Lichess beta

3.8
3K reviews
500K+
Downloads
Content rating
PEGI 3
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About this game

Lichess is a free/libre, open-source chess application powered by volunteers and donations.
Today, Lichess users play more than five million games every day. Lichess is one of the most popular chess websites in the world while remaining 100% free.

The following features are available right now:
- play real time or correspondence chess
- play arena tournaments
- play against online bots
- solve chess puzzles from a wide variety of themes, online or offline
- race against the clock in Puzzle Storm
- analyse your games with latest Stockfish locally or on the server
- board editor
- study chess with a collaborative and interactive study feature
- learn board coordinates
- play over the board with a friend
- watch live chess broadcasts from all major chess tournaments
- watch Lichess TV and online streamers
- use a chess clock for your over the board games
- many different board themes and piece sets
- custom background themes
- system colours on Android 12+
- translated into 55 languages
Updated on
May 15, 2025
Available on
Android, Windows

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
This app may collect these data types
Personal info, Messages and 2 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

3.8
2.84K reviews
Kyrosukei
April 17, 2025
This game is superb. Please consider adding features where players can add their profile. This game is phenomenal—can't believe it's all free. Additionally I found a bug where the screen keeps loading even though I have a stable connectivity I tried restarting and scanning the speed of my network and it's surprisingly fast—I hope you guys can fix it(or there's just a server issue.) oh so there's really an issue wishing to fix it fast.
45 people found this review helpful
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Konstantinos R. Sidiropulos
June 1, 2025
The exceptional alternative to the chess. ... platform that will monopolize the market in a few years. Lichess is an online chess platform that offers a wide range of features, including online chess games, puzzles, training tools, and live broadcasts, with a user-friendly interface, absence of paywalls, and commitment to promoting accessible chess for all. If you have the possibilty, please support them...I do...
7 people found this review helpful
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Ruchir Ranjan
May 15, 2025
Awesome app. Works quite well and has a clean look. However I would like the , different modes such as three check etc., offline stockfish bots and the analysis menu of lichess (practice from mistakes and play from a point etc) to be added if possible.
17 people found this review helpful
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What’s new

We continuously update the application with new features, improvements and bug fixes.

Release versions and more informations are available at:
https://github.com/lichess-org/mobile/releases