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 by turning theory into muscle memory. Study curated lines with clear explanations, practice from real board positions, and review before it fades. Challenge your recall without engine clutter to expand your repertoire.

Highlights
  • Study curated opening lines
  • Practice from board positions
  • Review learned lines
  • Challenge recall
  • Track progress
  • Clear move explanations
Features
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Train chess openings until the next move feels clear. Chessmate helps you turn opening theory into board memory. Study curated lines, choose the move from the position, review before it fades, and challenge yourself until the line starts to stick. Built for online players who know openings matter but still get unsure after the first few moves. What you can do: - Study curated opening lines with clear move explanations - Practice from real board positions, not flashcard text - Review learned lines before they fade - Challenge recall without engine clutter or random puzzle noise - Track progress as your repertoire grows Chessmate keeps opening study simple: learn the idea, recall the move, repeat the line, expand your repertoire. Start with one line today. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Chess Reflex

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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

The clearest difference is ads: Chess Reflex at none against Chess Openings's shown. On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Chess Openings sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per 7 days 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.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Chess Openings versus Chess Reflex: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChess OpeningsChess Reflex
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (20 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings20 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size150 MB343 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperwyverselabsAlexandre ABELLO

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Chess Openings

Subscriptions4
  • Chessmate Premium Weekly$5.997 Days
  • Chessmate Premium Monthly$7.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly Offer$24.491 Year
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  • Chessmate Premium Yearly$34.991 Year
One-time1
  • Chessmate Premium Lifetime$79.99
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?
Chess Openings shows ads; Chess Reflex does not.

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