Six pieces, zero captures, one solution. Free daily chess puzzles to build your streak — no ads, no stress, all offline, with endless customisation to find your zen.
• A peaceful chess puzzle, played offline with no ads or account
• No chess knowledge required — a new challenge for grandmasters and beginners alike
• Thousands of puzzles plus a free Daily Puzzle every day
• Available on iPhone, iPad & Mac, with your progress & settings synced via iCloud
With over 26,500 unique puzzles across three difficulties and five different puzzle types, and a new Daily Puzzle every day, you play with just the board and six piece types — King, Queen, Rook (Castle), Bishop, Knight and Pawn — to find each satisfying solution.
-- Daily Puzzles --
Build your streak by playing a new Daily Puzzle every day, share with other players via our Wordle-style solve grid, as well as a customised image showing the puzzle alongside the stats of your solve.
-- Five Unique Puzzle Modes --
• Classic: One of each piece, one board, no captures.
• Multiples: Some pieces are copies of each other. Same rule applies: no captures, only peace.
• Two-Colour: White and black pieces share the board. Pieces only threaten the opposing colour.
• Islands: Two boards, one puzzle. Only the Knight can jump the gap.
• Presets: Some positions are revealed, but the pieces remain unknown.
-- Find Your Zen through endless customisation --
Unprecedented personal customisation of the gameplay screen and menus, including subtly animated backgrounds, on/off toggles for nearly every visual element, and three distinct sets of gameplay sounds. Find your own Chess Peace in every puzzle, with customisation synced across devices. Also choose from many app-wide colour themes, board styles, and over 30 alternate app icons.
-- Great chess learning tool, with no experience required --
If you're not a chess player, don't worry — Chess Peace teaches you everything you need to know, with a quick refresher on hand whenever you need it, as well as an optional possible moves system that shows every move possible by any piece on the board.
-- Complete play history & in-depth statistics --
Replay your every solve move-by-move, and track your progress with granular statistics. Not your thing? Hide them using Zen and never seem them again.
-- No data connection or account --
Everything is stored inside the app, with no connection required and no data collected. Your progress is synced via iCloud, available only to you.
-- Home & Lock Screen Widgets --
Add some Chess Peace to your home and lock screens and jump straight into your next puzzle, or keep up your Daily Puzzle streak.
-- Accessibility --
As well as supporting iOS Accessibility options, several additional accessibility features make Chess Peace as inclusive as possible, including colourblind mode, high contrast, bold icons, letters instead of piece icons, large text, reduced motion, and adaptable controls that can be brought to the top or bottom of the screen.
Daring Fireball brought me here. Wonderful design and attention to detail, great puzzles and customizability, and reasonably priced to unlock all features. My new favorite iOS casual game! Nice to have an alternative to so many word- and number-based games. The name of the app being such an apt pun is the cherry on top.
Developer Response
Thank you very much! There's even more customisation coming soon in 1.1, which will hopefully be a cherry on a cherry!
Fun and peaceful
SJaustin
If you’re interested in the mechanics of chess but don’t enjoy the pressure, give this a shot. The concept is clever, and the game is well-designed. The free version is very playable, and after a few days, I was happy to upgrade to paid. (Appreciate the one time fee for that, too.)
Developer Response
Thank you, that's a lovely review! 🙏
Great. Just great
da-wdc
Super fun. Good quick (except when they aren’t!) brain teasers. Very creative idea. Also, just beautiful to look at. I want a tip system. I’d pay but then I’d spend all day playing and I can’t do that. But I’d love to give the developer a few bucks. Free game every day is great.
Developer Response
Thank you, that's really lovely to hear! It's reviews like yours that make the long evenings feel so worthwhile. I'd love to hear if anything like a daily puzzle limit would feel useful? Feel free to get in touch at hello@chesspeace.app, and you can find out how to show your support on the website as well 🙏
Thoughtfully designed, and fun to play
NSNerd
One of the most carefully crafted apps I have ever used, both its macOS and iOS personalities. Developer’s attention to detail, and thoughtful design are well apparent. PLUS it’s a fun, challenging, highly customizable game besides!
Thank you to everyone who’s written to me with comments and suggestions — it’s wonderful to hear from you, and your ideas help to shape every release! Please do get in touch at hello@chesspeace.app
• Locked pieces in the dock are now greyed out to show that they have already been placed on the board. Thanks to John for the suggestion!
Version 1.1.3
In-App Purchases
Premium Unlock
Unlock every puzzle, theme and update forever.
$8.99
The developer, Sam Shepherd, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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