Comparison

Angle Explorer vs Chess Puzzles

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

Head to head
About

Angle Explorer

A puzzle game that tests your math skills. Solve geometric challenges by recalling school math lessons, sometimes requiring paper and pencil for complex calculations. Progress through increasing difficulty levels.

Highlights
  • Mathematical challenges
  • Geometric puzzles
  • Difficulty progression
  • Recall school math
  • Paper and pencil calculations
Features
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This puzzle game features difficulty levels that are determined by mathematical challenges. Recall the math lessons you learned in school to find the answers. Sometimes, you may even need to use paper and pencil for calculations.

About

Chess Puzzles

Enhance your chess skills with adaptive tactical training. Solve millions of real-game puzzles to build pattern recognition and increase your rating. The system adjusts to your level, offering structured sessions for steady progress.

Highlights
  • Adaptive puzzle difficulty
  • Millions of real-game chess puzzles
  • Themed tactical training (forks, pins, etc.)
  • Engine-supported analysis
  • Rating growth and accuracy tracking
  • Structured training sessions
Features
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Turn every puzzle into progress. Train with 5M+ puzzles from real games, personalized to your level. When you make a mistake, understand why - and learn from it. That’s the idea we built this app around. Solving more puzzles is useful, but we wanted training to be about more than getting a position right or wrong. We wanted every puzzle to teach you something - about the move you missed, the pattern you didn’t recognize, or the way you calculated the position. There are more than 5 million puzzles from real games. But the number itself isn’t really the point. What matters is finding the right positions for you, at the right difficulty, and helping you learn from them. When you make a mistake, you can understand why. Use hints, explore better moves, get coaching, and look deeper into the position instead of simply moving on to the next puzzle. Over time, your training starts to reveal which tactical patterns give you the most trouble. You can practice across 64 motifs and patterns - forks, pins, sacrifices, checkmates, endgames, and many more - and spend more time on the ideas that need it. You can also see how your training develops over time: your rating, accuracy, training time, and performance across different patterns. And when you’re ready for something truly advanced, there are more than 300,000 composed chess problems from solving competitions. They’re difficult, precise, often beautiful - and solving them can be one of the most satisfying forms of chess training. We’ve also tried to make this a place you’ll actually want to come back to. Solve a few puzzles when you have five minutes. Sit down for a longer session when you feel like training seriously. Build a streak, reach a milestone, or simply keep showing up. Whether you’re new to tactics or have been playing chess for years, the goal stays the same: Learn something from every puzzle. Play better chess. And we’re here to help you along the way. Privacy Policy: https://chess.phd/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://chess.phd/terms/

Screenshots

Angle Explorer2 screens
Chess Puzzles4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Chess Puzzles at 95% against Angle Explorer's 0%. Chess Puzzles also leads on price (Free vs $0.99). Angle Explorer's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 23) and device support (3 vs 1). On ads 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

Chess Puzzles is free to download; Angle Explorer costs $0.99 up front. Chess Puzzles sells 17 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Angle Explorer asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Angle Explorer versus Chess Puzzles: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAngle ExplorerChess Puzzles
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating—4.8 (238 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews94.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—238 — better
Update frequency—Every 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB111 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperI.D.P.Sergei Tovmasian

Customer experience

Angle Explorer

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

Chess Puzzles

All ratings238 ratings
Positive97.5%
Neutral0.8%
Negative1.7%
Written reviews19 reviews
Positive94.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative5.3%

In-app purchases

None

Angle Explorer

No in-app purchases

17 purchases

Chess Puzzles

Subscriptions17
  • Premium Weekly3 Days trial$3.997 Days
  • Chess.PhD Weekly Access3 Days trial$3.997 Days
  • Premium Weekly3 variants$4.997 Days
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  • Chess.PhD Weekly Premium3 Days trial$4.997 Days
  • Chess.PhD Monthly Premium$6.991 Month
  • Chess.PhD Monthly Access$7.991 Month
  • Premium Monthly3 variants$9.991 Month
  • Premium Annual$29.991 Year
  • Chess.PhD Annual Access$39.991 Year
  • Chess.PhD Premium (1 Year)3 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Premium Annual2 variants$49.991 Year
  • Premium Annual3 Days trial2 variants$49.991 Year
  • Premium Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Premium 1 Year3 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Chess.PhD Annual Premium$49.991 Year
  • Premium Annual7 Days trial$79.991 Year
  • Premium Annual3 Days trial$79.991 Year

Questions

Is Angle Explorer free?
Angle Explorer costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Chess Puzzles free?
Chess Puzzles is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Angle Explorer or Chess Puzzles have ads?
Neither Angle Explorer nor Chess Puzzles shows ads.

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