Comparison

Chessdock vs LearnChess Academy

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

Head to head
About

Chessdock

This app generates personalized chess puzzles from your own game analysis. Connect your Chess.com or Lichess account to train on specific positions where you made mistakes, directly addressing your weaknesses. Improve your game by practicing relevant scenarios tailored to your play style.

Highlights
  • Personalized puzzles from own games
  • Continuous puzzle generation
  • Smart mistake detection
  • Bookmark important positions
  • Track improvement over time
  • Connect Chess.com/Lichess
Features
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Learn from every game you play Connect Chess.com or Lichess, and Chessdock turns your own games into focused reviews and personalized puzzles. Most chess apps train you on random positions from master games. Chessdock is different. It analyzes the games you actually play, finds the mistakes that mattered, and hands them back to you two ways: as a game review you can work through move by move, and as puzzles built from your own slips. Instead of practicing positions that may never come up, you fix the exact moments where your thinking broke down. GAME REVIEWS — see your game through its mistakes • Only the moves that counted — your mistakes, and your opponent's, not the whole game • A winning-chances graph that shows exactly where the game slipped away, or came back • Work each mistake your way: solve it blind like a puzzle, take a hint, or just reveal the best move • Go deeper anytime — open the engine on any position, try your own ideas, and see how the game really played out PUZZLES — your mistakes, as personalized puzzles • Nothing random. Every puzzle comes straight from a game you played • A full library ready now that grows every time you play • Smart selection finds the mistakes actually worth solving • Jump from any puzzle into the full game in one click ALSO INCLUDES • Fresh-game alerts — get notified minutes after you finish a game online • Analysis board — open the engine on any position you like • Bookmarks — save the games and puzzles worth revisiting • iOS & Android apps — your games and puzzles, on the go HOW IT WORKS 1. Connect your Chess.com or Lichess account 2. Chessdock analyzes your games and finds the mistakes that mattered 3. Review each game, then train on puzzles made from your own play 4. Keep playing — new reviews and puzzles arrive automatically Play → Review → Practice → Improve. Chessdock turns your own games into your training plan. Terms of Service: https://chessdock.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://chessdock.com/privacy

About

LearnChess Academy

Features
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Stuck at the same rating? You play every day, but your rating hasn't moved in months. More games won't fix that. Knowing what to study next will. LearnChess is a chess academy with a coach who reads your games. START AT YOUR LEVEL ‣ The Academy: 6 levels, from learning the rules to 2000+ ‣ 52 units of lessons, drills, tests and play-outs ‣ Start where you are, not at lesson one LEARN FROM YOUR OWN GAMES ‣ Import your games from Lichess and Chess.com ‣ Knighty, your AI coach, reads them and picks the one thing to fix first ‣ Short guided sessions built from positions in your own games ‣ Puzzles made from your own mistakes UNDERSTAND, DON'T MEMORIZE ‣ 190 lessons: 111 openings, 32 endgames, 33 tactics, plus a beginner track ‣ Every idea explained in plain language ‣ Build your opening repertoire and re-test it every 90 days PRACTICE EVERY DAY ‣ Rated puzzles and themed drills (forks, mating patterns, zugzwang …) ‣ Stockfish analysis, free for everyone ‣ Take a screenshot of any board and analyze it COMMUNITY ‣ Publish your own puzzles, comment, and climb the leaderboard Five minutes on your commute or an hour of deep study: LearnChess meets you where you are. Free: 10 rated puzzles a day, every beginner lesson, a preview of every Academy unit and advanced lesson, 5 screenshot scans a day, Stockfish analysis, and your first Coach diagnosis. Knight ($4.99/mo): unlimited puzzles, a new Academy unit and advanced lesson every week, a weekly Coach session, and 10 AI messages a day. Queen ($14.99/mo or $89.99/yr): everything unlimited, with a Coach session every day. Subscriptions auto-renew at the end of each period (monthly or yearly) unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage in your App Store account settings. Terms: https://www.learnchess.ai/terms. Privacy: https://www.learnchess.ai/privacy.

Screenshots

Chessdock4 screens
LearnChess Academy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: LearnChess Academy at 15.1 against Chessdock's 17.6. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Chessdock sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $39.00 per year and LearnChess Academy sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Chessdock ships an update every 2 weeks, LearnChess Academy weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Chessdock versus LearnChess Academy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChessdockLearnChess Academy
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB128 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDalibor SimacekNikolas Burk

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Chessdock

Subscriptions1
  • Yearly subscription$39.001 Year
3 purchases

LearnChess Academy

Subscriptions3
  • Knight$4.991 Month
  • Queen$14.991 Month
  • Queen$89.991 Year

Questions

Is Chessdock free?
Chessdock is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is LearnChess Academy free?
LearnChess Academy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Chessdock or LearnChess Academy have ads?
Neither Chessdock nor LearnChess Academy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Chessdock or LearnChess Academy?
Chessdock ships an update every 2 weeks, and LearnChess Academy weekly. Most recently, Chessdock was updated on October 15, 2026 and LearnChess Academy on October 28, 2026.

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