™ Chess vs Daily Chess Puzzles
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
™ Chess
Engage in the timeless strategy of chess on your mobile device. Play against sophisticated AI opponents across multiple difficulty levels, or challenge friends and family. Features include an undo option, board editor, and customizable themes for a personalized experience.
- Play against AI
- Multiplayer matches
- Undo feature
- Board editor
- Customizable themes
- Game save/load
- Timed games
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Chess is a classic board game for quiet study, quick practice, local play, and relaxed online matches through Game Center. Play your way: - Start an online game through Game Center and play a casual no-time-limit match. - Practice against multiple AI difficulty levels. - Solve thousands of chess puzzles, including 777 newly added tactical positions. - Play local two-player games on the same device. - Save and load games when you want to continue later. - Set up custom positions with the board editor. - Customize boards, pieces, avatars, sounds, and themes. - Try timed games when you want a sharper challenge. This update also adds a seasonal football-themed board background and avatar for the 2026 world tournament season. Whether you want to train tactics, learn openings, play against AI, share a local game, or challenge another player online, Chess is built for comfortable play at your own pace.
Daily Chess Puzzles
Engage in thousands of chess puzzles to sharpen your tactical skills. A daily challenge awaits, with puzzles sourced from a top chess platform. Compete with friends and climb global leaderboards to track your progress.
- Thousands of chess puzzles
- Daily Challenge
- Learn tactics and tricks
- Game Center integration
- Worldwide leaderboard
- Improve chess game
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Solve a chess puzzle every day, train at your level, and learn the tactics that win games. DAILY PUZZLE The same puzzle for everyone, every day, from chess.com. Solve it to keep your streak going. QUICK PLAY Five puzzles find your level. After that, every puzzle is picked for you from more than 26,000, and your rating grows as you improve. LEARN Lessons in 18 tactics: forks, pins, skewers, back-rank and smothered mates, rook endgames and more. A lesson is eight puzzles. PLAY ANYWHERE Quick play and Learn work offline, on a plane or on the subway. Your rating, streak and lessons move with your iCloud between iPhone and iPad, and come back when you reinstall. No account needed. Game Center achievements and leaderboards are there if you want them. ------- The app icon is from vectorportal.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: ™ Chess at none against Daily Chess Puzzles's shown. ™ Chess also leads on ratings volume (11K vs 445) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). Daily Chess Puzzles's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 4 months) and review sentiment (65% vs 37%). On price, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. ™ Chess sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Daily Chess Puzzles sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Daily Chess Puzzles holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ™ Chess has 11K ratings behind it against 445, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 37% of ™ Chess's written reviews are positive against 65% of Daily Chess Puzzles's.
™ Chess ships an update every 4 months, Daily Chess Puzzles every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ™ Chess | Daily Chess Puzzles |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (11K ratings) | 4.7 (445 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 37.3% of reviews | 65.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 11K — better | 445 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 112 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | VM Mobile Team | Stefan Stangl |
Customer experience
™ Chess
Daily Chess Puzzles
User reviews
™ Chess
From 11K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Challenging gameplay
- 🚀 Quick response times
- 💡 Variety of difficulty levels
- 🤩 Enjoyable for chess lovers
Room to improve
- 🐛 Inconsistent difficulty levels
- 🤬 Overpowered AI on easy mode
- 💰 Too many ads
- 🤯 Frustrating for beginners
Daily Chess Puzzles
From 445 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great puzzles
- 👍 Unlimited puzzles for free
- 👍 Improves chess game
- 👍 Simple and pure interface
- 👍 Good for practice without rating impact
Room to improve
- 👎 Kludgy UI for moving pieces
- 👎 Missing basic controls
- 👎 Graphics could be better
- 👎 Some puzzles are inexplicable/don't make sense
- 👎 App crashes randomly
Bugs and requests
™ Chess
Reported bugs
3 issues- Illegal moves allowed by AI
- Incorrect draw detection
- Castling not functioning properly
Requested features
4 requests- Add more difficulty settings
- Allow under-promotion
- Improve AI difficulty scaling
- Reduce ads or offer paid version
Daily Chess Puzzles
Reported bugs
3 issues- Link to chess.com not working
- App crashes randomly
- Privacy consent link does not work
Requested features
10 requests- Button to go back and review solution
- Navigate back to previous puzzles
- Rewind feature after solving
- Ability to play around with puzzle situations
- Sound effects for moving pieces
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- Option to replay moves after solving
- Fix privacy consent link
- Remove timer on puzzle solving
- Explain puzzle challenges/goals
- Adjust message box location after solving
In-app purchases
™ Chess
- Premium$3.99
Daily Chess Puzzles
- Remove Ads$3.99
- Unlock All Lessons$5.99
- Ads Off + All Lessons$8.99
Questions
Is ™ Chess free?
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