Comparison

Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles) vs Chess Puzzles

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

Head to head
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 Puzzles

Master chess tactics with over 5 million puzzles from real games, personalized to your skill level. Understand mistakes, practice specific patterns, and track your progress to improve your rating and play better chess.

Highlights
  • Millions of real game puzzles
  • Personalized difficulty
  • Mistake analysis
  • 64 tactical motifs practice
  • Progress tracking
  • Composed chess problems
Features
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Turn every puzzle into progress. Train with 5M+ puzzles from real games, personalized to your level. When you make a mistake, understand why - and learn from it. That’s the idea we built this app around. Solving more puzzles is useful, but we wanted training to be about more than getting a position right or wrong. We wanted every puzzle to teach you something - about the move you missed, the pattern you didn’t recognize, or the way you calculated the position. There are more than 5 million puzzles from real games. But the number itself isn’t really the point. What matters is finding the right positions for you, at the right difficulty, and helping you learn from them. When you make a mistake, you can understand why. Use hints, explore better moves, get coaching, and look deeper into the position instead of simply moving on to the next puzzle. Over time, your training starts to reveal which tactical patterns give you the most trouble. You can practice across 64 motifs and patterns - forks, pins, sacrifices, checkmates, endgames, and many more - and spend more time on the ideas that need it. You can also see how your training develops over time: your rating, accuracy, training time, and performance across different patterns. And when you’re ready for something truly advanced, there are more than 300,000 composed chess problems from solving competitions. They’re difficult, precise, often beautiful - and solving them can be one of the most satisfying forms of chess training. We’ve also tried to make this a place you’ll actually want to come back to. Solve a few puzzles when you have five minutes. Sit down for a longer session when you feel like training seriously. Build a streak, reach a milestone, or simply keep showing up. Whether you’re new to tactics or have been playing chess for years, the goal stays the same: Learn something from every puzzle. Play better chess. And we’re here to help you along the way. Privacy Policy: https://chess.phd/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://chess.phd/terms/

Screenshots

Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles)4 screens
Chess Puzzles4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Chess Puzzles at none against Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles)'s shown. Chess Puzzles also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months). Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles)'s advantage is ratings volume (3.7K vs 251) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles) sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Chess Puzzles sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. 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 Puzzles. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles) has 3.7K ratings behind it against 251, 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 87% of Chess Puzzles's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles) ships an update every 2 months, Chess Puzzles every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles) versus Chess Puzzles: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChess Tactics Pro (Puzzles)Chess Puzzles
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3.7K ratings)4.8 (251 ratings) — better
Positive reviews90.1% of reviews — better87.0% of reviews
Number of ratings3.7K — better251
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB113 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEmmanuel MathisSergei Tovmasian

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 Puzzles

All ratings251 ratings
Positive97.6%
Neutral0.8%
Negative1.6%
Written reviews23 reviews
Positive87.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative13.0%

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 Puzzles

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles)

One-time10
  • 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
  • All-Access Pass$9.99
8 purchases

Chess Puzzles

Subscriptions8
  • Premium Weekly3 Days trial$3.997 Days
  • Chess.PhD Premium (1 Week)$4.997 Days
  • Premium Weekly2 variants$4.997 Days
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  • Chess.PhD Weekly Premium3 Days trial$4.997 Days
  • Premium Monthly2 variants$9.991 Month
  • Chess.PhD Premium (1 Year)7 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Chess.PhD Premium (1 Year)3 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Premium Annual3 Days trial$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles) free?
Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles) is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Chess Puzzles free?
Chess Puzzles is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles) or Chess Puzzles?
Chess Puzzles is rated higher. Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles) averages 4.7 out of 5 from 3.7K ratings, while Chess Puzzles averages 4.8 from 251 ratings.
Do Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles) or Chess Puzzles have ads?
Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles) shows ads; Chess Puzzles does not.
Which is updated more often, Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles) or Chess Puzzles?
Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles) ships an update every 2 months, and Chess Puzzles every 3 days. Most recently, Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles) was updated on November 6, 2026 and Chess Puzzles on November 8, 2026.

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