Lotus Chess vs FlashScroll
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lotus Chess
Learn chess openings, analyze your games, and master endgames with interactive lessons and personalized training plans. This app adapts to your skill level, from beginner to advanced, offering insights based on your own gameplay and millions of real-player games.
- Personalized opening courses from your games
- Learn 150+ chess openings
- Interactive lessons for beginners
- Instant game analysis with mistake identification
- 60+ endgame lessons and practice positions
- Daily personalized workout plans
- Offline access to opening and endgame lessons
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Learn chess the fast way. Lotus Chess teaches you 150+ openings, analyses your games instantly and shows you how to close out endgames, in just a few minutes a day. From complete beginners to 2300 Elo players. Rated 4.8/5. Most apps teach engine-perfect theory. Lotus Chess teaches the lines that win against real people. OPENINGS, BUILT FROM YOUR GAMES • Connect Chess.com or Lichess and get a personal opening course from your own games • Learn 150+ openings for White and Black • Train every line hands-on until it becomes natural • Lines picked from 100,000,000+ games for the best winning chances against real players FOUNDATIONS: LEARN CHESS FROM SCRATCH • New to chess? Start with the rules and basic ideas, step by step • 150+ short, interactive lessons, no experience needed INSTANT GAME ANALYSIS • See your accuracy for every game • Find your mistakes and blunders, move by move • Understand exactly where you lost the game ENDGAMES • 60+ lessons, from basic checkmates to advanced techniques • 180+ positions to play out against a human-like engine • Learn to close out winning positions DAILY WORKOUT • A personal training plan, ready every day • Build a daily chess habit with streaks • 100,000+ chess puzzles that match your level • Opening and endgame lessons work offline FREE AND PRO Start for free: • The first section of Foundations and Endgames • The first 2 sections and 2 crushing lines of every opening • 10 puzzles and 1 game analysis per day Lotus Chess Pro unlocks everything: • All openings, sections and crushing lines • The full Foundations and Endgame courses, with all training positions • Unlimited puzzles and game analysis Pro is available as a monthly or yearly subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account. Your subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it anytime in your App Store account settings. BUILT BY CHESS PLAYERS Lotus Chess was created by two brothers who started playing chess at age four. After building Math42, a math learning app with over 6 million downloads, they set out to build the best way to learn chess. Privacy Policy & Terms of Use: https://www.lotus-chess.com/privacy-policy
FlashScroll
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Stop scrolling before you study. Start scrolling because you studied. FlashScroll turns your flashcard study sessions into real, spendable time on the apps you actually want to use — Instagram, TikTok, whatever you choose. No willpower required, no guilt trips. Just a simple trade: study first, scroll after. HOW IT WORKS • Create flashcards — organize them into folders by subject, class, or however you think • Review with spaced repetition — our scheduling algorithm shows you cards right before you'd forget them, so studying actually sticks • Earn scroll time — every card you review correctly banks real minutes • Choose your apps — pick which apps on your phone stay locked until you've earned time to use them, using Apple's own Screen Time technology • Unlock and scroll, guilt-free — spend your earned minutes exactly how you want BUILT FOR HOW STUDENTS ACTUALLY STUDY • Smart spaced repetition (SM-2 algorithm) — the same proven method behind Anki and other serious study tools • Study streaks — build a habit, don't just cram • Progress tracking — see what's working and where you're falling behind • Study Timer — bank scroll time for focused study sessions, not just flashcard reviews AI-POWERED FLASHCARD CREATION (Pro) Upload your notes or a PDF and let AI turn them into a ready-to-study deck in seconds. No more spending an hour making cards before you can spend five minutes studying them. MULTIMEDIA FLASHCARDS (Pro) Attach photos to your cards — diagrams, handwritten notes, anything a picture explains better than text. YOUR SCREEN TIME, YOUR RULES FlashScroll uses Apple's Screen Time API to enforce the deal you make with yourself. You choose exactly which apps to restrict — nothing is selected for you, and we never see which apps you picked. It's a tool to build a habit, not a surveillance system. FREE TO START Create up to 3 decks and 150 flashcards, review with full spaced repetition, and earn scroll time — completely free, no trial required. Upgrade to Pro anytime for unlimited decks and cards, unlimited AI-generated flashcards, multimedia cards, a faster scroll-time earn rate, and more. Terms of Use: https://dfelipe2613.github.io/Flash-look-/terms-of-use.html Privacy Policy: https://dfelipe2613.github.io/Flash-look-/privacy-policy.html Study first. Scroll later. FlashScroll.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Lotus Chess at 3 against FlashScroll's 1. Lotus Chess also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Lotus Chess sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month and FlashScroll sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Lotus Chess ships an update weekly, FlashScroll every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lotus Chess | FlashScroll |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (1.1K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 86.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1.1K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 229 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lotus Chess UG | DWIGHT VINCENT DE GUZMAN FELIPE |
Bugs and requests
Lotus Chess
Reported bugs
2 issues- Login screen freezes
- Incompatible with older devices
Requested features
4 requests- Library to explain the WHY behind the moves
- Link to an online library
- Ability to remove pre-selected openings
- Review of daily correspondence games
FlashScroll
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Lotus Chess
- Lotus Pro · Monthly7 Days trial$7.991 Month
- Lotus Pro · Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Pro Subscription - 1 Year7 Days trial$49.991 Year
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- Pro Subscription - 1 Year7 Days trial$69.991 Year
FlashScroll
- FlashScroll Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
- FlashScroll Pro$29.991 Year









