Chess Tempo vs Chessity
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chess Tempo
Enhance your chess skills with tactical training, online play, and opening/endgame practice. Solve over 100,000 puzzles, play against others, and analyze your games with powerful engines. Premium features offer personalized training and advanced analysis.
- Tactics training with 100,000+ puzzles
- Online chess play (live & correspondence)
- Opening repertoire training
- Endgame practice
- Guess the move master games
- Post-game analysis
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The Chess Tempo app provides a mobile and tablet friendly interface for Chesstempo features. Supported features: - CHESS TACTICS TRAINING - Improve your tactics by solving tactical problems, with over 100,000 puzzles available. - Both winning and defensive problem types. - For premium members, solve against sophisticated custom sets that target your weaknesses, for example: - Sets that target a particular tactical motif such as pin, fork, discovered attack etc. - Sets that target your previous mistakes, repeating problems until correct. - Spaced repetition sets. - Note, custom sets can be used on the app, but need to be created on the Chesstempo website. - PLAY ONLINE - Play chess against other Chesstempo users. - Supports both live and correspondence games - Get a full post game analysis after every rated game played. Analysis is spread out over our cluster of hundreds of instances of stockfish, allowing high quality results to be returned in a few seconds. - For premium members, have tactics problems extracted from your games, available for solving in the tactics training UI, and selected via the advanced custom sets feature. - OPENING TRAINING - Create multiple black and white repertoires. - Import repertoires from PGN or by entering the moves on the board. - Train your repertoires using spaced repetition. - Limit training to a branch of a repertoire, a single repertoire, or all repertoires of a colour. - Option to restrict training to a limited depth. - Ability to train against the moves that are proving the most resistant to spaced repetition learning. - Comment on each position or move, and read the comments others have chosen to make public. - Add engine evaluations or annotations such as +=, ?! etc to each move in the repertoire. - Export repertoire and your comments and annotations to PGN. - Graphs showing learning status and progress over time. - Use the opening explorer to choose moves for your repertoire (limited to a depth of 10 moves for free members). - For premium members, the ability to use the cloud engine to ask for analysis on any position. - ENDGAME TRAINING - Practice endgames from 3, 4, 5 , 6 and 7 piece endgame positions extracted from real games. - Over 14000 different positions. - 2 positions per day for free members. - For premium members: - More positions available per day. - Custom sets that can target a particular endgame type, endgames you keep getting wrong, or utilise spaced repetition for training. Note: Some custom sets types need to be created on the Chesstempo website before being used on the app. - GUESS THE MOVE - Learn by playing through master games and get scored on how well you match the master's moves. - ANALYSIS BOARD - Analyse positions using our cloud engines (requires premium membership). Cloud engines allow you to run high quality analysis without using up your own device's battery. Diamond members can request up to 8 analysis threads, analysing many times more positions per second than an engine running on your device could provide. - Setup positions from FEN or by arranging the pieces on the board with the board editor. - Analyse tactics problems after completion to better understand the solution. - PREMIUM SUBSCRIPTIONS - Monthly auto-renew subscriptions are provided via in app purchases for Silver, Gold and Diamond memberships, providing access to more powerful training features. Details of features provided are shown within the app. - Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at the confirmation of purchase. The subscription automatically renews unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions by going to your App Store account settings after purchase. Terms of Service: chesstempo.com/tos.html
Chessity
Learn and play chess with interactive robots and a personal coach. Improve your game with daily goals and tips during play, making learning fun and accessible anywhere.
- Interactive chess robots
- Personalized coaching tips
- Daily learning goals
- Play and learn on the go
- Improved learning experience
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We have great news: Chessity is taking the next big step in the app! The chess robots and your personal coach are now active in the app too! What's new? Improved learning experience: Chessity has been optimized to make your learning process even more enjoyable. It's become so fun that you'll forget you're learning. Play games in the app: Our new chess robots and the interactive coach assist you during your game, helping you progress quickly and enjoyably. Key benefits: - Learn on the go: Play and improve yourself wherever you are. - Play against chess robots: Perfect for gaining game experience. - Your coach helps you: Tips during your chess game. - Daily goals: With just 15 minutes of practice a day, you can become a master at chess! Your chess adventures are ready for you, and Chessity is here to help! Terms Of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.chessity.com/en/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Chess Tempo at 4.0 against Chessity's 3.0. Chess Tempo also leads on ratings volume (113 vs 2). Chessity's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). 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. Chess Tempo sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Chessity sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Chess Tempo holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chess Tempo has 113 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Chess Tempo ships an update every 2 months, Chessity fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Chess Tempo | Chessity |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (113 ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 58.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 113 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 81 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chess Tempo | Chessity B.V. |
Customer experience
Chess Tempo
Chessity
Bugs and requests
Chess Tempo
Reported bugs
42 issues- Cannot connect to server
- Connection issues when opening the app
- Bug makes engine take ~5 seconds to make its move
- App quits whenever tactics page is opened
- Data loss
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- Engine takes too long to make moves
- Tactics page crashes
- Bug in solving history (last 50 tactics not showing)
- Endgame training seems buggy, cannot make moves
- Registration process has issues (username/email taken)
- Loading times are very long
- Misclicks are not correctable
- Difficulty levels are inconsistent after a while
- App is not a native app, feels like a website
- Board and pieces are too small/large on different devices
- Does not accept alternate right moves
- Game aborted/resigned frequently
- Missing endgame feature in app
- Doesn't show number of problems done
- UI is awkward and slow
- Misclicks are hard to correct
- Tapping opponent's pieces is problematic
- Buttons are too close together (skip/retry)
- Tactics page crashes
- Engine move takes too long
- Misclicks are not correctable
- No clear instructions
- Difficulty levels are the same after a while
- Loading times are very long
- Tactics are too computer-like
- Puzzles are overrated/underrated
- UI is horrible and alien-like
- Puzzles are too difficult for average person
- Rating of puzzles is questionable
- Punished for solving correctly but too slowly
- UI is awkward and slow
- Not as user-friendly as others
- Game aborted/resigned frequently
- Missing endgame feature in app
- Doesn't show number of problems done
- Board and pieces too small/large
- Does not accept alternate right moves
Requested features
19 requests- Move buttons to improve usability
- Add a takeback option to correct misclicks
- Improve UI for better bullet play
- Make UI more intuitive and user-friendly
- Provide explanations for icons and functions
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- Add a dark mode
- Improve board and piece sizing for different devices
- Allow alternate right moves
- Add an abort option for games
- Fix bug in tactic history
- Allow viewing and creating comments for problems
- Improve endgame training functionality
- Show number of problems done
- Make registration process smoother
- Allow users to select a comfortable difficulty range
- Improve the spaced repetition intervals
- Add a feature to customize intervals
- Make the app feel more like a native app
- Improve the UX significantly
Chessity
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Chess Tempo
- Silver membership - 1 month$2.991 Month
- Gold membership - 1 month$3.991 Month
- Diamond membership - 1 month$8.991 Month
Chessity
- Chessity Premium$6.991 Month
- Chessity Family$14.991 Month
- Chessity Premium$69.991 Year
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- Chessity Family$129.991 Year







