Comparison

Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles) vs Echo Ramsey

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

Echo Ramsey

Features
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Echo is a puzzle game built on real open problems in mathematics. Each puzzle is a graph: dots joined by red and blue lines. Your job is simple to learn. Tap a line to flip its color, and break up the "bad cliques" - groups of dots all wired together in a single color. Clear them within your move budget and the puzzle is solved. Here is the twist. Every puzzle is a slice of a genuine research graph, and every solution you find is committed to a shared, growing proof tree. When you solve, your result seeds a brand new puzzle for another player. Their solve seeds the next. Together, the whole community is searching for colorings no person and no computer has ever found. You choose which problem to work on from the home screen: - R(4,4), the practice board - solved long ago, so the search genuinely finishes and you can see the whole engine work end to end - R(4,6), the frontier - an open problem where reaching zero would set a real new record - R(5,5), the legendary one - open for decades, where the prize is the lowest count the network has ever driven it to You do not need to know any of that to play. If you can spot a pattern and tap, you are already contributing. FEATURES - Quick, tactile puzzles you can finish in a minute - Three problems to play, from a winnable warm-up to a famous unsolved one, switchable any time - Five ways to view each graph: circle, spectral, matrix, hub, and density - switch any time to see the structure differently - A living progress screen showing the community's best reach and the proof tree growing in real time - Your lineage: see how many puzzles your solves have seeded for other players - A built-in glossary that explains every term in plain language - No ads, no timers, no pressure Color the graph. Advance the proof. Echo forward.

Screenshots

Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles)4 screens
Echo Ramsey4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Echo Ramsey at none against Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles)'s 11. Echo Ramsey also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles) sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. Echo Ramsey asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles) ships an update every 2 months, Echo Ramsey every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles) versus Echo Ramsey: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChess Tactics Pro (Puzzles)Echo Ramsey
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3.7K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews90.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings3.7K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB51 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEmmanuel MathisSam Rostami

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

Echo Ramsey

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
None

Echo Ramsey

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles) free?
Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles) is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Echo Ramsey free?
Echo Ramsey is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles) or Echo Ramsey have ads?
Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles) shows ads; Echo Ramsey does not.
Which is updated more often, Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles) or Echo Ramsey?
Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles) ships an update every 2 months, and Echo Ramsey every 3 weeks. Most recently, Chess Tactics Pro (Puzzles) was updated on October 18, 2026 and Echo Ramsey on October 7, 2026.

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