Pocket Chess User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience62.6% of reviews
Neutral7.6% of reviews
Negative experience29.8% of reviews

~ Based on 1,255 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Pocket Chess Safe?

Pocket Chess appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Pocket Chess is 92/100.

This assessment is based on 13,510 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.6/5.

Safety Analysis

93.1% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.6% of ratings suggest some concerns
4.3% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 13,510 App Store ratings for Pocket Chess.

Is Pocket Chess Legit?

Pocket Chess appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Pocket Chess is 85/100.

Based on 85 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Bug

My whole phone freezes after 1 minute of playing. The game is good but how am i able to play it if it won't allow me to.

Not that great

Maybe It’s my fault. But this game is just to easy. I’m on level 100 and it’s still super easy. Mate in 2 gets old.

Ad trap game

Watch ad, have to exit to play again
Just ads for other games

Sucks. Deleting now

Cute Aesthetic

I like the simple and miniature look of the board and pieces. Nice game :)

Fun Challenge

When you don’t have time for a whole game, brilliant concept for a game.

Good for Duolingo chess tactic practice

Great game, sometimes the levels are hard but it’s chess; as of right now I’m level 146

Sucks

An ad after every puzzle. Ridiculous. Even chess.com is not this petty. Also, the partial board is annoying. Finally, restoring a purchase is not working.

Tech support needed

It keeps freezing up on me otherwise it’s a nice little app

Greedy company

$5 to remove ads is crazy!! If I spend send $5 than you force unwanted ads. The type of good game that’s kill by greed.

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Fun but game freezes entire phone after every other level

Okay

I want to like it but it doesn’t quite know what checkmate is. It doesn’t take into consideration that the king has to make a move. I get it’s not real chess but driving me nuts 😆. Also tons of ads

Good Concept, Terrible Execution

This app has the potential to be fantastic. It’s fun and thoughtful challenges are ruined however, by it freezing and crashing literally every other puzzle. If you pick a piece to move, then decide to move another instead, you can pretty much guarantee that the app will stop responding and lock your phone up for 10-12 seconds before it reverts to Home Screen. Thankfully, it does a pretty good job at remembering where you left off, but having to force close every one or two challenges makes me want to throw my phone through a wall.
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Freezes iphone 17 Pro Completely

Every recent play session started crashing my phone. Seemed to happen right after I paid to remove ads. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling and now the ads are back and my progress wiped out.

Great Idea Many Bugs

Love the design and the challenge. This app makes my phone crash unlike any other game I have. Its pretty much unplayable

Keeps crashing

I’ve been using for years but now keeps hanging and I can’t even exit but need to restart my phone

App freezes and locks up on IPhone 17

About two moves in and the app freezes and locks up the iPhone 17. IOS 26.5.1. Not sure if there is a fix being worked on for this?

Very helpful

The APP makes me think and learn new strategies. Useful for all skill levels.

Freezes up now.

Needs to be updated.

Game freezes every level

Needs to not freeze and force close.

Potential Malware

This app seems fun but after a few levels it began to freeze my phone. I’ve never had any issues with my phone before and all of a sudden I’m having to hard reset it or else it just stays frozen in the app. Not sure what the reason for this is. Could be a bug or could be a virus. Either way, this game is not complex enough to cause the phone to freeze like that.
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