Comparison

ChessCheat vs AI Chess

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

Head to head
About

ChessCheat

Features
Read full description

ChessCheat is a fast, powerful chess analysis tool that helps you find the strongest moves in any position. Recreate a board from scratch, explore custom setups, or analyse positions from your games. The built‑in engine instantly evaluates the position and shows the best continuation so you can understand the strongest ideas and improve your decision‑making. Whether you want to play out full games, test variations, or dive deep into tactical lines, ChessCheat gives you the clarity you need to outplay any opponent. Features include: • Instant best‑move suggestions See the strongest move and best reply at any moment, with real‑time engine evaluation. • Full Board Mode Play from the starting position or continue from any custom setup. Switch sides freely or tap Play Suggestion to let the engine make the next move automatically. • Custom Board Mode Recreate any position in seconds. Build puzzles, test ideas, or explore “what‑if” scenarios with a simple tap‑to‑place editor. • Win probability & engine insights Understand who’s winning and why with evaluation depth, accuracy, and win‑chance estimates. • Undo, restart, and explore variations Step backward through your game, restart instantly, or branch into new lines. • Clean, simple, fast interface Designed to stay out of your way so you can focus on the chess.

About

AI Chess

Features
Read full description

Play chess against a real chess engine — one built from scratch, running entirely on your iPhone. No account. No internet required. No ads. AI Chess is powered by Andromida, our own engine written from the ground up in Swift. It isn't a wrapper around someone else's engine: the search, the evaluation, and the opening book are all ours, tuned through hundreds of measured self-play matches. A REAL ENGINE, NOT A TOY • Alpha-beta search with quiescence, transposition tables, null-move pruning, late move pruning, and reverse futility pruning — the same family of techniques the strongest engines use, implemented and measured one at a time. • Andromida starts from a 72-position opening book and quietly learns which lines work against you, favouring them over time. • Twenty strength levels and five play styles, from Passive to Aggressive — a fair fight whether you're learning the pieces or you're rated. • Two engine flavours, classic and bitboard, if you like to tinker. YOUR OWN CHESS COACH Turn on Coach Mode and every move you play is rated the moment you make it — Best, Good, Inaccuracy, Mistake, or Blunder. • On-board arrows show the move you should have played, and the reply your opponent was threatening. • Plain-English reasons: "Hangs your Knight." "Missed a forced checkmate." • Heads-up prompts before pivotal moves, so you get the chance to spot the tactic yourself. • Spoken coaching in four voices — pick the coach whose pace and tone suit you. • Every mistake is remembered. The Practice screen groups your recurring patterns and drops you back into the exact position to try again. PLAY HOW YOU LIKE • Play White, play Black, pass-and-play with a friend, or move both sides yourself in Analysis mode. • Time controls from 1+0 Bullet to 30+20 Classical — plus Custom and Unlimited for when you'd rather think than race. • Hints and live analysis, with evaluation and best-line arrows on the board. • Set up any position with the built-in editor. • Save, load, and e-mail your games as PGN. • Board themes, coordinates, figurine notation, legal-move dots, take-back and step-forward. OPTIONAL AI OPPONENTS Would you rather play a large language model LLMs? Bring your own API key (BYOK) and face Claude, GPT, Grok, Gemini and other providers — or download an on-device model and play a neural opponent with no internet at all. Your key is kept in your device's Keychain and used only to talk to the provider you picked. PRIVACY BY DEFAULT No account. No sign-up. No analytics, no tracking, no data collection. Your games, your settings, and your AI Provider API keys stay on your device. FREE AND PRO The on-device AI opponent is free to play, indefinitely. An optional AI Chess Pro subscription unlocks the Andromida engines, Hint, Analysis, and Coach Mode. Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial — cancel any time before it ends and you won't be charged. Subscriptions ; users still pay their AI provider directly for model usage. This apps is offering following auto-renewable subscriptions. 1. AIChess- Pro - Yearly Subscription - Title of auto-renewing subscription : Yearly - Length of subscription - Yearly auto renewal subscription - Price of subscription - $99.99 USD / Year - App privacy policy - https://aidigiapps.com/aichess/privacy.html and - Terms of Use (EULA) - https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ 2. AIChess- Pro - Monthly Subscription - Title of auto-renewing subscription : Monthly - Length of subscription - Monthly auto renewal subscription - Price of subscription - $9.99 USD / month - App privacy policy - https://aidigiapps.com/aichess/privacy.html and - Terms of Use (EULA) - https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

ChessCheat4 screens
AI Chess4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ChessCheat at none against AI Chess's 2. AI Chess's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.2). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. AI Chess sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. ChessCheat asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
ChessCheat versus AI Chess: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChessCheatAI Chess
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyDaily—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.216.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size184 MB52 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLondon Blackbook LtdMahesh Shinde

In-app purchases

None

ChessCheat

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

AI Chess

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Yearly$99.991 Year

Questions

Is ChessCheat free?
ChessCheat is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is AI Chess free?
AI Chess is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ChessCheat or AI Chess have ads?
Neither ChessCheat nor AI Chess shows ads.

Other comparisons