Chess Puzz vs Chess Puzzles & Tactics
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chess Puzz
This application offers a calming experience with relaxing music and beautiful interfaces designed to help you focus and relieve stress. It provides a peaceful environment for relaxation and concentration.
- Relaxing music
- Focus enhancement
- Stress relief
- Beautiful user interface
- Calming environment
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This app has relaxing musics it helps you keep focus and relieve your stress with beautiful user interfaces Thanks for Freepik provided all the icons from www.flaticon.com Thanks for Scott Buckley All the music provided by Scott Buckley – www.scottbuckley.com.au
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 in-app purchases: Chess Puzz at none against Chess Puzzles & Tactics's 1. Chess Puzz also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.9 vs 4.5). Chess Puzzles & Tactics's advantage is ratings volume (488 vs 14). On price, update cadence, monetization model 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 Puzzles & Tactics sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Chess Puzz asks for nothing beyond the download.
Chess Puzz holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chess Puzzles & Tactics has 488 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Chess Puzz's written reviews are positive against 76% of Chess Puzzles & Tactics's.
Chess Puzz ships an update every 2 weeks, Chess Puzzles & Tactics weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chess Puzz | Chess Puzzles & Tactics |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (14 ratings) — better | 4.5 (488 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 75.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 14 | 488 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 109 MB | 89 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jiasaz Company ltd | Sajed Nahian |
Customer experience
Chess Puzz
Chess Puzzles & Tactics
Bugs and requests
Chess Puzz
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 Puzz
No in-app purchases
Chess Puzzles & Tactics
- Ad-Free Forever$3.99
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