Fianchetto vs AGENTIC CHESS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fianchetto
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Fianchetto is your personal chess coach in your pocket. It combines playing against an engine, professional analysis of your own games, and personalized training built from your real mistakes - all fully offline, with no subscription and nothing ever sent to the cloud. TWO ENGINES, TWO PERSONALITIES • Caissa (modern NNUE) - shows the objectively best move. • Arasan - a classic engine with a more "human" playing style. Both are compiled natively and run 100% on your device. PLAY • Spar with the bot across five difficulty levels, from beginner to expert. • Choose your color, follow a live evaluation bar, and get engine hints. • Save any game to your Library and analyze it with a single tap. ANALYZE YOUR GAMES • Import games from Lichess and Chess.com (by username, from a link, or from a PGN file). • Every move classified: brilliant, best, inaccuracy, mistake, blunder, missed win. • Accuracy, ACPL, evaluation graph, and key moments of the game. • Quick and deep modes - catch the obvious errors first, then dig into the critical positions. ANALYSIS THAT TELLS A STORY • Every game gets a written recap split into chapters - not just numbers. • Arrows and highlights on the board, with detection of tactical motifs and opening plans. • Two narration tones: casual and technical. Available in English and Polish. TRAIN ON YOUR OWN MISTAKES • Daily puzzles generated automatically from your blunders - not from a generic database. • Smart spaced-repetition system (SM-2) and a daily streak to keep you motivated. • Train the openings you actually play: win rate, accuracy, and recurring mistakes. • Tactical stats, eval-loss heatmaps, and a ranking of your recurring weaknesses. • "Your game" dashboard: Game Score, a skill profile, and a weekly focus to improve. FREE POSITION ANALYSIS • Interactive board with a variation tree and MultiPV analysis. • Position editor, "threat goggles", arrows, and FEN/PGN paste. • Auto-saved sessions - jump back to the position you were analyzing yesterday. SCOUT YOUR OPPONENTS • Import a rival's games and prepare for the matchup. • Opening explorer, repertoire by color, and the opponent's recurring tactical weaknesses. PRIVACY FIRST • All analysis runs on your device - your positions never go to the cloud. • Your data (games, analyses, puzzles) is stored locally. You can wipe it anytime. Fianchetto is built for the club and amateur player who wants to improve systematically - with no subscription and no compromise on privacy. Install it, import your games, and start playing smarter.
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: AGENTIC CHESS at none against Fianchetto's shown. Fianchetto's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Fianchetto | AGENTIC CHESS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 10 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 108 MB | 69 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Dawid Wrzesinski | Mission Peak, LLC |
In-app purchases
Fianchetto
No in-app purchases
AGENTIC CHESS
No in-app purchases









