Comparison

Chess vs Chessigma

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

Head to head
About

Chess

Features
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One move at a time. Chess gets clearer. Chess Master breaks every opening and endgame into four learning stages — Follow, Understand, Practice, and Challenge — so you meet each line four times in a row and the moves start to feel inevitable. Study the line, understand the reasoning, reproduce it from memory, then face an AI that plays the same opening against you — learning and real matches in one flow. Four-Stage Learning Flow 1. Follow — Tap each move in sequence, tracing the line by hand. 2. Understand — Watch the line auto-play while you read why each move wins. 3. Practice — Reproduce the sequence from memory, no hints. 4. Challenge — Play an AI that uses the same opening against you. Main Features - Four-Stage Learning Flow: Meet every opening and endgame four times through Follow, Understand, Practice, and Challenge until the moves feel natural. - Opening and Endgame Courses: Sixteen classic openings and sixteen essential endgames, every move annotated with the reasoning behind it. Star ratings track your mastery. - Tactics Puzzle Training: Over 240 puzzles across six themes — fork, pin, skewer, discovered attack, mate in N, and back rank — with ELO-based difficulty matching and a daily puzzle streak. - Four AI Opponents: Bots ranging from ELO 600 to 1600, each with a distinct playing style. Configurable chess clock, move history, captured pieces, and takeback. - Progress and ELO Tracking: Puzzle ELO over time, win and loss per bot, course completion with star ratings, and stats filtered by week, month, three months, or all time. Good For - First-time chess learners - Casual players who want to study openings systematically - Intermediate players drilling tactics to break plateaus - Anyone who wants to practice alone without a local opponent or coach Core features run fully offline and no account is required. The app is supported by AdMob advertising; an App Tracking Transparency prompt appears on first launch for device identifier use. Feedback and bug reports are welcome at seungwoo321@gmail.com. One move at a time — let us keep going together.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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/

Screenshots

Chess4 screens
Chessigma4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Chessigma at 4.7 against Chess's 2.0. Chessigma also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (81 vs 1). Chess's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On price, 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. Chessigma sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.00 per month. Chess asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Chessigma holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chessigma has 81 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Chess ships an update every 2 months, Chessigma every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Chess versus Chessigma: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChessChessigma
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.0 (1 ratings)4.7 (81 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—72.7% of reviews
Number of ratings181 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSEUNGWOO LEEChessigma

In-app purchases

None

Chess

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Chessigma

Subscriptions2
  • Supercoach Monthly$14.001 Month
  • Supercoach Yearly$97.001 Year

Questions

Is Chess free?
Chess is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Chessigma free?
Chessigma is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Chess or Chessigma?
Chessigma is rated higher. Chess averages 2.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Chessigma averages 4.7 from 81 ratings.
Do Chess or Chessigma have ads?
Chess shows ads; Chessigma does not.
Which is updated more often, Chess or Chessigma?
Chess ships an update every 2 months, and Chessigma every 3 weeks. Most recently, Chess was updated on October 25, 2026 and Chessigma on October 25, 2026.

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