Lichess is a free, open-source chess platform powered by volunteers and donations, offering real-time and correspondence play, tournaments, puzzles, and in-depth game analysis. It supports 55 languages and, according to the data, users currently play more than five million games daily across the ecosystem, underscoring its global reach and community-driven nature.
Pros & Cons
Open-source and free, supported by a volunteer community.
Extensive feature set including real-time play, tournaments, puzzles, and analysis.
55-language localization enables wide global reach.
Highly customizable boards, themes, and system colors.
Competitors may emphasize engine-powered puzzles, tactics, and explicit learning paths more prominently, based on keyword trends observed in competing apps.
About Lichess
Lichess is a board app developed by lichess.org.
Download Statistics
Lichess has been downloaded 4.4 million times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 320 thousand times. It is ranked in the top 100 board apps.
User Ratings
Lichess is rated 3.79 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 12 thousand ratings.
App Information
Lichess is FREE to download. The APK download size is 95.96 MB. The latest version available is 0.26.4. The last update was on August 12, 2026.
Technical Requirements
The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play May 2024.
Description
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
Recent changes: 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
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Its amazing that such an incredible app is free ! Thank you and god bless you Lichens
★★★★★Ayoub Banid· Aug 11, 2026
Great for learning, great for playing, and the best thing is this is the most fun chess app to be on
★★★★★Gia Sundstrom· Aug 3, 2026
Way better for beginner pvp/learning than most alternatives, and it's all free would recommend to people
★★★★★Syeda Faiza Habeeb Quadri· Aug 4, 2026
By far the best chess app out there. The old app was a bit buggy
★☆☆☆☆Andrew Reid· Jul 31, 2026
I don't like the new version of this app. When I try to continue a game against the computer, the computer usually freezes and doesn't make a move. I also prefer the old UI
★☆☆☆☆Asterix· Aug 12, 2026
The UI is terrible. I come here to play chess, mostly against the computer, but the degree of difficulty doesn't seem to scale properly. I would win every round on the previous difficulty many times in a row, I move up to the next difficulty level, and I can't win once to save my life. I understand making it more challenging as you go up higher in the levels, but it's ridiculous. I go back a level I always win, I go up a level I always lose, that makes me not want to play.
★★☆☆☆Yusuf TR· Aug 11, 2026
Cannot sign in my account. It says u must go to web page to connect your account I just go and sign in but the sign in order don't apply in the app. Pls solve that problem because I love Lichens team and the chess matches in Lichens.
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