lichess • Free Online Chess

4.0
168K reviews
10M+
Downloads
Content rating
PEGI 3
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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

3.9
160K reviews
Satyamdarshi Sahoo
December 21, 2024
Lichess is hands down the best chess app available, and it’s completely free! The platform offers everything a chess player could need: high-quality AI analysis powered by Stockfish, unlimited puzzles, and a user-friendly interface. I especially love how simple and clean the design is—nothing gets in the way of the gameplay.
187 people found this review helpful
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Szabolcs Pálfi
July 4, 2025
It's absolutely insane, how easily get I banned for several days, just because I need to answer a phone call (no time for resigning, just leaving the actual game). I've played like 10 games, and 9 of them was correct from me, but 1 game was enough to ban me. Furthermore, after the end of the penalty, it took me a while to start a game with an opponent (like 4-5 minutes waiting).
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Nathan Goodwin
May 2, 2025
It's a decent app if you want to play the odd game. My biggest fault with it, and something they could easily fix, would be you often play with the same colour for many games in a row. For example I played three times as white, on the fourth and fifth games I aborted, as I would have liked to play black for a change. As a result they put me on a ten min time out. Following that I had one game as black and another three games as white, followed by two abandoned and a 20 time out. Please Fix This!
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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