Lichess beta

lichess.org

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 new application is still in beta. The following features are available right now:
- play real time or correspondence chess
- solve chess puzzles from a wide variety of themes, online or offline
- race against the clock in Puzzle Storm
- analyse your games with Stockfish 16 locally or Stockfish 16.1 on the server
- watch Lichess TV and online streamers
- use a chess clock for your over the board games
- many different board themes and piece sets
- system colours on Android 12+
- translated into 55 languages

Ratings and reviews

Good for offline. One thing I would like for them to add is being able to change magnified pieces when dragging them and also being able to change board theme brightness like on the browser/ mobile browser version. Honestly, I'd prefer using the browser mobile version (mainly because I'm used to it), but otherwise, for an app, I find this to be pretty good.

I appreciate the goal of rebuilding the lichess app from the ground up, and I hope the developers succeed in that. However, many of the design decisions here are obviously terrible. For example, in the original app it takes one tap to get into a game from the home screen. In this new app, it takes FOUR. Create game -> time control -> tap the time control you want to play -> play. This is idiotic. Port over the grid of common time controls from the original app and place it on the home screen.

Works really well, the game analysis is more useful and user friendly. If I had one suggestion it would be to differentiate the arrows showing the best moves and the actual move, because it can be a touch confusing when they look the same. Also maybe some different stats or quick game options on the home screen, but that is only a concern when I'm on a losing streak ;)

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