Chess DNA vs Chessigma
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chess DNA
This app analyzes your chess games to identify recurring mistakes and weaknesses. It provides personalized training drills based on your actual gameplay, helping you understand and improve your strategic patterns. Track your progress across various skill dimensions to focus your learning effectively.
- Game analysis for progress tracking
- Identification of recurring mistakes
- Personalized training drills
- Skill radar for openings, tactics, and more
- Import games from chess.com and Lichess
- Share game insights with others
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Understand. Improve. Dominate. Chess DNA turns every game you play into real progress. It looks at how you actually think at the board and shows you what's working, what isn't, and the patterns quietly costing you rating points. Find patterns. Fix weaknesses. We study your games and surface the mistakes you keep making. The missed tactics. The endgames that slip away. The openings that leave you behind before you've even started. No more guessing what to work on next. Replay. Learn. Get better. Every mistake becomes a training position. Step back into the moments where your game turned, find the move you missed, and lock it in for next time. Instant game analysis. Clear explanations of what went right, what went wrong, and what to play instead. Written the way a coach would say it, not a wall of numbers. Your 8-dimension skill radar. Track openings, tactics, defense, positional play, endgame, calculation, time management, and resilience. See your rank, your trends, and exactly where to spend your time. What's inside: • Import your games from chess.com or Lichess • Insights that turn every game into progress • Pattern detection across all your games • Replay drills built from your real mistakes • Share your DNA with friends and rivals Stop guessing why you lost. Start understanding how you play.
Chessigma
Analyze your chess games with detailed move-by-move feedback and personalized puzzles based on your mistakes. Improve your play with clear explanations and a powerful engine, all for free.
- Game review with move grading
- Plain-English move explanations
- Integrated Stockfish engine
- Mistake-based puzzle generation
- Supports Chess.com, Lichess, and PGN
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Chessigma reviews your chess games, shows you where the points went, and turns your own mistakes into training. The app has five tabs: Home, Train, Coach, Games and Brain. FREE - Game review: import your games from Chess.com or Lichess by username, or paste a PGN or a game link. Every move is graded, the turning points are marked, and you see the better move and the evaluation graph. The Stockfish engine runs on your phone, so a review needs no account. - Puzzles: a daily puzzle to keep your streak, classic puzzles, and Woodpecker sets that repeat the same positions until the patterns stick. - Opening Trainer: learn opening courses line by line. The first lines of every course are free. - Brain Games: twelve short games with scores and leaderboards. Nine are built on chess, and three need no chess: a reaction time test, Queens and Memory Match. - Sparring: play the first bots on the sparring ladder. - A first look at your coach report, built from your recent online games. - One move explanation from the coach each day when you are signed in. Signing in is free and keeps your streak, puzzle rating, scores and progress on every device. SUPERCOACH Supercoach is the paid plan. It adds: - Coach chat: ask the AI coach about your games, your openings and your habits. - Your full player report in six chapters (Overview, Blunders, Clock, Tactics, Conversion, Openings), with a heatmap of your blind spots. - A daily plan of coached tasks picked from your own games. - Move explanations in every game review, and the option to play on from any position. - Blunder Shield and Blunder Training: drills built from the positions where you blundered. - Conversion Trainer: practice winning the games you were winning. - Every rival on the sparring ladder and every line of every opening course. Coach messages come from a monthly allowance. Coach answers are written by an AI model through a third-party service, and every answer has a Report button. ACCOUNT Sign in with Apple, Google or your email address (we send a 6-digit code, no password). If your Chessigma account already has Supercoach, it works in the app as soon as you sign in. You can delete your account in Account > Delete account. SUBSCRIPTION Supercoach is an auto-renewing subscription, monthly or yearly. The price and billing period are shown in the app before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless you cancel it at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and the renewal is charged within the 24 hours before the period ends. You can manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.chessigma.com/tos Privacy Policy: https://www.chessigma.com/privacy-policy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Chess DNA at 100% against Chessigma's 57%. Chess DNA also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (weekly vs every 5 weeks). Chessigma's advantage is rating (4.5 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (54 vs 4). On price, ads, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Chessigma sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.00 per month. Chess DNA asks for nothing beyond the download.
Chessigma holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chessigma has 54 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Chess DNA's written reviews are positive against 57% of Chessigma's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Chess DNA ships an update weekly, Chessigma every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chess DNA | Chessigma |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (4 ratings) | 4.5 (54 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 57.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 54 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yuval Incze | Chessigma |
Customer experience
Chess DNA
Chessigma
In-app purchases
Chess DNA
No in-app purchases
Chessigma
- Supercoach Monthly$14.001 Month
- Supercoach Yearly$97.001 Year








