Comparison

Mate in 3 Chess Puzzles vs Chess Trainer Pro

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

Head to head
About

Mate in 3 Chess Puzzles

Challenge your chess skills with over 1200 interactive puzzles designed to help you force a checkmate in three moves. This app offers a revamped engine, timing clock, customizable piece sets and color schemes, and social leaderboards. It's ideal for players looking to improve their tactical abilities.

Highlights
  • Over 1200 chess puzzles
  • Force checkmate in 3 moves
  • Revamped chess engine
  • Timing clock and solve times
  • Customizable piece sets and color schemes
  • Social leaderboards
  • Facebook integration
Features
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The Ultimate mate in 3 moves chess puzzle app! Sharpen your chess skills with Mate in 3 Puzzles! Beginners and experienced players will enjoy solving these chess problems! This app has over 1200 interactive chess puzzles that will challenge you. The object is to finish each game by forcing a checkmate in 3 moves. The puzzles consist of a large number of classical puzzles collected from a variety of sources. These puzzles are fun to play and can be enjoyed at your leisure on your iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Mate in 3 chess problems are especially useful for moderate to advanced chess players or anyone wanting to improve their skills. New features added in Version 2.0 include: ------------------------------ - Completely revamped chess engine that is much stronger - Timing clock is displayed while you are working on each puzzle. How long you take to solve a puzzle is stored. - New options: more chess piece sets (total of 7) and more colors schemes (total of 7) including wood and marble. (Improved the options menu as well) - Social Gaming: Leaderboards to compare the number of puzzles you have solved with your friends and other players. Facebook integration - including the ability to post your progress and ask your friends for help on a puzzle. - Universal app - works on iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad - high resolution graphics all around (where supported). For even more chess puzzle challenges check out these apps: - Mate in 1 Puzzles - Mate in 2 Puzzles - Mate in 4+ Puzzles

About

Chess Trainer Pro

Enhance your chess skills with dedicated endgame practice and a unique visualization game mode. This app offers tailored exercises for players of all levels to improve their game and progress towards mastery.

Highlights
  • Endgame trainer with over 3000 scenarios
  • Mind Meld game mode for visualization
  • Tailored exercises for all skill levels
  • Improve calculation and strategy
  • Progress towards chess mastery
Features
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Elevate your chess mastery with Chess Trainer Pro – the ultimate chess companion for aspiring grandmasters. Sharpen your skills with our dedicated endgame trainer and enhance your calculation through our unique mind meld game mode. Whether you're a novice or a seasoned player, Chess Trainer Pro offers tailored exercises and challenges to elevate your game to new heights. Experience chess training like never before and journey toward becoming a true chess master. Featured Game Modes: Endgames: Play through over 3000 endgames to win your games every time Mind Meld: Improve your visualization with this brain-twisting game mode. Play as both sides and find the only piece that can move to each highlighted square. Increase the number of pieces per side to increase the difficulty!

Screenshots

Mate in 3 Chess Puzzles4 screens
Chess Trainer Pro3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Chess Trainer Pro at Free against Mate in 3 Chess Puzzles's $0.99. Chess Trainer Pro also leads on review sentiment (80% vs 68%). Mate in 3 Chess Puzzles's advantage is rating (4.3 vs 4.0) and device support (3 vs 1). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Chess Trainer Pro is free to download; Mate in 3 Chess Puzzles costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Mate in 3 Chess Puzzles holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 5 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 68% of Mate in 3 Chess Puzzles's written reviews are positive against 80% of Chess Trainer Pro's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Mate in 3 Chess Puzzles versus Chess Trainer Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMate in 3 Chess PuzzlesChess Trainer Pro
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.3 (12 ratings) — better4.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews68.4% of reviews80.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings12 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 7 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB80 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperGano Technologies LLCNavin Chikkodi

Customer experience

Mate in 3 Chess Puzzles

All ratings12 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews19 reviews
Positive68.4%
Neutral15.8%
Negative15.8%

Chess Trainer Pro

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%

In-app purchases

None

Mate in 3 Chess Puzzles

No in-app purchases

None

Chess Trainer Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mate in 3 Chess Puzzles free?
Mate in 3 Chess Puzzles costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Chess Trainer Pro free?
Chess Trainer Pro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Mate in 3 Chess Puzzles or Chess Trainer Pro?
Mate in 3 Chess Puzzles is rated higher. Mate in 3 Chess Puzzles averages 4.3 out of 5 from 12 ratings, while Chess Trainer Pro averages 4.0 from 5 ratings.
Do Mate in 3 Chess Puzzles or Chess Trainer Pro have ads?
Neither Mate in 3 Chess Puzzles nor Chess Trainer Pro shows ads.

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