Comparison

MindChess vs Chess Vision Rush

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

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About

MindChess

Enhance your chess skills with daily training sessions, tactical puzzles, and bot matches. Analyze your games, build opening repertoires, and track your progress with detailed statistics. This app offers a comprehensive suite of tools for chess improvement.

Highlights
  • Daily chess training drills
  • Themed tactical puzzles
  • Play against AI bots
  • Import and analyze your games
  • Opening repertoire builder
  • Progress tracking and statistics
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
Features
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MindChess is a daily chess gym and a study companion. Train board vision, memory and calculation in 60-second sessions, sharpen your tactics, play bots, and take what you learn to your own games. THE GYM • Thirteen short drills: Square Color, Coordinates, Same Color, Same Diagonal, Bishop Captures, Two Knights, Collision, Memory, Mate in 1, Fork Finder, Piece Snapshot, Knight Distance and Opening Flash. • Timed mode (60 seconds, Game Center leaderboards) and Training mode (3 lives). • A daily challenge and a daily streak, with streak freezes and an optional reminder. • 39 achievements: badges at 10, 50 and 100 games of every drill, also in Game Center. TACTICS • Themed puzzles in four modes: Rated, with your own tactics rating; Practice, with free hints; Streak, until your first miss; and Time trial, 3 or 5 minutes with 3 lives. • Pick one of 24 themes or Mix, and review the puzzles you miss. PLAY BOTS • Nine characters with their own style, from beginner to advanced, plus Stockfish at the strength you choose. • Download the free Maia-2 model and some bots play like people at their level. Everything runs on your device. YOUR GAMES • Connect your Lichess or Chess.com account and import your games. • Game databases, PGN import and a viewer with variations, notes and marks. • Analysis: Stockfish 19 on your device, offline, with an evaluation bar and the top 3 lines. With Pro, the game report marks your mistakes, the key moments and your brilliant moves. OPENINGS • Repertoire: play through your lines and the app brings each one back right before you'd forget it. • Learn mode walks you through every new line, with its comments and arrows, before the first question. • Opening explorer: what Masters, Lichess players and you have played from any position, with a linked Lichess account. Save the moves to your repertoire. PROGRESS AND TOOLS • Statistics that tell you what to improve in your training, repertoire and games. • Widgets for your Home Screen and Lock Screen: daily challenge, reviews, streak, personal bests and shortcuts. • Diagram scanner: snap a diagram and get the position ready to edit. Free. • Chess clock: increments, stages and time odds, for games with your phone on the table. • Notation your way: English, Spanish or figurines. The same board, with your look, across the app. ON EVERY SCREEN MindChess works on iPhone, iPad, iPhone Duo and Mac. MINDCHESS PRO Pro unlocks every drill, tactics and bots with no daily limit, Stockfish analysis and the game report, unlimited repertoires, lines and imports, lines from your own games, full statistics, unlimited game databases and clock controls, and 11 Pro piece sets. Free stays useful: the basic drills, 15 tactics puzzles a day, a daily game against the beginner bots, game import, the opening explorer, the scanner and the PGN viewer. MindChess is not an online chess server. It is the place where you train between your games. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Chess Vision Rush

Features
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"Chess Vision Rush" is daily training for developing the tactical intuition that separates good players from great ones. Training your brain to instantly recognize patterns on the board. These are NOT tactical puzzles, but visualization exercises to coach you into better board awareness. Three Intense Training Modes Find the Checks and Captures: Quickly scan the board and identify every possible check and capture. This is the foundation of tactical awareness. Knight Path Navigation: Master the tricky movement of the knight. Chart the fastest path for your knight to reach its target square, avoiding attacked squares along the way. Spot the Unprotected Pieces: Develop an eye for hanging pieces. Quickly identify which pieces are vulnerable to attack, a crucial skill for both offense and defense. Rush Style Gameplay Every mode in "Chess Vision Rush" is designed to push your limits. You'll face increasingly difficult puzzles, with an oppressive time limit. Very few people can beat this game. The pressure is on, and only the sharpest minds will survive. Track Your Progress Strive for perfection and track your improvement. High scores are saved for every mode, giving you a clear benchmark to beat. Can you conquer the rush and finish all the puzzles? Download "Chess Vision Rush" today and start seeing the board like a master!

Screenshots

MindChess4 screens
Chess Vision Rush4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: MindChess at none against Chess Vision Rush's shown. Chess Vision Rush's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, 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. MindChess sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Chess Vision Rush sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MindChess ships an update every 3 weeks, Chess Vision Rush weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
MindChess versus Chess Vision Rush: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMindChessChess Vision Rush
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size150 MB114 MB
Age rating4+12+
Developeromar megdadiGrouper Games LLC

In-app purchases

2 purchases

MindChess

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly subscription$0.991 Month
  • Yearly subscription$9.991 Year
1 purchases

Chess Vision Rush

One-time1
  • Full Version$1.99

Questions

Is MindChess free?
MindChess is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Chess Vision Rush free?
Chess Vision Rush is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do MindChess or Chess Vision Rush have ads?
Chess Vision Rush shows ads; MindChess does not.
Which is updated more often, MindChess or Chess Vision Rush?
MindChess ships an update every 3 weeks, and Chess Vision Rush weekly. Most recently, MindChess was updated on November 5, 2026 and Chess Vision Rush on November 9, 2026.

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