Chessbook review: price, free version and privacy

Our verdict

Pick Chessbook if you play regularly and keep forgetting your opening lines. Beginners still learning tactics and basic principles will get more from a general chess course.

What Chessbook is

Chessbook helps you build and memorize a chess opening repertoire. The description lists custom repertoires, spaced repetition training, automatic detection of gaps, move statistics from master games, engine evaluations and results at your level, transposition handling, and middlegame plans from top players. It reviews your Lichess and Chess.com games for deviations from your repertoire.

Who it suits

• Club players building an opening repertoire
• Memorizing opening lines
• Players on Lichess or Chess.com

Strengths

• Spaced repetition training for opening moves
• Move choices backed by master, engine and peer statistics
• Finds gaps in your repertoire and opening mistakes in your online games
• The privacy label says no data is collected
• Rated 4.9 from about 2,200 ratings

Limits

• Openings only: it does not teach the rules, tactics or endgames
• Free users can add only 400 moves
• English only
• Most useful once you play regularly

What the free version does

The description says free users can add 400 moves to their repertoire. Chessbook Pro removes that limit.

Price

On the US App Store in November 2026, Chessbook Pro is listed at $7.99 (Monthly) and $79.99 (Annual).

Privacy

The privacy label says the developer does not collect any data from this app.

What the screenshots show

The screenshots show White and Black repertoires with completion percentages, daily tasks (moves due, mistakes in online games, a model game), and a move picker for the Scandinavian Defense with master, engine and peer results.