Pocket Chess Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience61.3% of reviews
Neutral7.9% of reviews
Negative experience30.8% of reviews

~ Based on 1,305 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Pocket Chess

Is Pocket Chess Safe?

Pocket Chess appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Pocket Chess is 93/100.

This assessment is based on 14,718 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.6/5.

Safety Analysis

92.9% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.6% of ratings suggest some concerns
4.5% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 14,583 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 100/100.

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

Top reviews

Game Keeps Freezing

Haven’t been able to play more than 2-3 levels without the game freezing my entire iPhone Pro for months…

Fun, wholesome game.

Ads can be disruptive, but it's worth the $5 price tag to remove them.

Excellent

Perfect sequencing

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$. I’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

Very nice game

Simple, beautiful, easy, and non disruptive ads

Pocket chess

A fun way to practice!!

Repeatedly crashes phone

Great idea but freezes/crashes phone regularly

good game

I'd like the pieces to change with additional indicators, my knights pawns are queens all the time

Save Progress

Interesting and stimulating game, but please allow progress to be saved online.

Too many ads

Too many ads. Also hints are too expensive

Was good but now freezes and flashes

Not sure if the new update is stable. The app will randomly freeze then crash. It also has moments of intense flashing too

I like it but

The app crashes randomly. The puzzles are great but when it crashes my phone is completely locked for a minute or so.

Needs more levels

This is a very fun game to play with some challenging chess puzzles, although you need to pay money to get rid of adds which pop up quite frequently and once you complete 1010 levels there aren’t any more, i finished this very quickly and isn’t that fun anymore because there’s nothing to do anymore

Money grabbing

Hints realistically cost real money, so you soon get stuck with no way out, as it is a set list of puzzles that you cant skip without solving, avoid…

Thinks

This app really makes you think!

Excessive ads

New update added random ads that pop up mid game without warning