Noctie Chess Trainer vs Elite Chess Database
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Noctie Chess Trainer
Master chess openings and tactics with a human-like AI trainer. Practice your repertoire, receive instant visual feedback on moves, and solve puzzles from your games. Set up any position or study lessons and endgames to improve your overall chess skill.
- Human-like AI opponents with 20 difficulty levels
- Practice specific chess openings and import repertoires
- Instant color-coded move quality feedback
- Solve custom tactics puzzles from your games
- Set up any position and study lessons/endgames
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Most chess apps make you play a machine. Noctie gives you a training partner. Noctie is a premium chess trainer that plays like a human, adapts to your level, and turns every game into focused practice. Play the opening you like, get puzzles from your game, have fun. No weird engine moves, just real games against a realistic opponent, with instant feedback that shows you how to improve on every move. TRAIN AGAINST HUMAN-LIKE AI OPPONENTS Train against a chess AI that adapts to your level and makes natural, human mistakes instead of perfect computer moves. Improve through 25 difficulty levels of humanlike chess bots, from beginner to master. MASTER YOUR OPENINGS THE RIGHT WAY Choose among your favorite chess openings or import your own repertoire, and train against an AI that follows the lines humans actually play. You don't just memorize theory; you learn to play it. GET INSTANT VISUAL FEEDBACK WHILE YOU PLAY See color-coded move-quality feedback the moment you play. Spot tactical mistakes and brilliant moves in real time, so every game teaches you something. SOLVE PUZZLES FROM YOUR ACTUAL GAMES After each game, practice custom chess tactics from the exact positions where you struggled. Your puzzles are saved for spaced-repetition practice, so you never repeat the same mistake twice. SET UP ANY POSITION, STUDY LESSONS & ENDGAMES Use the position builder to set up any chess position, or play scenarios from our instructive lessons — covering everything from positional imbalances to theoretical endgames. Drill king-and-pawn endgames until they're second nature. BUILT FOR PLAYERS SERIOUS ABOUT IMPROVING Noctie is a focused, premium chess training tool — no ads, no distractions, just deliberate practice that turns into real rating gains. Start with a free trial and train like you mean it. ** Requires internet connection ** SUBSCRIPTION Noctie is an auto-renewing subscription that starts with a free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase, and renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of use: https://apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://noctie.ai/privacy
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Noctie Chess Trainer at 4.7 against Elite Chess Database's 1.0. Noctie Chess Trainer also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (630 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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. Noctie Chess Trainer sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $13.90 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.
Noctie Chess Trainer holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Noctie Chess Trainer has 630 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 74% of Noctie Chess Trainer's written reviews are positive against 50% of Elite Chess Database's.
| Parameter | Noctie Chess Trainer | Elite Chess Database |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (630 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 74.4% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 630 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 423 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Noctie AB | Nguyen Pham |
Customer experience
Noctie Chess Trainer
Elite Chess Database
Bugs and requests
Noctie Chess Trainer
Reported bugs
6 issues- Lost opening library and progress after update
- User flow to rebuild opening library is terrible
- Material difference calculation breaks with promoted queens
- Layout cuts off chessboard in portrait mode on iPad
- AI doesn't adjust strength based on user rating
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- Hints and feedback can be inaccurate
Requested features
11 requests- Lifetime tier option
- Realistic time management for bots
- Dark mode
- Choice of colors and chessboards
- Import games from Lichess/Chess.com for flashcards
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- More moves in opening hints
- Ability to play specific opening branches on mobile
- Detailed computer analysis in game reviews
- Guided demo for new users
- Option to open PGN on Lichess from review page
- Export PGN after game
Elite Chess Database
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Noctie Chess Trainer
- Club Noctie7 Days trial$13.901 Month
- Club Noctie Yearly7 Days trial$99.991 Year
Elite Chess Database
- Remove Advertisement$9.99
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