year ago - it’s still there. But more worrying, I think Zynga must be using my phone as some sort of CPU node for something not related to the game. Moving chess pieces around should not take any cpu whatsoever, but whenever I am in this app, my iPhone gets hot as heck! They’re doing *something* not chess related! ### 3/5 — So many scammers on the app *2022-03-07, version 1.45* I really like the app but good lord seems to be about 40% of the players are people trying to get information to get into your financial accounts. The app really needs to have a way to report these users but as with most apps they don’t seem to be doing anything to keep these people off of their platform. If not for this I’d give them 5 stars. Be careful who you accept a game from. ### 1/5 — Glitchy App / No Bug Fixes / No Support *2021-10-29, version 1.45* App has several bugs: - When typing on chat board, you cannot see the text you’re typing until you click send. - Notifications do not work. You just have to occasionally check the app to see if it’s your move. - Bogus accounts start games and try to chat/scam. When you don’t fall for it, they stop playing. The game never times out. It just stays in your game queue for eternity. Reached out for help, but they said the games don’t show on their end. - When submitted a Help Request, the feature to add a photo/screen shot does not work. It’s nearly impossible to get to the place to submit a request, so it’s frustrating to have it not work once you get there. All this is quite disappointing for an app that I PAID FOR and used to work. ## Frequently asked questions about Chess With Friends ### What is Chess With Friends? Chess With Friends is a social and engaging mobile application that allows you to play chess with friends, family, or discover new opponents from an active community. It offers features to track your progress, customize your game, and chat with other players. ### How do I play with friends? You can connect with Facebook to play with your existing friends and family. The app also allows you to discover new opponents through features like Smart Match or by challenging players who are currently online. ### Is Chess With Friends free to play? Yes, the game is free to play. However, in-app purchases are available for additional content and premium currency. These purchases range from $0.99 to $99.99. ### Can I play multiple games at once? Yes, you can play multiple games simultaneously. This feature allows you to engage in several matches across different platforms without interruption, making it convenient to keep up with all your games. ### What platforms is Chess With Friends compatible with? The application is compatible with iOS devices like iPhone and iPad. It also supports playing across multiple mobile platforms, and your existing games and friends carry over from previous versions. ## Version history (last 2 releases) ### 1.53 — 2023-05-06 Various minor bug fixes and improvements ### 1.45 — 2021-01-19 Various minor bug fixes and improvements ## Apps similar to Chess With Friends | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Chess Online +](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chess-online-plus/id903978215) | 4.7 (25,549) | Free | Games | | [Real Chess 3D](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/real-chess-3d/id1351939098) | 4.7 (147,994) | Free | Games | | [Chess - Play With Friends](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chess-play-with-friends/id1509924265) | 4.1 (70) | Free | Games | | [Chess Online - Clash of Kings](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chess-online-clash-of-kings/id1495016534) | 4.7 (28,052) | Free | Games | | [Chess Prime 3D](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chess-prime-3d/id990477277) | 4.6 (59,737) | Free | Games | | [SocialChess • Online Chess](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/socialchess-online-chess/id442239737) | 4.7 (7,094) | Free | Games | ## More apps by Zynga Inc. - [Classic Words With Friends](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/classic-words-with-friends/id321916506) - [Zynga Poker ™ - Texas Hold'em](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/zynga-poker-texas-holdem/id354902315) - [Okey Plus](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/okey-plus/id480951901) - [Okey Plus HD](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/okey-plus-hd/id527538169) - [Solitaire·](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/solitaire/id593715088) - [FreeCell·](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/freecell/id597928938) All apps by Zynga Inc.: https://appshunter.io/developer/295913422 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-06-10.*