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

edit: still cannot log in. absolutely wild. non-functional after years of stability. I updated to the new UI and despite the jarring changes I thought I would give it a shot except for the fact that I cannot log in? I click the button, get taken to a webpage, sign in and authorize the app, and... nothing? shame.

I like it! You guys did a good job with the remake. Much cleaner and such. Fix a few UI bugs like tooltips showing up off screen, make it easier to resume games (including with the computer) and have multiple games and so forth, and give me more control and let me do what I want from any screen. Stuff like that. Then I'll give it 5 stars. Love the practice mode, where it critiques stuff!

The UI I could care less about, but the AI has been drastically overhauled, at least at the lower levels. I'm a beginner who is learning through practicing vs the computer and I was getting to the point where I could beat Stockfish 3 on the old app about 60% of the time. Stockfish 3 on the new app is a cakewalk, making a ton of blunders, but also plays unreasonably aggressive, so I decided to try 4, which plays a very unorthodox, aggressive style which feels very bad for learning.

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