Chess Puzzles vs Knightmare
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chess Puzzles
Sharpen your chess tactics with thousands of hand-picked "mate in two" puzzles. Designed for quick, satisfying sessions, this app helps improve pattern recognition and calculation skills.
- Mate in 2 puzzles
- 20,000+ puzzles
- Hand-picked from real games
- Improves tactical vision
- Quick sessions
- Pattern recognition
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Can you find mate in two? Beginners and experienced players alike will enjoy solving the chess puzzles included in this app. Every puzzle is hand-picked and taken from actual chess games, ensuring realistic positions and practical attacking ideas. This app focuses exclusively on Mate in 2 puzzles, making each challenge short, sharp, and incredibly satisfying. The goal is simple: force a checkmate in exactly two moves. Perfect for quick sessions, daily practice, or sharpening your tactical vision in just a few minutes. With 20,000 puzzles, you’ll never run out of challenges. These puzzles are fast to play, highly addictive, and designed to improve pattern recognition, calculation, and attacking instincts—without long time commitments.
Knightmare
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One knight. A very long night. Knightmare is a turn-based chess survival game. You are a lone knight on a chessboard. Enemy pieces are added over time as you battle them for your survival one move after the other. No king to protect. No checkmate to chase. How long can you survive?
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Knightmare at none against Chess Puzzles's 9. Knightmare also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 4 weeks). On price, ads, 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 sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Knightmare asks for nothing beyond the download.
Chess Puzzles ships an update every 4 weeks, Knightmare every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chess Puzzles | Knightmare |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jignaben Manishkumar Shah | Faraz Patankar |
In-app purchases
Chess Puzzles
- Unlock Puzzle Sets 5 and 6$0.99
- Unlock Puzzle Sets 7 and 8$0.99
- Unlock Puzzle Sets 9 and 10$0.99
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- Unlock Puzzle Sets 11 and 12$0.99
- Unlock Puzzle Sets 13 and 14$0.99
- Unlock Puzzle Sets 19 and 20$0.99
- Unlock Puzzle Sets 15 and 16$0.99
- Unlock Puzzle Sets 17 and 18$0.99
- Unlock All Puzzle Sets$6.99
Knightmare
No in-app purchases
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