Tempo64

Turn any chess game into a vertical short with cinematic sound, sliding pieces, face-cam or voice commentary, and AI-written captions, built for TikTok, Reels, and YouTube Shorts.

Tempo64 takes the PGN of any chess game (or a chess.com link) and turns it into a 9:16 video. Every piece slides into place with a satisfying thud. Captures punch with a bite. Checks land with a dramatic "fahh." Checkmate rings out with a tail you'll want to share. Hook your viewer with a 5-second climax teaser at the start. Talk over any move with a face-cam bubble or a voice clip. And let Apple Intelligence write your post caption for you, on-device.

KEY FEATURES

- Paste any PGN, works with Chess.com, Lichess, or any standard PGN export
- Paste a chess.com URL, Tempo64 fetches the moves automatically
- Vertical 9:16 (1080x1920) MP4 ready for TikTok, Reels, and YouTube Shorts
- AI-written post heading and 2-sentence synopsis, generated on-device by Apple Intelligence (iPhone 15 Pro and up, M-series iPad). Tap Regenerate to cycle through angles, edit freely, copy-paste into your caption box with hashtags pre-baked.
- Engine-graded move quality, every move tagged Brilliant, Best, Great, Inaccuracy, Mistake, or Blunder
- Live eval bar painted into the exported video so viewers can read the swing at a glance
- Cartoon-explosion flame burst on the mating piece, with matching "nice" and "oof" sound effects on Brilliant and Blunder moves
- Animated piece slides on every move so the action reads at any pace
- 5-second climax teaser intro, previews the actual last 5s of the game OR the first 5s of your final face-cam commentary, so the hook is a real moment from your finish
- Trim controls, clip the opening or the long resignation tail so the export covers just the part worth watching
- Unified sound system: one pool of 10 sounds (Thud, Fahh, Deep Fahh, Bruh, Rizz, Chomp, Vine Boom, Gunshot, Plug, TikTok Core), selectable in any of 5 banks (Move, Check, Checkmate, Capture, Attack)
- Three board themes: Classic, Lichess, Tournament
- Adjustable pace: Slow, Normal, or Fast
- Live preview before render, scrub ply by ply with the slide animation on every step
- Background rendering, leave the app, get a notification when it's ready
- Save to Photos or share via the iOS share sheet
- Library of recent renders, with the AI-generated heading and synopsis on every row

TEMPO64 STUDIO

Subscribers unlock:

- Face-cam commentary on any move — record a 30-second video reaction that composites as a circular bubble over the board, intelligently placed to dodge the active squares
- Voice commentary on any move — record narration in-app, mixed into the export with a synced animated waveform card
- Watermark-free exports
- Gold Studio home-screen icon (toggle on or off in Settings)

Free tier: one voice clip and one face-cam clip per game so you can try both.

Available as a monthly or yearly subscription. Cancel anytime in Settings.

PERFECT FOR

- Chess content creators who want to ship faster
- Players who want to share their best wins
- Coaches narrating tactical moments for students
- Anyone who wants their checkmate to hit the way it should

HOW IT WORKS

1. Paste a PGN or a chess.com URL (we show you how)
2. Review the parsed game with the built-in board scrubber; pick a trim range if you want to clip the opening or the tail
3. Customize theme, sounds, pace, and the climax teaser hook; add face-cam or voice commentary on any move
4. Render, then save to Photos or share

PRIVACY

Tempo64 runs entirely on your device. Your PGN, your generated videos, your audio mix, your voice and face-cam recordings — everything stays local. We don't have a server. We don't collect your games. We don't track you.

Make your next checkmate hit different. Download Tempo64 and turn your chess into something worth sharing.

Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/