Comparison

Chess vs Chessmirror

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

Head to head
About

Chess

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Train your tactical vision with PuzzleRush, a focused chess puzzle experience built for quick, distraction-free practice. Features: • Solve tactical positions for both sides • Get clear feedback for correct and incorrect moves • Use hints when you need a nudge • Build a puzzle-solving streak • Practice promotions and multi-move combinations • Continue training without an internet connection • No account, ads, or tracking Find the best move, calculate the continuation, and improve one puzzle at a time.

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Chessmirror

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Chessmirror turns the moves you got wrong into the positions you practise, so the same mistake does not stand in your next game. PHOTOGRAPH A BOARD Point the camera at a real board, a book diagram or a screenshot. Chessmirror reads the position on the device, lets you correct any piece, the side to move and castling rights, and opens it as a game. PLAY WITH NO SLIPS Play against Stockfish 18, built into the app, at a strength you choose. With No Slips on, a move that gives away too much is handed back to you before it is played — and written down, so you meet that position again. A MISTAKE BOOK THAT WRITES ITSELF Every costly move becomes an entry: one position, however many games it turned up in, with what you played and what it cost in winning chances. Import your games from lichess or Chess.com by username, or paste a PGN or FEN, and have every move scored locally. A DAILY THAT KNOWS WHAT IS DUE Practice is scheduled by spaced repetition (FSRS). Each day's queue holds the positions that are due and a few new ones. Play the move, get a plain verdict — passed or not — and play on if you want to. FOUND FOR YOU Mates and tactics the engine found in your own games are collected into sets. Tap the heart on any position to keep it in your favourites. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Recognition and analysis run on your device. No account, no ads, no tracking. • Games are plain PGN files in your own iCloud Drive, visible in the Files app. • The network is used only when you ask to import games from a chess site. Also: a face-to-face mode for over-the-board play on one phone, an advantage bar, dark mode, iPad layouts, and eight languages — English, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, German, Spanish and Portuguese. Chessmirror is free software under the GPLv3. Source code: https://github.com/sunfmin/chessmirror

Screenshots

Chess4 screens
Chessmirror3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Chess at 15.1 against Chessmirror's 26.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 4 level
Chess versus Chessmirror: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChessChessmirror
PriceFreeFree
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB116 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYENAL DUMAN凤民 孙

In-app purchases

None

Chess

No in-app purchases

None

Chessmirror

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Chess free?
Chess is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Chessmirror free?
Chessmirror is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Chess or Chessmirror have ads?
Neither Chess nor Chessmirror shows ads.

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