Chessle vs Chess DNA
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chessle
This app offers a curated collection of chess puzzles for players of all skill levels, from beginners to Grandmasters. It features an offline mode with no login required, allowing users to train their puzzle intuition at their own pace. Filters help users review solved puzzles or tackle challenging ones.
- Offline play
- No login required
- Puzzles for all skill levels
- Minimalistic design
- Solved/Unsolved puzzle filters
- Puzzle intuition training
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Completely offline and no logins required, Chessle: Chess Puzzles trains your puzzle intuition. Curated puzzles designed to delight beginners to Grandmasters. The puzzles range from easy to fiendishly difficult. The minimalistic design lets the user go at the desired pace, while "Solved" and "Unsolved" filters let you review puzzles you've solved to ingrain them in your mind, or tackle the most problematic puzzles that you had trouble solving.
Chess DNA
This app analyzes your chess games to identify recurring mistakes and weaknesses. It provides personalized training drills based on your actual gameplay, helping you understand and improve your strategic patterns. Track your progress across various skill dimensions to focus your learning effectively.
- Game analysis for progress tracking
- Identification of recurring mistakes
- Personalized training drills
- Skill radar for openings, tactics, and more
- Import games from chess.com and Lichess
- Share game insights with others
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Chess DNA turns every game you play into progress. Connect your chess.com or Lichess account and Maya, your AI chess coach, reviews each game seconds after it ends: the moment it turned, why it happened, and the move that would have saved it. YOUR CHESS DNA Eight skills scored from your real games: Openings, Tactics, Defense, Positional play, Endgames, Calculation, Time management and Resilience. See your strengths, your leaks, and exactly what to fix first. EVERY MOVE, EXPLAINED Stockfish finds the best move. Maya tells you why, in plain words, in your language. Key moments, missed tactics and the patterns that keep costing you games are marked for you. REPLAY YOUR MISTAKES Step back into your own lost positions, rewound to the move before it broke, and find the save this time. Every drill comes from a game you actually played. A TRAINING PATH BUILT FROM YOUR LEAKS Maya turns each weakness into a five-minute drill and re-orders your path after every game, so today's step is always the one that matters most. PLAY THE COACH WHO KNOWS YOU Play a full game against Maya at your own rating. She flags every move that drops material, live, while you play. SHARE YOUR BEST MOMENTS Biggest scalp, longest streak, cleanest win. Every milestone becomes a card you can share in one tap. IN YOUR LANGUAGE Chess DNA is available in 13 languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Turkish, Russian, Vietnamese, Hebrew, Arabic and Hindi. You can set the coach's language separately from the app's. Free to start. Bring your games, and see who you really are at the board. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://chessdna.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Chess DNA at free against Chessle's free with in-app purchases. Chess DNA also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Chessle sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Chess DNA sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Chessle against 4.4 for Chess DNA. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 7 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Chessle ships an update monthly, Chess DNA every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chessle | Chess DNA |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (7 ratings) | 4.4 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 7 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ENVISIONAIRY LLC | Yuval Incze |
Customer experience
Chessle
Chess DNA
In-app purchases
Chessle
- Unlock Full App$0.99
Chess DNA
- Pro Monthly$8.991 Month
- 90-Day Pass$19.99
- Founder$79.99
