Comparison

Chess Puzzles & Tactics vs WeeChess

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

Head to head
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.

About

WeeChess

Engage in quick chess puzzles to enhance your tactical skills and checkmate recognition. Compete globally on leaderboards and unlock daily rewards. Enjoy offline play with customizable themes.

Highlights
  • Hundreds of unique mini chess puzzles
  • Progressive difficulty levels
  • Learn essential checkmate patterns
  • Global leaderboard
  • Daily rewards and achievements
  • Offline play
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Train your mind with fast and fun chess puzzles! Solve bite-sized checkmate challenges, improve your tactical vision, and climb the global leaderboard. WeeChess is a mini chess puzzle game designed to help you recognize common checkmate patterns and sharpen your skills through short, focused challenges. Features: • Hundreds of unique mini chess puzzles • Progressive difficulty for beginners and advanced players • Learn essential checkmate patterns • Global leaderboard to compete with others • Daily rewards and achievements • Beautiful themes and customization options • Play offline – no internet required

Screenshots

Chess Puzzles & Tactics4 screens
WeeChess4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: WeeChess at 5.0 against Chess Puzzles & Tactics's 4.5. Chess Puzzles & Tactics's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and ratings volume (488 vs 2). On price, update cadence, 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

Both are free to download. Chess Puzzles & Tactics sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and WeeChess sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

WeeChess 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 488 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Chess Puzzles & Tactics ships an update weekly, WeeChess every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Chess Puzzles & Tactics versus WeeChess: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChess Puzzles & TacticsWeeChess
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (488 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings488 — better2
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 9 days
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115 — better
Further details — not scored
Size89 MB62 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSajed NahianHasancan Cakicioglu

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

WeeChess

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Chess Puzzles & Tactics

One-time1
  • Ad-Free Forever$3.99
9 purchases

WeeChess

One-time9
  • 500 Diamonds2 variants$0.99
  • Flash Sale$0.99
  • 1500 Diamonds$1.99
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  • 4000 Diamonds$3.99
  • Remove Ads$4.99
  • 3000 Diamonds$4.99
  • 7000 Diamonds$9.99
  • 15000 Diamonds$19.99
  • 100000 Diamonds$69.99

Questions

Is Chess Puzzles & Tactics free?
Chess Puzzles & Tactics is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is WeeChess free?
WeeChess is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Chess Puzzles & Tactics or WeeChess?
WeeChess is rated higher. Chess Puzzles & Tactics averages 4.5 out of 5 from 488 ratings, while WeeChess averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Chess Puzzles & Tactics or WeeChess have ads?
Both Chess Puzzles & Tactics and WeeChess show ads.
Which is updated more often, Chess Puzzles & Tactics or WeeChess?
Chess Puzzles & Tactics ships an update weekly, and WeeChess every 9 days. Most recently, Chess Puzzles & Tactics was updated on October 27, 2026 and WeeChess on October 25, 2026.

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