Speak your moves. Get a chess assistant who remembers how you lose.

Maneline is a chess app you can play entirely by voice — say "knight to c3" or "castle kingside" and the move happens — with a personal chess assistant, Caïssa, who reviews your games out loud, remembers exactly how you lose, and turns your own blunders into your daily practice.

Yes. Maneline listens continuously while you play — no push-to-talk, no tapping between moves. Moves are spoken in plain English and confirmed out loud, so a full game works with the phone in your pocket. That also makes Maneline a natural fit for blind and low-vision players, and for anyone who wants chess while walking, cooking, or resting their eyes.

chess.com offers voice move input as hold-to-talk on desktop web, and its Play Coach gives feedback on the game you're currently playing. Maneline is built voice-first: continuous listening on your phone, a full game playable without touching the screen.

The bigger difference is memory. Caïssa's feedback sits on a Weakness Tracker that aggregates your real mistakes across games into named patterns ('hanging pieces', 'endgame pawn races'), tracks whether each one is improving, re-tests you, and builds practice positions from your own games. Feedback on one game is useful; an assistant who knows your last forty is a different thing.

Speech recognition runs on Maneline's own servers using self-hosted Whisper. Your audio is never sent to third-party speech APIs, and there is no ads-for-data model.

Caïssa — named for the mythological goddess of chess — is Maneline's chess assistant. She reviews finished games move by move with a real spoken voice, names the opening you played, explains blunders in plain English, demonstrates better lines on the board, and coaches live games. Her analysis is grounded in Stockfish evaluation and verified against the actual board position before she speaks — she is built not to invent tactics that aren't there.

Every analyzed game feeds a profile of your recurring mistakes, each named in plain English with a trajectory across time — improving, stuck, or worsening. One tap turns any weakness into practice: you replay the real position from a few moves before your actual mistake and try again. You can also import your recent games from chess.com or Lichess for a separate report on how you play elsewhere.

AI opponents from roughly 400 to 2800 Elo, bots styled after famous players, a club of house players with human-like thinking time and their own exploitable weaknesses, a story campaign with boss battles, guided opening lessons, a tactics trainer with over 300 curated puzzles, correspondence games, and live games with friends.

Playing is free, including voice control and a daily allowance of teaching. Maneline Pro removes the daily limits: $4.99/month, $49.99/year, or a one-time Founder Lifetime tier. You can try the app without creating an account.