Comparison

OpeningTree vs Chess Coach Lite

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

Head to head
About

OpeningTree

Explore chess openings with an extensive opening book and engine analysis. Analyze your games, create custom lines, and study moves from high-rated players. Accessible for visually impaired users.

Highlights
  • Extensive opening book
  • Crafty engine analysis
  • Load and analyze PGN games
  • Create custom move lines
  • Accessible for visually impaired
  • Mark moves with colors
  • Save board to PGN
Features
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OpeningTree is a chess openings book based on high rated over the board games that lets one explore the tree of openings and engine analysis is available. Chess game files can be shared with the app to check against the book or to just view. Users can make their own side line moves and back up to return to main line. Also includes ten classic game collections and users can import their own games into the app. Game list are also searchable by tags. The updated opening book is compiled from 640,000 high rated games from recent years with both players rated 2300 and over. Just touch moves in the list or make moves on the board to see what the response is. The numbers next to moves indicate how many games resulted in wins-draws-losses. The idea comes from computer opening books as if we can open up the book and see what those moves are that people play in response to opening positions. Users do not pick an opening to study but start with the full tree. The analyze button on bottom right of board is to flip between viewing the openings move table or seeing Crafty engine analysis. +1.00 score means white is ahead a pawn. -1.00 score means black is ahead a pawn. There is a move now button to make the engine play the current best move if the users wants to try playing a position out against the engine. OpeningTree's board is accessible to the blind and visually impaired using Voice Over. With Voice Over enabled in device settings, tap on a square for info, double tap to select. Or choose from three move methods. When going forward in a loaded PGN game, moves will be announced on each tap of the forward button. Moves can be marked with colors(red, green, yellow) and colorizing a move at the end of a line will extend the line i.e. add move so it shows later. There is also an option to make a note on a position using the control bar. In the Actions menu if the user has imported a chess games file to the App, for example by opening a PGN file with OpeningTree from a mail attachment or download(long touch on the attachment/download for this option), a game from a PGN file can be loaded and checked against the book. If a user makes a new move, back up to the main line to return to the game. To ensure speed, it will only read/load a max of 5000 games. With bigger files users will only see first 5000 games. There is a Save Board to PGN option on the Actions menu. It saves the current moves to openings-user-games.pgn, a file OpeningTree will create on first save. Games are saved with opening name as white and black name to spot the lines in each game. This allows the users to export data out of the App such as favorite lines with the mail games option when looking at a game list. The App comes with six PGN game files that can be optionally installed when no PGN files have yet been opened by the App or the user has deleted their PGN files previously opened and likewise has none to access. If this is the case, this option shows when going to Actions -> load PGN. The files contain a mix of famous classical games, collections of former world champions Gary Kasparov and Magnus Carlsen's games and more recent games from two top ranked international tournaments. PGN stands for portable game notation. It's a file extension that can be used with text files that contain chess games in the PGN format. PGN files can be read by apps to display the games in them. If a game is loaded in the App one can then go to 'Actions -> show game data' to view the raw PGN text.

About

Chess Coach Lite

Enhance your chess abilities with a curated selection of puzzles focused on attacking strategies and tactical plays. Explore opening theories and begin your self-study journey today.

Highlights
  • Thematic chess puzzles
  • Attacking strategy practice
  • Tactical strike training
  • Opening theory exploration
  • 14 advanced study sections
  • Customizable color themes
  • In-puzzle hints
Features
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Improve your chess skills with a thematic collection of chess puzzles. Check your skills in solving puzzles on the theme of attacking strategy against the king and tactical strike. Get acquainted with the positions of pieces in the theory of openings. Start self-study right now! PLAY FOR VICTORY - Checkmate your opponent, choosing from the thousands of possible variants one right move - Find an unexpected sacrifice and get an advantage over another player - Take advantage of the experience of millions of real players in the openings of King's Gambit or the Queen's Gambit Accepted - Get the maximum number of points on the chess board simulator in 30 seconds FEATURES - 14 special sections provide the advanced study - 5 color themes for individual customization - Hints in each puzzle help you - Classic 2D design, loved by several generations of players Download the app "Chess Coach Lite" and solve puzzles regularly. Please rate the app 5 stars and write your comment. Your feedback will help make the app better. We wish you a pleasant game, Team KemigoGames.

Screenshots

OpeningTree4 screens
Chess Coach Lite4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Chess Coach Lite at Free against OpeningTree's $0.99. OpeningTree's advantage is rating (4.4 vs 4.2) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months). On ads, 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

Chess Coach Lite is free to download; OpeningTree costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

OpeningTree holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: OpeningTree has 31 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of OpeningTree's written reviews are positive against 71% of Chess Coach Lite's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

OpeningTree ships an update every 2 months, Chess Coach Lite every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
OpeningTree versus Chess Coach Lite: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOpeningTreeChess Coach Lite
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.4 (31 ratings) — better4.2 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews — better71.4% of reviews
Number of ratings31 — better6
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.6
Further details — not scored
Size52 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMichael AdamsIgor Zelka

Customer experience

OpeningTree

All ratings31 ratings
Positive83.9%
Neutral6.5%
Negative9.7%
Written reviews24 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral4.2%
Negative12.5%

Chess Coach Lite

All ratings6 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral14.3%
Negative14.3%

In-app purchases

None

OpeningTree

No in-app purchases

None

Chess Coach Lite

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is OpeningTree free?
OpeningTree costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Chess Coach Lite free?
Chess Coach Lite is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, OpeningTree or Chess Coach Lite?
OpeningTree is rated higher. OpeningTree averages 4.4 out of 5 from 31 ratings, while Chess Coach Lite averages 4.2 from 6 ratings.
Do OpeningTree or Chess Coach Lite have ads?
Neither OpeningTree nor Chess Coach Lite shows ads.
Which is updated more often, OpeningTree or Chess Coach Lite?
OpeningTree ships an update every 2 months, and Chess Coach Lite every 4 months. Most recently, OpeningTree was updated on October 20, 2026 and Chess Coach Lite on October 22, 2026.

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