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Lichess

Lichess is a board game, available on Android and iOS: tournaments.

  • Free, with trade-offs
  • Android and iOS
  • Open source

Overview

Lichess is a board game, available on Android and iOS.

Gameplay elements described in its F-Droid listing and on its official website: tournaments.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Free online chess server.” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “play arena tournaments” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026

At a glance

Lichess is free, with trade-offs: some of its assets are not free and it depends on one specific server to work.

Its licence (GPL-3.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No advertising
  • Commercial use allowed

Weaknesses

  • Flagged by F-Droid: non-free assets (images, sounds)
  • Flagged by F-Droid: depends on the publisher’s online service

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from F-Droid (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, ads, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Wikidata (licence, platforms) —
  • Last technical check: 5 November 2026
  • Listing written automatically from verified facts.

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