Comparison

Chess Puzzles vs Chess64

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

Head to head
About

Chess Puzzles

Enhance your chess skills with adaptive tactical training. Solve millions of real-game puzzles to build pattern recognition and increase your rating. The system adjusts to your level, offering structured sessions for steady progress.

Highlights
  • Adaptive puzzle difficulty
  • Millions of real-game chess puzzles
  • Themed tactical training (forks, pins, etc.)
  • Engine-supported analysis
  • Rating growth and accuracy tracking
  • Structured training sessions
Features
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Turn every puzzle into progress. Train with 5M+ puzzles from real games, personalized to your level. When you make a mistake, understand why - and learn from it. That’s the idea we built this app around. Solving more puzzles is useful, but we wanted training to be about more than getting a position right or wrong. We wanted every puzzle to teach you something - about the move you missed, the pattern you didn’t recognize, or the way you calculated the position. There are more than 5 million puzzles from real games. But the number itself isn’t really the point. What matters is finding the right positions for you, at the right difficulty, and helping you learn from them. When you make a mistake, you can understand why. Use hints, explore better moves, get coaching, and look deeper into the position instead of simply moving on to the next puzzle. Over time, your training starts to reveal which tactical patterns give you the most trouble. You can practice across 64 motifs and patterns - forks, pins, sacrifices, checkmates, endgames, and many more - and spend more time on the ideas that need it. You can also see how your training develops over time: your rating, accuracy, training time, and performance across different patterns. And when you’re ready for something truly advanced, there are more than 300,000 composed chess problems from solving competitions. They’re difficult, precise, often beautiful - and solving them can be one of the most satisfying forms of chess training. We’ve also tried to make this a place you’ll actually want to come back to. Solve a few puzzles when you have five minutes. Sit down for a longer session when you feel like training seriously. Build a streak, reach a milestone, or simply keep showing up. Whether you’re new to tactics or have been playing chess for years, the goal stays the same: Learn something from every puzzle. Play better chess. And we’re here to help you along the way. Privacy Policy: https://chess.phd/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://chess.phd/terms/

About

Chess64

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Chess64 is a checkmate trainer. The puzzles never ask you for the best move, only for the forced one: every one ends in mate, and the whole difficulty is how deep the line runs and whether you can see all of it before you touch a piece. WHAT YOU GET • Eight depths, from a one-move mate to the long forcing lines of mate in 8+. 400k+ puzzles, completely offline, 50,000 at every depth. Each one is generated for this app and verified by a chess engine: the mate is forced, at exactly the depth stated. • Spaced-repetition training. A puzzle you have solved comes back at growing intervals, timed to reach you just before the pattern would have faded. You set how many new puzzles and reviews a day. Beside it, a library of openings and their traps. Every trap line is proved by a chess engine, and drilling one joins the same review queue. • Five bots to play against, each with a style of its own. Win enough recent games against one and the app says whether the next one up is a fair fight. Afterwards the review analyses the game: the tactics that were there, which of them you found, and the move you missed. • A coach. It reads your games, puzzles and drills and writes what to work on next: five areas, over any period, by the AI model on your phone. Nothing leaves it. It needs iOS 26; everything else works on iOS 17. • Pass and play: two people, one device, and no engine in the middle. Free. Turn the whole board between moves, or only the black pieces. Play with a clock or without, and start a piece up or down. These games never touch your record or statistics. • New to chess? A free beginner guide on the home screen starts at the very beginning. • A daily puzzle: the same mate in 3 for everyone, every day. • A timed challenge: as many as you can before the clock runs out. • Statistics that keep accuracy and solve rate apart instead of blurring them, plus an activity calendar, results by depth and time-of-day performance. Export it all as CSV (Pro). WHAT IT DOES NOT DO No ads. No tracking, no analytics, no third-party data collection of any kind. No account, no sign-in, no email address. FREE AND PRO Free covers mate in 1 and mate in 2, with 5,000 puzzles at each, plus the daily puzzle, full games against the first two bots, pass and play, streaks, badges, core statistics and the streak widget. No ads and no time limits. Chess64 Pro unlocks the other three bots and the review that follows a game, the coach's analysis, mate in 3 to 8+ with the full 50,000 puzzles at every depth, a difficulty filter from Beginner to Master, the timed challenge, spaced-repetition training, the openings library and its traps, hints, full statistics with CSV export, and the medium widget. Later updates are included. YOUR DATA There are no Chess64 servers. Your progress backs up to your own private iCloud, comes back when you sign in on a new device, and syncs without passing through anything in between. Turn iCloud off, or use no iCloud account at all, and Chess64 works the same way it always does; your progress simply stays on the one device. Every puzzle ships inside the app and the bots think on your device, so you can play with no connection at all. SUBSCRIPTION Chess64 Pro is an auto-renewable subscription in two lengths: Monthly (a rolling one-month subscription) and Annual (a one-year subscription). The free version of the app stays free to use. Prices are shown in the app and on the App Store in your local currency. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel any time in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://chess64.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://chess64.app/privacy

Screenshots

Chess Puzzles4 screens
Chess644 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Chess Puzzles at every 3 days against Chess64's every 10 days. On price, ads, 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. Chess Puzzles sells 20 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days and Chess64 sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Chess Puzzles ships an update every 3 days, Chess64 every 10 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Chess Puzzles versus Chess64: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChess PuzzlesChess64
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (241 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews95.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings241 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size112 MB211 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSergei TovmasianEljin Ltd

In-app purchases

20 purchases

Chess Puzzles

Subscriptions20
  • Premium Weekly3 Days trial$3.997 Days
  • Chess.PhD Weekly Access3 Days trial$3.997 Days
  • Chess.PhD Premium (1 Week)$4.997 Days
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  • Premium Weekly3 variants$4.997 Days
  • Chess.PhD Weekly Premium3 Days trial$4.997 Days
  • Chess.PhD Monthly Premium$6.991 Month
  • Chess.PhD Monthly Access$7.991 Month
  • Chess.PhD Premium (1 Month)$9.991 Month
  • Premium Monthly3 variants$9.991 Month
  • Premium Annual$29.991 Year
  • Chess.PhD Annual Access$39.991 Year
  • Chess.PhD Premium (1 Year)7 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Chess.PhD Premium (1 Year)3 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Premium Annual2 variants$49.991 Year
  • Premium Annual3 Days trial2 variants$49.991 Year
  • Premium Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Premium 1 Year3 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Chess.PhD Annual Premium$49.991 Year
  • Premium Annual7 Days trial$79.991 Year
  • Premium Annual3 Days trial$79.991 Year
3 purchases

Chess64

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$5.991 Month
  • Annual$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • Chess64 Pro$6.99

Questions

Is Chess Puzzles free?
Chess Puzzles is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Chess64 free?
Chess64 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Chess Puzzles or Chess64 have ads?
Neither Chess Puzzles nor Chess64 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Chess Puzzles or Chess64?
Chess Puzzles ships an update every 3 days, and Chess64 every 10 days. Most recently, Chess Puzzles was updated on October 24, 2026 and Chess64 on October 24, 2026.

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