Comparison

Chess Endgame Trainer vs Chessvis

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Chess Endgame Trainer

Practice chess endgames with a vast collection of puzzles. Solve challenges and verify solutions with the computer to quickly improve your chess skills without needing a partner or tutor.

Highlights
  • Vast endgame puzzle collection
  • Easy-to-use interface
  • Solve puzzles and verify with computer
  • Study computer-provided solutions
  • Improve chess skills efficiently
Features
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Playing chess endgames is a very important and efficient way to improve one's chess skills. But often it's very difficult and expensive for a player to find a partner or tutor to help practice endgames. This app solves this problem by collecting over 60,000 endgames and providing an easy and simple interface for the user to play endgames. The user can try to solve the puzzle first and then verify the solution with the computer. Or the user can study the solution provided by the computer. With time, the user can improve his/her chess skills quickly.

About

Chessvis

Enhance your chess skills with unique visualization exercises, including blindfold chess and progressive move following. Prepare openings by focusing on common opponent moves and practice with spaced repetition. Access millions of categorized puzzles with customizable difficulty and rating controls.

Highlights
  • Unique visualized puzzles
  • Blindfold chess training
  • Opening repertoire preparation
  • Progressive move following
  • Customizable puzzle categories and ratings
  • Offline puzzle access
Features
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Chessvis is designed to help you get better at the game. Its unique, "found nowhere else", puzzle, blindfold chess and progressive move following exercises will sharpen your visualization skills. Now with Version 11, all puzzle exercises are free - including working offline. There's a new menuing system that makes navigating around the huge 'toolbox' of features much easier. The opening repertoire preparation routines are also unique focusing on the "moves you'll see" and finding the "moves that work". Plus you can pull in your own games to see what's working for you. And now, use AI to help uncover the opening that will work for you. Puzzles The Chessvis puzzle collection starts with millions of categorized and rated puzzles from Lichess and adds several unique features including: Category and Rating Control Chessvis lets you set both the category and rating of the puzzles you’re challenged with. Want to try easy forks one day and hard multiple move mates the next? Do it! You’ll never be forced to only do puzzles around some hypothetical rating you’ve “earned”. The entire puzzle collection is always available for you. Visualized Puzzles A unique feature of Chessvis is the "Visualized" puzzle. It presents a puzzle showing the diagram from some number of moves before the actual tactic sequence starts. You're told the number of moves to "visualize" and then solve the problem from a board position that only exists in your mind. This is what got Chessvis started and it’s the only app with it. Other Puzzle Collection Features The “no repeat pledge” - with such an extensive puzzle collection, Chessvis is able to make sure you don’t see the same puzzle twice. Want to focus on solving puzzles quickly? Turn on the timer. Going to be away from the internet? Pull puzzles down to your device and work off-line. See your puzzle history. Download the puzzles you’ve done. All that is in Chessvis. Opening Preparation Build your repertoires focusing on the "moves you'll see". Chessvis believes that you need to think about the moves your opponents actually play and not some complex way too deep repertoire designed by a master who doesn't play anything like the way you do. At ever step in the repertoire design process, Chessvis shows you the moves your opponents actually make and highlights ones you need to think about. Then once you've built your repertoire, practice it with daily spaced repetition. Blindfold Chess Play against the computer with "stepping stones" to help ease your way into blindfold chess. Start with all pieces sharing one color then go to two color disks, one shared color disk and then eventually an empty board. Subscribers had the stockfish and Maia chess engines to the free-to-use Komodo engine. Who’s Guarding Whom A deceptively simple visualization exercise that forces you to mentally track piece movements and how they interact. (No other app has this.) Move Following & Static Boards Track a sequence of moves and then update the board to that point. Or memorize a board layout, then recreate it. Start off easy with just a few pieces and work your way up. Analyze Your Games Download your chess.com and lichess.org games for opening analysis. See what you've been playing, what's been played against you and the results. Videos What better way is there than videos to see Chessvis in action? You can watch the videos within the app. They're all kept short and to the point. Chessvis has always had unique tools to visualize the chessboard and win more games. A famous chess coach said: "Don't think about the pieces being exchanged, visualize how the board will look when the pieces are gone". Move a piece and you affect two places. But it's illegal to physically move the piece and see the effects -- you must learn to visualize. Chessvis is designed to help with that process. Download it today. Our Terms of Service can be found at: https://www.chessvis.com/tos.php

Screenshots

Chess Endgame Trainer2 screens
Chessvis4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Chessvis at 4.4 against Chess Endgame Trainer's 3.0. Chessvis also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (70% vs 57%). Chess Endgame Trainer's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.6). On price, update cadence and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Chessvis sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Chess Endgame Trainer asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Chessvis holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 21 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 57% of Chess Endgame Trainer's written reviews are positive against 70% of Chessvis's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Chess Endgame Trainer versus Chessvis: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChess Endgame TrainerChessvis
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (6 ratings)4.4 (21 ratings) — better
Positive reviews57.1% of reviews70.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings621 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyMonthly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB38 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPropersh LLCConceptual Software, Inc.

Customer experience

Chess Endgame Trainer

All ratings6 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive57.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative42.9%

Chessvis

All ratings21 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive70.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative30.0%

In-app purchases

None

Chess Endgame Trainer

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Chessvis

Subscriptions2
  • Chessvis Monthly Subscription$3.991 Month
  • Chessvis Annual Subscription$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Chessvis Perpetual$99.99

Questions

Is Chess Endgame Trainer free?
Chess Endgame Trainer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Chessvis free?
Chessvis is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Chess Endgame Trainer or Chessvis?
Chessvis is rated higher. Chess Endgame Trainer averages 3.0 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while Chessvis averages 4.4 from 21 ratings.
Do Chess Endgame Trainer or Chessvis have ads?
Chess Endgame Trainer shows ads; Chessvis does not.
Which is updated more often, Chess Endgame Trainer or Chessvis?
Chess Endgame Trainer ships an update monthly, and Chessvis monthly. Most recently, Chess Endgame Trainer was updated on October 3, 2026 and Chessvis on October 18, 2026.

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