Enhance your chess skills with a comprehensive training suite. Solve over 100,000 tactical puzzles, practice openings and endgames, and play against other users. Analyze games with powerful engines and track your progress.
What We Love
- 👍 Excellent tactics training
- 👍 Great for serious chess improvement
- 👍 Wide variety of tactics
- 👍 Useful comments on puzzles
- 👍 Good value for money (for subscribers)
- 👍 Free version offers good functionality
- 👍 Opening training is effective
- 👍 Spaced repetition for openings is praised
- 👍 Endgame practice is helpful
- 👍 Developer is responsive
- 👍 Clean and well-defined menus (recent)
- 👍 Strict and non-distracting design
- 👍 Thoughtful and creative content
- 👍 Works well for beginners
- 👍 Great for memorizing opening lines
- 👍 Puzzles are high quality
- 👍 Unlimited free tactics available
- 👍 App works seamlessly for some users
- 👍 Great service for years
- 👍 Good start for a training app
- 👍 Addicted to rating improvement
- 👍 Highly recommended for tactics
- 👍 Flawless problem solving (for some)
- 👍 Innovative developer
Room to Improve
- 👎 Expensive subscription ($20/month)
- 👎 No free limited play option
- 👎 Bait and switch pricing
- 👎 UI is confusing and abysmal
- 👎 Difficult to navigate
- 👎 Not user-friendly
- 👎 Clunky, congested, unpolished interface
- 👎 Feels like a website, not native app
- 👎 Small board/pieces on iPhone, too big on iPad
- 👎 Does not accept alternate right moves
- 👎 No abort option for games
- 👎 No takeback option for misclicks
- 👎 Engine usage not included with book purchases
- 👎 Puzzles can be too difficult/computer-like
- 👎 Difficulty levels are inconsistent
- 👎 Data loss reported
- 👎 Registration issues
- 👎 No clear explanation of icons/functions
- 👎 Interface not intuitive for beginners
- 👎 Problems with endgame training
- 👎 No way to close account
- 👎 Tactics difficulty is confusing
- 👎 Engine takes too long to make moves
- 👎 App quits when opening tactics page
- 👎 Puzzles sometimes have multiple correct answers
- 👎 Misclicks are hard to correct
- 👎 UI could be more bullet-friendly
- 👎 Tapping opponent's pieces is problematic
- 👎 Buttons are too close together (skip/retry)
- 👎 Tactics page crashes
- 👎 Engine move takes too long
- 👎 Misclicks are not correctable
- 👎 No way to skip to next move in repertoire training
- 👎 UI is a mess
- 👎 No clear instructions
- 👎 Difficulty levels are the same after a while
- 👎 Loading times are very long
- 👎 Tactics are too computer-like
- 👎 Puzzles are overrated/underrated
- 👎 UI is horrible and alien-like
- 👎 Puzzles are too difficult for average person
- 👎 Rating of puzzles is questionable
- 👎 Punished for solving correctly but too slowly
- 👎 UI is awkward and slow
- 👎 Not as user-friendly as others
- 👎 Game aborted/resigned frequently
- 👎 Missing endgame feature in app
- 👎 Doesn't show number of problems done
- 👎 Board and pieces too small/large
- 👎 Does not accept alternate right moves
