SocialChess - Online Chess

In-app purchases
9.66K reviews
Content rating
PEGI 3
100K+
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Content rating
PEGI 3
Users Interact, Shares Location, In-Game Purchases
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About this game

Play chess online with friends: fast multiplayer games on the clock, or relaxed daily games you can move whenever you have a moment. Clean, beautiful, and never any ads.

PLAY YOUR WAY
• Live chess from 1 to 90 minutes: bullet, blitz, rapid or classical, with optional increments
• Daily correspondence chess with 1, 3 or 5 days per move. Keep many games going at once
• Play a Friend: send your personal invite link and start playing
• Get matched with a random opponent, or find players by username
• Chess960 (Fischer Random), premoves, conditional moves and optional takebacks
• Push notifications when it's your move
• Your account and games sync across Android, iPhone, iPad and the web

IMPROVE YOUR GAME
• Chess game analysis: reviews with an accuracy score and a move-quality chart
• Insights: plain-English explanations of why a move worked, or didn't
• Second Chance: replay your mistakes and find the better move
• Strategy Board: explore any position with chess engine lines

SOCIAL
• Chat and group chat
• Profiles with photo, comments and a location map
• Browse any player's games, and their opponents' games
• Elo ratings and player rankings
• Watch live games

MEMBERSHIP
SocialChess is free to play forever, or upgrade to a membership to unlock more features:
• Up to 100 daily games at a time
• Unlimited game reviews with Insights
• Second Chance on any player's games
• Elo charts and per-opponent statistics
• All board styles
• PGN export and a server archive of your games
• Unrated games
• Chat images and translation

OUR PRINCIPLES
• No ads, ever
• Your privacy and data are respected
• Features are chosen carefully and shaped by your feedback
Play chess with friends, live or daily, and see where each game was won or lost.
Updated on
Nov 1, 2026
Available on
Android, Windows

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
  • No data shared with third parties
    Learn more about how developers declare sharing
  • This app may collect these data types
    Location, Personal info and 5 others
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

8.91K reviews
Daniel Love
February 10, 2022
The Absolute BEST chess game you will ever download! Great for beginners and veterans of the game. The best part about the game is there are NO ADS!! You do not even need to purchase the premium upgrade as even the free version does not play one single ad! However if you do choose to purchase the premium version it will only cost you $9.99 A YEAR!!!
115 people found this review helpful
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Damian Burke
November 12, 2022
My experience with this app is very mixed. When it works it's great, but at times it simply loses connection, despite my phone showing full 5g internet connection and other apps running. It's really frustrating to 'lose' games that time out because it cuts your connection for no reason, not one I can work out anyway. Is there a workaround to prevent this?
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Andy Roberts
May 31, 2026
You must PAY for your PGNs. This is pretty unforgivable for any chess app, especially considering the extortionate price of premium. Wow, 3 years on and I'd forgotten all about this review until I came to leave a 1* review and found this. They STILL haven't changed this, and lock PGNs behind a paywall. Awful practice, and an insult to chess. I own my games. Not you.
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What’s new

* bug fixes and improvements
Content rating
PEGI 3
Users Interact, Shares Location, In-Game Purchases
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About the developer
WOODCHOP SOFTWARE LLC
feedback@socialchess.com
327 N State Rd 19 PME 1006 Palatka, FL 32177 United States
+1 904-657-0088

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