lichess • Free Online Chess

The one free/libre open-source online and offline chess game

lichess • Free Online Chess

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By: lichess.org mobile 1

Users: 15,432,374

22.11K

Rating: 4.04

(166,575)

107 new ratings

Version: 8.0.0 (Last updated: 2022-12-06)

Creation date: 2015-02-11

Email: an*****@lichess.org

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

Permissions

Other:

receive data from Internet
view network connections
full network access
control vibration
prevent device from sleeping

Ranking

# 7,984 ▼ 8

Other rankings

#16 in cheese keyword 63 ▲ 3

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App summary

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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

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Google Play Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Free to use with no ads
Great variety of features including puzzles, tournaments, and analysis tools
User-friendly interface with personalization options for boards and pieces
Cross-platform functionality allows play on mobile and desktop
Active community with a large number of players online

Cons

Frequent bugs and glitches that affect gameplay
Inconsistent experience between app and web versions
Lack of social features and difficulty finding friends
Performance issues, especially with lag during timed games
Limited features compared to the web version

Most mentioned

Lag and freezing issues, particularly in bullet games
Desire for additional features like takebacks after being checkmated
Difficulty with app scaling on specific devices, notably foldable phones
Inconsistent move registration leading to losses on time
Need for features present on the website but missing from the app

User reviews

Best layout and theme. I got used to the wooden board to the point I can't use the chess dot com I keep losing because I cant get familiar with their colours and pieces. I just don't like how everyone here wants to play as white. Every like 5 black games I get a white game, when playing anonymous. Should implement some measurements that shows when someone is cheating, especially for those leaving the game back and forth. The green light shows grey then green but it should add an alert.

Solomon T, 2024-10-26

To make it absolutely perfect, please add the option to add an outside chess engine like komodo and to be able to save in favorites the friends I follow... by the way, it has chess 960 (Fischer Random Chess) among so many other things... puzzles, it rates you, beautiful boards and peaces, play online, etc etc... oh, and NO ADS, absolutely free, open source... Awesome!

Ze Za, 2024-04-21

I love the app, but I'd like to suggest a function. For the puzzles, it'd be helpful to know how many moves are required for the solve. That might make it too easy so I suggest a hint button similar to the "view solution button" but to tell you how many moves to plan for. Sometimes showing the next move helps, but it can lessen the challenge too much, or it seems unintuitive because there's a series of 5 moves to account for when I expect to do it in 1-2 more moves. (Sorry for 1 star review)