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

I've not loved a digital chess option since Battle Chess on the Tandy 1000. It's fully stocked. I'm learning everyday. I can challenge friends and make new ones. The skill builders like coordinate training and puzzles are authentic. Bring free makes it financially accessible to everyone! I would like to help increase accessibility, some improvements can be made there. This app is a labor of love, and I feel loved by it. Thank you to the people who keep it running!

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.

I am guessing the latest update improved things behind the scenes. The UX is worse. Still a good free chess app, just a bit annoying to use. I'll be more specific: 1.App takes longer to load. 2.I've customized the home screen to include the item I want (Puzzles); clicking that doesn't show a puzzle, as expected, but instead shows my stats. 3.Clicking Puzzles at the bottom of that screen *also* doesn't give me a puzzle. I need to scroll down again to find what I want. 4.There are more, no space.

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