Chess Puzzles & Tactics vs ChessSight
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.
ChessSight
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ChessSight helps you analyze chess positions instantly using AI-powered engine analysis. Scan real chess boards, upload chess images, or connect electronic boards to get fast and accurate move analysis, best moves, mistakes, and position evaluations. Improve your chess with a smooth and modern analysis experience built for every player. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: ChessSight at none against Chess Puzzles & Tactics's shown. ChessSight also leads on update cadence (daily vs weekly). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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 and ChessSight sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Chess Puzzles & Tactics ships an update weekly, ChessSight daily. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chess Puzzles & Tactics | ChessSight |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (488 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 75.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 488 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Daily — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 89 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Sajed Nahian | ABDULLAH ALISMAIL |
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
ChessSight
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Chess Puzzles & Tactics
- Ad-Free Forever$3.99
ChessSight
- ChessSight Premium Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- ChessSight Premium Yearly$39.991 Year
Questions
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