Comparison

Tic vs Chess Climb

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

Head to head
About

Tic

Features
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Классическая игра для одного или двух игроков, Новые уровни сложности и режимы игры, Быстрые партии против искусственного интеллекта.

About

Chess Climb

This app offers an endless stream of personalized chess puzzles that adapt to your skill level and focus on areas needing practice. Review missed puzzles, get hints, and analyze your progress with detailed statistics. Enjoy offline play with no ads or in-app purchases.

Highlights
  • Personalized puzzle feed
  • Adaptive skill rating
  • Review missed puzzles
  • Offline play
  • Detailed progress tracking
  • Optional hints and solutions
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Chess Climb is an endless feed of chess puzzles picked for you. Solve one and the next is ready, matched to your rating and aimed at the themes you most need to practice. EVERY PUZZLE COUNTS • Your rating moves with every rated puzzle, and each theme gets a skill rating of its own: forks, pins, back-rank mates, endgames and dozens more. • Missed a puzzle? It comes back for review after 12 hours, and a similar puzzle follows soon after, so the idea sticks. • Stuck? A hint shows which piece to move, or give up and watch the solution play out. • Take your time. The clock is optional, and time never affects your rating. • Choose how hard: relaxed, balanced or challenging. STUDY WHAT YOU PLAYED • Go back to any finished puzzle and step through the solution move by move. • Turn on the built-in chess engine to analyze the position and try your own ideas. • Replay recent puzzles from your history, or export your history as a CSV file. SEE YOURSELF CLIMB • Your rating over the last week, month or three months. • Your strengths and the themes to train next, each explained in plain English. • Day streak, solve rate, and how fast you solve each theme. • Practice one theme at a time, straight from your progress page. PLAY ANYWHERE • A million puzzles live on your phone, so everything works offline. • No account, no ads, no purchases and no tracking. • Nine board colors and nine piece sets. The puzzles come from the Lichess open puzzle database, which is in the public domain. Chess Climb is not affiliated with Lichess. The engine is Arasan.

Screenshots

Tic4 screens
Chess Climb4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Tic at every 2 days against Chess Climb's every 10 days. Tic also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tic ships an update every 2 days, Chess Climb every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Tic versus Chess Climb: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTicChess Climb
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—7 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB90 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVladimir DyadichevNAVID SAMIEI

In-app purchases

None

Tic

No in-app purchases

None

Chess Climb

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tic free?
Tic is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Chess Climb free?
Chess Climb is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Tic or Chess Climb have ads?
Neither Tic nor Chess Climb shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tic or Chess Climb?
Tic ships an update every 2 days, and Chess Climb every 10 days. Most recently, Tic was updated on November 8, 2026 and Chess Climb on November 6, 2026.

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