W
Apr 30, 2026
Too many changes at once. Ugly pieces. (I said this when the last major update was very fresh. The app seems quite polished now, except that navigation is a bit of a challenge sometimes. All in all excellent!)
Lichess
App Information
| Version | 0.23.5 |
| Content Rating | Everyone |
| Android Required | 8.0 |
| Updated | Apr 17, 2026 |
| Developer | lichess.org |
| Price | Free |
| Category | Board |
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
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
Downloads
User Reviews
3.50
9K+
5
51%
4
9%
3
7%
2
6%
1
27%
R
Apr 30, 2026
weird i couldn't login. edit: fixed
N
Apr 30, 2026
Updated. Now, every time I open the app I have to login. The app was so good before this update & equally horrible now. Edit - Now the app works fine. (April, 2026)
M
Apr 30, 2026
uninstall this app no longer user friendly, annoying pairing to a very low rated player then disconnecting you losing your rating also reporting cheaters is not easy you need to include link so many steps to do .. really sucks the most pro cheaters site
L
Apr 30, 2026
Best chess app, always will be a patron.
K
Apr 30, 2026
It is free online chess app
F
Apr 30, 2026
In correspondence, is there an automatic next board feature after completing a move? How?
F
Apr 30, 2026
what did you do?? app is messed up. old version worked. this one it is nonresponsive and requires new sig. in each session. update: app tweaks were apparently made and I use it daily. thx. updates from 1 to 5 star
E
Apr 30, 2026
Best app. completely free
A
Apr 30, 2026
edited: big improvement on initial release, I still find the analysis runs a lot slower. when analysing games best move arrow will not show due to analysis stalling. still best chess app though.