Tactica: Chess Tactics Trainer
Spaced repetition puzzles
$4.99 · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Tactica finds the tactical patterns you keep missing and drills them until you don't. Adaptive difficulty, spaced repetition, and a plain explanation for every puzzle.
Most puzzle apps hand you a random position and move on. Tactica works out which tactical patterns you keep missing, then drills those until you stop missing them.
*ADAPTIVE DIFFICULTY
Every puzzle is rated, and so are you. Tactica serves puzzles at the difficulty where you succeed about three times in four — hard enough to learn from, easy enough to keep going.
* IT FINDS YOUR BLIND SPOTS
Forks, pins, skewers, deflections, back-rank mates. Tactica keeps a separate rating for each of nearly thirty tactical motifs. When one falls behind, it says so plainly: "Your deflection rating is 1,290 — 180 below your overall 1,470." Then it feeds you more of them.
* PUZZLES COME BACK BEFORE YOU FORGET THEM
Miss one and it returns days later, timed for when you are most likely to have forgotten it. Solve one cleanly first time and it never returns — there is nothing to relearn.
* EVERY PUZZLE EXPLAINS ITSELF
Solve it and Tactica names the motif and how it works, so a lucky guess becomes a pattern you recognise next time.
* FIVE MINUTES A DAY
A short daily set and a streak. No feed, no leaderboard, nothing else competing for your attention.
* PLAY A FULL GAME TOO
Four difficulty levels against the computer, with your record kept. Games save automatically and continue across sessions.
* WORKS ENTIRELY OFFLINE
No account. No sign-in. Your progress never leaves your device.
Free to play, with every puzzle included. Optional short videos unlock hints, and a one-time purchase removes ads and gives unlimited hints. There are no interstitial ads, ever.
Puzzles from the Lichess open database (database.lichess.org), released under CC0 1.0. This app is not affiliated with or endorsed by Lichess.
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Information
- Seller
- Cloven & Works Private Limited
- Size
- 66.1 MB
- Category
- Board
- 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. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Remove ads $4.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Cloven & Works Private Limited