PVChess vs uHunt
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PVChess
Enhance your chess abilities with an AI tutor, challenging computer opponents, and interactive lessons. Analyze your games, learn strategies, and practice guided play to master openings, tactics, and endgames.
- AI tutor with hints
- Strong computer opponents
- Interactive lessons
- Opening and endgame training
- Game review and analysis
- Save and replay games
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Improve your chess with an AI tutor, strong computer opponents, interactive lessons, and detailed game reviews. Learn openings, tactics, middlegames, and endgames with smart hints and move-by-move feedback. Play at your own level, analyze mistakes, and build stronger chess skills through guided practice. The app also includes two interactive classic chess books: Chess Fundamentals and Modern Ideas in Chess. Study timeless strategies, annotated games, and essential chess concepts directly inside the app. Features: * AI tutor with hints and feedback * Strong computer opponents * Interactive lessons and practice * Opening and endgame training * Game review and analysis * Save and replay games anytime
uHunt
This app serves as a companion for a programming contest platform, allowing users to view submissions, browse problems, and check rankings. It's designed for programmers and students to access contest data on the go.
- View UVa OJ submissions
- Browse UVa problems
- Access CP Book exercises
- Check World Rank List
- Complementary tool for UVa OJ
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* CP Book Exercises. * See All Your UVa OJ Submissions. * Browse All UVa Problems. * World Rank List. uHunt is a complementary tool for UVa online-judge that keeps statistics, provide selections of problems to solve, and exposes a web API for other web developers to build upon it. This is the uHunt client app iOS version made for programmers/students who can get access to uHunt through this app. Happy Coding!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: uHunt at none against PVChess's shown. uHunt also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). PVChess's advantage is ratings volume (23 vs 2). 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
uHunt holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PVChess has 23 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
PVChess ships an update every 2 months, uHunt every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PVChess | uHunt |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (23 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 23 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jianfeng Wu | Debugger Lab |
Customer experience
PVChess
uHunt
In-app purchases
PVChess
No in-app purchases
uHunt
No in-app purchases
