LearnChess Academy
Nikolas Burk Education iPhoneiPadiPod touch
LearnChess Academy is a free Education app for iPhone and iPad by Nikolas Burk. Requires iOS 15.1. Updated October 18, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 126 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 18
- 2026 · v1.2.4
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About LearnChess Academy
Stuck at the same rating? You play every day, but your rating hasn't moved in months. More games won't fix that. Knowing what to study next will. LearnChess is a chess academy with a coach who reads your games. START AT YOUR LEVEL ‣ The Academy: 6 levels, from learning the rules to 2000+ ‣ 52 units of lessons, drills, tests and play-outs ‣ Start where you are, not at lesson one LEARN FROM YOUR OWN GAMES ‣ Import your games from Lichess and Chess.com ‣ Knighty, your AI coach, reads them and picks the one thing to fix first ‣ Short guided sessions built from positions in your own games ‣ Puzzles made from your own mistakes UNDERSTAND, DON'T MEMORIZE ‣ 190 lessons: 111 openings, 32 endgames, 33 tactics, plus a beginner track ‣ Every idea explained in plain language ‣ Build your opening repertoire and re-test it every 90 days PRACTICE EVERY DAY ‣ Rated puzzles and themed drills (forks, mating patterns, zugzwang …) ‣ Stockfish analysis, free for everyone ‣ Take a screenshot of any board and analyze it COMMUNITY ‣ Publish your own puzzles, comment, and climb the leaderboard Five minutes on your commute or an hour of deep study: LearnChess meets you where you are. Free: 10 rated puzzles a day, every beginner lesson, a preview of every Academy unit and advanced lesson, 5 screenshot scans a day, Stockfish analysis, and your first Coach diagnosis. Knight ($4.99/mo): unlimited puzzles, a new Academy unit and advanced lesson every week, a weekly Coach session, and 10 AI messages a day. Queen ($12.99/mo): everything unlimited, with a Coach session every day. Subscriptions auto-renew monthly unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage in your App Store account settings. Terms: https://www.learnchess.ai/terms. Privacy: https://www.learnchess.ai/privacy.
What’s new
Version 1.2.4 · Updated October 18, 2026
◆ Coach sessions ◆ Knighty now coaches you one session at a time. Each session starts from a real position in one of your games, explains why it matters, gives you practice on the same idea, and ends with one habit to take back to your games. Leave any time — you pick up at the same step. ◆ A coach that remembers your focus ◆ The Coach tab opens on today's session and the weakness you are working on. Short stories show what Knighty found in your games and, later, when that weakness is fixed. Openings and endgames from your own games now get their own steps. ◆ Ask Knighty anywhere ◆ Knighty knows where you are — game, puzzle, lesson or session — and which move you are looking at. ◆ Chess symbols for moves ◆ Moves show a small piece icon instead of a letter. Prefer letters in your language? Switch in Profile → Settings → Move notation. ◆ Also new ◆ • Academy: four new endgame units — two pawns vs one, rook short-side defence, opposite-coloured bishops, queen and pawn vs queen. • iPad: drag the divider between board and side panel in landscape. Sheets open as a centred card. • The Games tab loads page by page, so long game lists open faster. Game stats now live in Coach. • Fixes: the app keeps your chosen language after a restart, lessons where Black moves first are numbered from move 1, and copying a lesson's PGN keeps its start position.
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App privacy
The developer, Nikolas Burk, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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