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Lichess

The one open-source chess 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.

Note: To enable push notifications, a unified push distributor such as 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
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Versions

Although APK downloads are available below to give you the choice, you should be aware that by installing that way you will not receive update notifications and it's a less secure way to download. We recommend that you install the F-Droid client and use that.

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  • Version 0.22.7 (220703) suggested Added on Mar 27, 2026

    arm64-v8a

    This version requires Android 8.0 or newer.

    It is built and signed by the original developer, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.

    Permissions
    • view network connections
      Allows the app to view information about network connections such as which networks exist and are connected.
    • have full network access
      Allows the app to create network sockets and use custom network protocols. The browser and other applications provide means to send data to the internet, so this permission is not required to send data to the internet.
    • show notifications
      Allows the app to show notifications
    • control vibration
      Allows the app to control the vibrator.
    • prevent phone from sleeping
      Allows the app to prevent the phone from going to sleep.
    • org.lichess.mobileV2.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

    Download APK 111 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log

  • Version 0.22.7 (220702) - Added on Mar 27, 2026

    armeabi-v7a

    This version requires Android 8.0 or newer.

    It is built and signed by the original developer, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.

    Permissions
    • view network connections
      Allows the app to view information about network connections such as which networks exist and are connected.
    • have full network access
      Allows the app to create network sockets and use custom network protocols. The browser and other applications provide means to send data to the internet, so this permission is not required to send data to the internet.
    • show notifications
      Allows the app to show notifications
    • control vibration
      Allows the app to control the vibrator.
    • prevent phone from sleeping
      Allows the app to prevent the phone from going to sleep.
    • org.lichess.mobileV2.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

    Download APK 107 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log

  • Version 0.22.7 (220701) - Added on Mar 27, 2026

    x86_64

    This version requires Android 8.0 or newer.

    It is built and signed by the original developer, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.

    Permissions
    • view network connections
      Allows the app to view information about network connections such as which networks exist and are connected.
    • have full network access
      Allows the app to create network sockets and use custom network protocols. The browser and other applications provide means to send data to the internet, so this permission is not required to send data to the internet.
    • show notifications
      Allows the app to show notifications
    • control vibration
      Allows the app to control the vibrator.
    • prevent phone from sleeping
      Allows the app to prevent the phone from going to sleep.
    • org.lichess.mobileV2.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

    Download APK 113 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log

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