Comparison

We Chess vs ChessMate Puzzles

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

Head to head
About

We Chess

Embark on a family-friendly chess journey designed for young players and novices. Master easy levels and advance to more difficult puzzles as your abilities improve. Engage in enjoyable chess variations, test your skills against intelligent AI, and aim for top scores.

Highlights
  • Family-friendly chess adventure
  • Designed for kids and beginners
  • Progressive difficulty levels
  • Fun chess modes
  • Challenge smart bots
  • Compete for high scores
Features
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Enjoy a family-friendly chess adventure made for kids and beginners! Start with easy levels and progress to harder challenges as your skills grow. Play fun chess modes, challenge smart bots, and compete for high scores to keep the excitement going. Whether learning your first moves or playing together with family, this app makes chess simple, engaging, and endlessly fun.

About

ChessMate Puzzles

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ChessMate Puzzles turns every position into a compact challenge—easy to pick up, satisfying to solve, and ready whenever you are. 5,000+ chess puzzles. No internet required. Just chess. ChessMate Puzzles is designed to sharpen your tactical vision, calculation, and pattern recognition. Find mate in one, calculate forced mates in two or three moves, discover winning lines from miniature games, and test your technique in endgames and master combinations. From accessible positions to demanding tactical challenges, there is always another puzzle waiting to be solved. FEATURES • 5,000+ chess puzzles • Mate-in-one, mate-in-two, and mate-in-three challenges • 600 miniature games • Endgames and master combinations • Automatic opponent replies in multi-move puzzles • Hints that reveal the next correct move • Up to three stars to earn on every puzzle • Progress saved directly on your device • Offline play ANALYZE WITHOUT PENALTIES Not sure about a move? Turn on Analysis Mode to move pieces freely, explore variations, and search for the solution without affecting your score. When you exit Analysis Mode, your experimental moves are discarded and the puzzle returns to its previous position. GET HELP WHEN YOU NEED IT Use a hint to reveal the next correct move in the solution. Hints and wrong moves may lower your star rating for that attempt, while solving cleanly earns more stars. PLAY TOGETHER Board Mode turns your device into a free chessboard. Play both sides yourself or enjoy pass-and-play chess with another person on the same device. There is no computer opponent—you control the game. Tap a piece to see its legal moves, study the position, and find the best continuation. Revisit completed puzzles, retry them to earn more stars, or continue to the next challenge. Whether you are learning tactical patterns or looking for difficult positions to calculate, ChessMate Puzzles lets you enjoy chess at your own pace—anytime and anywhere. Remove ads anytime with an optional one-time In-App Purchase.

Screenshots

We Chess4 screens
ChessMate Puzzles4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: We Chess at 5.0 against ChessMate Puzzles's 1.0. We Chess also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, ratings volume, 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. We Chess sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and ChessMate Puzzles sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

We Chess holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
We Chess versus ChessMate Puzzles: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWe ChessChessMate Puzzles
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 8 months—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size81 MB75 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperWe Chess FZ LLEKids Academy Co apps: Preschool & Kindergarten Learning Kids Games, Educational Books, Free Songs

In-app purchases

3 purchases

We Chess

One-time3
  • ONE_MILLION_PANDA_POINTS$9.90
  • OPEN_ALL_LEVELS_FOR_30_DAYS$9.90
  • OPEN_ALL_LEVELS_FOR_LIFE_TIME$74.90
1 purchases

ChessMate Puzzles

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$3.99

Questions

Is We Chess free?
We Chess is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ChessMate Puzzles free?
ChessMate Puzzles is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, We Chess or ChessMate Puzzles?
We Chess is rated higher. We Chess averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while ChessMate Puzzles averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do We Chess or ChessMate Puzzles have ads?
ChessMate Puzzles shows ads; We Chess does not.

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