Chess variants - Chess Remix

Name: Chess variants - Chess Remix
Rating: 4.4 (107 reviews)
Author: Alexander Everett

By: Alexander Everett

Online Shogi, Xiangqi & Janggi

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Features & Capabilities

Experience a new way to play the world's oldest game. Chess Remix emphasizes fast thinking over memorized openings with competitive online play and randomly selected Remix rounds. You still use standard chess pieces, but rules can change, challenging you to adapt and find new paths to win.

Explore a world of variants—from Shogi, Xiangqi, Janggi, Makruk and more—styled to feel familiar yet different. Create original boards, play against AI, and learn with hand-designed levels that introduce every piece and rule. Not just chess: try Checkers, Three Men's Morris, and Tic-Tac-Toe. Share your creations with the Remix community or discover what others have built in the Discover section.

User Growth & Download Statistics

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By:

Alexander Everett

Rating:

4.40

(107)

Version:

1.10.0 Last updated: 2026-06-09

Version code:

886547002

Creation date:

2021-01-16

Compatible devices:

Size:

60.15MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-30

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 149,571 ▲ 10

Other rankings

#59 in variation keyword 4 ▼ 2

Other platforms

Chess variants - Chess Remix (v1.10.0)

56,271 4.08

(804)

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Developed by:

Alexander Everett

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chess-variants-chess-remix/id1547819624

Website:

https://chessremix.app/

User Reviews

Chess Remix offers a highly creative sandbox for designing custom pieces and variants with a massive library of games, plus free core features and visuals customization. However, users repeatedly report stability issues, overheating, and weak AI, with some features gated behind premium pricing and ongoing bugs affecting reliability.

Pros

Ability to create your own pieces, boards, and variants, enabling highly personalized chess experiments
Huge library of variants and games, including Chess960, Crazyhouse, Shogi, Xiangqi, and more
Core features are free, with extensive content accessible without a paywall
Customizable visuals and themes for backgrounds and pieces

Cons

On-device AI calculations cause overheating, leading to freezing, crashes, and stability issues
AI strength is weak and not very challenging
Premium features lock core capabilities (e.g., the piece creator), creating friction for users who want full customization
Frequent stability issues and bugs, including crashes after updates and save/response problems

Recent reviews

I tried out the subscription for a little while where you can make your own pieces and board set ups and it is like no other app/game I’ve found. It’s quite creative. This app’s most major problem is all of the calculating is done on your device which overheats your device no matter what device you use, and then the app freezes or crashes. It makes the app nearly unplayable. Another thing that hás to be changed is the simple ability to take back a move. That is the dumbest feature that has to be paid for. Something so simple as that should be a given. When the computer captures a piece, sometimes I can’t even see what it captured because I can’t even preview back a move 🙄

by J*****, 2026-04-20

This is quite literally the best game on the App Store. There's THOUSANDS of games you can play, all with their own AIs that you can play against, AND you can make your own game, AND you can play with other people, AND you can learn to play chess and other board games like that! AND IT IS COMPLETELY FREE.

by Gl*****, 2025-12-12

If you go to style and go to name pieces you see all of these but when you create a chess board it doesn’t have those pieces like how what about those pieces I thought this game would be better and you can’t even create your piece for free stupid money with games just horrible but 5⭐️ so just add those pieces to the Remix and make the create your piece free