A no-nonsense classical chess app.

Clean UI

Deep Green offers a distraction-free experience in a clean, native user interface – now with the Liquid Glass design on iOS 26.

Custom Piece Design

Beautiful chess set designed specifically for Deep Green and rendered at high resolution in both outline and 3D throughout the app.

Made for iPad

Dedicated menu bar, multiple windows, and refined trackpad, mouse, and Apple Pencil support. Squares highlight as you hover over the board.

Tight System Integration

System-level sharing, drag and drop, AirDrop, undo/redo, contextual menus, Quick Look previews of chess files, Dark Mode, high contrast support and more.

Open Game Format

Games can be shared, saved, copied, pasted, imported, exported in the ubiquitous, open source PGN and FEN formats. Deep Green can open chess files straight from the Files app.

Unique Chess Engine

Enjoyable opponent with adjustable strength, praised for its humane gameplay, developed for Deep Green on the Apple Newton since 1998.

Tweakable Appearance

Engage the knights in the game by having them turn towards the center of the board, apply a humane, slightly random placement of the pieces.

In Your Language

Available in English, German, and Danish.

Modern Architecture

Written in Swift as a fully native app; modern, maintainable, and prepared for the future.

Private, Ad-Free

No ads, no tracking, no analytics, no nonsense.