Bring chess to your Home Screen: solve daily puzzles, play online or offline, explore classic games, and sharpen your skills with Coach.
Chess Widget is a simple, focused way to keep chess close: solve daily puzzles on your Home Screen, train in the app, play online, review classic games, and set up your own positions.
Solve over 11,000 chess puzzles and explore over 100,000 games by outstanding players—from historical classics to modern grandmaster games. Sharpen your tactics and study games move by move.
Add a chess puzzle widget to your iPhone or iPad and come back to a fresh position every day. Open the app to solve tactics, analyze the board, or continue with a full chess experience built for quick sessions and thoughtful play.
Play online with your Lichess account, find opponents, create invite links, accept challenges, offer draws, resign, and follow the game clock directly in the app. You can also play nearby multiplayer with a friend, practice against AI, or explore famous classic games move by move.
Chess Widget also includes a board editor with FEN support, so you can create positions, test ideas, save setups, and jump straight into play.
Coach mode
Review completed Lichess games with a move-quality score, an evaluation graph, and a breakdown of inaccuracies, mistakes and blunders. Return to a critical position and try a better move on the board, ask for a hint, or explore the best continuation.
Compare White’s and Black’s thinking time with paired bars and time labels for both players. Tap the graphs or use the navigation buttons to explore the game move by move. Start another online search from Coach with your saved settings.
Features:
• Over 11,000 chess puzzles and a widget with a new puzzle every day on your Home Screen
• Online play with Lichess
• Invite links and incoming challenges
• Nearby multiplayer
• Play against AI
• Over 100,000 games by outstanding players to study move by move
• Board editor with FEN
• Move history, themes, sounds, and focused chess settings
Whether you want one quick puzzle, a real online game, or a quiet board to study, Chess Widget keeps chess ready when you are.
Questions or feedback?
Write to me at oleg.v.soloviev@gmail.com
Terms of Use:
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Love the app. Would rate higher if we had the option to “hide” the number of moves needed. In a real game we wouldn’t see how many moves we need for checkmate. So, having this ability to practice without knowing how many moves you need will help in your development. Currently, I just simply try to avoid looking at the number of moves needed and instead try to calculate if it is mate in 3, or mate in 2, etc. Otherwise, again, this is a great download. Would definitely recommend to chess lovers.
Developer Response
Thank you very much for your detailed comment. I have added this option.
Awesome, but…
Toiletpaper
Would love if we could just interact with the chess board on the Home Screen. There’s another chess app that does that, but unfortunately no puzzles. Don’t like how it has to open the app. Other than that, love it!
Developer Response
Thank you. This will be done, but a little later.
Not playable
Ty2200Ty
For some reason it’s not playable? Who would want this just for the image of a chess board? You could get way better way cooler looking chess boards in many different scenarios as an imagine on google and use that as your widget. Since it’s unplayable I don’t see a reason to ever need this app
Developer Response
The widget is needed so that you can think carefully about the solution without opening the application. And then solve the puzzle in the app.
• Improved interface adaptation for iPhone Duo.
• More reliable Lichess play, with automatic reconnection and fewer unexpected sign-outs during temporary service issues.
• Claim victory when an opponent leaves the game and Lichess allows it.
• Improved analysis restoration, game selection, and board display in Coach mode.
Version 1.27.0
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Information
Seller
Oleg Soloviev
Size
38 MB
Category
Education
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
