Next Chess Move

4.2.1

Next Chess Move LLC

4.34

190 reviews

10,000+
Downloads

$2.99

A powerful chess move calculator.

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Next Chess Move is a powerful on-device chess move calculator that supports Stockfish 17 and a growing lineup of engines. With NCM Pro, you can access hardware-accelerated calculations and tablebases, delivering deep analysis for serious players.

Pros & Cons

On-device Stockfish 17 with access to multiple engines
Broad engine lineup including Lc0 and Arasan
NCM Pro provides dedicated hardware (Ryzen CPUs, RTX GPUs) and 6-man syzygy tablebases
Regular maintenance and a focus on stability (e.g., crash fixes)

Lacks publicly marketed openings, puzzles, PGN analysis, and game playback features emphasized by some competitors

About Next Chess Move

Next Chess Move is a board app developed by Next Chess Move LLC.

Download Statistics

Next Chess Move has been downloaded 14 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 110 times. It is ranked in the top 100 board apps.

User Ratings

Next Chess Move is rated 4.34 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 190 ratings.

App Information

Next Chess Move costs $2.99 to download. The APK download size is 119.89 MB. The latest version available is 4.2.1. The last update was on February 14, 2026.

Technical Requirements

Next Chess Move requires Android 4.1+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play May 2017.

Description

NCM is a powerful chess calculator that runs Stockfish 17 directly on your device. The app also includes access to a growing list of engines running on NCM's single core CPU hardware:

More data about Next Chess Move

Price	$2.99
Total downloads	14 thousand
Recent downloads	110
Rating	4.34 based on 190 ratings
Ranking	Highly ranked
Version	4.2.1
APK size	119.9 MB
Number of libraries	31
Designed for Android	4.1+
Suitable for	Everyone
Ads	NO ads

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Next Chess Move has been downloaded 14 thousand times. Over the past 30 days, it has been downloaded 110 times.

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Comments on Next Chess Move for Android

★★★★☆ Tony Alberto · Oct 28, 2020

Good app and very strong engine once you use the dev build, but it leaves me baffled as to why the free website version is almost just as strong even with less thinking time. And when I use the website dev build it's stronger than the app—Weird. They can do a couple of things to improve my experience: 1) allow customizability of the board pieces. 2) Shrink the size of the board by default or have an option for it —this is, so we can use the app in split screen mode. 3)have more engine options.

★★★★★ fahmi syarif · Feb 24, 2025

I pay for pro but the app says trial over. Waiting for hours for response from dev, after the problem solved, he gave me one year's extension.

★★★★★ Amador Cuesta · Nov 24, 2022

Indispensable and unique chess app with many engines. Yearly purchase to a very strong hardware is also highly recommended.

★★★★★ Imran Hossain · Jun 18, 2021

Please update CPU, next chess move calculation hardware setup For coming soon Stock fish 14. CPUs: 4 x Intel Xeon 4xE5-4669v4 Cores: 88 physical / 176 threads RAM: 128 GB DDR4 (available to engines) RAM: 1 TB (available to 6-pieces Syzygy) HDD: 7 TB total

★★☆☆☆ Bayu Sri Hernogo · Sep 16, 2021

Bough this app, and always force stop, I will update rating for more stability

★★☆☆☆ Suresh Kumar · Nov 17, 2020

I use this app from many days the severs r not up to the mark It was very slow like 8 core not 20 core plz update to give better service

★★☆☆☆ AKSHAY CHACKO · Apr 15, 2020

Make a chess play option. So that every time I shouldn't have to click on the calculate button

★☆☆☆☆ Saurabh Sharma · Aug 9, 2021

How to calculate when playing with black pieces, flip board just flip the board and still calculate for white.

★☆☆☆☆ Avinash Kumar · May 7, 2019

It always says that there was an error communicating with ncm servers I even paid for the pro membership. What a disappointment

Google Play Rankings for Next Chess Move

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Rank	Country	Category	List
43	Denmark	Board	Top Paid
43	Indonesia	Board	Top Paid
43	India	Board	Top Paid
43	Slovakia	Board	Top Paid
44	Belgium	Board	Top Paid
44	Mexico	Board	Top Paid
44	Netherlands	Board	Top Paid
44	Poland	Board	Top Paid
44	Portugal	Board	Top Paid
44	Saudi Arabia	Board	Top Paid

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Technologies used by Next Chess Move

10 permissions · 31 libraries

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Trust & Safety: Permissions include ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE, INTERNET, READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW, VIBRATE, com.android.vending.BILLING, com.android.vending.CHECK_LICENSE, com.google.android.finsky.permission.BIND_GET_INSTALL_REFERRER_SERVICE, and com.nextchessmove.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION. These enable network access, storage, in-app purchases, and alerting for a feature-rich engine calculator.

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