Blindfold Chess Trainer vs ChessView
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Blindfold Chess Trainer
Sharpen your chess visualization and calculation skills without seeing the board. This app offers puzzles, AI challenges, and square mastery to improve your game. It's designed for players of all levels to enhance their internal board representation.
- Master all 64 squares
- Train piece movement patterns
- 5,000+ blindfold puzzles
- Play vs Stockfish AI
- Voice mode for hands-free moves
- 100% offline play
Read full descriptionHide full description
Master chess without looking at the board. Join players who use Blindfold Chess to sharpen visualization, memory, and calculation — the core skills that separate good players from great ones. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced tournament player, this app is your complete blindfold training system. WHY BLINDFOLD CHESS? Titled players from club level to GM train blindfold chess for one reason: it forces your mind to hold the board internally. The result is deeper calculation, stronger pattern recognition, and faster tactical thinking in every game you play. LEARN EVERY SQUARE Master all 64 squares — colors, coordinates, and diagonals Train knight, bishop, rook, and queen movement patterns Progressive difficulty that adapts as you improve Chess Skill Tree with unlockable stages and celebrations Daily challenges with XP and leveling system 5,000+ BLINDFOLD PUZZLES Solve tactical positions without seeing the board Progressive difficulty from beginner to master level Hints available when you're stuck — learn, don't guess Analyze your mistakes and identify weak tactical themes Voice mode — speak your moves completely hands-free PLAY vs STOCKFISH AI Challenge the world's strongest engine at 8 difficulty levels Full blindfold game experience — no board, pure chess Detailed statistics and long-term progress tracking TRAIN ANYWHERE 100% offline — no internet connection required Available in English, German, Russian, Spanish & Chinese Lightweight and battery-friendly Download now and start seeing the board with your mind. Privacy Policy: https://dawikk-apps.vercel.app/BlindfoldChessMaster/privacyPolicy.html Terms of Use: https://dawikk-apps.vercel.app/BlindfoldChessMaster/terms.html
ChessView
Scan chess positions from photos, books, or screenshots and instantly play them out on a digital board. Analyze PGN files, import your online games, and explore classic matches. Offers optional AI commentary for deeper insights.
- Scan positions from photos/screenshots
- Import PGN and FEN files
- Replay and branch off game moves
- Full move validation
- Import Chess.com games
- Built-in classic games
- Optional AI commentary
Read full descriptionHide full description
See a chess position anywhere — in a book, on another screen, on the table in front of you — and have it on a board you can play with, in seconds. ChessView is a study tool, not another place to play. Scan a position with the camera or from a screenshot, open a PGN file, or pull in your Chess.com games — then replay them, branch off, and work out what actually happened. Free, offline, no account, no ads, no tracking. SCAN A POSITION FROM A PHOTO Point the camera at a real board, or choose a screenshot from Chess.com, Lichess or a chess book. ChessView reads the position and puts it on your board. Anything it misreads, you fix in the position editor — then start playing it out. PLAY IT OUT ON A REAL BOARD Full move validation: legal moves, en passant, castling, promotion. Drag the pieces, step back and forth through the whole game, flip the board, and branch off wherever you want to see what would have happened. OPEN PGN AND FEN FROM ANYWHERE PGN files from Files, Mail, Messages or any app that can share them. Paste a FEN string and it loads. Export any position or game as PGN, FEN or a PNG image, and share it in one tap. YOUR CHESS.COM GAMES, OFFLINE Type your username, pick a month, and your games are in the library — ready to replay any time, with or without a connection. STUDY THE CLASSICS Famous games come built in — Byrne–Fischer, Morphy, Short–Timman, Lasker–Thomas — so there is always a position worth looking at. SEE THE EVALUATION Evaluations and main lines come from the Lichess cloud database: free, fast, no account needed. For positions the database doesn't know, ChessView offers a sensible continuation of its own. OPTIONAL: COMMENTARY IN PLAIN WORDS Add your own OpenAI API key and ChessView will explain a position or a whole game in sentences — the plan, the key ideas, the moment it turned. Entirely optional: everything above works without it. Your key is stored in the iOS Keychain, used only from your device, and never sent to us. PRIVACY, ACTUALLY No account. No ads. No analytics. No tracking. Your games and your settings stay on your iPhone and iPad. WHY I BUILT IT Getting a chess position onto my phone used to be absurdly hard. A diagram in a book, a screenshot from a game, a FEN string someone sent me — none of it could just be opened and played through on an iPhone. PGN files were worse. So I built the app I wanted: open anything, put it on a real board, move the pieces. — Pavel, solo developer Designed for iPhone and iPad.
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ChessView at 5.0 against Blindfold Chess Trainer's 4.0. ChessView also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 6) and ads (none vs shown). Blindfold Chess Trainer's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Blindfold Chess Trainer sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. ChessView asks for nothing beyond the download.
ChessView holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Blindfold Chess Trainer ships an update fortnightly, ChessView every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Blindfold Chess Trainer | ChessView |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 138 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | Dawid Wrzesinski | Pavel Gnatyuk |
Customer experience
Blindfold Chess Trainer
ChessView
In-app purchases
Blindfold Chess Trainer
- Espresso Subscription$2.991 Month
- Flat White Subscription$5.993 Months
- Latte Subscription$8.996 Months
- Espresso$3.99
- Flat White$6.99
- Latte$9.99
ChessView
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Blindfold Chess Trainer free?
Is ChessView free?
Which has better reviews, Blindfold Chess Trainer or ChessView?
Do Blindfold Chess Trainer or ChessView have ads?
Which is updated more often, Blindfold Chess Trainer or ChessView?
Other comparisons















