Comparison

Chess Prep Pro Openings vs Elite Chess Database

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Chess Prep Pro Openings

Master chess openings by building custom repertoires and training your memory. Analyze opponent moves, discover blind spots, and utilize an advanced engine for in-depth preparation. Expand your knowledge with downloadable repertoires and import/export PGNs.

Highlights
  • Custom chess opening repertoires
  • Repertoire training and memory sharpening
  • Blind spot finder against player games
  • Chess openings player database
  • Advanced StockFish engine analysis
  • Downloadable and importable repertoires
Features
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Master chess openings: Build chess opening repertoires & memorise your openings.Chess Prep Pro is the ultimate chess openings app, designed to perfect your openings and elevate your game through custom chess opening repertoire creation and training. How does it work? Chess Prep Pro allows you to create your own custom chess openings repertoires, and prepare for any opponent move. A chess opening repertoire is an opening plan that contains player responses for opponent moves in the opening phase of the game. With a chess opening repertoire, you will not be left scrambling to find the best move during a real game, as you will already remember the best move from studying and practicing your repertoire. Discover Chess Prep Pro's Features: - Custom Chess Opening Repertoires: Build unlimited custom repertoires for any chess opening. Add as many moves and variations as you need to be prepared for every game. - Repertoire Training: Sharpen your memory with chess opening repertoire training. The app challenges your memory with random positions from your opening repertoire, tracking your progress and helping you master every move. - Blind Spot Finder: Stay ahead of your opponents with our blind spot finder feature that analyses your chess openings repertoire against billions of player games, identifying the most likely opponent moves that you did not prepare for. - Chess openings player database: You can use a player openings database that contains billions of moves to find out the most likely opponent move to prepare for. - Advanced Engine: Utilize the latest StockFish engine for in-depth analysis and uncover the best responses to any situation on the board. - Downloadable opening repertoires: Expand your opening knowledge with an ever-growing library of specially created and sourced opening repertoires, curated for your success. - Import / Export: Easily import and export PGNs to and from the app. You can even import liches studies. Master your chess openings now !

About

Elite Chess Database

Explore and analyze vast chess game databases, including games from top-ranked players and annotated matches. Solve puzzles for all skill levels and receive instant verification of your solutions. The app offers extensive customization and beautiful graphics for an engaging experience.

Highlights
  • View and analyze chess game databases
  • Access elite human games (2400+ Elo)
  • Study annotated chess games
  • Solve puzzles with mate challenges
  • Analyze games for best moves and blunders
  • Bookmark and add notes to games
  • Search and filter games by multiple factors
Features
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This app is for viewing, studying, analysing chess game databases and solving puzzles. It comes with some databases: - Elite database: chess games of human very high ranks, from 2400 Elo. All games are checked, and verified to eliminate errors and redundancies. Player names are checked, standardised too - Annotated games: almost all interesting games with annotations on the Internet. We believe it is the largest collection of annotated games so far - Puzzles with mates from 1 to 9: suitable for all players’ levels, for enjoying as well as for practising. Users can try to solve them and then ask the app to verify their solutions Users could analyse any game for computing information, best moves and for finding blunders. The total of all games and puzzles is huge. A typical human can’t watch and/or solve them all in their whole lives. On one hand, the app becomes the source of unlimited fun, keep every time they get new games to study and enjoy, and new puzzles to solve. On another hand, a huge number of games challenge users to use them efficiently and enjoyably. To help users deal with that huge number of games/puzzles, the app provides redundant ways, from auto-mark visited games, to bookmarking and adding notes to games. Users can search, filter games by many factors, and watch opening trees. It also provides a lot of statistics with many links/buttons to access them conveniently. Our app is very easy to use. Almost all functions are straightforward, users can use them without needing help. Functions are tested carefully for bugs and logical and convenient use. Features are redundant. The whole app is highly customisable. The graphics are very beautiful too.

Screenshots

Chess Prep Pro Openings4 screens
Elite Chess Database4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Chess Prep Pro Openings at 4.5 against Elite Chess Database's 1.0. Chess Prep Pro Openings also leads on review sentiment (74% vs 50%) and ratings volume (20 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Chess Prep Pro Openings sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Elite Chess Database sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Chess Prep Pro Openings holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chess Prep Pro Openings has 20 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 74% of Chess Prep Pro Openings's written reviews are positive against 50% of Elite Chess Database's.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Chess Prep Pro Openings versus Elite Chess Database: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChess Prep Pro OpeningsElite Chess Database
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (20 ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews73.9% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings20 — better1
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size213 MB423 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTomasz BogunNguyen Pham

Customer experience

Chess Prep Pro Openings

All ratings20 ratings
Positive85.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews23 reviews
Positive73.9%
Neutral4.3%
Negative21.7%

Elite Chess Database

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Chess Prep Pro Openings

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly premium subscription$3.991 Month
  • Yearly premium$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium$59.99
1 purchases

Elite Chess Database

One-time1
  • Remove Advertisement$9.99

Questions

Is Chess Prep Pro Openings free?
Chess Prep Pro Openings is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Elite Chess Database free?
Elite Chess Database is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Chess Prep Pro Openings or Elite Chess Database?
Chess Prep Pro Openings is rated higher. Chess Prep Pro Openings averages 4.5 out of 5 from 20 ratings, while Elite Chess Database averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Chess Prep Pro Openings or Elite Chess Database have ads?
Both Chess Prep Pro Openings and Elite Chess Database show ads.

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