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Chess Shield

LiveChess Shield1 app · 4.4K installsProductivityFreeIn-app purchases: $4.99 - $39.99 per itemcom.chessfocus.app

Chess puzzles, less scrolling. Block apps until you solve.

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Total installs
4,424
exact · Play shows 1,000+
Installs / day
0
since last crawl
Rating
—★
— ratings · — reviews
Released
28 Aug 2026
1mo ago
Last update
2 Oct 2026
v1.1.2 · 10d ago
Countries
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Install history

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Change timeline

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Country availability

Availability has not been checked for this app yet. “Check all countries” looks the app up in about 140 Google Play storefronts and shows where it is live, listed but not installable, or missing — plus any country-specific (custom) store listings.

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App manifest

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Data safety

declared by the developer on Google Play
  • No data shared with third parties
  • No data collected

This is the developer's own declaration, summarised from the Play listing. The permissions below show what the app is technically able to access.

Permissions

12 in 4 groups
6 Sensitive2 Notable4 Routine

What this app can do with your phone

  • Record sound using your phone's microphone
  • Read photos, videos, and other files saved in your phone's shared storage
  • Add, change or delete photos, videos and other files in your phone's storage
  • See which apps you use and how often, if you allow usage access
Photos/Media/FilesSensitive2

Access to photos, videos, music and other files stored on your device

  • Read photos, videos, and other files saved in your phone's shared storageread the contents of your USB storage · READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
  • Add, change or delete photos, videos and other files in your phone's storagemodify or delete the contents of your USB storage · WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
StorageSensitive2

Access to files, photos and media saved on your phone's storage

  • Read photos, videos, and other files saved in your phone's shared storageread the contents of your USB storage · READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
  • Add, change or delete photos, videos and other files in your phone's storagemodify or delete the contents of your USB storage · WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
MicrophoneSensitive1

Access to your phone's microphone to record sound

  • Record sound using your phone's microphonerecord audio · RECORD_AUDIO
OtherSensitive7

Access to miscellaneous device features that don't fit other categories

  • See which apps you use and how often, if you allow usage accessupdate component usage statistics · PACKAGE_USAGE_STATS
  • Change volume and choose which speaker or headset plays soundchange your audio settings · MODIFY_AUDIO_SETTINGS
  • Start itself automatically as soon as your phone finishes turning onrun at startup · RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED
  • Check whether you are online and whether you use Wi-Fi or mobile dataview network connections · ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE
  • Connect to the internet to load content and send datafull network access · INTERNET
  • Make your phone vibratecontrol vibration · VIBRATE
  • Check with Google Play that you got this app legitimatelyGoogle Play license check · com.android.vending.CHECK_LICENSE

Sensitive = can reach personal data, location, camera/mic or act on your behalf. Notable = changes how your device behaves. Routine = normal for almost every app. Source: Google Play's permission list for all versions of this app.

Store listing

Full description
For chess players who want to actually get better. Endless scrolling steals the hours you'd rather spend improving. Chess Shield blocks the apps that eat your chess time. Try to open one, and a puzzle takes over the screen. Solve it to get past. Every solve moves your ELO. HOW IT WORKS Pick the apps you reach for when you meant to study. Instagram, TikTok, X, whatever's eating you. When you try to open one, a puzzle takes over. Solve it and you're in. Two ways to play it. Timed gives you 1, 5, or 15 minutes across your blocked apps for each puzzle you solve; when the time runs out, the puzzle comes back. Every open asks for a fresh puzzle each time you open a blocked app, and then leaves you alone for as long as you stay. The puzzles match your level. Type your chess.com or Lichess rating and we'll start there, or skip it and three quick puzzles will find your level. From then on every puzzle is hard enough to make you think and fair enough that you'll get there. Insights show which tactics keep tripping you up. Your rating moves in real time on every solve. FREE INCLUDES - Block as many apps as you want - 10 puzzles a day, matched to your rating - Starter tactics: forks, pins, skewers, mates in 1 and 2 - Full rating tracking and streaks - Insights into what you solve and what you miss PRO UNLOCKS - Unlimited puzzles, every day. Free stops at 10. - All 53 tactics. Mate-in-3, Discovered Attack, Zwischenzug, endgames. The full library. - Premium Insights. See exactly which tactics keep tripping you up. - Live Stockfish analysis. Explore any position after you solve it. HOW CHESS SHIELD USES THE ACCESSIBILITY PERMISSION Chess Shield asks for the Accessibility permission for one reason: to notice when you open an app you chose to block, so it can show you a puzzle. That is the only thing it does with it. It does not read the content of your screen, it does not log what you type, and it does not send anything anywhere. You turn the shield on yourself, you pick the apps yourself, and you can turn it off in Settings at any time. PRIVACY No accounts. No analytics. No servers. Chess Shield has no backend at all: your rating, your streak, your puzzle history and the list of apps you blocked live on your phone and nowhere else. To show you the app picker, Chess Shield reads the list of apps installed on your device. That list never leaves the phone. WHY IT'S DIFFERENT Most focus apps are guilt machines. Most chess apps want your scroll. Chess Shield does both jobs at once. Every minute in here is measurable progress, not just dopamine. If you've ever wished the time you waste scrolling could be real chess time, this is it. Subscription details Chess Shield Pro is an auto-renewing subscription billed through Google Play. Payment is charged to your Google Play account at confirmation. It renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel anytime in the Play Store under Subscriptions. Privacy Policy: https://chessshield.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://chessshield.com/terms

What's new

Stability fixes. The app no longer closes unexpectedly when a puzzle opens after you try to use a blocked app, and returning to your app after solving is smoother.

Growing in Productivity

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