Comparison

OpenMate vs Chess Streaks

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

Head to head
About

OpenMate

Master chess openings and play against a powerful engine with integrated coaching. This app offers a private, offline experience with visual guidance and strategy tips to improve your game. Enjoy uninterrupted play with no ads or distractions.

Highlights
  • Strong, fast chess engine
  • Fully offline functionality
  • Visual coaching with move suggestions
  • Built-in opening knowledge
  • Strategy tips and explanations
  • Play at your own pace, no clock
  • Undo moves freely
Features
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Learn chess openings, or play chess against a strong, fast engine with built-in coaching and analysis tools. OpenMate runs entirely on your device. No internet connection, no accounts, and no data collection. Everything is local, private, and instant. Designed for both play and improvement, OpenMate combines engine strength with visual guidance and practical coaching to help you understand the game as you play. Features: • Strong, fast engine with instant responses: ~4M nodes per second on an iPhone 16 (half on Low Power Mode), ~2800 ELO at 3s/move! • Fully offline: no network access required • Hint mode with visual coaching: - Opening guidance with move suggestions and lists (multicolor arrows) - Engine-recommended moves (green arrows) - Threat visualization (red arrows) • Built-in opening knowledge to guide early play • Strategy tips with both chess terminology and plain-English explanations • Play as White or Black • Flip the board anytime • Undo moves freely at any point • No clock: play at your own pace without time pressure OpenMate is designed to remove friction and distractions. There are no ads, no sign-ups, and no interruptions. Just chess. Whether you want to practice openings, analyze positions, or simply play strong games offline, OpenMate gives you a focused and responsive experience. Built for iPhone and iPad, tested across devices, and optimized for smooth performance.

About

Chess Streaks

Features
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One famous chess game. Every day. Chess Streaks isn't a chess engine or a place to play strangers online. It's a daily ritual — closer to Wordle than to Chess.com. Every 24 hours, the whole world gets the same single challenge: a position from a real, legendary game of chess. Your job is to find the winning moves the master actually played. Then comes the reward. The moment you solve it (or if you don't, once you're shown the answer), the app reveals the game you just played: its name, the players, the year, why it's famous, and the story behind it — with a tap to replay the whole finish on the board. Play through the greatest moves in chess history: • The Opera Game — Morphy's masterpiece, played during a night at the theater • The Immortal Game — a queen and two rooks sacrificed for mate • Fischer's "Game of the Century," played when he was just 13 • Marshall's "Gold Coins" move — a queen offered three ways at once • Deep Blue's victory over world champion Garry Kasparov • …and many more, from a 1750 café in Paris to modern grandmaster chess FEATURES • A new famous-game puzzle every single day • Move the real pieces on the board — one to four moves to the finish • A full story reveal after every challenge: history, players, and why it matters • Streaks — keep your run alive and watch it grow, with milestone badges • A calendar heatmap of everything you've solved • Replay today's puzzle, or dive into the archive of past challenges • Friends — see who solved today and where you rank among them • Beautiful, calm, dark-mode design built for a two-minute daily habit No ads. No accounts. No clutter. Just one great chess moment a day, and the story that made it legendary. Solve today's. Keep the streak. See you tomorrow.

Screenshots

OpenMate4 screens
Chess Streaks4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Chess Streaks at 15.0 against OpenMate's 17.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

OpenMate ships an update every 6 days, Chess Streaks every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
OpenMate versus Chess Streaks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOpenMateChess Streaks
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (8 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings8 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRAMINE ROANEBryant Rowley

In-app purchases

None

OpenMate

No in-app purchases

None

Chess Streaks

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is OpenMate free?
OpenMate is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Chess Streaks free?
Chess Streaks is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do OpenMate or Chess Streaks have ads?
Neither OpenMate nor Chess Streaks shows ads.
Which is updated more often, OpenMate or Chess Streaks?
OpenMate ships an update every 6 days, and Chess Streaks every 3 days. Most recently, OpenMate was updated on October 31, 2026 and Chess Streaks on October 28, 2026.

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