Chess Alliance vs PVChess
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chess Alliance
This platform offers a comprehensive suite of tools for chess players of all levels to play, practice, learn, and improve. Engage in live games, solve thousands of puzzles, analyze your matches with AI feedback, and join or create chess clubs for community interaction and tournaments.
- Play against similar level opponents
- Challenge friends and chat
- Watch live games and tournaments
- Solve over 100,000 tactics puzzles
- Analyze games with AI feedback
- Create and join chess clubs
- Access learning tools like opening trees and game databases
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Chess Alliance is a professional platform with extensive features designed to help chess players all around the world to play, practice, learn and improve on their chess levels. More than half a million players on Chess Alliance are already studying in chess clubs. Come and join us! Have fun and make friends with players at all levels and in any age group! PLAY CHESS - With players at similar levels - Challenge your friends and chat with them WATCH GAMES - Watch other users play live on Chess Alliance - Watch live games of international tournaments TACTICS PUZZLES - Solve more than 100,000 puzzles - Customized puzzles to match your level and help you improve ANALYSE - Analyse each game and get feedback reports after playing - E-coach system helps you to improve with Big Data analysis CLUB - Players can create chess clubs and invite others to join - Club members can post threads and communicate in the club - Club admins can host online tournaments within the club LEARNING TOOLS - Computer players - Opening trees - Position search engine - Game database - Master database - Mini-games for beginners OTHER TOOLS - Notebook - Clocks - Local database - Themes AND MORE TO EXPLORE!
PVChess
Enhance your chess abilities with an AI tutor, challenging computer opponents, and interactive lessons. Analyze your games, learn strategies, and practice guided play to master openings, tactics, and endgames.
- AI tutor with hints
- Strong computer opponents
- Interactive lessons
- Opening and endgame training
- Game review and analysis
- Save and replay games
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Improve your chess with an AI tutor, strong computer opponents, interactive lessons, and detailed game reviews. Learn openings, tactics, middlegames, and endgames with smart hints and move-by-move feedback. Play at your own level, analyze mistakes, and build stronger chess skills through guided practice. The app also includes two interactive classic chess books: Chess Fundamentals and Modern Ideas in Chess. Study timeless strategies, annotated games, and essential chess concepts directly inside the app. Features: * AI tutor with hints and feedback * Strong computer opponents * Interactive lessons and practice * Opening and endgame training * Game review and analysis * Save and replay games anytime
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: PVChess at 4.7 against Chess Alliance's 3.9. PVChess also leads on review sentiment (71% vs 50%). Chess Alliance's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (105 vs 23). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
PVChess holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 105 and 23 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Chess Alliance's written reviews are positive against 71% of PVChess's.
Chess Alliance ships an update every 3 weeks, PVChess every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chess Alliance | PVChess |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (105 ratings) | 4.7 (23 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 70.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 105 — better | 23 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 13 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 131 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | 北京棋易科技有限公司 | Jianfeng Wu |
Customer experience
Chess Alliance
PVChess
In-app purchases
Chess Alliance
No in-app purchases
PVChess
No in-app purchases
