Comparison

Doctor Chess vs AGENTIC CHESS

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

Head to head
About

Doctor Chess

This app offers a comprehensive chess experience adhering to official FIDE rules, including special moves and draw conditions. Play against AI at various skill levels or challenge friends online without any sign-up or ads.

Highlights
  • Full FIDE rule set enforcement
  • Five AI difficulty tiers
  • Online 1v1 matches via Game Center
  • No sign-up required
  • Ad-free and tracking-free
  • 40 language support
Features
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Doctor Chess brings the full FIDE rule set to your phone and tablet — castling, en passant, promotion, threefold repetition, the 50-move rule, and insufficient material draws are all enforced. • Single player — local pass-and-play plus five AI tiers (Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced / Expert / Master) • Master tier uses iterative-deepening alpha-beta search with quiescence, null-move pruning and late-move reduction • Online 1v1 — turn-based matches via Apple Game Center, no sign-up required • Friend invites through the system Game Center picker • OS-native leaderboards and achievements • 40 languages — Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified/Traditional), Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Vietnamese, and many more • Tap or drag to move, automatic promotion dialog, last-move highlight, legal-move dots No sign-up. No ads. No tracking. No in-app purchases.

About

AGENTIC CHESS

Experience AI chess matches played entirely on your device. Choose champion models, compete in ranked games, and analyze performance. Offers a unique benchmark for on-device AI capabilities without cloud reliance.

Highlights
  • On-device AI model chess matches
  • Ranked Elo ladder progression
  • Tournaments against scaled opponents
  • Manual play and coached games
  • Hardware performance benchmarking
  • Private by design, no account needed
Features
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Watch real AI models play chess — entirely on your iPhone. Agentic Chess turns your phone into a live arena for on-device language models. Pick a champion, send it into ranked matches against the built-in house opponent, and watch every move unfold with a real game clock and live commentary. No cloud, no server — the models think on your device. (Minimum device specification is iPhone 12, and IOS 26) YOUR CHAMPION, YOUR LADDER • Choose a champion from a roster of open-source models that run fully on-device • Ranked matches move your champion up an authentic Elo ladder, from Bronze to Grandmaster • Tournaments field opponents that scale to your champion's strength • Prefer to play? Take on the AI yourself in manual mode, or team up with your champion in coached games A BASELINE AND ITS CHALLENGERS Every match is a fair experiment. Apple's built-in foundation model plays as the house opponent, completely untuned — the scientific baseline. Your champions are different: each open-source model carries a custom LoRA adapter we train specifically for chess judgment, downloaded automatically alongside the model. Watching a tuned challenger climb past the stock baseline is the whole point — you're seeing, live, how much specialized training moves the needle on identical hardware. A REAL BENCHMARK UNDERNEATH Every game doubles as a hardware benchmark. Agentic Chess measures how fast, how smoothly, and how efficiently each model runs on your exact device — speed, latency, memory, and thermal behavior — and turns it into a performance report you can browse anytime. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no email, no login. You're recognized only by a random ID stored on your device, your score and leaderboard position stay private to your installation, and you can download or erase your data at any time from Settings. Models download on first run (about 0.3–1.5 GB each) — Wi-Fi recommended. Additional models fetch quietly in the background while your first game plays.

Screenshots

Doctor Chess3 screens
AGENTIC CHESS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Doctor Chess at 3 against AGENTIC CHESS's 1. Doctor Chess also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.0). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Doctor Chess versus AGENTIC CHESS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDoctor ChessAGENTIC CHESS
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (10 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—10 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB69 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperLim SangjinMission Peak, LLC

Customer experience

Doctor Chess

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

AGENTIC CHESS

All ratings10 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Doctor Chess

No in-app purchases

None

AGENTIC CHESS

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Doctor Chess free?
Doctor Chess is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is AGENTIC CHESS free?
AGENTIC CHESS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Doctor Chess or AGENTIC CHESS have ads?
Neither Doctor Chess nor AGENTIC CHESS shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Doctor Chess or AGENTIC CHESS?
Doctor Chess ships an update every 3 weeks, and AGENTIC CHESS every 3 weeks. Most recently, Doctor Chess was updated on October 12, 2026 and AGENTIC CHESS on October 4, 2026.

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