
Ply Chess
Play. Learn. Improve.
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About
Ply Chess is a modern, Apple-native chess app for iPhone and iPad — a beautiful board, a strong opponent, and a real path from your first moves to club-level play. Everything runs on-device, so you can play, solve and learn with no account and no internet connection required.
PLAY
Challenge Arasan, a strong chess engine that runs entirely on your device, at five difficulty levels from relaxed Beginner games to a genuine Expert test. Choose your time control, pick a side, and play at your own pace — the engine never phones home and never watches you play.
LEARN
Work through 13 courses across three levels, from how the pieces move to opening repertoires and attacking the king, in the spirit of a proven step-by-step method. Every lesson teaches on the board itself, with highlighted squares, arrows and practice positions instead of walls of text.
SOLVE
Train tactics with thousands of hand-picked puzzles spanning every rating band, plus a fresh Daily Puzzle. An adaptive selector keeps the difficulty matched to your solving rating as you improve.
REVIEW
After any game, get a full move-by-move analysis: every move classified from brilliant to blunder, an evaluation graph you can scrub through, the game's key moments called out, and a retry mode to replay your mistakes and find the better move yourself.
DESIGN & ACCESSIBILITY
Six board themes, Liquid Glass throughout, and a design built for everyone: full VoiceOver support with every square and move spoken aloud, Dynamic Type, and respect for Reduce Motion, Reduce Transparency and Increase Contrast.
PRIVACY
No ads, no tracking, no third-party analytics. Your games, ratings and progress stay on your device unless you choose Ply Pro, in which case they sync only through your own private iCloud account.
FREE, NO ACCOUNT REQUIRED
Play unlimited games against the engine at every difficulty. Each day you also get one full game review, one hint per game, and five puzzles plus the Daily Puzzle. Every Beginner course is free to complete, and your last 10 games are always kept.
PLY PRO
Upgrade for unlimited game reviews, unlimited hints, the entire puzzle library, the complete Learn path from Beginner to Intermediate, your full game history, and iCloud sync across all your devices.
- Ply Pro Monthly: $2.99/month
- Ply Pro Annual: $19.99/year, with a 1-week free trial
Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings on your device. Prices are shown in USD and may vary by region.
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://orinbyte.com/plychess/privacy/
Ply Chess's chess engine is built on Arasan, open-source software used under license.
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What's New in Ply Chess
1.0
September 29, 2026
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Subscriptions & In-App Purchases
Ply Pro Monthly
Unlimited reviews, hints, puzzles & courses.
$2.991 Month





