Comparison

Candidate Moves vs tabasa

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

Head to head
About

Candidate Moves

Sharpen your chess tactics with interactive puzzles and position analysis. This app helps players of all levels improve tactical vision and decision-making through carefully selected positions and detailed explanations.

Highlights
  • Interactive chess puzzles
  • Position analysis
  • Tactical pattern recognition
  • Progressive difficulty levels
  • Detailed solution explanations
  • Streak tracking
Features
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Master chess tactics through engaging puzzles and position analysis! Candidate Moves is your personal chess tactics trainer, designed to help players of all levels sharpen their tactical vision and improve their decision-making abilities. INTERACTIVE PUZZLES - Carefully selected positions from real games - Multiple-choice format makes learning engaging - Animated chess board visualizations - Detailed explanations for every solution IMPROVE YOUR CHESS GAME - Build your tactical pattern recognition - Monitor your solving accuracy - Watch your chess understanding grow - Track your solving streaks FEATURES FOR ALL SKILL LEVELS - Suitable for beginners to advanced players - Progressive difficulty levels - Clear, easy-to-use interface - Learn classic tactical patterns - Practice finding the best candidate moves LEARN AS YOU PLAY - Understand the reasoning behind each move - Develop your calculation skills - Improve your pattern recognition - Learn from your mistakes with detailed explanations Perfect for: - Chess players looking to improve their tactical skills - Beginners wanting to learn basic patterns - Intermediate players honing their calculation - Advanced players maintaining their tactical sharpness - Anyone who enjoys solving chess puzzles Whether you have five minutes or an hour, Candidate Moves helps you make the most of your practice time. Each puzzle is carefully selected to teach important tactical patterns and improve your chess vision. Train your tactical eye, improve your calculation skills, and become a stronger chess player with Candidate Moves – your pocket chess trainer! This application is subject to the standard Apple EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

tabasa

Features
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tabasa is a blindfold chess puzzle trainer. Instead of a rendered board, you read the position as text — pieces, castling rights, en passant — and enter your moves. It is built for players who want to train visualization and pattern recognition directly, the way strong players calculate: in their head, not on a board. Each puzzle is rated, and your own rating adjusts as you solve, miss, or give up — so puzzles stay matched to your level automatically. Five difficulty settings let you aim easier or harder than your current rating at any time. tabasa works fully offline. The app ships with a local puzzle library, so you can start solving immediately after installing it — no account, no sign-in, no setup. When you're online, it transparently fetches additional puzzles in the background to keep your library topped up; when you're not, it keeps serving puzzles from what's already on your device. You will never see a network error blocking play. Other things tabasa does: - Full move history and solution replay for every puzzle you've attempted - Statistics on your solving history and rating over time - A built-in tutorial covering every control - Resumes an in-progress puzzle if you close the app mid-solve No ads, no tracking, no account required.

Screenshots

Candidate Moves4 screens
tabasa3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: tabasa at none against Candidate Moves's 1. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Candidate Moves sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $8.99 per month. tabasa asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Candidate Moves versus tabasa: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCandidate Movestabasa
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developermartin schranzWojciech Pietrzak

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Candidate Moves

Subscriptions1
  • Unlimited Access$8.991 Month
None

tabasa

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Candidate Moves free?
Candidate Moves is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is tabasa free?
tabasa is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Candidate Moves or tabasa have ads?
Neither Candidate Moves nor tabasa shows ads.

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