ChessScroll: Earn Your Scroll
Chess Puzzles for Screen Time
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Fourteen chapters, one for each master from Morphy to Kasparov, and a road that walks every time you solve. The deck reaches 2700 now.
Your feed costs a move now.
ChessScroll seals the apps that eat your evenings — Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, whichever you choose — behind a chess puzzle at your level. Solve it and you earn minutes of scroll. Fail it and the position waits. That's the whole app. That's the whole deal.
THE DEAL
1 puzzle = minutes of scroll. You set the exchange rate.
HOW IT WORKS
1. Seal your apps. Pick the ones that eat you.
2. Reach for one, and a puzzle appears instead.
3. Solve it. The app opens and your clock starts running.
4. Minutes run out mid-scroll? In chess we call that flagging. Solve another.
WHY IT WORKS
You already reach for your phone dozens of times a day. ChessScroll doesn't fight that urge — it reroutes it. Every reach becomes one tactic at your level: twenty to forty seconds, and a real fight. It's the training every coach prescribes and nobody actually does, attached to a habit you already have.
TWO NUMBERS, FACING EACH OTHER
— Your puzzle rating, climbing.
— Your daily screen time, falling.
Everything else is supporting cast.
REAL PUZZLES, AT YOUR LEVEL
Nearly fourteen thousand positions from real games, each one rated by the players who tried it before you, and served at your rating rather than under it, so the rating you build is earned. Works fully offline. From 400 to 2700, the puzzle fits.
THE CLIMB
Fourteen chapters, one for each master: Morphy, Anderssen, Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Botvinnik, Nezhmetdinov, Tal, Petrosian, Spassky, Fischer, Karpov, Kasparov. Every six puzzles you solve lays a stone on their road, and the one you solved at midnight to get into Instagram counts the same as the one you chose to play. The road stops at twenty-eight of their own games, and every one you solve goes into your album as a card. You never have to open the tab for it to move.
NO NEW ADDICTION
Training sessions end by design. No infinite puzzle feed, no guilt notifications, no nagging. Paul Morphy said in 1859 that chess should never engross the mind. We're inclined to agree.
PRIVACY
Your app choices and screen-time data never leave your device — Apple's Screen Time framework enforces that by design. No account needed.
MEMBERSHIP
ChessScroll requires a membership: yearly with a 7-day free trial, or monthly. Subscriptions auto-renew until cancelled in Settings. Terms: https://chessscroll.com/terms — Privacy: https://chessscroll.com/privacy
Earn your scroll.
ChessScroll's App Store page now reads in 34 languages. Same app, same rating, same sealed apps. The app itself still speaks English, and the puzzles never needed translating.
The developer, MICHAŁ ROSTKOWSKI, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Purchases
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- MICHAŁ ROSTKOWSKI
- Size
- 104.5 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 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
- Annual Membership $39.99
- Monthly Membership $7.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Michał Rostkowski
