Comparison

ChessHere vs Cubist

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Real-time and correspondence chess
  • Challenge friends and opponents
  • Join tournaments
  • Solve daily puzzles
  • Study openings
  • Game analysis and tracking
  • Messaging and notifications
Features
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ChessHere is a modern chess app built for players who want a clean, focused place to play, improve, and stay connected. Play real-time games, start correspondence matches, challenge friends, join tournaments, solve puzzles, study openings, track your games, follow players, and keep up with messages and notifications from one native mobile experience. Whether you have two minutes for a quick game or a few days to think through a correspondence position, ChessHere keeps your games organized and your next move close at hand. What you can do with ChessHere: - Play online chess in real time - Enjoy correspondence chess with longer time controls - Challenge friends and discover new opponents - Join tournaments and track standings - Solve daily puzzles and Puzzle Rush - Study and practice openings - Review active and finished games - Follow players and view profiles - Send messages and game chat - Get notifications when it is your turn ChessHere is designed to feel calm, fast, and premium: a low-clutter chess space for focused games, steady improvement, and the social side of chess. Download ChessHere and make your next move. ChessHere Premium is an optional auto-renewable subscription. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage your subscription and turn off auto-renewal in your App Store account settings after purchase. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ ChessHere Terms of Service: https://chesshere.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://chesshere.com/privacy

About

Cubist

Features
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Cubist is a beautifully designed cubing app where you learn, time, and compete — built to WCA standards, for the phone. Most cube timers just count. Cubist takes you from your very first solve to a spot on the global leaderboard, in one app you'll enjoy opening. FOUR PUZZLES — ALL FREE 3x3, 2x2, Pyraminx, and Skewb, each with its own scrambles, records, and leaderboards. No puzzle sits behind the paywall, and every one of them has a beginner's path. More official WCA events arrive in free updates, and your records and unlock carry straight over. LEARN TO SOLVE — FREE New to a puzzle? Step-by-step tutorials walk you through your first solve of each one: Layer-by-Layer for the 3x3 and the 2x2, Top-Down for the Pyraminx, Sarah's Beginner for the Skewb. The puzzle renders right in the app, highlights the next move, and shows the exact turns — so you learn by doing, not by pausing a blurry video. Every beginner method is free, forever, on all four puzzles. Faster methods — CFOP, CLL, EG-1, Keyhole, L4E, Sarah's Advanced — are part of Cubist Lifetime. A WCA-GRADE TIMER This is the timer serious cubers expect. Real 15-second inspection with +2 and DNF applied at the official boundaries. Centisecond precision down to 0.01. ao5 and ao12 calculated the WCA way, with best and worst solves trimmed exactly as they should be. Random-state scrambles, generated the way official competitions do and served fresh for every solve. Free accounts get 5 timed solves a day, shared across all four puzzles — enough for a full ao5 every day. Cubist Lifetime times as many solves as you want, every day, on every puzzle. COMPETE — GLOBAL, REGIONAL, FRIENDS — FREE Cubist is a competition platform, not just a stopwatch. Climb per-puzzle leaderboards filtered by the whole world, your country, your continent, or just your friends. Every ranked solve is server-verified, so a place on the board actually means something — no fake times, no padded averages. Add friends by username or invite QR and put your averages head to head. TRACK YOUR PROGRESS — FREE Personal bests for single, ao5, ao12, and mean, plus your full solve history — synced to the cloud for free so they follow you to any device. Cloud sync is never paywalled — it's what puts you on the leaderboard. GO FURTHER WITH CUBIST LIFETIME Ready to break into CFOP and chase sub-X? Unlock Cubist Lifetime with a single one-time purchase — no subscription, no ads, ever. - Trainer: drills your OLL, PLL, and F2L cases with per-algorithm analytics, so practice time goes to the cases that slow you down. - Unlimited solves: time as many solves as you want, every day, on every puzzle. - Algorithms: every OLL, PLL, and F2L case in full, with standard notation and in-app playback you can step through move by move. Also included: advanced analytics (trends, distributions, session compare, AO50), save and resume (pick a solve up later, puzzle and clock restored), and every accent theme and cube skin. Buy once, own it for good — no recurring charges, no hidden costs. FEATURES AT A GLANCE - Four puzzles, all free: 3x3, 2x2, Pyraminx, Skewb - Free beginner tutorials for all four - WCA-grade timer: 15s inspection, +2/DNF, random-state scrambles - 5 free timed solves a day, unlimited with Cubist Lifetime - Personal bests, ao5, ao12, and full solve history - Global, country, continent, and friends leaderboards - Server-verified ranked solves and free cloud sync - Trainer, unlimited solves, and the full OLL/PLL/F2L library (Cubist Lifetime) - Advanced analytics, save and resume, and every theme (Cubist Lifetime) - One-time purchase, no subscription, no ads WHO IT'S FOR Whether you just solved your first puzzle or you're grinding toward CFOP and a new PB, Cubist meets you where you are. Note: Cubist Records are tracked within the app and are separate from official WCA records. - Terms of Service: https://link.eodin.app/legal/cubist/terms - Privacy Policy: https://link.eodin.app/legal/cubist/privacy

Screenshots

ChessHere4 screens
Cubist4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ChessHere at none against Cubist's 1. On price, update cadence, 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. Cubist sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. ChessHere asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ChessHere ships an update every 5 days, Cubist weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
ChessHere versus Cubist: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChessHereCubist
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size51 MB81 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKhaled JoudaEodin

In-app purchases

None

ChessHere

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Cubist

One-time1
  • Cubist Lifetime$19.99

Questions

Is ChessHere free?
ChessHere is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cubist free?
Cubist is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ChessHere or Cubist have ads?
Neither ChessHere nor Cubist shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ChessHere or Cubist?
ChessHere ships an update every 5 days, and Cubist weekly. Most recently, ChessHere was updated on October 9, 2026 and Cubist on October 12, 2026.

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