Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Printable Chess Set launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1ID
   I designed a printable parametric open source chess set▲7

   2012 · iamwil.posterous.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Chess Scanner▲123

   Scan score sheets and generate chess games in seconds.

   2024 · chessscanner.com · its alternatives →

3. 3AT
   A tabletop game for nerds▲6

   2016 · bug.industries · its alternatives →

4. 4VC
   Visualizing Chess Games▲58

   2024 · louisabraham.github.io · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Chess Hold'em▲7

   2025 · chessholdem.net · its alternatives →

6. 6AM
   A MaxDiff Card Game▲5

   2015 · imdev.insightsmeta.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Printing Chess Boards in a Terminal▲7

   I'm doing some fun chess-related programing during my sabbatical, and taking the opportunity to dive down rabbit holes I'd avoid for in a work setting. Found out interesting stuff from old ANSI DEC escape sequences to sixel graphics that are useful today.

   2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

8. 8EK
   Experimental Keyboard Game▲5

   2017 · aneelkkhatri.github.io · its alternatives →

9. 9AS
   A SQL Card Game for Complete Beginners▲8

   2021 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

10. 10IB
    I built a tool to download your chess games▲6

    Hi HN, here is my humble weekend project. I couldn’t find any similar utilities online that would let me download all of my chess games, so I decided to make one. It’s definitely imperfect, so please let me know if you have any feedback!

    2023 · chessgamedownloader.fly.dev · its alternatives →

11. 11
    AR Chess by BrainyChess▲12

    Play Chess in Augmented Reality

    2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Unicode Chess Generator ♞▲12

    Create plain text chess puzzles

    2019 · its alternatives →

13. 13
    ChessKitty▲10

    Hi HN! I created ChessKitty where chess lovers (and curious kittens) can find well-made boards, thoughtful guides, and chess kitties worth showing off. ChessKitty is: ♟ A carefully selected collection of chess sets, boards, and accessories Designed to be as thoughtful as your next move — with guides, comparisons, and reviews For everyone from casual players to full-on grandmeowsters Thanks for checking it out, would love your feedback!

    2025 · chesskitty.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Planning poker cards - free design▲11

    Free design for planning poker cards with Fibonacci numbers

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

15. 15RA
    Room.ai: Play chess and video chat on one page (no signup needed)▲5

    2020 · room.ai · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Diff Collection Game▲6

    2015 · mkagenius.github.io · its alternatives →

17. 172M
    280x280 Massively Multiplayer chess (Desktop only)▲5

    Made this to try out o1-preview, took ~40 prompts and 3 hours in total, with a fairly solid backed written in Go. Works pretty badly in Firefox apparently due to canvas-canvas copies being really slow, Chrome works great tho. Doesn't work well on mobile yet, and has some other minor issues, but overall it feels incredible to put together something like this so quickly.

    2024 · chess280.com · its alternatives →

18. 18IM
    I Made a minimalist chess clock for android▲5

    2014 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

19. 19AS
    A simple yet challenging math game▲5

    2015 · dogemath.com · its alternatives →

20. 20IC
    Interactive Conway's Game of Life with good graphics (MIT License)▲5

    2018 · symbolflux.com · its alternatives →

21. 21PP
    Puzzle Pretty Pictures▲7

    2016 · picjig.com · its alternatives →

22. 22AC
    A card game to introduce kids to data science▲5

    2020 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →

23. 23IM
    I made a character idea generator for tabletop RPGs▲5

    2023 · herostavern.com · its alternatives →

24. 24
    A site I made to train my chess visualization▲5

    Free chess trainers for the parts of chess that aren

    2021 · chessmadra.com · its alternatives →

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