Comparison

ChessHere vs DracoChess

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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Play chess, understand your games, and actually get better. ChessHere combines fast online play with a personal Coach that tells you what happened on the board and what to work on next. PLAY YOUR WAY - Live chess: 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 - Challenge friends with a link, or get matched instantly - Tournaments: arenas and round robins with live standings LEARN FROM EVERY GAME - Coach: after each game, get a clear explanation of the key moments, your mistakes and your best moves, in plain language, not engine numbers - Full game analysis with evaluation and best lines - Lessons and courses from first moves to rook endgames TRAIN DAILY - Daily puzzle, Puzzle Rush and themed tactics - Opening trainer: learn and drill the lines you actually play - Track your rating, streaks and progress over time A CALM PLACE TO PLAY - Clean, focused 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 App Store 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.

About

DracoChess

Features
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DracoChess turns learning chess into an RPG quest. Instead of dry drills, you battle a series of increasingly clever monsters — each one teaching a real chess skill along the way, from spotting a hanging piece to finding forced checkmates. Adventure Mode Fight your way from a humble Slime up through Goblins, Skeletons, Orcs, Wraiths, and Wizards, all the way to a Lich and, finally, a Dragon boss. Every monster plays at its own chess strength and has its own personality, so the challenge grows with you — never a wall, never a pushover. Battle System Every match plays out on a real chessboard with full standard chess rules. Captures deal damage shown as classic chess point values (pawn = 1, knight = 3, and so on), checks and checkmates are called out the moment they happen, and a post-game review flags any pieces you left hanging or forks you missed — with a plain-language explanation of what went wrong. Train Skill Lessons & Puzzles covering Piece Safety, Threat Recognition, Forks, Pins, Checkmates, Calculation, Opening Principles, and Endgames Opening Lines: watch a demonstration, then play it back yourself — the Italian Game, Ruy Lopez, Queen's Gambit, Sicilian Defense, French Defense, and Queen's Indian Defense Endgame Techniques: the Rook Ladder Mate, Queen vs. Lone King, and escorting a pawn to promotion Middlegame Patterns: three real, historic combinations — the Greek Gift Sacrifice, Smothered Mate, and the Windmill — reproduced move by move from actual games Play Challenge any monster you've already defeated to a rematch, or hand the device to a friend for a local two-player match — no account, no internet connection required. Built for kids and complete beginners: no ads, no account needed, and your progress stays private on your device.

Screenshots

ChessHere4 screens
DracoChess4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: DracoChess at none against ChessHere's 2. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. ChessHere sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.00 per month. DracoChess asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
ChessHere versus DracoChess: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChessHereDracoChess
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB48 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperKhaled JoudaBing Xia

In-app purchases

2 purchases

ChessHere

Subscriptions2
  • ChessHere Premium$7.001 Month
  • ChessHere Premium$70.001 Year
None

DracoChess

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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