Chess Puzzle Puzzle vs ChessLab
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chess Puzzle Puzzle
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Chess AI Puzzles helps you improve by playing and training. Face a local AI opponent matched to your level, get a quick Elo estimate after a few games, and use the virtual coach to plan your practice. Features: • Chess games against a local AI, with no online opponent required • Elo estimate and personalized progression • Virtual coach with training recommendations • Tactical puzzles from real games • Solo, Rush, Survival and Hardcore modes • Puzzle Quest adventure and daily challenge • Smooth board, statistics and readable piece sets Whether you are a beginner or an experienced player, build tactical vision, calculation and pattern recognition at your own pace. Puzzle data comes from public Lichess data. This app is not affiliated with Lichess.
ChessLab
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ChessLab is a complete chess companion for iPhone and iPad: play, analyse, train and experiment, with Stockfish built in, without ever leaving the app. OPPONENTS THAT PLAY LIKE HUMANS Nine characters played by Maia-3, a network trained on millions of human games: it does not look for the best move, it plays the one a human of that level would play, blunders included. Each has a style, a repertoire and a temperament, and a level set on the human scale. Or take on Stockfish, from beginner (~900 Elo) to maximum (~3190). Optional clock, hints, a warning before risky moves and an evaluation bar, all on demand. ANALYSE AND UNDERSTAND Every move is graded (inaccuracy, mistake, blunder, brilliant…), each player gets an accuracy score, and the app tells you why a move was bad. The Coach adds the share of players at your level who play it. At the end, it offers to turn your mistakes and missed mates into puzzles. Load a game by PGN, FEN, position editor or photo scanner. DAILY SESSION Every day, what to review: opening positions that are due, missed puzzles, an endgame. A streak of days and medals to keep you going. OPENINGS 58 hand-written openings (bilingual), checked against the engine: every move is explained, coloured arrows tie the board to the move list, and spaced repetition makes them stick. Import your own repertoires as PGN too. ENDGAMES 78 courses proven by endgame tablebases: no move taught gives up a win, no defence offered loses a draw. Plus free training, where any move that keeps the verdict is accepted. PUZZLES Over 100,000 problems from the Lichess database, filtered by level and theme, plus your own, drawn from your mistakes. Personal rating and “At my level”. VARIANTS AND MORE Chess960 and eleven variants against the computer (King of the Hill, Three-Check, Horde, Atomic, Crazyhouse, Duck Chess, Barricades…), each with its own analysis. Two-player mode, and a Laboratory to compare two Stockfish settings. IPHONE AND IPAD A large board with side-by-side panels on iPad, keyboard and trackpad, portrait and landscape. Fully bilingual, French and English. Optional iCloud sync, off by default. PRIVACY Offline by default: no ChessLab server, no analytics, no ads. Your games stay on your device. ChessLab embeds the Stockfish engine (GPLv3 license), the University of Toronto's Maia-3 network (AGPLv3 license) and free vector piece sets — cburnett (GPLv2+/CC BY-SA), chessnut (Apache 2.0) and merida (GPLv2+). Full source code and license notices are available from within the app (Settings → Licenses).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: ChessLab at weekly against Chess Puzzle Puzzle's every 4 weeks. Chess Puzzle Puzzle's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Chess Puzzle Puzzle ships an update every 4 weeks, ChessLab weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chess Puzzle Puzzle | ChessLab |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 170 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | David Boukhors | Thierry Maeder |
In-app purchases
Chess Puzzle Puzzle
No in-app purchases
ChessLab
No in-app purchases
Questions
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