By AppHub Editorial Team · Updated August 3, 2026
Chess - Play and Learn Online
Overview
Board
Chess.com
Free
No
Features
Play chess lessons online with over 250M players from around the world!
Chess is known as the best strategy board game in the world!
Enjoy unlimited 3D offline pocket chess games and improve your chess rating with 500,000+ puzzles, more than 20 million chess games a day, lessons, and over 100 powerful bot opponents. Unlock your inner chess master today!
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Ratings breakdown
3,040,000 reviewsDeveloper contact
Name
Chess.Com, LLC
Address
877 E 1200 S Unit 970397 Orem, UT 84097 United States
Website
https://www.chess.com/Phone
+1 801-613-1589
Support
support@chess.com
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View policyPros & Cons
Based on analysis of Google Play user reviews
Pros
- Educational and entertaining with easy sign-up and friend matching.
Theme 'Educational and fun' identified in recent_review #1 and #4
Evidence (2)
“This app is pretty educational and entertaining. Not a ton of annoying ads or anything”Rating: 4★ February 11, 2026 11 likes“you don't have to play in real life, so you can play friends and family far away.”Rating: 5★ January 24, 2026 50 likes - Extensive customization options for pieces and boards.
Theme 'Customization' identified in recent_review #4
Evidence (1)
“you can customize your pieces and boards the way you want them, and there's so much customization for everything!”Rating: 5★ January 24, 2026 50 likes - Membership sales offer good value for premium features like coaching.
Theme 'Good membership value' identified in recent_review #4
Evidence (1)
“when there's a huge sale, you can get diamond for only 50 dollars or some thing a year, and the membership is great because of playing with coach, unlimited everything”Rating: 5★ January 24, 2026 50 likes
Cons
- Free game reviews are severely limited to one per day.
Theme 'Limited free reviews' identified in recent_review #1 and #3
Evidence (2)
“Only one free review per day is too few.”Rating: 2★ February 16, 2026 6 likes“I do wish they'd allow for more free game reviewing.”Rating: 4★ February 11, 2026 11 likes - Skill-based matchmaking feels rigged, causing frustrating win/loss streaks.
Theme 'Unfair matchmaking' identified in recent_review #2
Evidence (1)
“it has an infuriating tendency to mismatch players based on skill level. the algorithm will consistently cause players to win for 5+, followed by a losing streak for 9+ games over and over.”Rating: 2★ February 20, 2026 5 likes - UI frequently glitches, with icons and text shrinking too small.
Theme 'UI glitches' identified in recent_review #3
Evidence (1)
“it frequently gliches out, with all icons and text shrinking too small to be functional.”Rating: 2★ February 16, 2026 6 likes
Recent Reviews
Serena Lorraine
4★This app is pretty educational and entertaining. Not a ton of annoying ads or anything, though I do wish they'd allow for more free game reviewing. I can understand keeping the videos behind a pay-wall, but the stats too? ...It's giving greedy, girl, idk... Biblical greed aside though, I've been enjoying my experience thus far. Easy sign-up too, so you can quickly add your friends for matches.
Adam Lether
2★The app itself runs well, and matches frequently with other players. However it has an infuriating tendency to mismatch players based on skill level. the algorithm will consistently cause players to win for 5+, followed by a losing streak for 9+ games over and over. And I've personally noticed that if you stop playing for a few days, you suddenly find yourself on a win streak next time you play. This gets insanely frustrating to the point where it's just not worth the effort.
Christopher Talbot
2★Only one free review per day is too few. The base membership is already expensive and does not offer unlimited reviews. Honestly, just add reviews to the base price and at least let us access them free after an ad, and this goes up to 4 stars minimum. I like the style of the UI, but it frequently gliches out, with all icons and text shrinking too small to be functional. Fixing that would add an extra star as well.
Elliot
5★Amazing, first of all, you don't have to play in real life, so you can play friends and family far away. Also, you can customize your pieces and boards the way you want them, and there's so much customization for everything! Lastly, the membership. It's amazing, and when there's a huge sale, you can get diamond for only 50 dollars or some thing a year, and the membership is great because of playing with coach, unlimited everything, but the free versions also just as fun!
Althea Pokrywka
2★you have to pay for unlimited puzzles game reviews and all of that when that should all be free. I love chess don't get me wrong but I hate it when you have to pay for everything that could help you improve even if its just reviewing your games or playing a bunch of puzzles or even just trying to re-complete the months daily games.