Chess Puzzles · Sir Bishop vs ChessFlow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chess Puzzles · Sir Bishop
Master checkmate tactics with a curated collection of chess puzzles. Practice finding mating combinations in various modes, compose your own positions, and share them with friends. Enjoy a clean, distraction-free design with customizable themes and offline play.
- 300 curated mate-in-N puzzles
- Auto and manual play modes
- Chess position composer
- Puzzle sharing via link
- Offline play
- Three board themes
- Weekly streak tracking
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Sir Bishop is a focused chess puzzle app built around one satisfying goal: find the checkmate. 300 selected mate-in-N puzzles, from quick mate-in-2 tactics to deep mate-in-5 combinations. Every puzzle is curated, so each one teaches a clean, beautiful idea. PLAY YOUR WAY - Auto mode: the app plays the defender, so you focus purely on the mating combination. - Manual mode: play both sides yourself and work through the defense. COMPOSE AND SHARE - Build your own chess positions and puzzles right in the composer. - Share any puzzle with a friend through a link. - Save favorites and your own creations to Bookmarks and return anytime. MADE TO LOOK GOOD - Three board themes: Wood, Black & White, and Teal. - Clean, distraction-free design, with hints when you want a nudge. - Track your progress with a weekly streak. Start free in Bishop mode, then unlock more puzzles, the composer, and bookmark slots with Rook, Queen, or King. No accounts. Plays offline. Just you and the board.
ChessFlow
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ChessFlow is the training app built for tournament players - openings, middlegames and endgames - and the only one that lets you drill them on a real electronic chessboard. Train your lines on screen, or connect your Chessnut board over Bluetooth and practice with real pieces in hand, guided by the board's LEDs. Then let spaced repetition bring each line back right before you'd forget it, so your prep actually sticks. TRAIN ON A REAL ELECTRONIC BOARD Connect your Chessnut (Go, Air, Air+, Pro) and train with the pieces in your hands. The LEDs guide you - steady light for your opponent's move, a blink for a hint, a fast blink when the app plays the move for you. Make a mistake? Retry, ask for a hint, or let the app show you. REMEMBER YOUR OPENINGS WITH SPACED REPETITION ChessFlow uses an SM-2 algorithm adapted for chess openings: every line returns right before you're likely to forget it. Only a perfect run speeds up the schedule; anything shaky comes back tomorrow. No line ever disappears for months. A seven-day forecast shows how many lines come due each day, so you always know when a backlog clears. DRILL YOUR WEAK SPOTS ChessFlow tracks the positions where you go wrong most often and serves them back as targeted puzzles. Turn on Drill random positions for an endless stream of positions from the lines you've trained in the open repertoire - a fast way to keep it sharp. PRACTICE ANYWHERE ON THE VIRTUAL BOARD No hardware needed. Train on screen with tap-to-move and premove, just like chess.com and lichess. Your iPad becomes a training station; your iPhone keeps your repertoire in your pocket. PLAY IT OUT AGAINST STOCKFISH Stop anywhere in a line and play the position out against Stockfish 19, at a strength you choose. Explore variations in free analysis, with a slim evaluation bar beside the board, and export them. With ChessTools, our free clock app, on your iPhone, ChessFlow presses the clock for you. YOUR REPERTOIRE, FROM ANY SOURCE Keep building your repertoire in the chess app you already use - Chess Studio, for example. Link its iCloud folder and ChessFlow reads those PGN files without ever changing them: you study and edit there, you train here. Add a variation there and it's waiting the next time you open the file, with all your progress kept. You can also import single PGN files or paste FEN positions. Attach a course PDF or your notes to any repertoire; PDFs even reopen at the page you left, on every device. BUILT TO KEEP YOUR DATA SAFE Everything syncs across your iPhone and iPad via iCloud - lines, progress and colors. Training progress is merged across devices, never overwritten. Automatic daily backups, plus manual export and import. EXPORT & SHARE Copy or share your lines as PGN for lichess and chess.com. Export your games versus the computer as PGN or a tournament-style PDF scoresheet. Free to try, with a 14-day full-access trial. Subscriptions unlock unlimited training on the virtual board, or everything including the physical board. Requires iOS 17 or later. iPhone and iPad, one app. Questions or feedback? developer@chesstools.it Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.chesstools.it/chessflow/privacy.html
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Verdict
Chess Puzzles · Sir Bishop and ChessFlow are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Chess Puzzles · Sir Bishop sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and ChessFlow sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Chess Puzzles · Sir Bishop ships an update every 5 days, ChessFlow every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chess Puzzles · Sir Bishop | ChessFlow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 202 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sergey Saakyan | Giorgio Donnoli |
In-app purchases
Chess Puzzles · Sir Bishop
- Rook$2.99
- Rook to Queen$3.99
- Queen to King$3.99
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- Queen$4.99
- Rook to King$5.49
- King$6.99
ChessFlow
- ChessFlow Virtual$4.991 Month
- ChessFlow Premium$8.991 Month
- ChessFlow Virtual$29.991 Year
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- ChessFlow Premium$49.991 Year
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