Chess Endgame Trainer vs Chess Opener Lite
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Vast endgame puzzle collection
- Easy-to-use interface
- Solve puzzles and verify with computer
- Study computer-provided solutions
- Improve chess skills efficiently
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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.
Chess Opener Lite
Master chess openings with an interactive trainer and comprehensive database. Build and memorize your own repertoire, compare variations, and track your progress. Works offline and offers extensive opening exploration.
- Chess opening tree with game statistics
- Encyclopedia of Chess Openings (ECO)
- Build and edit opening repertoire
- Interactive opening trainer
- Offline functionality
- PGN export
- Progress tracking
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Features: - Chess opening tree with game statistics - The Encyclopedia of Chess Openings (ECO) - Compare ECO and opening tree moves side by side in any position - Export chess openings in PGN format - Build your own opening repertoire - Add or edit comments on moves - Automatically classify any sequence of moves using the ECO system - Chess opening explorer highlights moves already in your repertoire - Chess database includes all transpositions - Interactive trainer to memorize your chess openings and variations - Train multiple variations at once against random opponent moves from your repertoire - Set up a starting position for training - Track your training progress - Customize chessboard colors and chess pieces - Supports dark mode - Works completely offline CHESS OPENING EXPLORER Search in the Encyclopedia of Chess Openings or browse the chess opening tree. Swipe left or right to switch between the exploration features in any position. BUILD YOUR OPENING REPERTOIRE Add your favorite opening lines to your repertoire using the chess opening explorer. You can always edit the names of your openings and organize them in your repertoire. OPENING TRAINER A simple and efficient method to memorize variations of openings in your repertoire. You can train either white’s moves or black’s moves only or both. Optionally, you can train all variations at once. The trainer chooses the opponent’s moves randomly from your opening repertoire. Chess Opener tracks your progress and shows your stats. Upgrade to Chess Opener PRO to unlock more features: - Unlimited repertoire size - Unlimited depth of openings - 6x larger opening tree with game statistics - Database of top 100+ grandmasters’ repertoires - Powerful chess engine analysis - Import openings in PGN format
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Chess Opener Lite at 4.1 against Chess Endgame Trainer's 3.0. Chess Opener Lite also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Chess Endgame Trainer's advantage is review sentiment (57% vs 43%) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.1). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Chess Opener Lite holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 17 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 57% of Chess Endgame Trainer's written reviews are positive against 43% of Chess Opener Lite's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Chess Endgame Trainer ships an update monthly, Chess Opener Lite every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chess Endgame Trainer | Chess Opener Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (6 ratings) | 4.1 (17 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews — better | 42.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 17 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 55 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Propersh LLC | Stanislav Basovnik |
Customer experience
Chess Endgame Trainer
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In-app purchases
Chess Endgame Trainer
No in-app purchases
Chess Opener Lite
No in-app purchases
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