Lichess

lichess.org

3.6

Publisher Country	US
Country Release Date	2024-05-16
Categories	Game, Board
Country / Regions	US
Developer Website	lichess.org
Support URL	lichess.org
Content Rating	Everyone

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

9.94K+

By Gregory Arsaga
2026-05-06
Version 0.23.11
designfeature_requestscontent
I understand tech debt means new app, but there is no reason to change the previous better design. someone wanted to leave their mark I guess, but it is for the worse not better. Yes I've customized the homepage with the few options there are. My biggest gripe is puzzles interface is inferior to the previous version. Also with the old home screen it was simpler to start puzzles. Now I have to press scroll pick a version and press. I also appreciated the extra information that used to display
By Edward
2026-02-11
Version 0.19.4
performance_and_bugs
For years it worked well, but lately the puzzles will randomly fail by not acknowledging the correct move, failing to display the correct move, or even claiming the correct move is something impossible (an opponent moving instead of you). Playing against the Stockfish computer online or offline also comes with fatal errors, namely the bot refuses to move and idles indefinitely, effectively throwing out the game sometimes less than halfway through. I cannot fit all the issues into this review.
By Success From Chess
2026-04-22
Version
performance_and_bugsaccessibilityfeature_requests
Decent app, but I uninstalled it when it froze the clocks and then said I left the game. Not a tolerable bug if at all possible to avoid. Also, I have my tablet magnify things a bit for my eyes; the app works with this, just not very well, making it tricky to see engine lines, which are limited to 3 in the app (I like 4). Can't view opening explorer with engine lines.