# Chessbook - Master openings

> Build and train a personal chess opening repertoire you'll remember.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.chessbook.android](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.chessbook.android)

## Overview

- **ID:** `com.chessbook.android`
- **Platform:** Android
- **Type:** Android app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Chessbook
- **Category:** EDUCATION
- **Downloads:** 210,444
- **Rating:** 4.73 / 5 (5,347 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.3.47
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-24
- **First published:** 2023-12-07
- **Publisher country:** US
- **Size:** 112 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-24
- **Store listing:** [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chessbook.android)
- **Website:** [https://chessbook.com](https://chessbook.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://chessbook.com/privacy-policy.html](https://chessbook.com/privacy-policy.html)

## Description

**Chessbook** helps chess players build, train, and remember a personalized opening repertoire. Create custom opening lines, combine material from multiple sources, and use spaced repetition to practice the moves you are most likely to face.

Track your coverage by opening, identify gaps, compare moves using master-game statistics and engine evaluations, and avoid obscure lines that are unlikely to appear at your level. Chessbook also analyzes online games from **Lichess** and **Chess.com** to find opening mistakes, supports transpositions, and provides model games and middlegame plans. Chessbook Pro unlocks unlimited repertoire moves, while free users can add up to 400 moves.

## Rankings

- #155,851 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE`
- `android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE`
- `android.permission.INTERNET`
- `android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS`
- `android.permission.READ_APP_BADGE`
- `android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED`
- `android.permission.VIBRATE`
- `android.permission.WAKE_LOCK`
- `com.anddoes.launcher.permission.UPDATE_COUNT`
- `com.android.vending.BILLING`
- `com.chessbook.android.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION`
- `com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE`
- `com.htc.launcher.permission.READ_SETTINGS`
- `com.htc.launcher.permission.UPDATE_SHORTCUT`
- `com.huawei.android.launcher.permission.CHANGE_BADGE`
- `com.huawei.android.launcher.permission.READ_SETTINGS`
- `com.huawei.android.launcher.permission.WRITE_SETTINGS`
- `com.majeur.launcher.permission.UPDATE_BADGE`
- `com.oppo.launcher.permission.READ_SETTINGS`
- `com.oppo.launcher.permission.WRITE_SETTINGS`
- `com.sec.android.provider.badge.permission.READ`
- `com.sec.android.provider.badge.permission.WRITE`
- `com.sonyericsson.home.permission.BROADCAST_BADGE`
- `com.sonymobile.home.permission.PROVIDER_INSERT_BADGE`
- `me.everything.badger.permission.BADGE_COUNT_READ`
- `me.everything.badger.permission.BADGE_COUNT_WRITE`

## Review summary

Users largely praise Chessbook as an excellent openings trainer and a strong learning tool, helping build a repertoire and highlight common moves. It’s widely described as useful, easy to use, and well-built, with positive notes about its SRS-based practice. However, multiple reviews flag reliability concerns: the app is sometimes buggy and hard to keep updated, subscription prompts can occur even for paying users, and the mobile UI has limitations (landscape mode, tablet sizing, and swipe issues). Improvements in stability and polish would enhance the experience.

### Pros

- Excellent openings trainer and repertoire builder; shows common moves, expected responses, and prioritizes lines.
- Educational and effective for learning chess tactics and strategies; widely praised as one of the best learning apps.
- Useful, easy to use and well-built.
- Uses spaced repetition (SRS) to reinforce openings.

### Cons

- Buggy and glitchy app with frequent issues and update needs.
- Premium-subscription issues where the app asks for premium despite having access.
- UI/UX limitations on mobile/tablet: lack of landscape mode, small portrait UI, and some swipe issues.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.chessbook.android)