Chess Era vs MindChess
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chess Era
This online chess school connects students, coaches, schools, and parents. Students can play, challenge friends, and track progress. Coaches can conduct tournaments and provide live online lessons, while schools manage classes and students.
- Play with other students
- Challenge friends
- Track progress
- Collaborative study
- Conduct tournaments
- Online coaching with video
- Student game analysis
- School management dashboard
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Congratulations on choosing Chess as one of the means to improve our child's critical thinking and problem solving skills. Chess Era is an Online Chess School built around 4 key stake holders: Students, Coaches, Schools and Parents. 1. Starting with Students, they can: 1. Play with other students 2. Challenge their friends 3. Track their progress 4. Share their ideas with others to have a collaborative study 2. We have some excellent tools for the Coaches as well. They can: 1. Conduct tournament among students 2. Do Online Coaching with Board and Live Video 3. Can analyse every student's game and work 4. Have full control on student's progress and tracking 3. Now the most important feature the Chess Era provides is for the School managements: 1. Gives you a dashboard for the class and the student 2. Can do announcements 3. Assign coaches for the batches and track them 4. Handle multi school/branches with tracking 4. Parents also benefit from the Chess Era as it ensures 1. Their child's engagement and enthusiasm 2. And help them track the progress of their Child
MindChess
This app offers daily chess training designed to enhance mental visualization and blindfold play. It features mini-games that improve calculation, memory, and concentration, inspired by grandmaster training methods. Practice exercises focus on board elements without needing a physical board.
- Mental visualization training
- Blindfold chess practice
- Calculation and memory improvement
- Concentration exercises
- Mini-games inspired by grandmasters
- Progress tracking
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MindChess is a daily chess gym and a study companion. Train board vision, memory and calculation in 60-second sessions, then take what you learn to your own games. THE GYM • Thirteen short drills: Square Color, Coordinates, Same Color, Same Diagonal, Bishop Captures, Two Knights, Collision, Memory, Mate in 1, Fork Finder, Piece Snapshot, Knight Distance and Opening Flash. • Timed mode (60 seconds, Game Center leaderboards) and Training mode (3 lives). • A daily challenge and a daily streak, with streak freezes and an optional reminder. • 39 achievements: badges at 10, 50 and 100 games of every drill, also in Game Center. THE STUDY TOOLS • Repertoire: play through your opening lines and the app brings each one back right before you'd forget it. • My games: game databases, PGN import and a viewer with variations, notes and marks. • Analysis: Stockfish 19 on your device, offline, with an evaluation bar and the top 3 lines. With Pro, the game report marks your mistakes. • Diagram scanner: snap a diagram and get the position ready to edit. Free. • Chess clock: increments, stages and time odds, for games with your phone on the table. • Notation your way: English, Spanish or figurines. The same board, with your look, across the app. • Public roadmap: see what's coming and vote for ideas. ON EVERY SCREEN MindChess works on iPhone, iPad, iPhone Duo and Mac. MINDCHESS PRO Pro unlocks Stockfish analysis and the game report, unlimited repertoires, lines and PGN imports, full statistics, unlimited game databases and clock controls, every drill every day and 11 Pro piece sets. Free stays useful: the scanner, the PGN viewer and the basic drills. MindChess is not an app for playing online games. It is the place where you train between them. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Chess Era at none against MindChess's 2. Chess Era also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.0). MindChess's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price 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. MindChess sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Chess Era asks for nothing beyond the download.
Chess Era ships an update every 3 weeks, MindChess every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chess Era | MindChess |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 106 MB | 140 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | KREEDALOKA PRIVATE LIMITED | omar megdadi |
Customer experience
Chess Era
MindChess
In-app purchases
Chess Era
No in-app purchases
MindChess
- Monthly subscription$0.991 Month
- Yearly subscription$9.991 Year









