Comparison

Chessdock vs Elo Hell

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

Elo Hell

This app analyzes your chess games to identify your weaknesses and create personalized training. It offers puzzles from your own mistakes, lessons on openings, endgames, and tactics, and detailed game reviews. Build your opening repertoire and track your progress with spaced repetition.

Highlights
  • Personalized puzzles from your own games
  • Spaced repetition for review
  • Opening repertoire builder
  • Lessons on openings, endgames, and tactics
  • Full game review with Stockfish analysis
  • Master games with guess-the-move challenges
Features
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Elo hell isn't real. Your blunders are. Elo Hell builds your training from your own games. It analyzes your recent games and keeps an up-to-date read of your strengths and weaknesses. It uses that read to show you what to work on next. Puzzles come from the mistakes in your own games and return on a spaced-repetition schedule. You can also build an opening repertoire, review it with spaced repetition, and see where your games leave it. Learn from a growing library of lessons on openings, endgames and tactics. Every game you import from Chess.com or Lichess gets a full game review with Stockfish analysis. Master games matched to your play come with annotations and guess-the-move challenges. PRACTICE FROM YOUR OWN GAMES Connect your games to turn missed chances and blunders into personal puzzles. Spaced repetition brings positions back for review, and explanations show why a wrong move fails. KNOW WHAT TO STUDY NEXT Elo Hell tracks your skill in tactics, openings, and endgames using evidence from your real games and practice. See each skill's level, estimate, trend, and supporting games. Daily recommendations point you toward the weaknesses worth working on. BUILD YOUR OPENING REPERTOIRE Build lines from your games, the opening catalog, or an imported study. Review with spaced repetition, practice against the engine, and see where your games leave your preparation. OPENING LESSONS Understand the ideas behind the moves. Choose lessons for White or Black, follow explanations on the board, check your understanding with quizzes, and practice the lines. Work through a course at your own pace. ENDGAME LESSONS Learn opposition, pawn endings, rook endings, and more. Step through the technique, find the move in a quiz, then play the position out against the computer. Each lesson ends in a drill that comes back for review on a spaced-repetition schedule. The app and lesson content are currently in English. TACTICS LESSONS Lessons on checkmate patterns, attacking the king, and tactical motifs such as the fork, the pin and the skewer. Each lesson explains the idea on the board, then asks you to find the move and play positions out. CHESS GAME REVIEW AND ANALYSIS Enter a Chess.com or Lichess username, or paste a game link. See your accuracy, the turning point, move classifications, and plain-English explanations. STATISTICS AND MASTER GAMES Explore your results by opening, clock habits, and where winning positions slip away. Study annotated master games matched to your play, with guess-the-move challenges and a shared Master of the Day. ACCOUNTS AND ELO HELL PLUS Lessons and guest reviews need no account. A free account adds personal training and imports your newest games across connected sites, analyzed automatically. After that, new games come in automatically when you open the app, in batches with a wait after each full batch. Plus is an optional auto-renewing subscription, billed monthly or yearly. It imports more of your past games on connection, imports every new game with no wait, keeps a larger game library, adds AI commentary to every game, and brings more of your history into your statistics. Lessons, game review, puzzles, and core training stay free. Cancel anytime in your store's subscription settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://elohell.app/privacy

Screenshots

Chessdock4 screens
Elo Hell4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Elo Hell at every 4 days against Chessdock's every 2 weeks. On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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 Elo Hell sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Chessdock against 5.0 for Elo Hell. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Chessdock ships an update every 2 weeks, Elo Hell every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Chessdock versus Elo Hell: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChessdockElo Hell
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.616.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB84 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDalibor SimacekP&T Labs LLC

Customer experience

Chessdock

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Elo Hell

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Chessdock

Subscriptions1
  • Yearly subscription$39.001 Year
4 purchases

Elo Hell

Subscriptions4
  • Elo Hell Plus7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Elo Hell Plus$3.991 Month
  • Elo Hell Plus (Annual)7 Days trial$39.991 Year
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  • Elo Hell Plus$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Chessdock free?
Chessdock is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Elo Hell free?
Elo Hell is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Chessdock or Elo Hell?
Chessdock and Elo Hell are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Chessdock or Elo Hell have ads?
Neither Chessdock nor Elo Hell shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Chessdock or Elo Hell?
Chessdock ships an update every 2 weeks, and Elo Hell every 4 days. Most recently, Chessdock was updated on October 31, 2026 and Elo Hell on October 31, 2026.

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