Ply Chess

Play. Learn. Improve.

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

Now on iPhone Duo: unfold for a full-size board with moves and clocks alongside. Strong on-device engine, thousands of puzzles and 13 courses. No account, no ads. Ply Chess is a modern, Apple-native chess app for iPhone and iPad — a beautiful board, a strong opponent, and a real path from your first moves to club-level play. Everything runs on-device, so you can play, solve and learn with no account and no internet connection required. PLAY Challenge Arasan, a strong chess engine that runs entirely on your device, at five difficulty levels from relaxed Beginner games to a genuine Expert test. Choose your time control, pick a side, and play at your own pace — the engine never phones home and never watches you play. LEARN Work through 13 courses across three levels, from how the pieces move to opening repertoires and attacking the king, in the spirit of a proven step-by-step method. Every lesson teaches on the board itself, with highlighted squares, arrows and practice positions instead of walls of text. SOLVE Train tactics with thousands of hand-picked puzzles spanning every rating band, plus a fresh Daily Puzzle. An adaptive selector keeps the difficulty matched to your solving rating as you improve. REVIEW After any game, get a full move-by-move analysis: every move classified from brilliant to blunder, an evaluation graph you can scrub through, the game's key moments called out, and a retry mode to replay your mistakes and find the better move yourself. DESIGN & ACCESSIBILITY Six board themes, Liquid Glass throughout, and a design built for everyone: full VoiceOver support with every square and move spoken aloud, Dynamic Type, and respect for Reduce Motion, Reduce Transparency and Increase Contrast. PRIVACY No ads, no tracking, no third-party analytics. Your games, ratings and progress stay on your device unless you choose Ply Pro, in which case they sync only through your own private iCloud account. FREE, NO ACCOUNT REQUIRED Play unlimited games against the engine at every difficulty. Each day you also get one full game review, one hint per game, and five puzzles plus the Daily Puzzle. Every Beginner course is free to complete, and your last 10 games are always kept. PLY PRO Upgrade for unlimited game reviews, unlimited hints, the entire puzzle library, the complete Learn path from Beginner to Intermediate, your full game history, and iCloud sync across all your devices. - Ply Pro Monthly: $2.99/month - Ply Pro Annual: $19.99/year, with a 1-week free trial Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings on your device. Prices are shown in USD and may vary by region. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://orinbyte.com/plychess/privacy/ Ply Chess's chess engine is built on Arasan, open-source software used under license.

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Ply Chess now supports iPhone Duo. • Unfolded, the board fills the large inner display, with moves, clocks and controls alongside it in a side panel • Home, Learn, Puzzles and game reviews spread out into wider layouts on the bigger screen • Tabs move to a side rail on the unfolded display, keeping more room for the board • Player names, clocks and ratings stay readable in narrow panels • Fold or unfold at any time and pick up right where you left off

Version 1.1

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    Information

    Seller
    JIANHUA LIN
    Size
    59.1 MB
    Category
    Board
    Compatibility
    Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
    • iPhone
      Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
    • iPad
      Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 26.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
    • Apple Vision
      Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
    Languages
    English and 3 more
    • English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
    Age Rating
    4+
    In-App Purchases
    Yes
    • Ply Pro Annual $19.99
    • Ply Pro Monthly $2.99
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    Copyright
    © 2026 Orinbyte
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