Picking a trainer? Here is how OnlyMove lines up against the tools people actually choose between – what each free plan covers, what schedules your reviews, and where the other tool is the better answer. Every comparison says so when it is.
Most of these tools are good at one thing, and the marketing rarely makes clear which. Four questions separate them:
Course platforms drill lines an author chose. Repertoire tools drill lines you chose. Neither is wrong, but they solve different problems, and buying the first when you needed the second is the most common way to waste money here.
Storing your prep and scheduling it are separate features, and plenty of tools only do the first. Ask what decides which positions you see today – and whether it works per position or per line, because a repertoire is mostly moves you already know.
The most valuable thing an opening trainer can tell you is the move where your last game left preparation. That needs your games imported and compared against your own tree, with the correction fed back into the review queue.
Almost every tool here has a free tier. The question is what it is capped at – a move count, a variation count, or the game-import feature – and whether a real two-colour repertoire fits inside it. Usually it does not.
Build your repertoire once, and let spaced repetition keep every line sharp. Ready in a minute.
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