Improve your playing level and skills with our magic chess tools: a chess scanner for real chessboards, books, and diagrams, a unique video finder, and a Superfast cloud engine. Analyze puzzles and games with Stockfish 16 Play chess with friends online or challenge the computer for an offline game.
Features you’ll find ONLY on Chessify:
- The Perfect Chessboard Scanner
Take a photo of a real chessboard to get its digitized version on your phone or scan chess puzzles from printed or digital sources with 99% accuracy.
- Chess PDF Reader & Scanner
Upload a book to keep track of your reading as well as scan and analyze its puzzles.
- Superfast Cloud Chess Engine
Analyze with Stockfish 16 on Chessify's up to 100,000 kN/s CLOUD server, which is typically 20X faster than a local chess engine.
- Video Finder
Play some opening moves and use the search button to find related videos on YouTube & chesslecture.com (Pro). By clicking on a video, you will get to watch it from the second when the searched position first appears in it.
- High-Quality VIDEO
Share chess games as videos on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media or messaging apps.
- Watch Chess LIVE with Strong Cloud Analysis by Lc0 & Stockfish
Follow the games of the strongest grandmasters LIVE with simultaneous cloud analysis by Stockfish 16 and LCZero. Get notified about the top events (like the World Chess Championship or FIDE Candidates) before their start.
We also provide many basic features to help you learn chess easier:
- ANALYZE with STOCKFISH
Enjoy free chess engine analysis by Stockfish 16 when you need to find the right moves and tactics in puzzles or the mistakes you made in your recent game.
- Play Chess OFFLINE against STOCKFISH
Choose a difficulty level and play a free offline game against the world’s best chess engine from a starting position or your current analysis board.
- Learn chess theory with the Opening Explorer
Find the most popular moves in the given opening using the LiChess DATABASE of 2 million OTB games of 2200+ FIDE rated players.
- Import & export FEN/PGN
Export the PGN files of your games or copy the FENs of puzzles to share them with other chess apps if needed. Use the ‘paste PGN/FEN’ option to import a game into Chessify.
- Edit board
- SAVE games and positions directly on the app
- SHARE games
Share chess puzzles as IMAGE and games as PGN on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media or messaging apps.
- Play real-time Blitz ONLINE
Choose a standard time control or create your own one and send the invitation link to your friend challenging them to a chess game. Play online with other users who search for the same time control.
- CHESS CLOCK
Choose a time control (Fischer, Bronstein, Delay, etc), set the time, and play chess with friends on a real chessboard.
- Chess for Kids
Apply parental control to disable chess engine analysis for kids.
- Available in 9 LANGUAGES
English, Russian, French, German, Spanish, Norwegian, Armenian, Italian, & Portuguese.
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Available memberships in the app:
Bronze: $0.99/month ($9.99/year)
2D/3D scans: 1000
SuperFast engine: 1,000 seconds
Silver: $2.99/month ($29.99/year)
2D/3D scans: unlimited
SuperFast engine: 5,000 seconds
PRO video views: 25
Gold: $9.99/month ($99.99/year)
2D/3D scans: unlimited
SuperFast engine: 40,000 seconds
PRO video views: 100
PDF scans: 10
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Great App but one disappointment that should be solved
sandglider238
Everything about it is perfect except one problem...On to the good things:-Not only is the latest version of Stockfish (right now SF 11) included, but it is on CLOUD which means it will be stronger than analysis ran on your phone! This is a dream come true-Live stream function allows you to browse games of current tournaments which is another dream come true for a serious chess player.-Database is great to have on an app in a first place and I'm pretty sure it is regularly updated! This is also great-Can save PGNs and store a sort of database-A lot of people like the fact that you can take a picture of a 2D chess board and run it there, which is really nice to have, although it serves no purpose for me psrsonally. I would imagine it is very useful if you have a hard example from a book you want to take a picture of. For most exercises though I just solve in my head, and for running through full on games the picture taking doesnt help that in any way, so I don't really know how to make use of the camera function. But again, a lot of people seem to like itMaybe there are some other features I am missing, but the fact that it has a cloud stored chess engine is more than I could ask for. This and the livestream function are the best features in my personal opinion!Now on to the disappointment:-Cannot write comments on moves. Why? This app is so good otherwise but you cannot write comments on any of your moves!? The point of analyzing games is to write notes to yourself! This is an essential element and I think the app developer should make it possible. In an app called "Analyze This" (which is also pretty nice) you can write comments as well as symbols with sidelines/variations and save it all. I wish this app could do that.I strongly recommend this app to anybody, the live stream function is just so great. It is really good to watch ongoing high level games and this app seems to monitor pretty much all the ones that exist to the public.
Developer Response
Hi, thank you so much for the detailed feedback. One useful feature you probably missed is the ability to search chess positions on YouTube and find related videos (bottom left button of the analysis mode). Hope you'll like it too. :)We are actually planning to implement the possibilities of adding sub-variations and comments in your analysis. So stay tuned!
Excellent app for chess players
SoundsOfSpruce
I have been looking for an app for a while to scan paper puzzles. This app comes very close. When u scan it gets most of the positions correct except for some reason queen (color) and Bishop. Minor thing! Thanks for the app.Update: 11/7. Not sure what has changed. Now the scanning is totally off. Not off by one or two pieces but off by most of the pieces. Something got really messed up in updates. I have sent errors through app. ThanksUpdate 12/24: recognition is much better again. Thanks Future feature suggestion: after scanning a position if there is an option to play against computer. Basically we are reading a book (silman’s) and it gives challenging end games. We want to try out all the positions against computer. Thanks and happy holidays
Developer Response
Hi. Thank you so much for your feedback. You can report bad recognition using the top right button in Edit mode. This will help us to make scan feature even better.
When Scanning Photos
Stevethedrummer
First off this app is great so farI am able to organize Chess boards from a book i am studying.However,When I take photos of boards my photos show newest at the TopFor some reason when looking at my photos from this App it switched the order of just the boards.This is just the data entry phase very boring and cookie cutterIt’s amazing how wrong you can be when entering information for the wrong board.It’s actually making my head spinJust letting you know this happened Again this app looks like exactly what I am looking for to organize my study of this bookKeep you updated on how it goes
Developer Response
Hello Steve, thank you so much for your feedback. We're glad to hear our app helps you with your chess training. As to the saved games and positions, they currently appear from newest to oldest. Would you prefer them to be saved in the reverse order? If yes, we'll take your suggestion in to account for our future updates. You can always send your feedback and suggestions to info@chessify.me. We'd love to hear from you.Have a great day!
Broken / scams purchase
Turnkit
So I was told in needed to purchase to scan a book pdf but the app defaults to silver which won’t scan books. Trusting the app I paid for the silver but then realized the mistake as it still wouldn’t scan the pdf. So I upgraded to gold. But the broken app still shows I have silver year even though I paid for the one month of gold. So I tried to cancel everything and get my money back but cancelling not available for a couple days. Then the gold was able to be canceled but not the silver. Just avoid the whole mess. A nightmare and basically they took the money and I got nothing of what I wanted and I can’t get a refund. Buyer beware.
- Updated Stockfish version to 16
- Minor bug fixes
Version 6.4.2
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