Last updated on December 1st, 2025 at 09:36 am
Chessvis – Board Game Review
Chessvis is a Board/Puzzle game from Conceptual Software, Inc., first launched in 16th May 2017.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 21+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Chessvis Stand Out
Chessvis is designed to help you get better at the game. Its unique, "found nowhere else", puzzle, blindfold chess and progressive move following exercises will sharpen your visualization skills. Now with Version 9, it sports a whole new look and interface. The opening repertoire preparation routines are also unique focusing on the "moves you'll see" and finding the "moves that work". Plus you can pull in your own games to see what's working for you.
Puzzles
The Chessvis puzzle collection starts with millions of categorized and rated puzzles from Lichess and adds several unique features including:
Category and Rating Control
Chessvis lets you set both the category and rating of the puzzles you’re challenged with. Want to try easy forks one day and hard multiple move mates the next? Do it! You’ll never be forced to only do puzzles around some hypothetical rating you’ve “earned”. The entire puzzle collection is always available for you.
Visualized Puzzles
A unique feature of Chessvis is the "Visualized" puzzle. It presents a puzzle showing the diagram from some number of moves before the actual tactic sequence starts. You're told the number of moves to "visualize" and then solve the problem from a board position that only exists in your mind. This is what got Chessvis started and it’s the only app with it.
Other Puzzle Collection Features
The “no repeat pledge” – with such an extensive puzzle collection, Chessvis is able to make sure you don’t see the same puzzle twice. Want to focus on solving puzzles quickly? Turn on the timer. Going to be away from the internet? Pull two thousand puzzles down to your device and work off-line. See your puzzle history. Download the puzzles you’ve done. Graph the results. Compare with others. All that is in Chessvis.
Opening Preparation
Build your repertoires focusing on the "moves you'll see". Chessvis believes that you need to think about the moves your opponents actually play and not some complex way too deep repertoire designed by a master who doesn't play anything like the way you do. At ever step in the repertoire design process, Chessvis shows you the moves your opponents actually make and highlights ones you need to think about. Then once you've built your repertoire, practice it with daily spaced repetition.
Blindfold Chess
Play against the computer with "stepping stones" to help ease your way into blindfold chess. Start with all pieces sharing one color then go to two color disks, one shared color disk and then eventually an empty board.
Move Following
Track a sequence of moves and then update the board to that point. Follow a game from the beginning, some random location within a game or specify the number of pieces you want to follow.
Who’s Guarding Whom
A deceptively simple visualization exercise that forces you to mentally track piece movements and how they interact. (No other app has this.)
Static Boards
What could be simpler than this? You look at and memorize a board layout, then recreate it. Start off easy with just a few pieces and work your way up.
Analyze Your Games
Download your chess.com and lichess.org games for opening analysis. See what you've been playing, what's been played against you and the results.
Videos
What better way is there than videos to see Chessvis in action? You can watch the videos within the app. They're all kept short and to the point.
Chessvis has always had unique tools to visualize the chessboard and win more games. A famous chess coach said: "Don't think about the pieces being exchanged, visualize how the board will look when the pieces are gone". Move a piece and you affect two places. But it's illegal to physically move the piece and see the effects — you must learn to visualize. Chessvis is designed to help with that process.
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This Board game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Chessvis is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 19th November 2025
Recent improvements include:
Run 'Verbal Chess' right inside 'Chessvis'! Access the new Cloud AI Voices and multiple languages. (It's on the left-hand menu.) And fixes an error in the menu structure.
Download & Availability
Chessvis is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Please quit your day job and focus on developing this please! So good.
Down loaded it and could only get into the explanation and the few videos but not into where it could help us. Very disappointed.
This app has a HUGE amount of content for free. More importantly it has visualization training tools the we have not seen in other apps. Most of our games are won or lost because of relatively simple tactics that lurk at the end of variations of variable length. Visualization training with this app lets you solve tactics that have not yet appeared on the board. You are shown a position on the board and subsequent moves are written. You visualize the moves and solve the tactic from the position you are visualizing. You can easily adjust difficulty by adjusting the difficulty of the tactic and/or adjusting the number of moves you must visualize before the tactic emerges. This is more effective tactics training for real games where you have to see a lot of simple stuff several moves ahead. The interface is functional, but its free! Im looking forward to many hours of fun and hopefully some improvement in our game.
Every time we set an option it does not hold and instead reverts to the default. Please address this issue.
App no longer working :( crashes upon startup.
Can finally hone our craft without hauling a book with us.
Still exploring this app, but so far its looking like a good one. Not the prettiest interface, but thats not important at all in our opinion. Its set up well, has a wonderful amount of content for a free app, and covers all the bases. Its also one-of-a-kind in the App Store for chess visualization as far as we can tell. Great stuff, thank you.
Interesting app to help improve your chess. Helps your visualization. Nice and worth checking out.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 10.1.4
- Size: 26.54 MB
- iOS: 15.6 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Conceptual Software, Inc.]()
Last updated: 19th November 2025 | Genre: Board, Puzzle | Developer: Conceptual Software, Inc.