Follow every critical moment live: top tournaments, smart alerts, real-time clocks, Live Activities, Stockfish 19 Game Reports, and Apple Watch.
Watch Chess is built for following the world's top chess tournaments live. Keep up with every game and know when the position turns critical—even from your Lock Screen.
FOLLOW TOURNAMENTS LIVE
• Browse live and recent top-level tournaments.
• Move through every game with a simple swipe.
• Follow several boards at once.
• Check pairings, standings, results, and real-time clocks.
NEVER MISS THE MOMENT
• Choose alerts for round starts and game results.
• Get highlighted-moment alerts for blunders, brilliant moves, forced mates, time pressure, and hard-to-find moves.
LIVE ACTIVITIES
Follow a live game from the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island, with the board, last move, and clocks updating as the action unfolds.
STOCKFISH 19 GAME REPORTS
Review a completed game with Stockfish 19. See accuracy and move quality, find critical turning points, and understand where the game changed.
APPLE WATCH
Follow tournaments and games from your wrist with a dedicated Apple Watch experience.
Have questions or feedback? Email info@watchchessapp.com or find us at @watch_chess.
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Great app! Sad to see its work copied in a cheap knockoff with a big name attached
Most Giant Vanilla Bear
Magnus’s Take Take Take is basically doing what this app has been doing for a while, but with a big name attached to it. I’m sad to see fewer people will download this one now, because it really is wonderful. The subscription is very modestly priced and extremely worth it. This is way better than Take Take Take, which explains super simple concepts, while this app gives a game report, engine lines, and lets you toy around with the moves.
Great live coverage for all the tournaments!
Faltryka
It’s always been painful on mobile to find all the games and tournaments, I tried the free version and it was promising so I upgraded to paid and don’t regret it at all. The interface is good and it does exactly what I need. Super easy to follow all the tournaments now!
Watch Chess very good and could be even better
chesspastime
Watch Chess works perfectly on my iPhone. I would also love to see the app coupled to a good chess engine to see competent responses to alternate moves from a given position. The engine would mimic expert analysis, and help me understand moves as played.
Developer Response
Watch Chess now includes a chess engine 🎉
I need help
Ishan_N
The app won’t load for me and it stays gray at the tournament screen.If anyone could help that would be nice
Developer Response
Please reach out to @watch_chess on Twitter so we can help you.
• Get alerts when top games reach critical moments, including blunders, brilliant moves, forced mates, time pressure, and hard-to-find moves.
• Improved tournament schedules and player cards.
• Support for iOS 27.
• Improved tournament list.
• Many fixes and performance improvements.
Version 13.0.0
The developer, Ignacio Soto Bustos, 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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