Chess Downloads & RevenueChess - tChess Lite · App Store
Chess - tChess Lite is #77 in Games › Board Paid in Japan and charting in 13 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperTom Kerrigan
CategoryGames
Price0.99 USD
Released
Rating★ 4.6 (78)
Version2.0.1
Age rating4+
First seen by us
24 Sep 2026
24 Sep 2026Installs (est.)10k+ worldwide
Chess - tChess Lite update history & changes
Last change · 16 events since 14 Nov 2008Full timeline ↓📈Entered the top 100📈Charting in a new country⭐Passed 100 ratings🆕First spotted by AppInsider🆕Its developer released another app: Pinyin TL📦Version 2.0.1
Full timeline · 16 events
- 📈Chess - tChess Lite entered the top 100Top Paid · Board · US
- 📈Chess - tChess Lite charting in a new countryUnited States
- 📈Chess - tChess Lite entered the top 100Top Paid · Strategy · IN
- 📈Chess - tChess Lite entered the top 10Top Paid · Board · KR
- 📈Chess - tChess Lite entered the top 100Top Paid · Strategy · KR
- 📈Chess - tChess Lite entered the top 100Top Paid · Strategy · IT
- 📈Chess - tChess Lite entered the top 100 in 3 chartsTop Paid · Strategy · AU · Top Paid · Games · RU · Top Grossing · Board · RU
- 📈Chess - tChess Lite charting in a new countrySpain
- 📈Chess - tChess Lite entered the top 100Top Paid · Board · DE
- 📈Chess - tChess Lite charting in a new countryGermany
- 🆕Chess - tChess Lite first spotted by AppInsider#71 in Top Paid · Board · Japan
- 🆕Chess - tChess Lite: its developer released another app: Pinyin TL
- 🆕Chess - tChess Lite: its developer released another app: Time Pool
- 📦Chess - tChess Lite version 2.0.1No release notes
- 🆕Chess - tChess Lite released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
4.6 ★
78 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#77
Games › Board PaidMeasured
Chess - tChess Lite at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
Board Game Realistic Abstract medium sessions Premium
#chess #strategy #casual #single-player #local-multiplayer #board-game
Chess - tChess Lite on the App Store
App details
App ID
296756437
Publisher
Tom Kerrigan
On the store since
Nov 2008
17 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 26.0+
iPhone 11 and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase · Game Center
Content rating
4+
Languages
6
EN FR DE JA KO ZH
Size
6 MB
Also listed in
Strategy, Entertainment, Board
Chess - tChess Lite downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. App Store downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where Chess - tChess Lite's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | Games › BoardPaid | #77 |
 India | Games › BoardPaid | #24 |
 South Korea | Games › BoardPaid | #44 |
 France | Games › BoardPaid | #59 |
 United Kingdom | Games › BoardPaid | #104 |
 Indonesia | Games › BoardPaid | #31 |
 Russia | Games › BoardPaid | #47 |
 Saudi Arabia | Games › BoardPaid | #35 |
 Italy | Games › BoardPaid | #51 |
 Australia | Games › BoardPaid | #76 |
 Canada | Games › BoardPaid | #76 |
 United Arab Emirates | Games › BoardPaid | #31 |
 Brazil | Games › BoardPaid | #84 |
| India | Games › StrategyPaid | #107 |
| South Korea | Games › StrategyPaid | #181 |
| Italy | Games › StrategyPaid | #152 |
| Russia | Games › StrategyPaid | #163 |
| Saudi Arabia | Games › StrategyPaid | #120 |
| United Arab Emirates | Games › StrategyPaid | #97 |
| Indonesia | Games › StrategyPaid | #164 |
Apps near Chess - tChess Lite on the chart
Games › Board Paid, around #77.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.6 ★
78 ratings
Measured
Ratings
78
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
under 1
4-week average
Lifetime rating
4.5★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Review momentum
20/100
faster than 0% of Games apps
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about Chess - tChess Lite
From the 50 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Mostly positive (88% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being useful, and being fun.
What people like
- Useful: “Recommend for all chess players”
- Fun: “the overall enjoyment here!”
- Features & content: “Online Play great new feature but”
- Ease of use: “From quick and easy rules of the game”
About Chess - tChess Lite
tChess Lite is the popular chess game designed just for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. tChess is like a virtual chess board on your device. It's fun and easy to use--perfect for the casual player!
This game features a very clean UI design and beautiful graphics. tChess is a fast and stable program. Pick up a game in your free time... and there's no problem listening to your music while you play.
(tChess Lite is a fully-functional version of tChess for casual chess players. If you're an active player and want enthusiast-level features, take a look at tChess Pro, which is over 1000 ELO stronger and has received rave reviews from Grandmaster Susan Polgar, PE's Chess Cast, and iPhone app critics.)
tChess Lite Features:
- Perfect for 1- or 2-player games (on the same device, no network connection required)
- Tap-tap to move pieces
- Highlights legal moves
- View full game history in the Move List
- Go back or forward move by move and replay completed games
- Built-in chess clock
- "Get hint" feature to improve your game
- Easy to undo moves
- Saves your game automatically if you exit the program or take a call
- Play against any ELO rating from 500 to 1200
- Computer opponent is the most fun and realistic for beginners and casual players
- Use the Profile feature to play rated games and track your progress
- Over 15,000 openings for fresh, varied games
tChess Lite is developed by Tom Kerrigan, author of the TSCP and Stobor chess engines.
This game features a very clean UI design and beautiful graphics. tChess is a fast and stable program. Pick up a game in your free time... and there's no problem listening to your music while you play.
(tChess Lite is a fully-functional version of tChess for casual chess players. If you're an active player and want enthusiast-level features, take a look at tChess Pro, which is over 1000 ELO stronger and has received rave reviews from Grandmaster Susan Polgar, PE's Chess Cast, and iPhone app critics.)
tChess Lite Features:
- Perfect for 1- or 2-player games (on the same device, no network connection required)
- Tap-tap to move pieces
- Highlights legal moves
- View full game history in the Move List
- Go back or forward move by move and replay completed games
- Built-in chess clock
- "Get hint" feature to improve your game
- Easy to undo moves
- Saves your game automatically if you exit the program or take a call
- Play against any ELO rating from 500 to 1200
- Computer opponent is the most fun and realistic for beginners and casual players
- Use the Profile feature to play rated games and track your progress
- Over 15,000 openings for fresh, varied games
tChess Lite is developed by Tom Kerrigan, author of the TSCP and Stobor chess engines.
Latest updates
2.0.1
