Chess vs PVChess
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chess
Discover the world of chess with this interactive e-book. Learn the rules, terminology, and essential strategies through engaging content and practice moves with interactive diagrams. Improve your game, whether you're a beginner or looking to refine your skills.
- Interactive e-book format
- Teaches rules and terminology
- Covers essential strategies
- Interactive diagram feature
- Practice legal moves
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Over 600 million people worldwide know how to play chess. Now you can learn how to play too, with Learn Chess! Learn Chess is a short, fun, interactive e-book that teaches you the rules, terminology, essential strategies, and more. Even if you already know the rules, it can help you improve your game. Features: - 118 pages of content - 91 chess diagrams - Interactive diagram feature lets you try out legal moves Learn Chess is made by the developer of tChess Lite and Pro, the popular and critically acclaimed iPhone chess games.
PVChess
Master chess with an AI tutor that provides hints, lessons, and game analysis. Improve your openings, middlegames, and endgames by playing at your skill level and reviewing every move.
- AI chess tutor
- Personalized hints and feedback
- Lessons on openings, middlegames, endgames
- Game review and analysis
- Play at your skill level
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Improve your chess with an AI tutor, strong computer opponents, interactive lessons, and detailed game reviews. Learn openings, tactics, middlegames, and endgames with smart hints and move-by-move feedback. Play at your own level, analyze mistakes, and build stronger chess skills through guided practice. The app also includes two interactive classic chess books: Chess Fundamentals and Modern Ideas in Chess. Study timeless strategies, annotated games, and essential chess concepts directly inside the app. Features: * AI tutor with hints and feedback * Strong computer opponents * Interactive lessons and practice * Opening and endgame training * Game review and analysis * Save and replay games anytime
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Chess at none against PVChess's shown. Chess also leads on review sentiment (92% vs 71%) and ratings volume (200 vs 23). PVChess's advantage is monetization model (ad-supported vs paid) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 9 months). On price, rating 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Chess against 4.7 for PVChess. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chess has 200 ratings behind it against 23, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 92% of Chess's written reviews are positive against 71% of PVChess's.
Chess ships an update every 9 months, PVChess every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chess | PVChess |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (200 ratings) | 4.7 (23 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 92.4% of reviews — better | 70.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 200 — better | 23 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Tom Kerrigan | Jianfeng Wu |
Customer experience
Chess
PVChess
In-app purchases
Chess
No in-app purchases
PVChess
No in-app purchases
