Chess - Play With Friends

Name: Chess - Play With Friends
Rating: 4 (80 reviews)
Author: Pirinel Ltd

By: Pirinel Ltd

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Features & Capabilities

Chess - Play With Friends is a free multiplayer chess game that lets you challenge friends or play against random opponents online, with no registration. Host games with a unique code, and play across devices—from phones to tablets and TVs.

Key features include thousands of daily puzzles, in-game chat, game timers, Chess960 (Fischer random chess), handicap options, spectator mode, and optional game analysis (paid).

User Growth & Download Statistics

App Games Entertainment Education

By:

Pirinel Ltd

Rating:

4.00

(80)

Version:

5.02 Last updated: 2023-09-11

Version code:

859820391

Creation date:

2020-04-25

Compatible devices:

Size:

127.73MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-04

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 171,866 ▼ 532

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Developed by:

Pirinel Ltd

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chess-play-with-friends/id1509924265

Website:

https://chesshold.com

User Reviews

Users largely praise Chess - Play With Friends for its ad-free experience, beginner-friendly design with puzzles, and easy options to play with friends through matchmaking and private rooms. The app is considered reliable and family-friendly by several reviewers. However, recurring concerns center on fairness and access: cheating and bot players dampen multiplayer matches, the player pool is small causing long matchmaking times, and some updates introduce bugs (such as replay problems and AI pawn glitches). Overall, it’s a solid learning and casual play app with strong social features, offset by gameplay fairness and stability caveats.

Pros

Ad-free gameplay with no ads.
Strong learning focus: beginner-friendly, with puzzles to improve chess.
Good for playing with friends: matchmaking, private rooms, and head-to-head play.
Reliable and family-friendly experience with smooth performance.

Cons

Cheating and bots undermine fair play in multiplayer.
Small player pool or slow matchmaking leading to long waits for games.
Buggy updates with issues like replaying games and AI pawn glitches.

Recent reviews

AI has made this game not fun. Supposed to be actual people online but I’ve noticed a lot not robot players.

by Ni*****, 2026-05-23

Tonight alone I played a good amount of “users” of varying ratings and every single one was making highly accurate moves in milliseconds. It is obviously not natural gameplay especially for game after game of low rated players 😂 Im around 1700 so I deleted the app and redownloaded to see if my suspicions were right and yea for every single game to have each player make every single move accurately in split seconds smells of bots.

by ee*****, 2026-05-12

If you’re sick of chess.com and their trolls,cheating stockfish worms, and contestant solicitations to subscribe. And “questionable reviews “ give this a shot couldn’t be worse!