Pocket Chess

Pocket Chess

Chess Puzzles

15K ratings
1302 reviews
Free
In-App PurchasesWith Ads

Details

  • Released
  • Updated
  • August 14, 2021
  • October 24, 2025

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About

Enhance your chess skills with hundreds of challenging chess problems and puzzles. This app focuses on simplified boards to help you quickly recognize chess patterns and improve your game.

โœ“Hundreds of chess problems
โœ“Checkmate in 2 and 4 puzzles
โœ“Simplified boards for pattern recognition
โœ“Improve chess game
โœ“Learn chess patterns faster
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What's New in Pocket Chess

0.33.1

October 24, 2025

Tech update Thank you for playing!

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Subscriptions & In-App Purchases

$5.99

Medium Coin Bundle

Medium Coin Bundle

User reviews

Good but buggy

This is one of my favorite chess apps out there. Fun puzzles. However recently it started bugging out and freezing my phone, making me have to hard reset it. If that were fixed I'd give this a 5, hands down.

Ads are disruptive

Cool puzzles, but if you have chess experience and breeze through them, you will literally spend as long waiting for ads as you play in between them.

For those of us who just want more or different chess stuff, maybe ad an IAP to remove the ads. I'd happily spend a few bucks on that and reconsider my review.
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App Freezes Entire Phone Constantly

Pocket Chess has been freezing my entire phone; unable to switch apps, unable to close the app, unable to shut off my phone normally. I have to force my phone to shut off using the hard shutdown button combo.

Sometimes it freezes in the very first puzzle, sometimes it lasts a while and then freezes, but it ALWAYS freezes. I tried re-downloading which reset my progress entirely, I tried restarting my phone, turning off my VPN; all did nothing to help.
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30 second ads after every puzzle

Wow you guys sure are greedy. Removing ads cost 5$. Iโ€™ll just make my own chess puzzle game with Claude code, this is awful.

Keeps freezing and crashing phone

Send your coder back to school, vibe coding would produce better results

Developer apps

User experience

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Reported Bugs

3 issues

Progress data loss

Bug

Incorrect checkmate solutions

Bug

Game freezing after certain moves

Bug
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Requested Features

4 requests

Ability to review past puzzles

Feature

More advanced puzzles and levels

Feature

Option to disable audio/music

Feature

Sync progress across devices

Feature

FAQ

What does Pocket Chess do?

Pocket Chess offers a collection of hundreds of chess problems and puzzles designed to help users improve their chess skills. It features simplified boards to facilitate faster recognition of chess patterns.

What kind of chess puzzles are available?

The app provides a variety of puzzles, including 'Checkmate in 2' and 'Checkmate in 4' problems, along with many others. These are designed to be thought-provoking and help users practice tactical situations.

Is Pocket Chess free to download?

Yes, the app is free to download. However, it does contain in-app purchases and advertisements, which are common for free mobile applications.

How does Pocket Chess help improve my game?

By presenting numerous chess problems and puzzles on simplified boards, the app helps you learn to recognize chess patterns more quickly. This focused practice is designed to enhance your overall chess strategy and tactical abilities.