Comparison

Chess Tutor vs Chess Puzzles & Tactics

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

Head to head
About

Chess Tutor

This app guides new players from novice to skilled chess players through interactive tutorials, mini-games, and puzzles. It offers various learning modules, practice challenges, and the ability to play full games against a computer opponent with adjustable difficulty.

Highlights
  • Interactive tutorials on piece movement and rules
  • Skill-honing mini-games and puzzles
  • Checkmate challenges for all skill levels
  • Play against a computer opponent with 5 difficulty levels
  • Customizable board colors and piece sets
  • Knight's Tour puzzle
Features
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Chess Tutor has been specifically developed for beginners and new chess players. It can take you through from complete novice to a good chess player. It makes learning and developing in chess fun by a range of tutorials, mini-games and puzzles that hone skills before the full chess game is tackled. Of course, you can just play it at chess if you please! The main features are: >Tutor Levels - How pieces move - The rules of the game - Special moves such as forks, pins, skewers and en-passant - Practice challenges to be completed in less than 1 minute - Puzzles - Can you check mate in as few moves as challenged - Ranging from beginner to advanced - Complete puzzles to unlock more > Minigames - Play games against the computer - Games for beginners and more experienced players - Games that teach end game techniques and practice specific pieces - Complete games to unlock more games and challenges > Challenges - Challenge style puzzles - Puzzles for beginners and more advanced players - The famous "Knight's Tour" puzzle > Play Chess - Computer opponent with 5 levels of difficulty - 3 piece sets to choose from - 3 board colours - animated pieces - Sounds - Undo/take back - Play White or Black - Integrated opening book

About

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.

Highlights
  • Infinite chess puzzles
  • Tactics training
  • Customizable puzzles
  • Elo rating adjustment
  • All player levels
  • Extensive tactic list
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Chess Tutor4 screens
Chess Puzzles & Tactics4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Chess Puzzles & Tactics at 76% against Chess Tutor's 0%. Chess Puzzles & Tactics also leads on rating (4.5 vs 2.3) and ratings volume (488 vs 4). 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 Tutor sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Chess Puzzles & Tactics 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 Puzzles & Tactics holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chess Puzzles & Tactics has 488 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Chess Tutor's written reviews are positive against 76% of Chess Puzzles & Tactics's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Chess Tutor ships an update every 2 weeks, Chess Puzzles & Tactics weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Chess Tutor versus Chess Puzzles & Tactics: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChess TutorChess Puzzles & Tactics
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.3 (4 ratings)4.5 (488 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews75.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings4488 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksWeekly — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB89 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperR.D. HareSajed Nahian

Customer experience

Chess Tutor

All ratings4 ratings
Positive25.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative75.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Chess Puzzles & Tactics

All ratings485 ratings
Positive85.8%
Neutral4.3%
Negative9.9%
Written reviews37 reviews
Positive75.7%
Neutral5.4%
Negative18.9%

Bugs and requests

Chess Tutor

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

1 purchases

Chess Tutor

One-time1
  • Remove ads$1.99
1 purchases

Chess Puzzles & Tactics

One-time1
  • Ad-Free Forever$3.99

Questions

Is Chess Tutor free?
Chess Tutor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Chess Puzzles & Tactics free?
Chess Puzzles & Tactics is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Chess Tutor or Chess Puzzles & Tactics?
Chess Puzzles & Tactics is rated higher. Chess Tutor averages 2.3 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Chess Puzzles & Tactics averages 4.5 from 488 ratings.
Do Chess Tutor or Chess Puzzles & Tactics have ads?
Both Chess Tutor and Chess Puzzles & Tactics show ads.
Which is updated more often, Chess Tutor or Chess Puzzles & Tactics?
Chess Tutor ships an update every 2 weeks, and Chess Puzzles & Tactics weekly. Most recently, Chess Tutor was updated on November 1, 2026 and Chess Puzzles & Tactics on October 27, 2026.

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