Lichess

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 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

Ratings and reviews

Finally an app that allows more of the site. It still has its problems. Find the settings. This app will drop pieces on squares you didn't touch. There is a delay so you rarely get the full increment. Also, not app specific, lichess does not do enough to eliminate and deter cheaters. If I wanted to play an engine, I would select an engine to play against. Do better lichess.

I've had a fold variant of phone for many years now and there is still not proper support for them. Since the new app released I can no longer see my time. I play mostly bullet. On the old app, I couldn't see names, material difference, or click the chat option while my phone is unfolded. Now it's worse with the clock hidden. Please update your support for this. Playing with my phone closed is too small- it's why I use a fold in the first place. Other than this, the app is amazing.

The app is performant, customizable, and has more functionality than the legacy app. However, there's one thing which was initially confusing. When opening the account page by tapping your profile image in the upper right, it opens "in" the home/puzzles/learn/etc. page you're currently in. For example, if I open the account page in Puzzles, move to Home, then move back to Puzzles, the account page will reopen, which is unexpected; I would expect to go directly to Puzzles.

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