Features & Capabilities

Never play the same game of chess again! ChessCraft is a chess sandbox with an AI computer opponent. Customize chess boards, rules, and pieces. Share your creations online. Play your friends online, or play the computer, or choose from one of 75 built-in chess boards in adventure mode. ChessCraft is also the world's largest chess variant database.

https://www.chesscraft.ca

Many chess AI mobile games already exist, but only ChessCraft allows the player to create such wacky boards and pieces and immediately play a decent computer opponent.

Create new pieces with any combination of the 8 bishop or rook slides, plus a 7x7 grid of knight-like hops. Pieces can also enhance or restrict nearby pieces. Create new boards with any enabled or disabled tile up to 16x16. Place promotion rules for any piece, anywhere. Place tile rules like witch windows (teleporters), sanctuaries, and more. The computer AI opponent then uses concepts from computer science and graph theory to understand your creations and play against you.

When you share a board, your friends can play the AI too. Sharing creates a new web page just for you, like this:

https://www.chesscraft.ca/design?id=shape-variant1

Visit the website and send me an email if you have any feedback or questions. If you like the game, please rate it!

User Growth & Download Statistics

App
By:
Stuart Spence
Rating:
3.80
(5)
3.80
Version:
1.16.31 Last updated: 2025-10-22
Version code:
879097202
Creation date:
2025-01-18
Compatible devices:
Size:
165.72MB
Price:
5.99
URLs:
Website ,Privacy policy
Full description:
See detailed description
Source:
Apple Apps Store
Data ingested on:
2026-06-07
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Developed by:
Stuart Spence
Apple Apps Store
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chesscraft/id6739758339
Website:
https://www.chesscraft.ca

User Reviews

I love this game but I wish this app was free. Also I would like 2 new ways to make new chess pieces. Way 1 is to use the images the player has in his/her photo gallery. Way 2 is to draw pieces, also I wish in the way to draw you could probably copy pieces or the images you have made to make pieces. I would also recommend if you added a team maker for the game where can choose the color of a team and it's lightness and darkness. Also I would reccomend if you deleted the feature when you add The description of this piece and the way it moves is hidden during play turns your piece into a ghost icon. I would also like if you added a way to add shapes of board tiles. What about the color and/or shape of the tiles? With barriers that remove the ability for players to cross the barriers and make it so you can make a certain amount of teams win from a game on default would be 1. I would also with the ability to make the board as big as infinity. And also a feature where you can make the board have more tiles every move. Also add ghost spaces where if you put your piece there you lose that piece. I also think it shouldn't crash a lot. I also want a feature where you draw with multiple colors or use 1 solid color to make a team and for the draw feature I would like to change the appearance depending on what type of piece it is. I want a feature to make custom advantages and disadvantages for a piece. I also want multiple pieces to go at one turn in the same team as a setting in the chess maker that has a default of 1. I also want a feature where you can make a custom piece move across a gap in the thing where you can make advantages and disadvantages for the piece. I also want a feature where you make pieces be able to capture someone from the same team. For chess custom movements, I want them to be in a board that goes forever. I want custom features for a part of the board.
by Lu*****, 2026-04-04

ChessCraft is a truly amazing app and has been a great source of joy for me. There aren’t many other chess applications that support customized variants, and none make it as intuitive or fun. It really goes all out, with features such as special board tiles, tons of piece rules, an Adventure mode, and custom piece images. Unfortunately, ChessCraft is very buggy and you’ll very often come across some pretty major bugs. The aforementioned custom piece images don’t work, the screen clips sometimes when you play as black, and many others that hold it back from being truly perfect. With that being said, I absolutely recommend this app if fairy chess is your thing. It’s well worth the price.
by Mi*****, 2025-08-07
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