Chess Mega Bundle vs Chess Puzzles & Tactics
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chess Mega Bundle
Explore hundreds of unique chess variants. Challenge friends or AI opponents locally or online. Discover new ways to play the classic game.
- Hundreds of unique chess variants
- Local multiplayer
- Online multiplayer
- Play against AI
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Hundreds of unique variants! Play locally or online multiplayer!
Chess Puzzles & Tactics
Enhance your chess skills with an extensive collection of puzzles and tactical exercises. Tailor your training by customizing puzzle difficulty and Elo ratings to target specific weaknesses and accelerate improvement, suitable for players of all levels.
- Infinite chess puzzles
- Tactics training
- Customizable puzzles
- Elo rating adjustment
- All player levels
- Extensive tactic list
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Solve interactive chess positions on the board and find the correct continuation. Train tactics, mating patterns, and endgames. Choose the categories or motifs you want to practice, then set a puzzle Elo range or difficulty that fits your target session. Built for chess players from beginner through advanced. Practice familiar ideas such as forks, pins, skewers, discovered attacks, sacrifices, promotion, and zugzwang. Develop pattern recognition and calculation through focused puzzle practice.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Chess Puzzles & Tactics at weekly against Chess Mega Bundle's every 15 months. Chess Puzzles & Tactics also leads on review sentiment (76% vs 50%) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Chess Mega Bundle sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Chess Puzzles & Tactics sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Chess Mega Bundle against 4.5 for Chess Puzzles & Tactics. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 126 and 487 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of Chess Mega Bundle's written reviews are positive against 76% of Chess Puzzles & Tactics's.
Chess Mega Bundle ships an update every 15 months, Chess Puzzles & Tactics weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chess Mega Bundle | Chess Puzzles & Tactics |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (126 ratings) — better | 4.5 (487 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 75.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 126 | 487 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 15 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.1 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 96 MB | 89 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | GammaLateral LLC | Sajed Nahian |
Customer experience
Chess Mega Bundle
Chess Puzzles & Tactics
Bugs and requests
Chess Mega Bundle
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Chess Puzzles & Tactics
Reported bugs
18 issues- Unable to login
- Application resets to starting value (1000elo)
- History/review chapters remain unlocked
- In-application feedback not functioning
- Rating feature broke
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- Ability to control puzzle strength broke
- Scanning thing after opening app continues forever
- App resets ELO to 1000
- Undo button disappears
- Tapping to select a piece stops working
- Analysis breaks
- Viewing history doesn’t work
- App crashes
- View History tab page never loads
- App forgets login and starts from ELO = 0
- Analysis button messed up
- App hangs after pressing 'log in'
- Puzzles freeze, no way of moving pieces
Requested features
4 requests- Option to mute sounds
- Ability to disable audio
- Allow loading custom puzzle sets
- Better interface and cable
In-app purchases
Chess Mega Bundle
- Remove Ads$9.99
Chess Puzzles & Tactics
- Ad-Free Forever$3.99
Questions
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