Comparison

Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles) vs Chess Endgame Studies

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

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About

Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles)

Sharpen your chess skills with a vast library of puzzles for all levels. Practice daily, offline, or track your progress with adaptive challenges. Analyze your moves with a built-in engine and customize your experience with various themes.

Highlights
  • Daily puzzles
  • Offline puzzle packs
  • Progress mode with Elo rating
  • Puzzle analysis engine
  • Bookmark puzzles
  • Multiple board themes
Features
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Improve your chess tactics with this large collection of chess puzzles for all levels! This tactic trainer lets you practice in 3 different modes : - Solve daily puzzles - Solve offline puzzle packs - Use the "Progress" mode to get random problems of your level and know your Elo rating All puzzles are of a high quality and are guaranteed to have a unique solution. The difficulty ranges from beginner to advanced (2000+ Elo). Other features : - A free powerful engine to analyze the puzzles - Level history - Bookmark puzzles - Several board themes - Optimized for both phones and tablets - A simple and intuitive interface, with no useless stuff, and no weird problems

About

Chess Endgame Studies

Master chess endgames with a curated collection of instructive studies and exercises. This app provides hints, explanations, and feedback to help you improve tactical skills and consolidate knowledge.

Highlights
  • 950+ endgame compositions
  • 900+ subsidiary exercises
  • Unique 5x5 mini-position hints
  • Interactive coach with hints and explanations
  • Refutation of common mistakes
  • Play positions against the computer
  • Tracks ELO rating changes
Features
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This training course is a special subset of famous CT-ART 4.0 course, based on best chess studies, especially chosen for their instructive value. There is simply no substitute for the ease and quality of the studies presented, not to mention their eternal beauty. Endgame Studies includes about 950 greatest endgame compositions and 900 subsidiary exercises. Each position comes with a special hint unique to this course – a 5x5 mini-position designed to convey the very essence of the tactical maneuver used in the main example. This course is in the series Chess King Learn (https://learn.chessking.com/), which is an unprecedented chess teaching method. In the series are included courses in tactics, strategy, openings, middle game, and endgame, split by levels from beginners to experienced players, and even professional players. With the help of this course, you can improve your chess knowledge, learn new tactical tricks and combinations, and consolidate the acquired knowledge into practice. The program acts as a coach who gives tasks to solve and helps to solve them if you get stuck. It will give you hints, explanations and show you even striking refutation of the mistakes you might make. Advantages of the program: • High quality examples, all double-checked for correctness • You need to enter all key moves, required by the teacher • Different levels of complexity of the tasks • Various goals, which need to be reached in the problems • The program gives hint if an error is made • For typical mistaken moves, the refutation is shown • You can play out any position of the tasks against the computer • Structured table of contents • The program monitors the change in the rating (ELO) of the player during the learning process • Test mode with flexible settings • Possibility to bookmark favorite exercises • The application is adapted to the bigger screen of a tablet • The application does not require an internet connection The course includes a free part, in which you can test the program. Lessons offered in the free version is fully functional. They allow you to test the application in real world conditions before releasing the following topics: 1. Chess Tactics Art for Advanced 1.1. Attacking the king 1.2. Stalemate 1.3. Pawn promotion 1.4. Domination 1.5. Positional fortresses and their destruction 1.6. Draws by perpetual check or by repetition 1.7. Other ideas and conjunction of ideas 2. Gallery of Chess Composers 2.1. Kubbel 2.2. Kasparyan 2.3. Troitzky 2.4. Rinck 2.5. Platov M. and V. 2.6. Nadareishvili 2.7. Prokesh 2.8. Chekhover 2.9. Grigoryev 2.10. Mattison 2.11. Pogosyants 2.12. Seleznyov 2.13. Kaminer 2.14. Gurvich 2.15. Reti 2.16. Duras 3. Difficulty 3.1. Studies with difficulty level 100 3.2. Studies with difficulty level 110 3.3. Studies with difficulty level 120 3.4. Studies with difficulty level 130 3.5. Studies with difficulty level 140 3.6. Studies with difficulty level 150 3.7. Studies with difficulty level 160 3.8. Studies with difficulty level 180

Screenshots

Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles)4 screens
Chess Endgame Studies4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Chess Endgame Studies at none against Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles)'s shown. Chess Endgame Studies also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.6). Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles)'s advantage is ratings volume (3.7K vs 118). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles) sells 11 one-off in-app purchases and Chess Endgame Studies sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. 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 — 4.7 for Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles) against 4.8 for Chess Endgame Studies. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles) has 3.7K ratings behind it against 118, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 90% of Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles)'s written reviews are positive against 93% of Chess Endgame Studies's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles) versus Chess Endgame Studies: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChess Tactics Pro (Puzzles)Chess Endgame Studies
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3.7K ratings)4.8 (118 ratings) — better
Positive reviews90.1% of reviews93.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3.7K — better118
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.68.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEmmanuel MathisChess King

Customer experience

Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles)

All ratings3,685 ratings
Positive95.7%
Neutral1.8%
Negative2.5%
Written reviews332 reviews
Positive90.1%
Neutral4.5%
Negative5.4%

Chess Endgame Studies

All ratings117 ratings
Positive95.7%
Neutral2.6%
Negative1.7%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive93.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.7%

Bugs and requests

Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles)

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Occasional crashes or freezes
  • Incorrect move validation in some cases

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add option to see captured pieces
  • Provide more context and analysis for puzzles
  • Improve difficulty categorization of puzzles
  • Allow for user feedback on puzzle issues

Chess Endgame Studies

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

11 purchases

Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles)

One-time11
  • Easy mates$1.99
  • Intermediate mates$1.99
  • Hard mates$1.99
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  • Easy tactics$1.99
  • Intermediate tactics$1.99
  • Hard tactics$1.99
  • Mates in 2, 3 and 4 moves$1.99
  • Intermediate Tactics - Vol. 2$1.99
  • Hard Tactics - Vol. 2$1.99
  • Easy Tactics - Vol. 2$1.99
  • All-Access Pass$9.99
1 purchases

Chess Endgame Studies

One-time1
  • Full Course$3.99

Questions

Is Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles) free?
Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles) is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Chess Endgame Studies free?
Chess Endgame Studies is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles) or Chess Endgame Studies?
Chess Endgame Studies is rated higher. Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles) averages 4.7 out of 5 from 3.7K ratings, while Chess Endgame Studies averages 4.8 from 118 ratings.
Do Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles) or Chess Endgame Studies have ads?
Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles) shows ads; Chess Endgame Studies does not.
Which is updated more often, Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles) or Chess Endgame Studies?
Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles) ships an update every 2 months, and Chess Endgame Studies every 2 months. Most recently, Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles) was updated on October 26, 2026 and Chess Endgame Studies on October 24, 2026.

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