Official release date: 10 November 2026
Developed from the ground up for the Mac: modern, intuitive and fast. Register now to be among the first to try it.
Five minutes in ChessBase for Mac, and you’ll see why it was worth the wait.
Screen recordings from the current development version. Details may change before release.
Decades of ChessBase experience, rebuilt for the Mac. Board, engine and reference in one window.
Video courses by your favourite authors: openings, middlegame training and endgame principles.
Video: a Fritztrainer video course in ChessBase for Mac. The trainer speaks while the moves run on the board and the chapter list stands beside it.
Know your next opponent: the Player Style Report shows their openings and how they score.
Video: the Player Style Report in ChessBase for Mac, preparing against Loek van Wely: his openings, his results and his latest games.
Your openings at a glance: build a repertoire from your games and practise it move by move.
Video: a repertoire in ChessBase for Mac, built from a player's games: its openings shown as boards, one of them opened, and its moves practised on the board.
Find any game in seconds. Filter by player, position or result, and open it next to the list.
Video: Game search in ChessBase for Mac. The filter panel opens and a nation is picked, the list shows the games found, and one opens on the board next to it.
The core of ChessBase, to start with. More of the Windows version’s features follow with each update.
Board, engine lines, reference database and top games in one window. Local or remote engines, plus Let’s Check.
Filter the reference database by rating and see which move scores best in every line.
Mega Database, your own games and your cloud databases in one place, sorted into folders.
Find games in seconds by position, player, colour, result or annotations.
The Player Style Report shows how your next opponent plays.
Play video courses: watch the trainer, follow the moves, jump to any chapter.
Puzzles from real games, each with a difficulty rating. Your own rating changes with every solve.
Your openings, collected in one place.
Fritz on your Mac, Stockfish in the Engine Cloud, or a remote engine with up to 128 cores.
Video: choosing an engine in ChessBase for Mac. On offer are a local Fritz, a Stockfish from the Engine Cloud and a remote Stockfish, with the engine lines running underneath.
Once you are online, the cloud extends what ChessBase for Mac can do, with extra computing power and huge databases.
Stockfish from the cloud, without taxing your Mac.
Analyse with up to 128 cores on a remote machine.
Engine evaluations, by the ChessBase community.
Your databases online, from any computer.
All your databases in one place. Sort them into folders, and give each its own icon and name.
Video: in ChessBase for Mac, databases are moved about in the All Databases view, one gets a new icon and a new name, and two are put into a new folder, which is coloured red.
ChessBase for Mac speaks 15 languages. Pick one in the settings, or let it follow the language of your Mac.
English
Deutsch
Nederlands
Español
Français
Italiano
Polski
Türkçe
简体中文
Қазақша
ქართული
Oʻzbekcha
Кыргызча
Русский
PortuguêsPuzzles from real games, and a rating that follows your progress. Stuck? One click to analyse.
Video: solving a puzzle in ChessBase for Mac, close up on each correct move and its green tick; at the end the puzzle is solved and your rating goes up.
Teach online on your own board: students join by link or QR code and see every move live.
Video: a Coach lesson in ChessBase for Mac. The coach chooses how to meet (board only, audio or video), then teaches on the board in the app while the student’s board in the browser shows every move, and the student plays a move of their own.
What your Mac needs to run ChessBase for Mac.
Shots from the current development version.
What people have asked us about ChessBase for Mac so far.
On 10 November 2026. If you are on the list, you’ll hear about it on the day of the launch.
Macs with Apple Silicon (M1 or later) and macOS 15 (Sequoia) or later, with at least 8 GB of RAM. Intel Macs are not supported.
To check your Mac, open the Apple menu and choose About This Mac. On a Mac with Apple Silicon, the line “Chip” shows an Apple M chip, such as M1 or M4.
No. ChessBase for Mac runs on Mac computers. On iPad and iPhone you can use ChessBase’s web apps in the browser (see below).
The core of ChessBase: analysing games with engines and the reference database, managing and searching databases, preparing for an opponent, your repertoire, Fritztrainer video courses and tactics puzzles, plus online features such as the Engine Cloud. Not every feature of the Windows version is in the first version yet. More follow with each new version. See the full list.
The price and where to get it will be announced with the release. Everyone on the list hears first.
Licences and prices for ChessBase for Mac will be announced with the release. Put your name on the list and you will hear first.
No Mac version of Fritz has been announced. ChessBase for Mac brings its own engine analysis: Stockfish in the Engine Cloud, engines on your Mac, or a remote engine with up to 128 cores.
Yes, in the browser. ChessBase’s web apps run on any Mac, iPad or iPhone:
For the online features: the Engine Cloud, online databases and updates.
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