Comparison

Chess Openings vs Chess Reflex

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

Head to head
About

Chess Openings

Master chess openings with a structured training routine. Learn lines move by move, review with spaced repetition, and analyze your games to identify deviations. Build a reliable repertoire and improve your play.

Highlights
  • Opening repertoire building
  • Spaced repetition review
  • Game analysis and deviation flagging
  • Curated opening library
  • Move-by-move idea explanations
  • Gamified training elements
Features
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Build an opening repertoire you actually remember, and stop losing games to lines you thought you knew. ChessAtlas turns your openings into a simple training routine: learn each line, review it on a spaced-repetition schedule, and connect your real games to catch the exact moves where you went off-book. HOW IT WORKS - Build your own repertoire, paste a PGN, or fork a ready-made opening from the library. - Learn each line move by move, with plain-language notes on the ideas behind the moves. - Link your Lichess or Chess.com account. ChessAtlas checks every game against your prep and flags the first move where you deviated. - Drill those mistakes until they stick, with spaced repetition that brings each line back right before you would forget it. WHAT YOU GET - Your real games, checked against your repertoire, with the first deviation pinpointed. - Spaced-repetition review so lines stay in long-term memory. - Full game analysis with move-by-move accuracy and the quality of every move. - A library of curated openings you can fork and make your own. - Read mode that explains the idea behind each move, not just the notation. - Streaks, levels and a leaderboard to keep the habit going. - Multiple board themes. WHO IT IS FOR Club and improving players who want a repertoire they can trust under pressure, whether you are building your first opening or sharpening lines you already play. Free to start. Upgrade to Premium for unlimited training. Questions or feedback: https://chessatlas.net Terms of Use: https://chessatlas.net/terms Privacy Policy: https://chessatlas.net/privacy

About

Chess Reflex

Features
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Chess Reflex teaches you to beat a player who has never taken a lesson. Not to become a grandmaster — to stop losing to careless mistakes. Everything is built on six rules. Six, not sixty. Develop your pieces in the right order, check what the opponent's last move threatens, count before you capture, count the attackers and defenders of a square, hold an endgame, and never answer in three seconds. These six rules are enough to beat the vast majority of casual players. SIXTEEN ANIMATED LESSONS Each rule is explained on the board, sentence by sentence, with arrows showing exactly what's being discussed. Two minutes per lesson. A voice reads them aloud — a real built-in synthetic voice, not the system's robotic one. 581 EXPLAINED POSITIONS Which piece is hanging? Where's the pin? Mate in one? Every position comes with a written explanation: why this answer, and why not the other one. None is left unexplained. SPACED REVIEW THAT LASTS Cards come back just before you'd forget them. The grade isn't set by hand — it's worked out from your answer and how long you took. PLAY, THEN UNDERSTAND A game against the app, at three levels. At the end, the board stays and you replay your game move by move, with what each move did underneath — what it captured, what it threatened, and where you went wrong. A button jumps straight from one mistake to the next. AND A FULL PATH Eleven drills in the order of a real game: the opening, checking before each move, counting, the four tactical motifs, the endgame, checkmate. OFFLINE, FOR REAL No account. No ads. No trackers. The app never connects to a server: lessons, positions, voice and the artificial opponent all work on a train, on a plane, or deep underground. IN THIRTEEN LANGUAGES French, English, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Arabic, Hindi. Translated, not machine-run: piece names follow each country's usage, and so does the notation. HOW MUCH IT COSTS Seven days, everything unlocked, no account or card. After that, the theory and the basics stay readable for free, with no time limit. For the rest: $4.99 a month, $29.99 a year, or a one-time $49.99. The first month of the subscription is free. Terms of Use: https://abventis.fr/chessreflex/cgu.html Privacy Policy: https://abventis.fr/chessreflex/confidentialite.html

Screenshots

Chess Openings4 screens
Chess Reflex4 screens

Verdict

The call

Chess Openings and Chess Reflex are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Chess Openings sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Chess Reflex sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Chess Openings versus Chess Reflex: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChess OpeningsChess Reflex
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (9 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings9 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB343 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAntoine TamanoAlexandre ABELLO

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Chess Openings

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Premium Annual$83.991 Year
3 purchases

Chess Reflex

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Yearly$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$44.99

Questions

Is Chess Openings free?
Chess Openings is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Chess Reflex free?
Chess Reflex is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Chess Openings or Chess Reflex have ads?
Neither Chess Openings nor Chess Reflex shows ads.

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