Checkmate Alarm vs ChessScroll

Wake up sharp. Checkmate Alarm is the alarm clock that won't switch off until you solve a chess puzzle — so you're actually awake before you can reach for snooze. Most alarms are too easy to dismiss half-asleep. This one makes your brain do one clever thing first: find the checkmate. By the time you've solved it, you're up. HOW IT WORKS • Set an alarm like normal. • When it rings, a chess puzzle appears. • Solve it to dismiss the alarm. That's it. BUILT FOR • Heavy sleepers and snooze addicts who need more than a loud noise. • Chess players who want to start every morning with a tactic. • Anyone building a sharper morning routine. PLAY YOUR WAY • Checkmate puzzles — mate in 1, 2, or 3. • Tactical modes — forks, pins, endgames and more. • Difficulty that adapts to your rating as you improve. • A free Daily Puzzle and a Practice mode for any time of day. TRACK YOUR PROGRESS • Puzzle rating, solve streaks, fastest solves, and a week-at-a-glance view. • Home Screen widgets for your next alarm, today's puzzle, and your streak. MAKE IT YOURS • Dark and light themes, accent colors, and board styles. FREE & PRO Checkmate Alarm is free with one alarm and checkmate puzzles. Upgrade to Checkmate Pro for unlimited alarms, every difficulty, all tactical modes, board and accent themes, and detailed stats — starting with a 7-day free trial. Beat the snooze. Wake up with a checkmate. — Checkmate Pro is an auto-renewing subscription (monthly or yearly). Payment is charged to your Apple ID and renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel in Settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://polar-blanket-f7a.notion.site/Privacy-Policy-Checkmate-Alarm-374767e6570481708ae2d5afbd0fc056

Your feed costs a move now. ChessScroll seals the apps that eat your evenings — Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, whichever you choose — behind a chess puzzle at your level. Solve it and you earn minutes of scroll. Fail it and the position waits. That's the whole app. That's the whole deal. THE DEAL 1 puzzle = minutes of scroll. You set the exchange rate. HOW IT WORKS 1. Seal your apps. Pick the ones that eat you. 2. Reach for one, and a puzzle appears instead. 3. Solve it. The app opens and your clock starts running. 4. Minutes run out mid-scroll? In chess we call that flagging. Solve another. WHY IT WORKS You already reach for your phone dozens of times a day. ChessScroll doesn't fight that urge — it reroutes it. Every reach becomes one tactic at your level: twenty to forty seconds, and a real fight. It's the training every coach prescribes and nobody actually does, attached to a habit you already have. TWO NUMBERS, FACING EACH OTHER — Your puzzle rating, climbing. — Your daily screen time, falling. Everything else is supporting cast. REAL PUZZLES, AT YOUR LEVEL Nearly fourteen thousand positions from real games, each one rated by the players who tried it before you, and served at your rating rather than under it, so the rating you build is earned. Works fully offline. From 400 to 2700, the puzzle fits. THE CLIMB Fourteen chapters, one for each master: Morphy, Anderssen, Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Botvinnik, Nezhmetdinov, Tal, Petrosian, Spassky, Fischer, Karpov, Kasparov. Every six puzzles you solve lays a stone on their road, and the one you solved at midnight to get into Instagram counts the same as the one you chose to play. The road stops at twenty-eight of their own games, and every one you solve goes into your album as a card. You never have to open the tab for it to move. NO NEW ADDICTION Training sessions end by design. No infinite puzzle feed, no guilt notifications, no nagging. Paul Morphy said in 1859 that chess should never engross the mind. We're inclined to agree. PRIVACY Your app choices and screen-time data never leave your device — Apple's Screen Time framework enforces that by design. No account needed. MEMBERSHIP ChessScroll requires a membership: yearly with a 7-day free trial, or monthly. Subscriptions auto-renew until cancelled in Settings. Terms: https://chessscroll.com/terms — Privacy: https://chessscroll.com/privacy Earn your scroll.