Chess Scanner has been downloaded 12 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 510 times.
What is the rating of Chess Scanner?
Chess Scanner is rated 4.00 out of 5 stars, based on 83 ratings.
Is Chess Scanner free?
Chess Scanner is free to download. The APK download size is 39.49 MB. The latest version available is 1.8.32. The last update was on June 14, 2026.
What are the requirements for Chess Scanner?
The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play July 2024.
Description
Scan your score sheets to digitize your games.
The texts gets extracted from the score sheet to generate the game. An overview will display the score sheet with the generated moves. If moves were not correctly recognized, you can easily correct them using move suggestions.
Afterward, you have the option to categorize the games into a tournament, analyze them in Lichess/Chess.com, or export them as a PGN file.
Scanning the score sheets Score sheets can be captured either with the integrated scanner or selected from the gallery. The score sheet is directly extracted from the image. Score sheets can be specified for both the White and Black players, which is particularly convenient from the tournament director's perspective. When generating the game, both versions are considered. Up to two score sheets can be specified per player.
Generate Game The game can be generated directly after scanning the score sheets. Alternatively, you also have the option to manually overlay the move grid.
It is possible to specify other notations as well, but these are analyzed based on a model of already supported notation. Therefore, text recognition may be less accurate in such cases.
Game generation For game generation, the score sheets are sent to our servers. The time required for generation may vary depending on the legibility of the score sheet, length of the game, and internet connection. Typically, this ranges between 1 and 10 seconds.
Overview of the generated game An overview displays the columns of the score sheet with the generated moves. The background color of each move indicates the likelihood of the move. Tapping on a move takes you directly to the corresponding chess position, where move alternatives are also suggested.
Move suggestions If moves were not correctly recognized, you can quickly and easily correct them using move suggestions. These are arranged based on probabilities and can be further narrowed down using a filter on the piece to be moved. After making a change, you can regenerate the game from the current move.
Moves crossed out or forgotten on the score sheet? No problem :) In the game overview, you can skip moves and insert moves. Afterwards, you can simply regenerate the game with the changes.
Game data Additionally, you can add player and tournament data to a game. You can also provide further information via a description field.
Overview & filtering of games An overall overview displays all entered games. You can filter games by tournament, round, and favorites. Additionally, there is a search field allowing you to filter games by players or game descriptions.
Exporting games (*) Filtered games or individual games can be exported as a PGN file. In the settings, you can specify which data the PGN file should contain, such as tournament, round, date, etc.
Importing games Additional games can be imported into the app via PGN files.
Analyse games (*) To analyze the games, they can be opened directly in Lichess and Chess.com.
(*) Features available with premium only
If any errors occur or if you have any suggestions or improvements, feel free to email me at: steffen@chessscanner.com
Recent changes: - Fixed a bug related to opening games on Chess.com
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, I buy plan for one month 230, gave chess game for generation, but it is not possible, he wants typical game for generation, not believe, not buy he plans ... good response and also gave back my money, developed think More features for growing useful for consumers
★★★★☆J C· Sep 27, 2025
Works great, but when exporting pgn should not be behind paywall imho
★★★★★Huy Ly· Mar 18, 2025
I brought 1 year subscription but when I switch to new phone, the subscription disappear, please help add purchase restore function or refund to me. Thanks. Reply 1: thank you for reply. And I only use one Google Account for Play Store... Reply 2: I have to subscribe again, uninstall the app and install again, and it works. Thank you for your supporting, keep your great work for better accuracy recognize chess notations. I changed my review to 5 stars.
★★★★☆Executive Life Hacks· Nov 10, 2025
It is great, but if you stuff anything up, or cancel, you often can't generate the game and have to do everything from scratch. So frustrating! Fix this to be less flaky, and it is 5 stars. Update: Great app... but, on Android, if you cancel the generation for example, maybe to add the second scoresheet because you forgot, you then can't click the "generate game" button. It's grayed out. Happens in other circumstances too. Please also fix auto layout gen using times column.
★★★★★Chris H· Feb 21, 2026
Works great. I use this to scan in my kids games. Way faster than typing it in manually. It's not perfect but over 90 percent accuracy. It does a great job interpreting my kids handwriting.
★★☆☆☆Darren Stahl· May 27, 2025
After spending 15 minutes fixing up a scanned game, the app requests payment to export to PGN? It should never let me waste that much time without a warning that I have to pay to actually use the result.
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