Chess Puzzles & Tactics vs Chess Twist
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Infinite chess puzzles
- Tactics training
- Customizable puzzles
- Elo rating adjustment
- All player levels
- Extensive tactic list
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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.
Chess Twist
Experience chess with a twist on procedurally generated boards that alter traditional gameplay. Discover new strategies on unique battlefields with classic rules. Challenge yourself with over 1000 puzzles.
- Procedurally generated boards
- Classic chess rules
- Play against a bot
- Local multiplayer
- 1000+ puzzles
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A game of chess set on procedurally generated boards, where straight lines bend and diagonals fork. Same rules, different battlefield. Opportunities for new strategies are hidden in plain sight. Will you see them before your opponent does? Features: - play against a bot - play multiplayer on the same device - play unique games on a procedurally generated board each time - 1000+ puzzles
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Chess Puzzles & Tactics at Free against Chess Twist's $6.99. Chess Puzzles & Tactics also leads on ratings volume (478 vs 1) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 weeks). Chess Twist's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On 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
Chess Puzzles & Tactics is free to download; Chess Twist costs $6.99 up front. Chess Puzzles & Tactics sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Chess Twist asks for nothing beyond the download.
Chess Twist holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chess Puzzles & Tactics has 478 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Chess Puzzles & Tactics ships an update every 5 days, Chess Twist every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and June 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chess Puzzles & Tactics | Chess Twist |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $6.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (478 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 77.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 478 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 85 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sajed Nahian | GUILLAUME JACQUES FRADIN |
Customer experience
Chess Puzzles & Tactics
Chess Twist
Bugs and 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
Chess Twist
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Chess Puzzles & Tactics
- Ad-Free Forever$3.99
Chess Twist
No in-app purchases
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