Chess Openings vs Qwidict
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chess Openings
Learn chess openings by actively playing them through guided, hinted, and memory recall stages. Build a personalized repertoire of over 300 verified openings, with spaced repetition for long-term retention. Designed for adult club players seeking a calm, distraction-free learning experience.
- Learn by playing moves
- Guided, hinted, and memory recall modes
- 300+ verified openings
- Spaced-repetition review
- Build custom repertoire
- Distraction-free design
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LEARN CHESS OPENINGS BY PLAYING THEM Most apps make you watch. Prologue makes you play. You learn every opening by making the moves yourself — the only way they actually stick when you sit down for a real game. No more freezing on move 3. Build a repertoire you can trust. THREE STAGES TO REAL MASTERY • Guided — follow the correct moves and learn the plan • Hinted — play with a gentle nudge when you hesitate • From memory — recall the whole line on your own An opening isn't "learned" until you can play it blind. 300+ OPENINGS, ALL VERIFIED • Every line checked against real chess databases • Tagged by real popularity across 8.2M games • Learn what people actually play — not obscure theory BUILD YOUR OWN REPERTOIRE • White attacks and Black defenses, side by side • Pick your gambits, your defenses, your style • Everything in one place, ready for your next game REMEMBER IT FOR GOOD • Spaced-repetition review brings lines back at the right time • Daily training keeps your repertoire sharp • Turn "I studied it once" into "I know it cold" DESIGNED TO BE CALM • Elegant, minimal, distraction-free • Made for adult club players (600–1600) who want a real plan • Learn at your pace, one move at a time START FREE The entire Italian Game family is free, forever. Try the full method, then unlock all 300+ openings. PROLOGUE PREMIUM • 7-day free trial • Then €39.99/year or €9.99/month • Unlocks every opening, full repertoire tools, and spaced-repetition review Payment is charged to your Apple ID. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Stop watching. Start playing. Build the opening repertoire you've always wanted. Privacy Policy: https://prologuechess.com/en/privacy/ Terms of Use (Apple standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Qwidict
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Write down what you hear. Qwidict plays you a measure. You write it down. Then you see straight away what was right and what was not — not just a score, but your own staff in colour, with the solution underneath. NEVER THE SAME ONE TWICE Qwidict holds no list of ready-made exercises. The app composes each dictation the moment you press start: the rhythm as well as the melody. You set the boundaries — level, clef, key, time signature, and how often a measure may be replayed. Within them the supply never runs out. Don’t feel like choosing? Tap the dice and let the app decide. THREE KINDS OF DICTATION • Rhythmic and melodic: pitch and note value, the full exercise • Rhythmic: rhythm only, everything on one line • Melodic: pitches only, in even notes ONE MEASURE AT A TIME You hear a single measure and write it down with the do-re-mi buttons. Missed it? Play it again — you decide how often. A moving line shows where you are in the measure, so you both hear and see where every note falls. SEE EXACTLY WHAT WENT WRONG Green is right, red is wrong, and the solution appears underneath. One look tells you whether the pitch or the rhythm was off — which a score on its own never does. FOUR LEVELS 1. 2/4, 3/4 and 4/4. Whole, half, quarter and eighth notes. C major. 2. Sixteenths, dotted quarter, eighth rest. The keys of G and F. 3. 6/8, 9/8 and 12/8. Triplets. The keys of D, A, B flat and E flat. 4. 5/8 and 7/8, irregular meters and harder sixteenth-note groupings. START FOR FREE Levels 1 and 2 are completely free: all three dictation types, unlimited practice, no ads. The full version unlocks levels 3 and 4, the bass clef, all keys, compound and irregular meters and triplets. One purchase, no subscription. NO FUSS No account, no sign-up, no internet connection needed. No advertising and no tracking. Everything stays on your own device. Qwidict runs on iPhone and iPad, in English, Dutch, French, Spanish and German.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Qwidict at 15.0 against Chess Openings's 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 Openings sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Qwidict sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Chess Openings ships an update every 4 days, Qwidict weekly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Chess Openings | Qwidict |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AGENCE DEBORD EURL | Never Another |
In-app purchases
Chess Openings
- Prologue Monthly$9.991 Month
- Prologue Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
Qwidict
- Full version$3.99









