Lichess

0.25.5

lichess.org

3.87

11,724 reviews

1,000,000+
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Free

The one open-source chess game

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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 4.1 million times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 300 thousand times. It is ranked #6 in board.

User Ratings

Lichess is rated 3.87 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 12 thousand ratings.

App Information

Lichess is FREE to download. The APK download size is 95.65 MB. The latest version available is 0.25.5. The last update was on July 15, 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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More data about Lichess

Price	Free to download
Total downloads	4.1 million
Recent downloads	300 thousand
Rating	3.87 based on 12 thousand ratings
Ranking	Top ranked
Version	0.25.5
APK size	95.6 MB
Number of libraries	22
Suitable for	Everyone
Ads	NO ads

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Google Play Rating history and histogram

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Downloads over time

Lichess has been downloaded 4.1 million times. Over the past 30 days, it averaged 9.9 thousand downloads per day.

Changelog of Lichess

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Developer information for lichess.org

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Comments on Lichess for Android

★★★★☆ Suresh M · Jul 21, 2026

There is no negative review from me, but there is one feature missing in analysis that your competitor gives in an analysis brilliant move and Great move like that I want like that feature in here

★★★★★ Michelle · Jul 7, 2026

Lichess is one of the best chess apps I'm using right now. I love the endless puzzle s it provides for me.

★★★★★ Drew Fraser · Jul 14, 2026

Best chess app I've ever had the pleasure to experience. Completely free and has no premium features.

★☆☆☆☆ rahul vats · Jul 16, 2026

When I was playing chess I was only getting black not white

★★☆☆☆ rupendra mukhia · Jul 6, 2026

Its good bt tournaments are frustrating. Like when you're playing ur last game and then ur opponent who is at a lower rank than u will just not move until the tournament is over and then the fact that any win after the timeout of the tournament doesn't count is rly bad. Bro lichens devs pls make the win count if the match started in the tournament and ended after the timeout. Bcuz its super irritating ur losing opponent can just stall and ruin ur day as well 😭😭😭 pls make the win count. Pls

★☆☆☆☆ Omprakash Jangir · Jul 1, 2026

I think the old version of lichens is still much better. I face here some issues a can't see my friends online now in older version it was just top on screen. B in an old version when my friends are playing I open their games and there I have a button GO TO TOURNAMENT and I directly went in the tournament, but now I can't c in older version you can go to the tournament when you see already played matches but now in the new version there is nothing I still have an older version and use it.

★☆☆☆☆ Bilal Khan · Jul 21, 2026

I can't log in like why it's a good app but please fix the login my browser is firefox I use brave once to and Google even and none of them seem to get login please fix it

Google Play Rankings for Lichess

Top rankings

Rank	Country	Category	List
6	Norway	Board	Top Free
14	Germany	Board	Top Free
14	France	Board	Top Free
8	Finland	Board	Top Free
9	Austria	Board	Top Free
9	Switzerland	Board	Top Free
9	Sweden	Board	Top Free
19	Canada	Board	Top Free
10	Poland	Board	Top Free
11	Czech Republic	Board	Top Free

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Technologies used by Lichess

Lichess is requesting 9 permissions and is using 22 libraries.
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Trust & Safety: Requests standard network and notification permissions (ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE, INTERNET, POST_NOTIFICATIONS) plus WAKE_LOCK and a dynamic receiver permission; no location or camera permissions are listed, and the app is open-source, suggesting a community-driven, transparent security posture.

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