Chess Converter vs ChessView
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chess Converter
This app converts your chess games into shareable videos. Replay your best moves, edit the game's move list, and add audio commentary. Preview and export your chess game as a video to your device or an external screen.
- Convert chess games to video
- Replay and edit game moves
- Add audio commentary to moves
- Preview video on device or external screen
- Export and share videos
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Chess Converter is an innovative app that transforms your chess games into videos directly from your mobile device. Replay your best moves from a new perspective and easily share them with your friends. With Chess Converter, you can: - Play and replay chess games, - Navigate through and edit the list of moves, - Convert a chess game into a video, - Preview the generated video on: - Your device, - Any AirPlay-compatible external screen, - Export and easily share the generated video. - Record an audio commentary for each move! Please note that audio recording is not compatible with all iPhones.
ChessView
Easily import chess positions from photos, PGN files, or online games. Replay, analyze, and explore variations on an interactive board. Offers offline functionality and optional AI-powered commentary.
- Scan chess positions from photos or screenshots
- Import PGN files and FEN strings
- Replay and analyze games with full move validation
- Branch off from any position to explore variations
- Import Chess.com games offline
- Optional AI commentary for positions and games
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See a chess position anywhere — in a book, on another screen, on the table in front of you — and have it on a board you can play with, in seconds. ChessView is a study tool, not another place to play. Scan a position with the camera or from a screenshot, open a PGN file, or pull in your Chess.com games — then replay them, branch off, and work out what actually happened. Free, offline, no account, no ads, no tracking. SCAN A POSITION FROM A PHOTO Point the camera at a real board, or choose a screenshot from Chess.com, Lichess or a chess book. ChessView reads the position and puts it on your board. Anything it misreads, you fix in the position editor — then start playing it out. PLAY IT OUT ON A REAL BOARD Full move validation: legal moves, en passant, castling, promotion. Drag the pieces, step back and forth through the whole game, flip the board, and branch off wherever you want to see what would have happened. OPEN PGN AND FEN FROM ANYWHERE PGN files from Files, Mail, Messages or any app that can share them. Paste a FEN string and it loads. Export any position or game as PGN, FEN or a PNG image, and share it in one tap. YOUR CHESS.COM GAMES, OFFLINE Type your username, pick a month, and your games are in the library — ready to replay any time, with or without a connection. STUDY THE CLASSICS Famous games come built in — Byrne–Fischer, Morphy, Short–Timman, Lasker–Thomas — so there is always a position worth looking at. SEE THE EVALUATION Evaluations and main lines come from the Lichess cloud database: free, fast, no account needed. For positions the database doesn't know, ChessView offers a sensible continuation of its own. OPTIONAL: COMMENTARY IN PLAIN WORDS Add your own OpenAI API key and ChessView will explain a position or a whole game in sentences — the plan, the key ideas, the moment it turned. Entirely optional: everything above works without it. Your key is stored in the iOS Keychain, used only from your device, and never sent to us. PRIVACY, ACTUALLY No account. No ads. No analytics. No tracking. Your games and your settings stay on your iPhone and iPad. WHY I BUILT IT Getting a chess position onto my phone used to be absurdly hard. A diagram in a book, a screenshot from a game, a FEN string someone sent me — none of it could just be opened and played through on an iPhone. PGN files were worse. So I built the app I wanted: open anything, put it on a real board, move the pieces. — Pavel, solo developer Designed for iPhone and iPad.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ChessView at none against Chess Converter's 2. ChessView also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). Chess Converter's advantage is iOS requirement (17.5 vs 26.0). On price, ads 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 Converter sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. ChessView asks for nothing beyond the download.
Chess Converter ships an update every 2 months, ChessView fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chess Converter | ChessView |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.5 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Goldgewicht Consulting | Pavel Gnatyuk |
Customer experience
Chess Converter
ChessView
In-app purchases
Chess Converter
- Premium Monthly$3.991 Month
- Premium Annual$39.991 Year
ChessView
No in-app purchases






