Lichess beta

Name: Lichess beta
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.7391304969787598 (3075 reviews)
Author: lichess.org

lichess.org

3.7

3.08K reviews

500K+

Downloads

PEGI 3

About this game

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

Updated on

May 15, 2025

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, Messages and 2 others

Data is encrypted in transit

You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

3.7

2.91K reviews

Aditya

June 9, 2025

Lichess is an outstanding app for all chess lovers! It’s clean, ad-free, and packed with features — from online matches to puzzles and study tools. I especially love how smooth and lightweight the interface is, making it one of the best chess platforms out there. However, I have one suggestion/complaint regarding the Over The Board (OTB) mode — currently, there's no option to increase or customize the timer duration. This becomes a bit inconvenient when playing longer casual games with friends

K. Morawski

June 9, 2025

The UI looks more slick that what I assume to be the legacy app, but I can't find the option of importing a PGN anymore. It seems like the app only offers some subset of the original functionality. Personally I care more about features and usability than the UI (otherwise I'd just stick to their commercial competitor). I understand it's still a Beta.

Francesco Mauri

June 8, 2025

Especially during tournaments, I sometime get disconnected see the timer of the opponent go to zero and then see that I lost 4 minutes ago, for example, because of connectivity issue. Also for some reason there is not anymore the possibility to play against a computer in the app, you can trigger the match via web browser and the continue in the app but you cannot start it from the app.

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/lichess-org/mobile/releases

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