Comparison

Chess Puzzles vs SevenShapes

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

Head to head
About

Chess Puzzles

Master chess tactics with over 5 million puzzles from real games, personalized to your skill level. Understand mistakes, practice specific patterns, and track your progress to improve your rating and play better chess.

Highlights
  • Millions of real game puzzles
  • Personalized difficulty levels
  • Mistake analysis and learning
  • Practice 64 tactical motifs
  • Progress tracking (rating, accuracy)
  • Composed chess problems
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

SevenShapes

Features
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Seven Shapes is a new take on the classic game of tic-tac-toe. Familiar rules become much deeper with pieces of different sizes. Each player has 7 pieces. The goal is familiar — get three of your pieces in a row. But a larger piece can cover a smaller one, whether it belongs to you or your opponent. A single move can completely change the situation on the board. Plan your combinations, set traps for your opponent, and use your pieces wisely. Play the way you want: • against AI • against a random player online • with a friend by nickname Matches are short — perfect for a quick game during a break, on the go, or whenever you have a few minutes to spare. Win online matches, increase your rating, and climb the leaderboard. Familiar rules. A completely new strategy.

Screenshots

Chess Puzzles4 screens
SevenShapes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SevenShapes at none against Chess Puzzles's 10. SevenShapes also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). Chess Puzzles's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price 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 8 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. SevenShapes asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Chess Puzzles versus SevenShapes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChess PuzzlesSevenShapes
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (258 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews87.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings258 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size114 MB96 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperSergei TovmasianAlibek Yermagambetov

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Chess Puzzles

Subscriptions8
  • Premium Weekly3 Days trial$3.997 Days
  • Chess.PhD Premium (1 Week)$4.997 Days
  • Premium Weekly2 variants$4.997 Days
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  • Chess.PhD Weekly Premium3 Days trial$4.997 Days
  • Premium Monthly2 variants$9.991 Month
  • Chess.PhD Premium (1 Year)7 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Chess.PhD Premium (1 Year)3 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Premium Annual3 Days trial$49.991 Year
None

SevenShapes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Chess Puzzles free?
Chess Puzzles is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SevenShapes free?
SevenShapes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Chess Puzzles or SevenShapes have ads?
SevenShapes shows ads; Chess Puzzles does not.

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