Comparison

MChess vs Tempo64

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

MChess

Features
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MChess is a chess application designed for players who appreciate familiar rules alongside fresh tactical options. Begin with standard play, then explore the expanded mode: assemble a custom army within a fixed point budget and use hybrid pieces such as the Maharajah, Archbishop, and Chancellor. The app checks custom setups before each match, ensuring unusual positions follow clear legal constraints. Play with a friend online, wherever you both are: one player creates a private room and shares a short room code, the other joins with it. Each player builds their army in private and locks it in — the armies are revealed together and the match starts automatically. You can also play two players on one device, practice against the built-in engine, or use local network play when you are in the same room on separate devices. LAN hidden setup works the same way: each player prepares privately before both armies are revealed.

About

Tempo64

Transform your chess games into engaging short videos for social media. Add custom sound effects, cinematic clips, and AI-generated captions to make your content stand out. Play, train with puzzles, or analyze existing games.

Highlights
  • Create short chess game videos
  • Add custom sound effects to moves
  • Analyze and train with chess puzzles
  • Play against computer or friends
  • Import games from other platforms
  • AI-generated captions and headlines
  • Customizable video pacing and visuals
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Make a chess video in 30 seconds. Play a chess game inside Tempo64, or paste a game you've already played somewhere else, and the app turns it into a video ready for TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, or Twitter — vertical for Shorts or widescreen for long-form. The sounds are what make it. Every check, capture, and checkmate gets its own sound effect — punchy, dramatic, sometimes goofy on purpose. Castling crashes. Captures chomp. Checkmate gets the slow, deep ring-out. Pick your favorites from a menu of ten. TRAIN WITH PUZZLES Solve the Puzzle of the Day or play an endless queue of tactics from Lichess's database. The difficulty adjusts to your level — your Elo rating updates after every puzzle. Solve a position you like? Turn it into a video on the spot. PLAY WITHOUT LEAVING THE APP - Play against the computer. Five difficulty levels, from Easy to Brutal. It "thinks" for a few seconds before each move so it feels like a real opponent, not an instant calculator. - Pass the phone to a friend. Two humans, one board. The board flips between turns so whoever's playing always sees their pieces at the bottom. - Play online with a friend. Create a game, share the 6-letter code, your friend types it in. No accounts. Free. ALREADY HAVE A GAME YOU PLAYED? Paste a chess.com link and Tempo64 looks up your moves automatically. Lichess works too. MAKE IT YOURS - Six board looks. Ten sound effects you can mix and match. Five pacing speeds so quiet stretches don't drag. - A "climax teaser" plays your most dramatic move first — so people scrolling stop to watch. - Big captures (a knight taking a queen, that kind of moment) splice in short cinematic clips with their own audio. (Studio.) - Record a voice reaction on any move and Tempo64 weaves it in over the board. - Studio subscribers can film a face-cam reaction that floats over the board in a little circle bubble. CAPTIONS WRITTEN FOR YOU Apple Intelligence (the AI built into your iPhone) suggests a punchy headline and a short caption for your post. Don't like it? Tap Regenerate. Copy. Post. KNOW HOW GOOD YOUR MOVES WERE Tempo64 grades every move you played using the world's strongest chess engine. Brilliant moves and blunders each get their own dramatic sound effect in your video. A small bar at the side of the board fills up to show who's winning. GAME REVIEW Tap the chart icon on any game. Walk every move on an interactive board, see a best-move arrow from the engine, and trace the advantage curve on a scrollable sparkline. Blunders are flagged — jump straight to where things went wrong. Free: one review per day. Studio: unlimited. WIDGETS Add a Tempo64 widget to your home screen. Small shows your daily puzzle streak. Medium adds today's board position. Large shows the full board so you can actually see the pieces. Streak updates every time you solve a puzzle. YOUR GAME HISTORY Every game you play against a bot and every puzzle you solve saves automatically to your library. Come back an hour later or a week later, tap the entry, and turn it into a video. Your last 30 days of games and last 30 puzzles are always there. Two tabs keep everything organized: Games & Puzzles on one side, rendered Videos on the other. STUDIO (PREMIUM) - Remove the Tempo64 watermark from every video - Unlimited face-cam commentary (free users get one clip per game) - Unlimited voice commentary (free users get one clip per game) - Unlimited Game Review (free users get one per day) - Unlimited puzzles (free users get 5 per day) - Hints for both players in bot games and pass-and-play - A gold app icon Monthly or yearly. Cancel any time in Settings. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Everything happens on your phone. Your videos, your voice clips, your captions — none of it goes through a server we run. Online multiplayer uses Apple's iCloud to sync moves between you and your friend. No tracking. No analytics. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

MChess4 screens
Tempo644 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Tempo64 at every 6 days against MChess's every 2 weeks. MChess's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. MChess sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Tempo64 sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MChess ships an update every 2 weeks, Tempo64 every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
MChess versus Tempo64: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMChessTempo64
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—4 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB209 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlexander VelikotskyChuma Steve Okoro

In-app purchases

3 purchases

MChess

One-time3
  • Coffee$0.99
  • Big Coffee$2.99
  • Supporter$9.99
2 purchases

Tempo64

Subscriptions2
  • Tempo64 Studio (Monthly)$4.991 Month
  • Tempo64 Studio (Yearly)$29.991 Year

Questions

Is MChess free?
MChess is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tempo64 free?
Tempo64 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do MChess or Tempo64 have ads?
Neither MChess nor Tempo64 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MChess or Tempo64?
MChess ships an update every 2 weeks, and Tempo64 every 6 days. Most recently, MChess was updated on October 25, 2026 and Tempo64 on October 18, 2026.

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