ChessLink App vs Chess Clock
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ChessLink App
Connect your electronic chessboard to play chess games on Lichess or against a local partner or engine. LEDs on the board display opponent moves, providing an authentic over-the-board experience. Setup is quick and easy.
- Play on your physical chessboard
- Connects to electronic boards
- LEDs indicate opponent moves
- Play on Lichess
- Local playing partner option
- Chess engine integration
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Online chess that feels like real chess. Connect your electronic chessboard and play on Lichess, against a local friend, or the built-in engine — on your real board. Your opponent's moves light up on the board via LEDs, so your eyes stay on the game. WHAT'S NEW: A LOCAL CHESS ENGINE • Get hints in 2-player mode • Play against the engine — works fully OFFLINE, no internet needed • Free Analysis: set up any position, the engine shows best lines and gives a full evaluation — the spirit of the classic TASC R30/40 chess computer FEATURES • Free online play on Lichess — millions of opponents worldwide • 2-player mode with hints on one board • Free analysis with evaluation and best-move lines • Authentic over-the-board experience: real pieces, no screen-watching SET UP IN MINUTES Pair your board, launch the app, start playing. COMPATIBLE BOARDS Supreme T2, Supreme Boards, Exclusive Boards, Performance Boards, eONE. MORE INFO • Supreme T2 – computerchess.com/Supreme-T2/M880 • eONE – computerchess.com/eone/M841 • ChessClassics Exclusive – computerchess.com/en/chessgenius-exclusive-2/ • The King Performance – computerchess.com/the-king-performance/M830
Chess Clock
This app provides an accurate chess game timer with customizable controls and low-time warnings. It also functions as a self-filling scoresheet, recording game details and player statistics. Additionally, it offers features for organizing chess clubs, finding nearby opponents, and managing game data securely.
- Customizable chess clock presets
- Fischer increment and US/Bronstein delay
- Self-filling game scoresheet
- Player win/loss/draw statistics
- Club creation and management
- Nearby player finding
- Encrypted data backups
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Chess Clock times your games and records each result for you, like a paper scoresheet. Chess groups can run their club in it too. A serious clock • Presets from bullet to classical, plus your last three controls one tap away • Fischer increment, US delay and Bronstein delay • Tournament stages ("after 40 moves, add 30 minutes") with a live countdown to the next stage • Accurate to the tenth of a second, immune to timer drift • Low-time warnings that scale to the control, with distinct haptics at each handoff, at ten seconds and at five • Clock sounds: a click on each move, ticks at ten seconds and at five, a tone when a flag falls. They play on silent; the speaker button turns them off • Big mirrored display, portrait and landscape; the waiting side dims so you know whose move it is • Two layouts: Face to face, or Side of the board, with both times facing one edge for a phone lying beside the board • Pause, then lock the phone: both times stay on the Lock Screen. Quit the app and the game is still paused when you come back An automatic scoresheet • Enter names once. The app records every finished game with result, control, move count and how it ended • Win / loss / draw totals per player, head-to-head for every rivalry • Tap any game for its move-time timeline: how long each move took, both sides. It marks the longest think and the sharpest time-trouble stretch Clubs, for real-world chess groups • Create a club, publish it, and let members find it by name or by scanning its QR code • A results table with continuous Elo ratings that the app updates as members play • Club nights with RSVP, a looking-for-a-game signal, and a recap you can share as an image • A rated member directory, an activity feed, and moderation tools for owners and admins • Time-odds suggestions when two rated members sit down together Friends and nearby play • Nearby phones find each other when you start a game, so you pick your opponent instead of typing a name • Exchange finished games with a nearby friend, phone to phone, with no internet involved Your data No account to create and no ads. The clock and scoresheet live on your phone. For clubs, the app uses your iCloud sign-in as your identity and stores club data (names, rosters, results) in Apple's iCloud. We run no servers. You can delete your club data from inside the app at any time. Backups Export everything the app holds to one file and keep it wherever you keep your files. Restore it on a new phone, or after a reinstall, and your record comes back. You encrypt each backup with a password you choose; without it, nobody can open the file. Chess Clock Pro (one-time purchase, no subscription) • Custom time controls: any base time, increment, delay style and tournament stage • Full match history and the move-time timeline for every game • Head-to-head breakdown of every rivalry • Six premium themes: Tournament, Ocean, Midnight, Blossom, Iris and Coral Chess Clock comes in 43 languages, from Arabic to Vietnamese.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Chess Clock at 100% against ChessLink App's 0%. Chess Clock also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.4) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 months). ChessLink App's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, 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. Chess Clock sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. ChessLink App asks for nothing beyond the download.
Chess Clock holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of ChessLink App's written reviews are positive against 100% of Chess Clock's.
ChessLink App ships an update every 3 months, Chess Clock every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ChessLink App | Chess Clock |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (9 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Juergen Precour | Adam Saleh |
Customer experience
ChessLink App
Chess Clock
In-app purchases
ChessLink App
No in-app purchases
Chess Clock
- Chess Clock Pro$3.99
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