Lichess

lichess.org Board

The one open-source online and offline chess game

Rating: 3.8; 15K ratings
Downloads: 4.9M+; on Google Play
Price: Free; No in-app purchases
Updated: Oct 6; 2026 · v0.29.1

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About Lichess

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

What’s new

Version 0.29.1 · Updated October 6, 2026

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

User reviews

Fajar Nur

Nice app but can you add Over The Board and Play With Computer feature

App details

Lichess is a free Board app for Android with 1,000,000+ installs on Google Play and a 3.8/5 average rating from 15,045 ratings. It was released on May 16, 2024 and last updated on October 6, 2026. It's developed by lichess.org. It requires Android 8.0 or later.

Category: Board
Rating: 3.8 / 5 (15,045)
Installs: 4,918,621
In-app purchases: No
Ads: No ads
Version: 0.29.1
Requires Android: 8.0
Content rating: Everyone
Released: May 16, 2024
Last updated: October 6, 2026
Developer: lichess.org

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