Chess Revision vs Chess Visualization
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chess Revision
Instantly analyze chess games by scanning a physical board or screenshot. Get real-time move analysis, see human-like moves, and replay games against AI opponents. Review your past games to identify mistakes and improve your play.
- Live game scanning and analysis
- Real-time move scoring
- Human-like move suggestions (Maia engine)
- Playable game replays against AI
- Full game review with move grading
- Import games from Lichess/Chess.com
- Cloud Stockfish analysis
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The move that lost you the game is hiding in plain sight. Chess Revision finds it. Point your camera at any 2D board, on a screen or in a screenshot, and in a second it becomes a fully playable, fully analyzed game. No manual setup, no typing in pieces. WATCH ANY GAME LIVE Aim your camera at a game in progress on a screen and Chess Revision reads every move as it is played and analyzes it in real time. It is an engine looking over your shoulder. EVERY MOVE, SCORED Tap any piece and each square it can reach is scored right on the board, best move to blunder. You see what a move costs before you play it, not after. Five pieces a day are free. THE HUMAN MOVE, NOT JUST THE ENGINE MOVE Engines only tell you the perfect move. They never tell you what a real player would actually do. Powered by Maia, Chess Revision shows the move a human at your exact rating would play, so you train against reality instead of a 3500-rated machine. PLAY IT OUT INSTEAD OF WONDERING Think you were winning? Take the position over and play it to the end against Maia at your own rating, from a game you scanned, a game you imported or a board you set up by hand. Take a move back, ask to see the best move, or change the rating you are facing without leaving the game. One game a day is free. SEE WHAT WENT WRONG Run a full game review and every move is graded, from brilliant to blunder, with an accuracy score for both sides. Jump straight to the moment the game turned. FOLLOW AN ACCOUNT, GET THE GAME Follow a Lichess or Chess.com account and Chess Revision tells you the moment a new game shows up, ready to open and review. The checking runs on our servers, so a game still finds you after days away. Watch your own account to catch your own games, or follow anyone whose play you want to keep up with. Free, up to three accounts. SCAN OR IMPORT ANYTHING - Snap a screenshot or photo of a board - Import any game from Lichess or Chess.com by URL, ID or username - Paste a FEN or PGN GO DEEP - Cloud Stockfish to depth 30 - The best line and its runner-up - An evaluation graph across the whole game LEARN FROM THE GREATS - Replay famous master games - Probe endgame tablebases for perfect, provably correct play Premium unlocks live feed analysis, Maia human moves, the depth-30 engine, playing on past one game a day, the move eval overlay beyond five pieces a day and unlimited scans and reviews. Subscribe monthly or yearly. Chess Revision Premium is an auto-renewable subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase, and renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID settings. Privacy Policy: https://chess-revision.com/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://chess-revision.com/terms
Chess Visualization
Enhance your chess calculation and visualization skills with over 1.1 million offline puzzles. Train to see moves ahead, master tactics, and improve your endgame play. Learn from mistakes and track progress with a unique reward system.
- Visualize up to 25 moves ahead
- Over 1.1 million offline puzzles
- Rating ladder for skill progression
- Tactical themes and mating patterns
- Endgame practice against engine
- Mistake review and training
- Progress tracking with badges
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Chess Visualization is a complete training gym for the skill that decides many games: seeing the position before it appears on the board. THE BLUNDER CURE Many games are not lost to brilliance. They are lost to a piece left hanging. How can you blunder a piece next move when you have trained yourself to see many moves past it? Blunders are failures of sight, not knowledge — build the habit of looking further than your opponent and they quietly disappear from your games. SEE FURTHER THAN YOUR OPPONENT Visualize from 2 moves ahead up to 25, with audio read-back of every move so you can train your calculation with your eyes off the board. OVER 1.3 MILLION PUZZLES, ALWAYS OFFLINE The entire puzzle library lives on your device. Train at 35,000 feet, on the beach, or anywhere without a signal. FIND YOUR LEVEL AND CLIMB Rating ladder groups serve up random puzzles sorted into 200-point Elo bins, from under 600 all the way past 3000. Find your level, train slightly above it, master it, and move up. Difficulty also scales across five presets: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Expert and Titled Player. TACTICS, OPENINGS AND MATING PATTERNS Advanced tactical themes including collinear moves, deflection, interference and many more. Plus 19 distinct checkmating patterns, mate-in-1 through mate-in-5 challenges, and puzzles from 31 popular openings. ENDGAME MASTERY Many pre-defined endgame categories such as "King + 3 pawns vs. King + 2 pawns" or "Rook + 2 pawns vs. Rook + 3 pawns". Optionally play them out against the built-in engine until the technique is automatic. ENGINE ANALYSIS A built-in chess engine lets you analyze any position after you solve it, so you understand not just the answer but the reason behind it. LEARN FROM YOUR MISTAKES Every puzzle you miss is automatically collected in a dedicated group for review and repeated training, so weaknesses become strengths. STAY MOTIVATED A unique badge reward system tracks your progress and keeps you coming back to train. MAKE IT YOURS Customize your home view and pin only the puzzle sets you care about for instant access to your favorites. ON IPHONE AND IPAD Designed for both screens, with a large board and side panels on iPad. Your training statistics sync through iCloud, and one Premium subscription covers both devices. Download Chess Visualization and start calculating like a stronger player. Chess Visualization is free to use, with 10 puzzles to solve every day, indefinitely. An optional Premium subscription removes the daily limit. Privacy Policy: https://rfbroadband.github.io/Chess-Visualization-Legal/PrivacyPolicy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Chess Visualization at 5.0 against Chess Revision's 1.0. Chess Visualization also leads on ratings volume (4 vs 1). Chess Revision's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Chess Revision sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Chess Visualization sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Chess Visualization holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively.
Chess Revision ships an update weekly, Chess Visualization every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Chess Revision | Chess Visualization |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 714 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pawel Turczyk | Oliver Werther |
Customer experience
Chess Revision
Chess Visualization
In-app purchases
Chess Revision
- Premium Monthly$3.991 Month
- Premium Yearly7 Days trial$17.991 Year
Chess Visualization
- Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
- Premium Annual$49.991 Year
- Ambassador AccessFree
- Titled Player 12 Months Pass$0.29
- Titled Player 6 Months Pass$0.29
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