Comparison

Chess.com vs Daily Chess Puzzles

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

Head to head
About

Chess.com

Engage in chess with millions globally through online matches, tournaments, and lessons. Improve your skills with over a million puzzles, powerful bot opponents, and detailed game analysis. Explore various chess variants and track your progress with in-depth statistics.

Highlights
  • Online multiplayer chess
  • Over 1 million chess puzzles
  • Hundreds of chess lessons
  • Play against AI opponents
  • Chess variant modes
  • Game analysis tools
  • Community leaderboards
Features
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Play chess lessons online with over 280 million players from around the world! Chess is known as the best strategy board game in the world! Enjoy unlimited 3D offline pocket chess games and improve your chess rating with 1,000,000+ puzzles, more than 20 million chess games a day, lessons, and over 100 powerful bot opponents. Unlock your inner chess master today! PLAY CHESS ONLINE: - 2 Player online chess mode is entirely free to enjoy with your friends. - Join tournaments with players online or friends and become a master. - Play games in real-time from one minute per game to 30 minutes or longer with friends. - Review your strategy and game lessons and lay out daily correspondence in online chess. - Play exciting chess variants in our app: chess960 (Fischer-Random), blitz chess, puzzle rush, bullet chess, puzzle battle, or blindfold. CHESS PUZZLES: - Enjoy 1,000,000 + unique puzzles. - Rated mode automatically adjusts to your skill level to help you improve. - Race the clock with a timer to beat your high score in Puzzle Rush. - Practice puzzles with specific themes in this strategy board game (checkmate in 1, in 2, in 3, blindfold, endgames, fork, skewer, sacrifice, timer, etc.) CHESS LESSONS: - Hundreds of quality chess lessons and online videos made by masters (Learn and practice your skills with chess problems) - Interactive puzzles tutorials with tips and game recommendations. - Learn all the chess rules and strategies in a step-by-step lesson plan (opening, endgame...) CHESS COACHING: - Learn from helpful and immersive visual chess coach lessons. - Review your games with the coach and learn the strategy of the board game for every move. - Play games with the coach, who will guide you through the fundamentals move by move and provide helpful hints as you play. PLAY CHESS ONLINE AGAINST THE COMPUTER: - Choose the level of computer opponent you want to play and set a timer. - Analyze your chess games offline and learn to see where you went wrong and how you can improve. CHESS COMMUNITY: - Join a community of more than 200M online chess players. Find friends! - More than 20M games played each day. - Compete to get your own rating and try to join the best player online chess leaderboards against other players. - Watch the most popular superstars: Hikaru, GothamChess, or Magnus! ... and MUCH MORE: - Play chess games offline against the computer and the clock with a timer. - Articles by the best coaches and masters. - Explore openings like Queen´s Gambit or Sicilian Defense. - Challenge and play with your friends in an online chess game. - Choose from 20+ board themes and 3D pieces. - Get in-depth performance stats about your games, puzzles, and lessons. Playing pocket chess online has never been so easy! Chess.com is the place to play chess games online with your friends and other players! Share your suggestions and comments. Our support team is happy to help you 24 hours a day, 365 days a year! ABOUT CHESS.COM: Chess.com was created by chess players and people who love chess! Team: http://www.chess.com/about

About

Daily Chess Puzzles

Engage in thousands of chess puzzles to sharpen your tactical skills. A daily challenge awaits, with puzzles sourced from a top chess platform. Compete with friends and climb global leaderboards to track your progress.

Highlights
  • Thousands of chess puzzles
  • Daily Challenge
  • Learn tactics and tricks
  • Game Center integration
  • Worldwide leaderboard
  • Improve chess game
Features
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Solve a chess puzzle every day, train at your level, and learn the tactics that win games. DAILY PUZZLE The same puzzle for everyone, every day, from chess.com. Solve it to keep your streak going. QUICK PLAY Five puzzles find your level. After that, every puzzle is picked for you from more than 26,000, and your rating grows as you improve. LEARN Lessons in 18 tactics: forks, pins, skewers, back-rank and smothered mates, rook endgames and more. A lesson is eight puzzles. PLAY ANYWHERE Quick play and Learn work offline, on a plane or on the subway. Your rating, streak and lessons move with your iCloud between iPhone and iPad, and come back when you reinstall. No account needed. Game Center achievements and leaderboards are there if you want them. ------- The app icon is from vectorportal.com

Screenshots

Chess.com4 screens
Daily Chess Puzzles4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Chess.com at 881K against Daily Chess Puzzles's 445. Chess.com also leads on chart position (#1 vs unranked) and update cadence (weekly vs every 2 weeks). Daily Chess Puzzles's advantage is monetization model (ad-supported vs free with in-app purchases). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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.com sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Daily Chess Puzzles sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Chess.com against 4.7 for Daily Chess Puzzles. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chess.com has 881K ratings behind it against 445, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 64% and 65% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Chess.com ships an update weekly, Daily Chess Puzzles every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Chess.com versus Daily Chess Puzzles: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChess.comDaily Chess Puzzles
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (881K ratings) — better4.7 (445 ratings)
Positive reviews64.4% of reviews65.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings881K — better445
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
Best chart rank#1 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size456 MB22 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperChess.comStefan Stangl

Customer experience

Chess.com

All ratings867,042 ratings
Positive95.8%
Neutral1.5%
Negative2.6%
Written reviews9,361 reviews
Positive64.4%
Neutral5.9%
Negative29.7%

Daily Chess Puzzles

All ratings444 ratings
Positive93.9%
Neutral2.9%
Negative3.2%
Written reviews23 reviews
Positive65.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative34.8%

User reviews

Chess.com

From 881K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Excellent app for learning and improving chess skills
  • 🎓 Comprehensive lessons, puzzles, and analysis tools
  • 🌍 Large player base for quick matchmaking
  • 📊 Detailed game statistics and progress tracking
  • 💻 Seamless integration between mobile app and website

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent connection issues and game freezes
  • ⏱️ Unreliable and inconsistent game timers
  • 🔒 Lack of transparency around anti-cheating measures
  • 💰 Aggressive paywall for advanced features
  • 🤖 Subpar AI opponents with questionable move choices

Daily Chess Puzzles

From 445 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Great puzzles
  • 👍 Unlimited puzzles for free
  • 👍 Improves chess game
  • 👍 Simple and pure interface
  • 👍 Good for practice without rating impact

Room to improve

  • 👎 Kludgy UI for moving pieces
  • 👎 Missing basic controls
  • 👎 Graphics could be better
  • 👎 Some puzzles are inexplicable/don't make sense
  • 👎 App crashes randomly

Bugs and requests

Chess.com

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Incorrect move suggestions in game analysis
  • Inability to leave or manage chess clubs within the app
  • Puzzle mode crashing when attempting to reveal the solution
  • Inconsistent behavior when switching between Wi-Fi and mobile data
  • Pieces not registering correctly on the board during gameplay

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to customize board and piece themes
  • Option to pause and resume games at a later time
  • Improved game analysis with more detailed explanations
  • Enhanced social features for interacting with other players
  • Offline mode for practicing puzzles and tactics

Daily Chess Puzzles

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Link to chess.com not working
  • App crashes randomly
  • Privacy consent link does not work

Requested features

10 requests
  • Button to go back and review solution
  • Navigate back to previous puzzles
  • Rewind feature after solving
  • Ability to play around with puzzle situations
  • Sound effects for moving pieces
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  • Option to replay moves after solving
  • Fix privacy consent link
  • Remove timer on puzzle solving
  • Explain puzzle challenges/goals
  • Adjust message box location after solving

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Chess.com

Subscriptions10
  • Gold Membership7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Gold Membership7 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • Platinum Membership7 Days trial$6.991 Month
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  • Platinum Membership7 Days trial$10.991 Month
  • Diamond Membership7 Days trial$14.991 Month
  • Diamond Membership7 Days trial$16.991 Month
  • Gold Membership7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Platinum Membership7 Days trial$79.991 Year
  • Diamond Membership7 Days trial$99.991 Year
  • Diamond Membership7 Days trial$119.991 Year
3 purchases

Daily Chess Puzzles

One-time3
  • Remove Ads$3.99
  • Unlock All Lessons$5.99
  • Ads Off + All Lessons$8.99

Questions

Is Chess.com free?
Chess.com is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Daily Chess Puzzles free?
Daily Chess Puzzles is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Chess.com or Daily Chess Puzzles?
Chess.com is rated higher. Chess.com averages 4.8 out of 5 from 881K ratings, while Daily Chess Puzzles averages 4.7 from 445 ratings.
Do Chess.com or Daily Chess Puzzles have ads?
Both Chess.com and Daily Chess Puzzles show ads.
Which is updated more often, Chess.com or Daily Chess Puzzles?
Chess.com ships an update weekly, and Daily Chess Puzzles every 2 weeks. Most recently, Chess.com was updated on November 10, 2026 and Daily Chess Puzzles on November 7, 2026.

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