Шахматы vs ChessView
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Шахматы
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Welcome to the series of educational chess applications! You have to study 50 commented games of the second World Chess Champion - Jose Raul Capablanca. In each game, there will be tasks where it is necessary to find a move or the whole variation of the great Maestro, "to play like Capablanca". This is one of the most effective exercises for learning chess. You do not just study the chess heritage of the great champions, but also regularly check your knowledge by completing tasks. At the end of the course You: ① Explore Capablanca's chess heritage ② Improve combination vision ③ Enhance strategic understanding of positions ④ Touch the basics of chess analysis Features: ● 50 commented games of Capablanca ● 323 tasks for guessing moves in the game ● Detailed statistics on tasks and overall progress ● Own "Hall of Fame" ● System of Levels "Order of the King" ● Emanuel Capablanca's biography ● Available in two languages: Russian, English
ChessView
Easily import chess positions from photos, PGN files, or online games. Replay, analyze, and explore variations on an interactive board. Offers offline functionality and optional AI-powered commentary.
- Scan chess positions from photos or screenshots
- Import PGN files and FEN strings
- Replay and analyze games with full move validation
- Branch off from any position to explore variations
- Import Chess.com games offline
- Optional AI commentary for positions and games
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See a chess position anywhere — in a book, on another screen, on the table in front of you — and have it on a board you can play with, in seconds. ChessView is a study tool, not another place to play. Scan a position with the camera or from a screenshot, open a PGN file, or pull in your Chess.com games — then replay them, branch off, and work out what actually happened. Free, offline, no account, no ads, no tracking. SCAN A POSITION FROM A PHOTO Point the camera at a real board, or choose a screenshot from Chess.com, Lichess or a chess book. ChessView reads the position and puts it on your board. Anything it misreads, you fix in the position editor — then start playing it out. PLAY IT OUT ON A REAL BOARD Full move validation: legal moves, en passant, castling, promotion. Drag the pieces, step back and forth through the whole game, flip the board, and branch off wherever you want to see what would have happened. OPEN PGN AND FEN FROM ANYWHERE PGN files from Files, Mail, Messages or any app that can share them. Paste a FEN string and it loads. Export any position or game as PGN, FEN or a PNG image, and share it in one tap. YOUR CHESS.COM GAMES, OFFLINE Type your username, pick a month, and your games are in the library — ready to replay any time, with or without a connection. STUDY THE CLASSICS Famous games come built in — Byrne–Fischer, Morphy, Short–Timman, Lasker–Thomas — so there is always a position worth looking at. SEE THE EVALUATION Evaluations and main lines come from the Lichess cloud database: free, fast, no account needed. For positions the database doesn't know, ChessView offers a sensible continuation of its own. OPTIONAL: COMMENTARY IN PLAIN WORDS Add your own OpenAI API key and ChessView will explain a position or a whole game in sentences — the plan, the key ideas, the moment it turned. Entirely optional: everything above works without it. Your key is stored in the iOS Keychain, used only from your device, and never sent to us. PRIVACY, ACTUALLY No account. No ads. No analytics. No tracking. Your games and your settings stay on your iPhone and iPad. WHY I BUILT IT Getting a chess position onto my phone used to be absurdly hard. A diagram in a book, a screenshot from a game, a FEN string someone sent me — none of it could just be opened and played through on an iPhone. PGN files were worse. So I built the app I wanted: open anything, put it on a real board, move the pieces. — Pavel, solo developer Designed for iPhone and iPad.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ChessView at none against Шахматы's 1. Шахматы's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads 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. Шахматы sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. ChessView asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Шахматы | ChessView |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 159 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Andrey Cherenkov | Pavel Gnatyuk |
In-app purchases
Шахматы
- Full version of app$3.99
ChessView
No in-app purchases









