About Best Chess Apps
Best Chess Apps is a review and buying-guide site for chess apps, published by the team that makes ChessHelper (chesshelper.ai).
Who runs this site
The site is written and maintained by the ChessHelper team. We are not a separate company or an independent publisher, and we do not present ourselves as one. There are no named reviewers or invented personas: articles are credited to the Best Chess Apps desk because they are team work.
Why the site exists
"What is the best chess app?" is one of the most common questions new and returning players ask, and most answers online are either a list of every app ever made or an advertisement for one. We wanted a guide that answers by job: which app to play in, which to learn openings with, which to give a child, and which to review games with. We think that kind of honest answer is good for players and, frankly, good for a product like ours that is best at one job rather than all of them.
Our relationship with ChessHelper
ChessHelper is our own product. It is a Chrome extension and website that shows engine suggestions on Chess.com and Lichess boards at a strength you choose, for reviewing games and studying positions. Under the FTC's rules on consumer reviews (16 CFR 465.6), a review site run by a company that ranks its own product must make that relationship clear, so we disclose it at the top and bottom of every page.
In practice this means ChessHelper is ranked first only for analysis and training at your own level, the category its features fit. Chess.com is our pick for playing online, Lichess for free, Chessable for openings, ChessKid for kids and DecodeChess for explanations. We receive no payment or commission from any of those companies.
Editorial approach
We compare published features, platforms, plans and policies from each company's own website, and we say "we compared" rather than "we tested". We do not publish star ratings, user reviews, testimonials or statistics we cannot source. Every chess move printed on the site has been checked for legality, and every engine evaluation was produced with Stockfish. The details are on How we compare.
Fair play
We will never recommend using any app or extension for help during a game against another person. Chess.com, Lichess, FIDE and US Chess forbid it. Analysis belongs after the game, in analysis mode, or in practice against bots.
How to report an error
Apps change quickly. If a price, plan or feature on this site is out of date, email [email protected] with the page and the correct information. We check corrections against the company's own pages and update the date on the page when we fix it. More on the contact page.