Pocket Chess Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

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

~ Based on 1,319 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 14,857 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

Incorrect solutions

Too many adds, but more annoyingly there are multiple incorrect solutions (app says Mate, which it is not). Do not trust this app. Certainly don’t use it if you’re looking to get better at chess.

Cash grab!

Have to buy hints.

Way too many ads

Ads so frequent it’s nearly unplayable, and they often have no exit button, making you close the app. Bad experience.

Why this game good

It’s a good game for people to try different ways to checkmate

Needs more hints

You can’t just lock hints behind 100 coins, it’s horrid for beginners

Love it!

So fun :)

Great game

Look, I got this game 30 minutes ago and I’m already addicted I love chess and this helps a ton with my positioning, so amazing overall, maybe cut down on the ads/monetization

Great

Great

Great game

Actually a fun game where I have to figure out how to play chest and it’s not like those other games where ads pop up every five seconds. Been playing it for an hour haven’t had an ad and I’m starting to learn how to play chest great game developers 🥸👍

Great Puzzler

This game is great, I highly recommend playing it if you like completing chess puzzles.

I have however completed all 1010 levels, is it possible more could be added?

It would also be great if notifications were triggered when an event started, so I can complete the ones I haven’t done.

Fun

Too many ads but super fun, should just pay the $ to remove ads

Freezes

The game is fun, but it freezes and makes my phone bug out all the time.

Scam

So bad. All these apps suck

Fun app

A great app if you’re just starting out your chess adventure. There are in app purchases to make your life easier but it’s not that expensive so feels ok. There are weekly events branded with an animal- developers the prizes don’t save second time through the animal events. So still have a silver badge for the event when I’ve now achieved gold. Can you fix this?
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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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