Chess Endgame Trainer vs Openings Mastermind
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.
Openings Mastermind
Master chess openings with this app. Import studies, explore with advanced engines, and practice specific lines through repetition. Track your progress and improve your game.
- Import Lichess Studies or PGNs
- Explore openings with Stockfish 15
- Practice openings by repetition
- Smart practice queue
- Track learning progress
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Get ready to take your chess game to the next level with Openings Mastermind, the ultimate chess opening app! Some of the features include: - Import Lichess Studies or custom PGNs - Explore openings with Stockfish 17 and the Lichess position database - Practice openings by repetition against your own custom openings database - Take advantage of the smart practice queue and improve your learning - Observe your learning progress in different openings With our app, you can take your opening game to the next level by practicing against the specific lines you want to master. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced player, our app is the perfect tool to help you improve your opening moves and become a better chess player. Planned Features: - Continue against engine, after study line ends - Analysis of your games from Lichess and Chess.com compared to your openings database
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Openings Mastermind at 4.3 against Chess Endgame Trainer's 3.0. Openings Mastermind also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Chess Endgame Trainer's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 18.6). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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.
Openings Mastermind holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 6 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 57% of Chess Endgame Trainer's written reviews are positive against 50% of Openings Mastermind'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, Openings Mastermind fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chess Endgame Trainer | Openings Mastermind |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (6 ratings) | 4.3 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 6 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 88 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Propersh LLC | Christian Heise |
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Chess Endgame Trainer
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In-app purchases
Chess Endgame Trainer
No in-app purchases
Openings Mastermind
No in-app purchases
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