Chess Openings Wizard vs DailyChinesePoems
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chess Openings Wizard
This app helps tournament chess players prepare their openings by designing and testing their knowledge of specific lines. It offers powerful editing and training tools, syncing with desktop versions and providing Stockfish analysis for move validation. Prepare openings quickly with tools refined over decades.
- Design and test chess openings
- Full editing and training power
- Syncs with Mac and Windows versions
- Stockfish analysis via PocketGM server
- Pedigree ribbon shows top player game results
- Fast opening preparation tools
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Chess Openings Wizard is where tournament players go to work on their openings. The app is based on the Bookup program that first came out in 1984. The app has full editing and training power like its brethren apps on Macintosh and Windows. Openings can be moved back and forth to the Macintosh, Windows, and Android versions. Chess Openings Wizard does not play chess, nor does it come with a game collection. It is meant for designing openings for White and defenses for Black, and then testing the player's knowledge of the lines by playing mock games. Sample ebooks include an opening guide (thousands of named and categorized opening positions accessible through any move order), an ECO master framework, and the White and Black repertoires of Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, and Robert Fischer. It also includes a demo ebook with excerpts from a highly annotated repertoire in the Open Game. Chess Openings Wizard has a dedicated PocketGM server giving you full speed Stockfish analysis. (Internet connection required.) The Pedigree ribbon shows the results of games in each opening position but uses only games between two super GMs. That way you know if the move is trusted by the best players. (And it's important to know if a move has never been played by a super GM when facing another super GM.) This is the same feature found in Chess Openings Wizard Professional for Macintosh and Windows. The short version is: if you are designing an opening with a game database app or with a playing program, you're working too hard. Chess Openings Wizard contains 42 years of refinements, with precisely the tools that a tournament player requires to prepare openings fast.
DailyChinesePoems
Explore classical Chinese poetry with pinyin, audio, and English translations. Features quizzes to test your knowledge and traditional music to enhance your reading experience. Ideal for students and language learners.
- 200+ classical poems and essays
- Pinyin with tone marks
- Audio pronunciation
- English translations
- Multiple-choice quizzes
- Traditional Chinese music
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Learn and enjoy classical Chinese poetry — from primary school favorites to the poems and essays required in Chinese high school curricula — with pinyin, audio, and full English translations. LEARN Browse 200+ classical poems and essays across three levels: Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced. Every poem includes the original text, a modern Chinese paraphrase, and a complete English translation — so both native speakers refreshing childhood memories and English-speaking learners of Chinese can follow along. PINYIN, ON DEMAND Tap "Show Pinyin" on any poem to reveal tone-marked pinyin above every character — perfect for practicing pronunciation or reading poems you haven't fully memorized yet. LISTEN Tap "Play" to hear the original text read aloud in natural Chinese, so you can hear correct pronunciation and rhythm, not just read it. TEST YOURSELF Take short multiple-choice quizzes that test whether you remember what comes next in a poem — a fun way to check what's really stuck versus what needs another look. ANCIENT MUSIC Read while listening to a curated collection of traditional Chinese instrumental music — guzheng, erhu, and more — playing softly in the background. Whether you're a student preparing for Chinese literature exams, a heritage speaker reconnecting with poems you learned as a child, or a Chinese-language learner exploring classical texts for the first time, DailyChinesePoems makes centuries-old poetry approachable, one poem a day.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: DailyChinesePoems at Free against Chess Openings Wizard's $6.99. DailyChinesePoems also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months). Chess Openings Wizard's advantage is ratings volume (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). On rating, ads, 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
DailyChinesePoems is free to download; Chess Openings Wizard costs $6.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Chess Openings Wizard against 5.0 for DailyChinesePoems. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.
Chess Openings Wizard ships an update every 2 months, DailyChinesePoems every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chess Openings Wizard | DailyChinesePoems |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $6.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 54.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 167 MB | 393 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bookup Corp. | Chenming Xue |
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In-app purchases
Chess Openings Wizard
No in-app purchases
DailyChinesePoems
No in-app purchases
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