Chess Puzzles & Tactics vs Train Chess
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.
Train Chess
Master hundreds of essential positional endgames to elevate your chess skills. Practice against an engine to improve your late-game win rate and conversion. This app focuses on crucial endgame scenarios for strategic improvement.
- Hundreds of positional endgames
- Engine practice
- Improve win rate
- Master endgame conversion
- Strategic improvement
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Train Chess features hundreds of must-know positional endgames that will improve your game. Master positions against the engine and increase your win rate late in the game and master your endgame conversion.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Train Chess at 5.0 against Chess Puzzles & Tactics's 4.5. Train Chess also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). Chess Puzzles & Tactics's advantage is ratings volume (488 vs 1). On price, update cadence, 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. Chess Puzzles & Tactics sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Train Chess asks for nothing beyond the download.
Train Chess 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 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Chess Puzzles & Tactics ships an update weekly, Train Chess every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chess Puzzles & Tactics | Train Chess |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (488 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 488 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 89 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sajed Nahian | Camren Todd |
Customer experience
Chess Puzzles & Tactics
Train Chess
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
Train Chess
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Chess Puzzles & Tactics
- Ad-Free Forever$3.99
Train Chess
No in-app purchases
Questions
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