Looking for an Aimchess alternative?
Fair question to ask before paying for another chess tool. Here's an honest look at how Eloist and Aimchess differ — what each analyzes, what they cost, and which fits how you train. (Short version: Aimchess scores your skills and generates puzzles; Eloist shows you the exact mistakes you keep repeating, in your own games, and drills those.)
Side by side
| Eloist | Aimchess | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free tier · Pro $7/mo | Free tier · paid plans from ~$8/mo |
| Connects to | Chess.com | Chess.com and Lichess |
| Core approach | Finds the specific mistakes you repeat — counted from your real games, shown with the actual positions — then drills them | Scores your play across skill areas (openings, tactics, endgames, time use) and generates training from the weak ones |
| Openings | Your real repertoire as a browsable tree, where you leave book and what theory plays instead, plus 54 original opening guides | Opening accuracy scoring against your games |
| Time & clock | The Flag Report — how you and your opponents actually use the clock, verdict included | Time-management scoring |
| Engine analysis | Stockfish runs in your browser on Pro — deep analysis with eval bars, no server queue | Server-side analysis |
| A session digest after you play: what happened, the position that mattered, one thing to fix | Progress reports | |
| AI assistants | Free public MCP server — ask Claude (or any MCP client) about any Chess.com player | — |
| Ownership | Independent | Owned by Chess.com |
Aimchess details reflect its public site and independent reviews as of July 2026 — check current pricing there before deciding. We keep this page honest; if something's out of date, it's an error, not spin.
Where Aimchess is genuinely strong
Aimchess pioneered this category, supports both Chess.com and Lichess, and its generated puzzle sets give you something to do every day without thinking about what to study. If you want a daily-workout app and you play on Lichess, it's a solid choice — and Lichess players can get much of the same data free from Lichess Insights.
Where Eloist is different
A skill score tells you tactics are your weakness. Eloist tells you it was the same knight fork pattern, six times this month, and shows you all six positions. Everything works that way: your repertoire is the tree of openings you actually play, the deviation finder shows the exact move where you left theory and what the book plays instead, and the Flag Report tallies how games are really won and lost on the clock. When a number appears in Eloist it was counted from your games — never estimated from players like you. Then you drill the specific thing, and next week's digest tells you whether it stopped happening.
Common questions
Is Eloist a direct replacement for Aimchess?
If you use Aimchess to find out what's actually costing you rating from your own games, yes — that's exactly what Eloist does, with the receipts shown as real positions from your games. If what you value most is auto-generated puzzle sets, Aimchess leans harder into that; Eloist drills you on your own recurring mistakes instead.
Does Eloist support Lichess?
Not yet — Eloist analyzes Chess.com games. If you play mainly on Lichess, Aimchess or Lichess's own free Insights are the better fit today.
What does Eloist cost?
Free gets you your style profile and analytics on your last 90 days of games. Pro is $7/month: your entire game history, Stockfish deep analysis, repeated-mistake patterns, the opening-deviation finder, and an unlimited AI coach.
What does 'counted, never estimated' mean?
Every number Eloist shows is counted from games you actually played — how often a mistake recurred, where you left opening theory, how your clock ran. Nothing is a model's guess about players like you; it's your games, tallied.
See your own games analyzed
Connecting a Chess.com username takes about a minute and the first report is free — your style profile and analytics on your last 90 days of games. No card required.
Analyze my games freeOr try the free chess MCP from Claude, or browse the opening guides.