Chess Clock & Chess Timer vs Chessigma
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chess Clock & Chess Timer
This app provides a tournament-ready chess clock for over-the-board games. It offers customizable time controls, including increments and delays, and features like time odds for balancing skill levels. Enjoy a clean interface with sound cues and mid-game adjustments for a distraction-free experience.
- Tournament-ready chess clock
- Customizable time controls (increment, delay)
- Time odds for uneven matchups
- Presets for various game speeds
- Mid-game adjustments
- Offline and low battery impact
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Chess Timer is a fast, tournament-ready chess clock built for OTB (over-the-board) games. Pick a preset for bullet, blitz, rapid, or classical, or build advanced time controls with increment and delay. Use Fischer increment, Bronstein, or simple delay, plus sudden death and multi-stage time control setups like 40 moves in 2 hours + rest of game. Play with kids or balance skill levels using time odds (time handicap) with different time per player. Enjoy stunning themes with high-contrast readability for tabletop mode, crisp sound cues, and quick mid-game adjustments. Features • One-tap turn switching with clear visual states and optional sounds • Presets for bullet, blitz, rapid, classical • Fischer increment, Bronstein, and delay • Multi-stage time controls and move-control setups (example: 40/120) • Time odds (time handicap) for uneven matchups, ideal for kids • Pause, reset, and add or subtract time mid-game • Offline, low battery impact, clean distraction-free UI • Also great for 2-player board games like go, shogi, Scrabble, checkers, backgammon, chess timer Easy to play chess: 1. Choose a preset or set base time, increment, delay, and stages. 2. Place the phone between players and tap to start. 3. Tap after each move to switch, pause anytime, adjust if needed. Terms Of Use: https://www.appside.io/chesstimer/termsandconditions.html Privacy Policy: https://www.appside.io/chesstimer/privacypolicy.html
Chessigma
This app analyzes your chess games, identifies mistakes, and creates personalized training exercises. It offers puzzles, opening courses, and brain games, with an optional AI coach for advanced analysis and personalized plans.
- Game review with move grading
- AI-powered coach chat
- Personalized training plans
- Daily and classic puzzles
- Opening course learning
- Brain games and sparring bots
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Chessigma reviews your chess games, shows you where the points went, and turns your own mistakes into training. The app has five tabs: Home, Train, Coach, Games and Brain. FREE - Game review: import your games from Chess.com or Lichess by username, or paste a PGN or a game link. Every move is graded, the turning points are marked, and you see the better move and the evaluation graph. The Stockfish engine runs on your phone, so a review needs no account. - Scan: pick a screenshot, a photo of a screen or a diagram from a book, and the analysis board opens on that position with the best move. It reads screens and diagrams, not real boards. - Puzzles: a daily puzzle to keep your streak, classic puzzles, and Woodpecker sets that repeat the same positions until the patterns stick. - Opening Trainer: learn opening courses line by line. The first lines of every course are free. - Brain Games: twelve short games with scores and leaderboards. Nine are built on chess, and three need no chess: a reaction time test, Queens and Memory Match. - Sparring: play the first bots on the sparring ladder. - A first look at your player report, built from your recent online games. - One move explanation from the coach each day when you are signed in. Signing in is free and keeps your streak, puzzle rating, scores and progress on every device. SUPERCOACH Supercoach is the paid plan. It adds: - Coach chat: ask the AI coach about your games, your openings and your habits. - Your full player report in six chapters (Overview, Blunders, Clock, Tactics, Conversion, Openings), with a heatmap of your blind spots. - A daily plan of coached tasks picked from your own games. - Move explanations in every game review, and the option to play on from any position. - Blunder Shield and Blunder Training: drills built from the positions where you blundered. - Conversion Trainer: practice winning the games you were winning. - Every rival on the sparring ladder and every line of every opening course. Coach messages come from a monthly allowance. Coach answers are written by an AI model through a third-party service, and every answer has a Report button. ACCOUNT Sign in with Apple, Google or your email address (we send a 6-digit code, no password). If your Chessigma account already has Supercoach, it works in the app as soon as you sign in. You can delete your account in Account > Delete account. SUBSCRIPTION Supercoach is an auto-renewing subscription, monthly or yearly. The price and billing period are shown in the app before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless you cancel it at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and the renewal is charged within the 24 hours before the period ends. You can manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.chessigma.com/tos Privacy Policy: https://www.chessigma.com/privacy-policy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Chessigma at 4.7 against Chess Clock & Chess Timer's 4.3. Chessigma also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 6 weeks) and ratings volume (95 vs 20). Chess Clock & Chess Timer's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 80%). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Chess Clock & Chess Timer sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days and Chessigma sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.00 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Chessigma holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 20 and 95 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Chess Clock & Chess Timer's written reviews are positive against 80% of Chessigma's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Chess Clock & Chess Timer ships an update every 6 weeks, Chessigma every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chess Clock & Chess Timer | Chessigma |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (20 ratings) | 4.7 (95 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 80.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 20 | 95 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Maksym Farynets | Chessigma |
Customer experience
Chess Clock & Chess Timer
Chessigma
In-app purchases
Chess Clock & Chess Timer
- 3 Days Free3 Days trial$3.997 Days
- Premium Annual$49.991 Year
Chessigma
- Supercoach Monthly$14.001 Month
- Supercoach Yearly$97.001 Year
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