Lichess

Lichess

The one open-source chess platform

lichess.org Board Game

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Description

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.

Note: Push notifications are a work in progress and should not be expected to work correctly. To enable them, a Unified Push distributor such as https://f-droid.org/packages/org.unifiedpush.distributor.sunup/ needs to be installed.

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

What’s new (0.25.5)

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

Anti-features

Properties of this app that are worth knowing about before installing.

  • NonFreeAssets
  • TetheredNet

Versions

Version Date Size Requires Android Download
0.25.5 current
2a97c03792d28256…
2026-07-21 99 MB API 26
0.25.5
7bc174e5942f2284…
2026-07-21 95 MB API 26
0.25.5
105fab51d0826ff0…
2026-07-21 101 MB API 26
0.25.3
65f3857adc9b7a24…
2026-07-13 99 MB API 26
0.25.3
5c8455fc68e4a919…
2026-07-13 95 MB API 26
0.25.3
7f2a1fa2095f0227…
2026-07-13 101 MB API 26
0.24.6
264e791dbe39bc9c…
2026-06-13 112 MB API 26
0.24.6
393af32393a9def1…
2026-06-13 108 MB API 26
0.24.6
23e68dca48b6d769…
2026-06-13 114 MB API 26

Permissions

What the app asks the system for. Android only grants sensitive access after you confirm it.

  • Internet accessSend and receive data over the internet.
  • Network stateCheck whether and how the device is connected.
  • VibrationControl the vibration alert.
  • NotificationsShow notifications.
  • Prevent sleepingKeep the device from going to sleep.
  • Run at startupStart automatically after the device is switched on.
  • Foreground serviceKeep running in the background, visible in the status bar.
  • mobileV2.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

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