Reviews of Chessbook - Master openings

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List of user reviews and ratings for Chessbook - Master openings

Total ratings

4.75 (Rating count: 5,021)

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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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User Reviews

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All time rating average: 4.75

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Date	Author	Comment
2026-07-22	Ra*****	aplikasi yang sangat bagus, sangat membantu untuk belajar opening and defense
aplikasi yang sangat bagus, sangat membantu untuk belajar opening and defense
2026-07-20	Is*****	i have learn more defense and new moves I gave too 97/100 rating 🙌need more updates about CHESS
i have learn more defense and new moves I gave too 97/100 rating 🙌need more updates about CHESS
2026-07-20	Uj*****	Very good app for practicing and making repertoires
Very good app for practicing and making repertoires
2026-07-19	To*****	I've been avoiding doing opening studies cos it feels overwhelming. Chessbook just gave me a great start. Easy to use. Makes learning fun. Excellent app.
I've been avoiding doing opening studies cos it feels overwhelming. Chessbook just gave me a great start. Easy to use. Makes learning fun. Excellent app.
2026-07-19	Sa*****	wow!
wow!
2026-07-17	Ku*****	this app is perfect for my chess development 5 stars
this app is perfect for my chess development 5 stars
2026-07-17	Pe*****	It's like the Duolingo of chess openings. I'm finally learning opening lines and it's painless
It's like the Duolingo of chess openings. I'm finally learning opening lines and it's painless
2026-07-17	Na*****	helps with spaced repition which is nice, although the builder feature isnt intuitive to me like some other chess apps or websites are. So importing through PGN and using chess book only for spaced repition works nicely imo
helps with spaced repition which is nice, although the builder feature isnt intuitive to me like some other chess apps or websites are. So importing through PGN and using chess book only for spaced repition works nicely imo
2026-07-15	ke*****	Nice App
Nice App
2026-07-08	Pi*****	good by now, will update later
good by now, will update later