Comparison

OneSolve Go vs ChessCoach

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

OneSolve Go

This app provides an offline Go engine and learning tools for players of all levels. It features life-and-death problems, beginner lessons, and game analysis. The app is optimized for Apple devices and offers optional cloud features for enhanced play and review.

Highlights
  • Offline KataGo engine
  • Life-and-death problems
  • Beginner lessons
  • Game analysis and review
  • Rank assessment
  • Optimized for Apple Silicon
  • Cloud play and review (optional)
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OneSolve Go runs KataGo directly on your iPhone or iPad. Models and problem packs download on demand from the App Store when first needed. Once downloaded, play, problems and local review work offline. Optional online features are also available. CLOUD PLAY AND REVIEW Choose on-device or cloud play in Custom Game. Live cloud play requires an active paid membership and costs 2 credits per AI position analysis. Full-game cloud review costs 200 credits per game. Cloud features send the selected position or game record to our service. The app shows preparation, reconnection and completion status; reviews run asynchronously. Credits are available through in-app purchases, with prices shown before purchase. Cloud review stores the submitted original game record and analysis report so the same account can retrieve them across devices. Downloaded reports are available offline, and reading existing reports does not spend credits again. Older jobs without a retained original game record can only display the analysis results still available. FROM 20 KYU TO 9 DAN+ · The kyu levels are not a weakened engine. They use a network trained on human games — it misses things, gets greedy and plays a loose endgame, like a person rather than a machine playing badly on purpose · The dan levels are set by KataGo's search depth, one rung at a time · 9x9, 13x13 and 19x19, with handicap 7,468 LIFE-AND-DEATH PROBLEMS Life and death, capture, tesuji and endgame, graded by type and five difficulty levels, all solvable offline. 33 BEGINNER LESSONS Ordered after the British Go Association's teaching guide: capturing first, boards up to 9x9 to begin with, ko last. The graduation test is beating KataGo on 9x9 with a 4-stone handicap. REVIEW AND RANK ASSESSMENT Let KataGo analyse a finished game move by move: it draws the win-rate curve and picks out the moves that cost you most. The rank assessment estimates your strength from move quality, not from the result. TUNED FOR APPLE SILICON · Prefers the Neural Engine — same strength, less battery · Low power / normal / full speed, with automatic downgrade when the device heats up · SGF import and export; games sync across your devices through iCloud ONLINE FEATURES AND PRIVACY Share a selected game as a revocable web link. AI explanations use your own configured provider and API key, sending your questions and relevant game context to that provider. Keys stay in the local Keychain; provider charges may apply. No manual registration or sign-in is required. Membership and rewards services process random device/account identifiers, purchase receipts and learning-task progress. After privacy consent, model sessions report device/OS details, CPU/memory use, thermal and battery status, and disk/network counters. Apple provides payments and iCloud synchronization. There are no ads or cross-app advertising tracking. — Membership & Subscription — · Yearly Membership: auto-renewable subscription, 1 year; price shown in-app for your storefront (CNY 38/year in China). Cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. · Lifetime Membership: one-time purchase, not a subscription. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://tommyeth.github.io/yijie-weiqi/privacy.html

About

ChessCoach

Features
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Learn chess step by step, right on your phone. ChessCoach is a chess course that opens on Today's Learning. Every day it lays out a short plan (a daily puzzle, one lesson, a tactics set and a practice game) and tracks your progress by chapter and by theme. ■ 20-lesson curriculum Five chapters: Basics, Opening principles, Tactical motifs, Intermediate, Endgame basics. New lessons end with exercises on the board, checked move by move by the rules engine, with an explanation after every answer. · Control the centre, develop your pieces, castle · Count attackers and defenders, knight forks, queen double attacks · Mate with queen and rook, promotion and the rule of the square, the opposition ■ Game review that explains After a game against the on-device AI, the app picks your biggest mistakes and says why in plain words: a piece left undefended, a missed checkmate, a missed fork. It links to the lesson that teaches the idea, and each mistake becomes a puzzle you can retry. ■ 1,200 puzzles 1,000 checkmate puzzles (mate in one, back-rank mates) and 200 tactics puzzles (forks, pins, skewers, discovered attacks). Every tactics puzzle was checked by the on-device engine to have one clear best move. A daily puzzle and streak. Accuracy per theme shows your weak spots and suggests a lesson to review. ■ Practice games An AI from Elo 400 to 2400, unlimited free hints, move-by-move replay and PGN export. ■ Opening library 15 openings replayed move by move, with the idea behind each. ■ No account, all on your device No server, no login. Lessons, puzzles and the AI all run on your device, even in airplane mode. Your progress never leaves your phone. ■ 5 languages English, Korean, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional). ■ Free and the Full Course Free: the first 5 lessons (Basics chapter), Today's Learning, 1,000 mate puzzles, the daily puzzle, the first 5 puzzles of each tactics theme, AI games with hints and review, the opening library and My Progress. ChessCoach Full Course (one-time purchase, not a subscription, Family Sharing supported): all 20 lessons (opening principles, tactical motifs, intermediate, endgame basics), all 200 tactics puzzles, and no ads. If you have used ChessCoach since version 1.0, the 10 lessons you already had stay free, and your saved games, puzzles and lessons carry over. ■ About ads Ads appear only when you open the app: at most 3 times a day, at least 4 hours apart. Never during a lesson, a puzzle, a game or a review, and never on the first launch after installing. No ads after buying the Full Course. To show ads, Google AdMob processes the device information it needs (no personalised ads). Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://inphilchoi.github.io/chesscoach-privacy/

Screenshots

OneSolve Go4 screens
ChessCoach4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: OneSolve Go at none against ChessCoach's shown. ChessCoach's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. OneSolve Go sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per year and ChessCoach sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

OneSolve Go ships an update fortnightly, ChessCoach weekly. Both last shipped on November 10, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
OneSolve Go versus ChessCoach: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOneSolve GoChessCoach
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyWeekly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSuzhou Vector16 Tech LtdINPHIL CHOI

In-app purchases

5 purchases

OneSolve Go

Subscriptions1
  • Yearly Member$4.991 Year
One-time4
  • 1,200 AI Analysis Credits$0.99
  • 6,666 AI Analysis Credits$3.99
  • Lifetime Member$7.99
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  • 22,990 AI Analysis Credits$14.99
1 purchases

ChessCoach

One-time1
  • Full Course$2.99

Questions

Is OneSolve Go free?
OneSolve Go is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ChessCoach free?
ChessCoach is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do OneSolve Go or ChessCoach have ads?
ChessCoach shows ads; OneSolve Go does not.
Which is updated more often, OneSolve Go or ChessCoach?
OneSolve Go ships an update fortnightly, and ChessCoach weekly. Most recently, OneSolve Go was updated on November 10, 2026 and ChessCoach on November 10, 2026.

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