ChessLink App vs Chess Path App
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 to the app and play games on Lichess, your local playing partner or chess engine—but on your real board. LEDs show you your opponent's moves directly on the board, so you stay fully focused and enjoy an authentic “over-the-board” experience. Set up in minutes. Pair your board, launch the app, and start playing. Compatible boards: Supreme Boards, Exclusive Boards, Performance Boards, and the eONE Board. More info and links to the boards: • Supreme T2 – computerchess.com/Supreme-T2/M880 • eONE – computerchess.com/eone/M841 • ChessClassics Exclusive – computerchess.com/Supreme-T2/M880 • The King Performance – computerchess.com/the-king-performance/M830 Follow us on social media: • YouTube - youtube.com/@millenniumchess • Facebook - facebook.com/MILLENNIUM.Digital.Chess • Instagram - instagram.com/millenniumchess • TikTok - tiktok.com/@millenniumchess
Chess Path App
Learn chess through interactive board positions and tactical puzzles. Progress from basic piece movements to advanced checkmates with guided lessons and practice games against an AI opponent. Play offline and track your rating and progress.
- Interactive board position lessons
- Hundreds of tactical puzzles
- AI opponent for practice games
- Learn popular chess openings
- Offline play functionality
- Progress tracking and rating system
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Chess Path teaches chess the way you actually learn it: by moving the pieces. No lectures. Every lesson is a position on the board, and you solve it. Start wherever you are. Never played? Begin with how the pieces move. Already play? Jump into forks, pins, back-rank mates, and the hundreds of tactics lessons that follow, arranged as one path from your first move to real checkmates. LEARN 446 interactive lessons. Each one sets up a position, asks you to find the move, and tells you why it works. Get it wrong and Rookie explains it, then lets you try again. PLAY Games against Rookie, a chess engine who is unreasonably invested in your chess. She is proud when you win. When she loses she takes it very badly, and it is very funny. OPENINGS The Italian, Sicilian, French, London, Caro-Kann, Ruy Lopez and more, one move at a time. Every move we teach is the top choice in the masters database, so you learn what strong players actually play. BASICS How each piece moves, what check means, how to win. Short, on the board, done in minutes. YOUR RATING A Chess Path rating that climbs as you finish lessons and win games, and a streak for showing up, so you can see yourself getting better. WORKS OFFLINE Every lesson, every opening, and the engine are on your phone. Airplane mode is fine. Free. No ads.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Chess Path App at 100% against ChessLink App's 0%. Chess Path App also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months). ChessLink App's advantage is rating (4.4 vs 4.0) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, ratings volume, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ChessLink App holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 3 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of ChessLink App's written reviews are positive against 100% of Chess Path App's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
ChessLink App ships an update every 3 months, Chess Path App fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ChessLink App | Chess Path App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (8 ratings) — better | 4.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 111 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Juergen Precour | LEARN THROUGH STORIES LLC |
Customer experience
ChessLink App
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In-app purchases
ChessLink App
No in-app purchases
Chess Path App
No in-app purchases
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