lichess • Free Online Chess

4.0
168K reviews
10M+
Downloads
Content rating
Everyone
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About this game

Built for the love of chess, this app is open source and free for all.

- 150 000 individual users daily and growing fast.
- Play bullet, blitz, classical, and correspondence chess
- Play in arena tournaments
- Find, follow, challenge players
- See your games stats
- Practice with chess puzzles
- Many variants, available online and offline: Crazyhouse, Chess 960, King Of The Hill, Three-check, Antichess, Atomic chess, Horde, Racing Kings
- Game analysis with local computer evaluation
- Server computer analysis with move annotations and game summary
- Unlimited opening explorer
- Endgame tablebase explorer
- Play with offline computer
- Over The Board mode to play offline with a friend
- Standalone chess clock with multiple time settings
- Board editor
- Available in 80 languages
- Designed for both phones and tablets, supporting landscape mode
- 100% free, without ads, and opensource!

Just like https://lichess.org, this application is open source and free software (GPL v3). It is entirely free and without ads, now and forever.

Source code of the mobile application: https://github.com/veloce/lichobile
Source code of the website and server: https://lichess.org/source
Updated on
Dec 6, 2022
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 and Messages
Data is encrypted in transit

Ratings and reviews

4.0
159K reviews
Sarandos Klikizos
February 8, 2025
App UI is unusable in minute or less time formats. Bad touch detection. I'm better off using the web, but even there, the UI is cluttered and screen will scroll if I accidentally touch anything near the game board. All of that stuff should be collapsed below the board where it can't accidentally be touched during a game. The game view shouldn't be able to accidentally scroll, period. Chat should lose focus on new opponent otherwise it auto scrolls you back down during moves. So ridiculous.
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R W
February 9, 2025
My favorite chess app. So many things you can do, I love the puzzle's. Tons of board and pieces customizations. I really hope the eventually make a desktop version for Mac. I use the online version but desktop is nice when I'm away from the network. Thanks for a great app!
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A Google user
April 22, 2020
Alright. This game has always been stellar. Unfortunately as of late the quality had fallen DRASTICALLY. I have a Google Pixel 3A and moving pieces during games is incredibly difficult. Sometimes it'll move a piece where I don't want it to go, not move the piece at all, or just simply ignore my input. I've lost many games because of it and it never happened pre-update. This is a very serious issue especially in blitz and bullet games, or any timed end game. As of now, most of this is unplayable.
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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/veloce/lichobile/releases