Train Chess vs ChessHere
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Train Chess
Master hundreds of essential positional endgames to elevate your chess skills. Practice against an engine to improve your late-game win rate and conversion. This app focuses on crucial endgame scenarios for strategic improvement.
- Hundreds of positional endgames
- Engine practice
- Improve win rate
- Master endgame conversion
- Strategic improvement
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Train Chess features hundreds of must-know positional endgames that will improve your game. Master positions against the engine and increase your win rate late in the game and master your endgame conversion.
ChessHere
Engage in real-time or correspondence chess matches, challenge friends, and participate in tournaments. Improve your game with puzzles, opening studies, and game analysis. Stay connected with messaging and notifications in a clean, focused interface.
- Real-time and correspondence chess
- Challenge friends and opponents
- Join tournaments
- Solve daily puzzles
- Study openings
- Game analysis and tracking
- Messaging and notifications
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ChessHere is the chess app for people who want to play chess, understand every game and actually improve. Play chess online against real opponents, solve chess puzzles, and learn chess with a personal Coach that explains what happened on the board and what to work on next. PLAY CHESS YOUR WAY - Online chess game: bullet, blitz and rapid against players around the world - Correspondence chess: take hours or days per move, with a reminder when it's your turn - Chess with friends: challenge a friend with a link, or get matched instantly - Chess tournaments: arenas and round robins with live standings LEARN CHESS FROM EVERY GAME - Chess coach: after each game, get a clear explanation of the key moments, your mistakes and your best moves, in plain language, not engine numbers - Game analysis with evaluation and best lines - Chess lessons and courses, from your first moves to rook endgames CHESS PUZZLES AND TRAINING - Daily chess puzzle, Puzzle Rush and themed tactics - Chess openings trainer: learn and drill the lines you actually play - Track your rating, streaks and progress over time A CALM, FOCUSED CHESS GAME - Clean design with light and dark themes and board styles - Follow players, chat in game and send messages - Available in 25 languages - Your games sync with chesshere.com on the web CHESSHERE PREMIUM Daily mistake review, more drills and focus areas, unlimited puzzles from your own games, deeper analysis, a weekly progress report, and your own tournaments. Available as a monthly or annual subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your Apple ID account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.chesshere.com/privacy Whether you have one minute or one week per move, ChessHere is where your next move happens.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Train Chess at none against ChessHere's 2. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. ChessHere sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.00 per month. Train Chess asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Train Chess against 5.0 for ChessHere. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
Train Chess ships an update every 4 days, ChessHere every 5 days. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.
| Parameter | Train Chess | ChessHere |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Camren Todd | E4E5 LLC |
Customer experience
Train Chess
ChessHere
In-app purchases
Train Chess
No in-app purchases
ChessHere
- ChessHere Premium$7.001 Month
- ChessHere Premium$70.001 Year







