Comparison

Chessveda vs Chess

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

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About

Chessveda

This app offers a comprehensive chess learning experience, from structured lessons and AI coaching to adaptive puzzles and game analysis. Engage in live online matches, tournaments, and computer challenges while tracking your progress with detailed statistics and skill graphs.

Highlights
  • Structured chess lessons
  • Personalized AI coach
  • Adaptive tactical puzzles
  • Opening repertoire builder
  • Live online matches
  • Daily and weekly tournaments
  • Detailed game analysis
Features
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Chessveda – Where Strategy Meets Mastery Think like a grandmaster. Win like a champion. Chessveda is more than a chess app—it’s your personal chess academy, tactical trainer, and global battleground combined. LEARN WITH PURPOSE • Structured Lessons: Step-by-step courses from opening principles to endgame mastery • Personalized AI Coach: Get real-time feedback and recommendations tailored to your level • Interactive Tutorials: Animated examples make complex concepts easy to understand TRAIN YOUR BRAIN • Adaptive Puzzles: Daily tactical puzzles that match your skill progression • Opening Repertoire Builder: Master your preferred systems with guided practice • Game Analysis: Deep analysis of your games with computer insights and suggestions PLAY THE WORLD • Live Online Matches: Ranked and casual games with players worldwide • Tournaments: Daily and weekly events with real prizes • Computer Challenges: Play against adjustable AI from beginner to master level TRACK YOUR PROGRESS • Detailed Statistics: Win rates, accuracy scores, and improvement metrics • Skill Graphs: Visualize your growth across openings, tactics, and endgames • Achievements & Rewards: Earn badges and unlock content as you progress LEGAL • Privacy Policy: https://www.chessveda.com/legal/privacy-policy • Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.chessveda.com/legal/eula

About

Chess

Engage in chess matches with a unique AI opponent that converses with you, offering commentary and personality. This offline game features a powerful local LLM for dynamic interactions and a robust chess engine with adjustable difficulty.

Highlights
  • AI opponent with personality
  • Local LLM for chat
  • Stockfish chess engine
  • Adjustable difficulty levels
  • Offline play
  • Full chess rules
  • Animated reactions
Features
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Chess-Buddy is a chess game where your computer opponent also talks with you using a powerful local LLM, Qwen 3 trained at 1.7 Billion parameters. This Chat system has been wrapped and designed to conform to this game giving a dynamic personality to the gameplay that feels alive and rich with a friendly buddy to play with. I like playing chess on my phone but I really like playing with a person. This isn't quite as nice as playing casual chess with a friend but it's pretty nice. Play chess against a real engine (the chess side of the AI is running on stockfish, the leading open source chess engine that everyone agrees is really great, with also selectable difficulty levels). After almost every move, Buddy reacts — with a short line, a funny face might happen, and occasionally a little shade. You can chat freely between moves too. Buddy will respond. It's less like playing against a computer and more like playing against a friend who happens to be very good at chess but awkward at conversation, Not to say it is a bad chat LLM it's just not set up to work like a personal assistant anymore, the conversation is with a LLM that is essentially now Chess-Buddy. Everything runs on your phone. No internet required. No account. No ads. No subscription. The chess engine and Buddy's brain are built in. --- CHESS • Full rules: all legal moves, castling, en passant, pawn promotion with a piece picker • Four difficulty levels — Friendly (800), Casual (1200), Competitive (1600), Expert (2200) • Undo moves and reset anytime • Game saves automatically — pick up exactly where you left off BUDDY • Reacts to the game with short, personality-driven commentary • 11 animated face states — Buddy goes mindblown when something wild happens • Chat freely: ask for help, vent about your last move, just hang out • Runs entirely on-device with a local AI model — no data leaves your phone DESIGN • Bright, friendly, cartoon — not a dark chess robot • Tap or drag pieces, whichever feels natural • Haptic feedback for captures, check, and checkmate • One screen. No menus to get lost in. ChessBuddy is made by Adrondak LLC. Chess engine: Stockfish (GPL v3) — stockfishchess.org Personality model: Qwen3-1.7B (Apache 2.0) — Qwen Team / Alibaba Cloud Inference runtime: llama.cpp (MIT) — Georgi Gerganov

Screenshots

Chessveda4 screens
Chess4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Chess at none against Chessveda's 6. Chess also leads on ads (none vs shown). Chessveda's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price 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. Chessveda sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Chess asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Chessveda versus Chess: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChessvedaChess
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size211 MB1.3 GB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperMIDAS 24X7 GAMES PRIVATE LIMITEDAdrondak LLC

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Chessveda

Subscriptions6
  • Gold Membership$0.991 Month
  • Platinum Membership$1.991 Month
  • Diamond Membership$2.991 Month
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  • Gold Membership$9.991 Year
  • Platinum Membership$19.991 Year
  • Diamond Membership$29.991 Year
None

Chess

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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