lichess
The ultimate free, open-source chess app for online and offline play
Crafted with passion for chess, this app is free and open source for everyone.
- Over 150,000 daily users and rapidly growing.
- Enjoy bullet, blitz, classical, and correspondence chess.
- Compete in arena tournaments.
- Discover, follow, and challenge other players.
- Track your game statistics.
- Sharpen skills with chess puzzles.
- Explore variants like Crazyhouse, Chess 960, King of the Hill, Three-check, Antichess, Atomic, Horde, and Racing Kings, playable online or offline.
- Analyze games with local computer evaluation.
- Access server-based analysis with move annotations and game summaries.
- Unlimited opening explorer tool.
- Endgame tablebase explorer.
- Play against an offline computer.
- Over-the-board mode for offline matches with friends.
- Standalone chess clock with customizable time settings.
- Built-in board editor.
- Supports 80 languages.
- Optimized for phones and tablets, including landscape mode.
- Completely free, ad-free, and open source!
Like https://lichess.org, this app is open-source software (GPL v3), forever free and ad-free.
Mobile app source code: https://github.com/veloce/lichobile
Website and server source code: https://lichess.org/source
What's New in Version 8.0.0
Last updated on Dec 10, 2022
We regularly enhance the app with new features, improvements, and bug fixes.
Check release versions and details at:
https://github.com/veloce/lichobile/releases
lichess





The ultimate free, open-source chess app for online and offline play
Crafted with passion for chess, this app is free and open source for everyone.
- Over 150,000 daily users and rapidly growing.
- Enjoy bullet, blitz, classical, and correspondence chess.
- Compete in arena tournaments.
- Discover, follow, and challenge other players.
- Track your game statistics.
- Sharpen skills with chess puzzles.
- Explore variants like Crazyhouse, Chess 960, King of the Hill, Three-check, Antichess, Atomic, Horde, and Racing Kings, playable online or offline.
- Analyze games with local computer evaluation.
- Access server-based analysis with move annotations and game summaries.
- Unlimited opening explorer tool.
- Endgame tablebase explorer.
- Play against an offline computer.
- Over-the-board mode for offline matches with friends.
- Standalone chess clock with customizable time settings.
- Built-in board editor.
- Supports 80 languages.
- Optimized for phones and tablets, including landscape mode.
- Completely free, ad-free, and open source!
Like https://lichess.org, this app is open-source software (GPL v3), forever free and ad-free.
Mobile app source code: https://github.com/veloce/lichobile
Website and server source code: https://lichess.org/source
What's New in Version 8.0.0
Last updated on Dec 10, 2022
We regularly enhance the app with new features, improvements, and bug fixes.
Check release versions and details at:
https://github.com/veloce/lichobile/releases