Comparison

Knight Squares vs Chessvis

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

Head to head
About

Knight Squares

This arcade puzzle game challenges you to navigate a knight across a 5x5 chessboard. Collect points while strategically avoiding illegal moves and invalid squares. Compete with friends and aim for the highest score.

Highlights
  • Knight movement challenges
  • 5x5 chessboard
  • Point collection
  • Avoid illegal moves
  • Game Center integration
  • Challenge friends
Features
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Knight Squares is an arcade chess puzzle game where you have to move your knight through a 5x5 chess board collecting points and avoiding illegal moves and invalid squares. - Addictive and challenging gameplay - Full Game Center integration - Challenge friends to beat your high score

About

Chessvis

Enhance your chess skills with unique visualization exercises, including blindfold chess and progressive move following. Prepare openings by focusing on common opponent moves and practice with spaced repetition. Access millions of categorized puzzles with customizable difficulty and rating controls.

Highlights
  • Unique visualized puzzles
  • Blindfold chess training
  • Opening repertoire preparation
  • Progressive move following
  • Customizable puzzle categories and ratings
  • Offline puzzle access
Features
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Chessvis is designed to help you get better at the game. Its unique, "found nowhere else", puzzle, blindfold chess and progressive move following exercises will sharpen your visualization skills. Now with Version 11, all puzzle exercises are free - including working offline. There's a new menuing system that makes navigating around the huge 'toolbox' of features much easier. The opening repertoire preparation routines are also unique focusing on the "moves you'll see" and finding the "moves that work". Plus you can pull in your own games to see what's working for you. And now, use AI to help uncover the opening that will work for you. Puzzles The Chessvis puzzle collection starts with millions of categorized and rated puzzles from Lichess and adds several unique features including: Category and Rating Control Chessvis lets you set both the category and rating of the puzzles you’re challenged with. Want to try easy forks one day and hard multiple move mates the next? Do it! You’ll never be forced to only do puzzles around some hypothetical rating you’ve “earned”. The entire puzzle collection is always available for you. Visualized Puzzles A unique feature of Chessvis is the "Visualized" puzzle. It presents a puzzle showing the diagram from some number of moves before the actual tactic sequence starts. You're told the number of moves to "visualize" and then solve the problem from a board position that only exists in your mind. This is what got Chessvis started and it’s the only app with it. Other Puzzle Collection Features The “no repeat pledge” - with such an extensive puzzle collection, Chessvis is able to make sure you don’t see the same puzzle twice. Want to focus on solving puzzles quickly? Turn on the timer. Going to be away from the internet? Pull puzzles down to your device and work off-line. See your puzzle history. Download the puzzles you’ve done. All that is in Chessvis. Opening Preparation Build your repertoires focusing on the "moves you'll see". Chessvis believes that you need to think about the moves your opponents actually play and not some complex way too deep repertoire designed by a master who doesn't play anything like the way you do. At ever step in the repertoire design process, Chessvis shows you the moves your opponents actually make and highlights ones you need to think about. Then once you've built your repertoire, practice it with daily spaced repetition. Blindfold Chess Play against the computer with "stepping stones" to help ease your way into blindfold chess. Start with all pieces sharing one color then go to two color disks, one shared color disk and then eventually an empty board. Subscribers had the stockfish and Maia chess engines to the free-to-use Komodo engine. Who’s Guarding Whom A deceptively simple visualization exercise that forces you to mentally track piece movements and how they interact. (No other app has this.) Move Following & Static Boards Track a sequence of moves and then update the board to that point. Or memorize a board layout, then recreate it. Start off easy with just a few pieces and work your way up. Analyze Your Games Download your chess.com and lichess.org games for opening analysis. See what you've been playing, what's been played against you and the results. Videos What better way is there than videos to see Chessvis in action? You can watch the videos within the app. They're all kept short and to the point. Chessvis has always had unique tools to visualize the chessboard and win more games. A famous chess coach said: "Don't think about the pieces being exchanged, visualize how the board will look when the pieces are gone". Move a piece and you affect two places. But it's illegal to physically move the piece and see the effects -- you must learn to visualize. Chessvis is designed to help with that process. Download it today. Our Terms of Service can be found at: https://www.chessvis.com/tos.php

Screenshots

Knight Squares3 screens
Chessvis4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Chessvis at monthly against Knight Squares's every 3 months. Chessvis also leads on review sentiment (70% vs 58%). Knight Squares's advantage is ratings volume (129 vs 21) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.6). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Knight Squares sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Chessvis sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Knight Squares against 4.4 for Chessvis. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Knight Squares has 129 ratings behind it against 21, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 58% of Knight Squares's written reviews are positive against 70% of Chessvis's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Knight Squares ships an update every 3 months, Chessvis monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Knight Squares versus Chessvis: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKnight SquaresChessvis
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (129 ratings) — better4.4 (21 ratings)
Positive reviews58.3% of reviews70.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings129 — better21
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS9.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB38 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOval Software OyConceptual Software, Inc.

Customer experience

Knight Squares

All ratings129 ratings
Positive87.6%
Neutral6.2%
Negative6.2%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive58.3%
Neutral16.7%
Negative25.0%

Chessvis

All ratings21 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive70.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative30.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Knight Squares

One-time1
  • Remove ads$1.99
3 purchases

Chessvis

Subscriptions2
  • Chessvis Monthly Subscription$3.991 Month
  • Chessvis Annual Subscription$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Chessvis Perpetual$99.99

Questions

Is Knight Squares free?
Knight Squares is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Chessvis free?
Chessvis is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Knight Squares or Chessvis?
Knight Squares is rated higher. Knight Squares averages 4.5 out of 5 from 129 ratings, while Chessvis averages 4.4 from 21 ratings.
Do Knight Squares or Chessvis have ads?
Neither Knight Squares nor Chessvis shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Knight Squares or Chessvis?
Knight Squares ships an update every 3 months, and Chessvis monthly. Most recently, Knight Squares was updated on October 20, 2026 and Chessvis on October 24, 2026.

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