Xiangqiful Learn Xiangqi & AI
Chinese Chess Tactics Trainer
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
New to xiangqi? Learn it from the first move with 80 free lessons, then play, let the engine review every game and solve 902 checkmate puzzles. All offline.
Learn xiangqi — Chinese chess — from your very first move. Xiangqiful teaches you the board, the pieces and the rules, then reviews every game you play with a real engine and turns your mistakes into tomorrow's practice. All on your device, no account needed.
Most xiangqi apps let you play. Xiangqiful teaches you, then makes you stronger.
LEARN → PLAY → ANALYZE → TRAIN
■ LEARN XIANGQI FROM ZERO
• 80 free lessons in 8 tracks: fundamentals, openings, palace defense, cannon tactics, horse technique, middlegame, endgame and advanced
• Every rule shown on the board: the horse's leg, the elephant's eye, the cannon that captures over a screen, the generals that may never face each other
• The rules that catch chess players out, taught first: having no legal move LOSES, and so does checking forever
• Solve your first checkmate in the first minute, then take a 15-position skill assessment
• The advanced track walks the classics, from the Juzhongmi to the Seven Stars endgame
■ CAN'T READ THE PIECES? START ANYWAY
Every piece is a Chinese character on a wooden disc — the real reason most people never start. Pick traditional characters, western symbols or a hybrid of both, with a movement guide on every piece you touch.
■ PLAY OPPONENTS WITH PERSONALITY
• Ten teahouse opponents, from a kid who just learned the moves to the Master: a grandmother who never leaves her palace, a twin-cannon fanatic, an endgame grinder who waits you out
• They play styles, not a dialed-down engine. Win twice and the next one sits down
• Stuck mid-game? The coach shows the best move and a one-line reason why
■ ANALYZE EVERY GAME
• Pikafish, the open-source engine that tops the computer-xiangqi rating lists, runs entirely on your device
• Every move graded from best to blunder, with an accuracy score for both sides
• Mistakes named in xiangqi's own terms: a screenless cannon, a trapped horse, broken advisors, a missed Iron Bolt mate
• Import games in WXF or ICCS notation and review them too
■ TRAIN WHAT YOU MISSED
• 902 checkmate puzzles, mate-in-1 to mate-in-7, most from eight classical manuals such as the Shiqing Yaqu of 1570 — every line re-checked by the app's own solver, and any book problem that does not really work left out
• Nine modules, including Mate Trail, Cannon Range, Horse Trails, Opening Lab, Palace Workshop, Endgame Studio and Handicap House, with more than 150 drills
• A daily plan built from your own mistakes, with spaced repetition until they stick
■ WATCH YOURSELF IMPROVE
• Estimated rating, with rating and accuracy over time
• A five-axis skill profile and weakness trends that say what to work on this week
■ PRIVATE, OFFLINE, NATIVE
• Fully offline. No account, no ads, no tracking, nothing collected
• Native on iPhone, iPad and Mac, with an optional 3D board
• WXF and Chinese notation, more than 30 languages, VoiceOver throughout
• Game Center leaderboards and achievements
FREE AND PREMIUM
Free forever: all 80 lessons, every drill, unlimited games against every opponent, plus two game analyses, three puzzles and two coach hints a day.
Xiangqiful Premium removes the daily limits and adds deep multi-line analysis, the skill profile and weakness trends. Monthly or yearly with a one-week free trial, or a one-time lifetime purchase.
Subscriptions renew automatically unless turned off at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings.
Privacy Policy: https://lagerland-apps.github.io/apps/xiangqiful/privacy/
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Information
- Seller
- Antti Aittamaa
- Size
- 108.2 MB
- Category
- Board
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 33 more
- English, Arabic, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Premium Yearly $9.99
- Premium Monthly $1.99
- Supporter $4.99
- Huge Support $9.99
- Coffee $1.99
- Premium Lifetime $19.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Aittamaa
