Lichess0.29.1

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
- translated into 55 languages

Version History - Learn chess basics
- Practice chess feature
- New translations
- More improvements and bug fixes 0.29.1 Oct 6 * Stockfish 19
* Maia opponent in offline computer game
* Offline computer game time control
* Notifications for broadcast when following an event or a player
* Filter boards by team in broadcast
* Sort and search friends in friends screen
* Move times chart in game analysis
* Improved chess960 support in board editor
* Copy mainline or variation PGN in analysis from the move menu
* More improvements and bug fixes 0.28.4 Sep 17 - Sign in with an email
- Show server outage/maintenance information
- Offline puzzle (mix angle) count is now configurable
- Improve app bar and menus
- Bug fixes and other improvements 0.26.6 Aug 21 - Fix correspondence rematch
- Fix keyboard closing in chat screen
- Show the tournament the game was/is played in
- More board settings available when not logged in
- Last over the board clock tool time setup is now saved
- More improvements and bug fixes 0.25.5 Jul 17 - New friends carousel on Home Screen
- New board setting, move on release: when this is enabled, and moving a piece by tapping, the move is made when you lift your finger, letting you slide to change the destination square.
- New simple and bronstein delay options in the over the board clock tool
- Spectator chat when watching games
- Bug fixes 0.25.3 Jul 9 - New broadcast team results screen
- Many improvements and bug fixes 0.24.6 Jun 11 * Fix crazyhouse promotion
* Fix incorrectly rendered pieces when using predictive back gestures on Android
* Fix last move not displayed in offline games
* Use a native authentication session for login
* Show a variation bar with different lines at the bottom of analysis screen
* More bug fixes / small improvements 0.24.5 Jun 5 - Faster game screen: board and game performance has been greatly improved; this should make a difference in bullet games
- Many small improvements and bug fixes 0.24.2 Jun 3 - show clearly when network is disconnected during a game
- bug fixes 0.23.14 May 14 * Add broadcasts widgets
* Fix account menu that was transparent if using a custom background
* Many bug fixes and improvements 0.23.13 May 7 * Puzzle navigation
* Account/settings menu easier to find
* Analysis screen tab indicator
* Many small improvements and bug fixes 0.23.11 May 4 * blog feed and daily puzzle iOS widgets
* challenge a friend with a link
* configurable home time controls
* replay failed puzzles from dashboard
* lots of bug fixes 0.23.5 Apr 17 - Fix correspondence challenge creation
- Crazyhouse fixes
- Persist app logs
- More bug fixes 0.22.7 Mar 22 * Lichess announces notifications
* Many bug fixes and improvements 0.22.6 Mar 20 - Fix crazyhouse online games
- Variant description
- More bug fixes 0.22.4 Mar 17 * Chess variants support
* Import PGN improvements
* Broadcast improvements
* Bug fixes 0.22.3 Mar 16 - Play against computer
- Practice with computer
- Stockfish 18
- Broadcast improvements
- Import PGN with multiple games
- Strength and improvement areas in the puzzle dashboard
- Many bug fixes 0.21.9 Mar 3 - Fix some issues that prevented to launch the chess engine in analysis
- changed the analysis layout with the eval bar at the side of the board to gain vertical space
- toggle engine button is now showing the depth
- standalone analysis is now saved per app session
- app logs are now available from the settings
- but fixes 0.19.4 Jan 20 - new board theme and piece sets
- take back button in OTB mode
- fix notifications issues in correspondence games
- add an app logs screen 0.18.3 Jan 6 - show threats in analysis
- bug fixes

More information at https://github.com/lichess-org/mobile/releases/tag/v0.18.2 0.18.2 11/24/2025 - enable correspondence challenge push notifications
- bug fixes 0.18.0 11/08/2025 - blog posts carousel on home
- broadcast games search bar
- study moves are now synchronised with server
- fixed rematch button not working
- fixed sending chat messages in correspondence games
- bug fixes

More at https://github.com/lichess-org/mobile/releases/tag/v0.17.15 0.17.15 11/06/2025 - Learn from your mistakes is now available from the analysis screen
- New patron coloured wings
- Many bug fixes

More information about the release: https://github.com/lichess-org/mobile/releases/tag/v0.17.12 0.17.12 10/21/2025 * New landscape game and puzzle layout
* Broadcasts team view
* Tournament player view
* You can now copy chat and private messages, and links are clickable
* Kid mode support
* Change password and 2FA settings are now available
* Many bug fixes and improvements 0.17.8 08/30/2025 Bug fix:
* fixed a bug where tournament cannot be joined and games are created in background

New features:
* tablebase explorer
* crossable scores in user profiles
* iOS quick actions to launch a puzzle session or directly play games based on last 3 games created 0.17.3 08/05/2025