SmallFish Chess for Stockfish User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience78.1% of reviews
Neutral7.5% of reviews
Negative experience14.4% of reviews

~ Based on 570 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is SmallFish Chess for Stockfish Safe?

SmallFish Chess for Stockfish appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for SmallFish Chess for Stockfish is 96/100.

This assessment is based on 4,447 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.8/5.

Safety Analysis

95.5% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.0% of ratings suggest some concerns
2.5% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 4,447 App Store ratings for SmallFish Chess for Stockfish.

Is SmallFish Chess for Stockfish Legit?

SmallFish Chess for Stockfish appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for SmallFish Chess for Stockfish is 90/100.

Based on 90 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

So fun

I think it’s a very nice game. First, you can learn tactics. Also, you can get dopamine. 졸라쩌는 게임

Good strongest app in chess

strongest app in chess

Chess revealed

Keep up the great work

bugs…

it’s a great app, best of its kind. but after the last update there is bug that app opening in half-screen mode and there is nothing i can do to change it

Archive

I really like this app, but storing and organising games feels tedious and overly complicated.
I would really appreciate improvements to the archive and game management system, as it currently feels quite cumbersome to use.

Simples e bom

Fácil de usar, Ajuda nos estudos,

Good

just good

Great!

Really impressed so far! I will always support a developer who respects user privacy.

Your own private Tutor

I dont always follow its advice but its gets more right than it gets wrong. Chess is 90% tactics I knew a priori but had happily confirmed and a massive opening repertoire not only largely superfluous (but ya mad if ya think ignorance is bliss, you’ll have to guess whats in the coo-laid )
This app can curtail the necessity for the encyclopedic opening array of the learned but not necessarily talent nerd very quickly; because what works is principles and tactical superiority and it always works.
If you let this do its Analysis but really think about what its telling you and why, this app will improve your chess by eroding the erodible fallacies that stand as dogma.
Like Lichess, to my mind, its a must have if you love chess.
Its excellent.
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Now I can start Cagefight with my iPhone!

Plays smoothly and is a blast to play. Awesome to see one of the greatest games brought to life on iOS!

Excellent App

Billxv

Ez elo

Just free Elo in chess.com

Wann wird Scan Foto?

Alle App schon can einfach Foto analysieren aber diese App leider nicht

Problems to start.

I cannot open SmallFish at the moment. It starts and disappears immediately.

Powerful with a friendly interface

I love it. I hope the developer will add support to chess 960 (Fischer Random, freestyle chess, you name it) in future updates.

Keyboard and blunder check critique

Really useful app for deep offline stockfish analysis. The blunder check feature is similar to chess.com game review. However id wish for the option of selecting analysis depth settings for blunder check, eg. To provide a 30 move depth analysis for a game (m4 16gb user here :) after some waiting time. Also move navigation doesnt work with the arrow keys, my reason for „only“ four stars.
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Simply The Best

Excellent chess game for iPhone, better than all other free apps I have tried; able to use independently of Internet connection. Some other games only work in sideways “landscape” mode (3-D is pretty but not for me) and/or bombard the user with stupid annoying advertisements; Smallfish is very clean and honest. Another app I tried prompted (after the first Book opening) to “Upgrade to Pro to play against the engine”. How dumb is that?

Moves are created in PGN format; game may be repositioned to any prior move at any time. Some other chess apps do not show previous moves. Moves may be exported (copied) to clipboard and pasted to Notes app; from there may be imported to any other chess engine. May also be saved to in-app game files library.

Play against SmallFish engine with 19 levels of difficulty or 2 player with full engine analysis available.

Solve any chess puzzle; use blunder checking feature to learn and improve your game.

Reset board to original starting for any game or puzzle while not deleting the moves.

Auto-play the game for review.

Insert comments in the PGN moves at any point for any move. Analysis graph allows you to touch the graph and reposition the game to where you sank the boat.

Big thanks to Ted for recent update to import PGN files without headers.

Some improvements/fixes should be considered:

1. There is no Resign or offer to Draw feature to end the game. Also engine should offer to resign if checkmate is imminent; 2 or 3 moves to mate? Engine will Draw if same position repeats 3 times. Take back move to before the draw to consider alternate moves.

2. The game board for Setup position is missing row/column coordinates labels. Default position is White at the bottom. (This was fixed early in 2024, thanks Ted!

3. Blunder checking feature inserts line feed for every move after standard book opening resulting in lengthy text file; suggest (user option?) a line feed only after maybe every 10 full moves to visually be more appealing?
3a. Option to “cleanup” all comments and annotations inserted by Blunder Check? Yes there is! Start Blunder Check and immediately hit “X” to stop; all Blunder Check comments are removed.

4. The ••• dots to access Comments, Auto-Play and Blunder checking features menu could be placed in a different area other than directly nearly over-laying the right side of the PGN moves.

5. Other Cosmetic Visual improvements:

5a. Allow chess board to be sized a bit smaller and have the row/column coordinates labels to be outside the board squares, or a choice between overlapping board or outside of board (?)

5b. Time controls are annoying; can they be turned off completely? Clock does not affect who wins or loses; some other apps rudely end and lock the game when clock expires.

5c. Most playing difficulty levels have duplicate descriptions without the corresponding ELO rating levels indicated in the exported PGN files; not that it is important but would be nice not to have to edit these descriptions so I know what level range I constantly lose to.

6. Some clarification could be provided to further explain the settings for Shorten Analysis, Analysis Time and Threads in the Options for the impact on battery drain and engine strength.

I have experimented with most of the free apps available and Smallfish is by far the best. Free, no ads, no crashes, import/export any PGN file.

In summary this is a top notch awesome game.
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Awesome chess program!!!

You’re going to love it!

Awesome

Among the few chess apps that do exactly what you need them to do.
Very user friendly.

Great Chess App & Recommendation

small fish Chess World Champion is unbeatable unless I access with the assistance from the app. I would highly recommend for the app to explain the reason why I made a blunder or mistake. Thank you for creating chess App. This app helped me to improve my chess ability.