Chess Alliance vs Aimchess
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!
Aimchess
Enhance your chess skills with advanced analytics and personalized training. Connect your existing chess accounts to receive tailored study plans based on your game history. Master tactics, openings, and endgames with adaptive exercises and expert-prepared content.
- Personalized Study Plans
- Game Analysis
- Adaptive Tactics Puzzles
- Blindfold Tactics
- Checkmate Flash Cards
- Grandmaster Content
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Improve your Chess with next level analysis and focused training. Say goodbye to questions like “Why am I losing?” or “What should I be working on?” Let us guide you through the next stage in your chess improvement journey! With our dedicated suite of detailed analytic tools that can connect with any of your favourite online chess platforms, like Chess.com, Chess24 or Lichess, we can develop a unique Personalized Study Plan and targeted training options based on your own games. You can progress your chess faster than ever with Aimchess. ANALYTICS Connect your Chess.com, Lichess or Chess24 account for instant analysis of your online games. Get breakdowns on your performance in key areas such as Openings, Tactics, Endings, Advantage Capitalization, Resourcefulness and Time Management. See how you compare to other Chess players in your range, to really understand what areas you need to improve on. Opening Breakdowns. Find out which openings work for you, and where you need to put more work in. UNIQUE TRAINING EXERCISES Adaptive Tactics. Everyone loves Chess Puzzles! With Aimchess our Tactics Puzzles adapt to your strengths and weaknesses. Struggling with specific kinds of puzzles? We’ll show you them more often so you can make the most of your training time. Is one particular puzzle giving you difficulty? We’ll show it to you again a little later so you can prove that you’ve learned from your mistakes! Blindfold Tactics. Are normal Tactics Puzzles too easy? Test your skills with our Blindfold Tactics, where you have to visualise and solve the position simultaneously! Blunder Preventer. Given two possible moves, do you think you can spot the blunder? It’s not always as easy as you’d think! 360 Trainer. These aren’t your Grandfather’s Tactics Puzzles, instead these positions will really test your skills with offensive & defensive tactics, equal positions and mistakes from your past games. With no clear material gains available even the smallest positional advantage could be the right move! Practice Visualisation. Memorize a board and then answer questions about where the pieces were, how many undefended pieces there were, or even what moves you need to make to capture certain pieces. Checkmate Flash Cards. Run through a series of mates that all great Chess Players need to know, can you get them all right and beat your best time? Much More. Also included in our Training Room is our Opening Improver, Advantage Capitalization Trainer, Endgames, Intuition Trainer, Retry Mistakes, Defender and Time Trainer. OTHER FEATURES Discover a world of tactical chess content, prepared by Grandmasters, in the Explore section of Aimchess. Learn everything from basic checkmates, to high level theoretical concepts. With interactive tutorials and exercises, you can make sure the ideas stick! Warm Up for your games with a rapid fire puzzles gauntlet designed to get your chess brain working so you can hit the ground running against your opponents! Dedicated workouts to help improve your Focus and Tactical thinking. Personalized Training Plans help keep you on the right track with regular targets for games to be played and exercises to be completed. PREMIUM DETAILS Aimchess’ Free Tier allows you to do any 15 lessons per day in the Training Room or via the daily Personalized Workouts. You also get limited access to Scouting Reports and Statistics. Aimchess Premium allows you access to unlimited exercises in the Training Room and full access to all of our Statistical Analysis tools. Monthly Subscriptions are $9.99 per month, or get an Annual Subscription for $71.99 (Equivalent to $5.99 per month) Premium subscription is paid from your iTunes account at the time of purchase with automatic renewal every 30 days. Auto-renewal and write-off of money for a new period occurs within 24 hours immediately before the subscription expires. Auto-renewal can be disabled in the iTunes account settings on your device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Chess Alliance at none against Aimchess's 2. Chess Alliance also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0). Aimchess's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Aimchess sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Chess Alliance asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.9 for Chess Alliance against 3.9 for Aimchess. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 100 and 195 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 49% of Chess Alliance's written reviews are positive against 51% of Aimchess's.
Chess Alliance ships an update every 3 weeks, Aimchess monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 1, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chess Alliance | Aimchess |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (100 ratings) | 3.9 (195 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 48.6% of reviews | 50.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 100 | 195 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 126 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Beijing Qiyi Technology Co., Ltd. | Chess.com |
Customer experience
Chess Alliance
Aimchess
Bugs and requests
Chess Alliance
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Aimchess
Reported bugs
16 issues- App crashes when attempting to purchase premium subscription
- Logout occurring once per week
- Theme settings not persisting across sessions
- Full-screen white flash on app open
- App closes when selecting monthly subscription option
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- Premium access lost after purchase through Apple
- Cannot update chess.com username in app
- Puzzle pieces freeze and move to incorrect squares
- Blank board appearing in 360 trainer
- Analysis navigation buttons not functioning
- Subscription charges continuing after cancellation
- Inability to delete account
- App unavailable/down for extended periods
- Incorrect puzzle solutions marked as wrong
- Lag when using analysis tool
- Free version asks for payment before completing daily plan
Requested features
17 requests- Better UI/UX organization and progressive disclosure
- Ability to save and review previous exercises
- Explanations for why moves are correct or incorrect
- Hint limiter for playground mode
- Daily streak tracker like Duolingo
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- Progress bar and countdown for daily training plans
- Ability to go back one move in opening trainer instead of restarting
- Export to PGN format
- Endgame training module
- Guess the ELO and guess the advantage training modes
- Force complete sequence commitment before showing results in tactics
- iPad portrait mode board optimization
- Account username update functionality
- Better graph legends with clear units and explanations
- Infinite workout mode with mixed exercises
- Visible ratings for all exercise types
- Automatic game analysis queue for new games
In-app purchases
Chess Alliance
No in-app purchases
Aimchess
- Premium Membership$9.991 Month
- Annual Premium Membership$71.991 Year








