# Lichess — user reviews > 483 indexed App Store user reviews of Lichess by LICHESS.ORG, rated 4.00/5 from 542 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lichess/id1662361230/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lichess/id1662361230.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 366 · 4★ 30 · 3★ 31 · 2★ 30 · 1★ 85 ## What do users think of Lichess? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Great interface - 🚀 Smooth performance - 💡 Useful resources for learning and analysis **Cons** - 🐛 Occasional UI issues - 💡 Room for more customization options **Commonly reported bugs** - Swipe-to-go-back gesture interferes with piece placement **Most requested features** - Name of opening in opening explorer - Ability to add and subtract additional things on the homepage - Reset/replay button on puzzles ## Newest reviews (10 of 483) ### 4/5 — Puzzle rating???? *2026-08-18* Why when I get a puzzle wrong I loose 31 elo and if I get a puzzle correct I get +7 or + 14! So I have to get 66% of my puzzle correct just to keep the same elo ????? ### 4/5 — Hey Lichess I want in my best victory so can you give some of high rated players pls *2026-08-11* User name: jkjiijki ### 5/5 — Free and has better material than chess.com *2026-08-10, version 0.25.5* The materials, including unlimited puzzles, blogs for coaching, the ability to watch grandmasters play, and even insights to your play with targeted weak areas, I can honestly say this is the best chess website ever. The best part is all this is free! Don’t play chess.com when this exists. Lichess indeed is the best. ### 5/5 — Incredible *2026-08-10, version 0.25.5* It's free, and there's a ton of features you won't have any idea how to use or that they exist. What more could you want? I love that the community has a bunch of resources like specialized puzzles and hey. Free unlimited puzzles. Wow wow. ### 5/5 — Even better than before *2026-08-10, version 0.25.5* What an amazing app. So much to offer and no monetization. I wish there were more communities focused on making good free products like this. It was already great, but the most recent app update is so smooth and customizable. Well done. ### 4/5 — Notifications *2026-08-10, version 0.25.5* When I was playing a game and my opponent was stalling, I was reviewing my previous moves and it turned out that my opponent played a move and since I was reviewing my moves I ran out of time and lost a game. I would like if the app notifies us when our opponent plays a move. Otherwise this app is really good. ### 5/5 — Merci pour la gratuité *2026-08-05* Je ne trouvais pas d’application gratuite pour faire des problèmes à l’infini ou l’on pouvait choisir la catégorie. Merci beaucoup pour ça. L’application est parfaite a part qu’il n’y ait pas de moteur stockfish, on peut en avoir un sur une autre appli donc c’est pas grave. ### 2/5 — Analysis features are not great *2026-08-04, version 0.25.5* The “learn from your mistakes” feature takes nearly a minute to do anything. It’s faster to copy the pgn and import it into chess.com. Plus the analysis is not at all informative. It tells you the right answer without any rationale and without enabling the exploration of lines. ### 1/5 — forced retiring old app when new app is trash *2026-08-03, version 0.25.5* too many frustrations i dont even know where to start. basically when moving a piece from far left to the right. it will accidentally go to main menu. when you dont need a function frequently, dont make it too easy to access.. i imported so many games in the past years and now i cant access any of them in the new app. it is not an improvement but regression. the app is pushing us back to webpage.. why bother developing a trash? we are going backwards ### 1/5 — Interface blocks registering!! *2026-08-03, version 0.25.5* Can’t register because your blue “can we help?” sits in front of the register button!! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Utter garbage *2026-08-18, version 0.25.5* Glitchy, logs me out after each game, password reset doesn’t work, login by email doesn’t work. Deleting and finding a different app. ### 1/5 — Terrible *2026-08-17, version 0.25.5* App is full of trolls ### 1/5 — Bullet i extremely unfair *2026-08-13* I love this app, but wdym when i start a bullet match my opponent start with 10 s adventage on me???!! He got one min while my tim starts at 50 wtf ### 1/5 — total trash *2026-08-12* compared to the old app this is trash ### 1/5 — Zeitanzeige auf dem IPad viel zu klein *2026-08-08* Ich habe das Gefühl die neue App wurde nicht auf dem IPad getestet, die Zeit ist winzig in den äußersten Ecken rechts oben/unten weit entfernt vom Brett. Die alte App hatte eine schöne große Anzeige. Mit der neuen kann man de-facto auf dem IPad nicht blitzen da man Zeit und Brett praktisch nicht gleichzeitig sehen kann ### 1/5 — Terrible app. *2026-08-08, version 0.25.5* If you want to learn how to play chess this is not the app for you. It’s functional it’s all it is nothing more than that ### 1/5 — Old app better *2026-08-07, version 0.25.5* I’ve been using Lichess for so long and preferred it to chess.com. Left it for a while and came back to an entire new design which looks like it was vibe coded and worse than its classic. Unfortunately will just have to switch to chess.com one day ### 1/5 — Странное обновление *2026-08-06* Куча лишнего хлама на экране, зачем все это? Три минуты ждешь хода соперника а потом вылетаешь(?!) из игры из-за дисконнекта(?!!) Глючная поделка, 1/10 ### 1/5 — Where is the play option *2026-08-05* They have made an enitre app to play Chess. But they forgot to give play button. Whenenver we click on blitz/bullet it shows the rating which is ridiculous ### 1/5 — bad redesign and confusing *2026-08-04, version 0.25.5* now i gave two lichess apps! both by lichess? horrible app update rollout. the newer app requires more clicks to get to features that the older app had. more clicks is always a design regression! it's too difficult to locate lessons to bookmark/save out of hundreds. there needs to be a better way to surface good lessons or to easily let users see the content without all the extra clicks this new app requires. i'll revise my review when this app actually becomes worth reviewing. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Tout le monde devrait utiliser Lichess *2026-08-21* Rien à dire, c’est bien mieux que le gros site concurrent que tout le monde connaît. ### 5/5 — perfect *2026-08-21* much better than chess.com. its completely free and has great puzzles and learning. ### 5/5 — Great update *2026-08-16, version 0.25.5* The new update is amazing. The main dashboard is clean, easy to understand, and makes jumping into the action fast. Whether you use Lichess to review your chess.com games as your main chess app, you won’t be disappointed. ### 5/5 — I just Love it! *2026-08-16* It’s minimalistic, open source, free and no bloody adds! Maybe it’s not perfect but are you? No! I really like the fact that I can do puzzles without having access to to internet when I’m in the underground. Also love the access to the library of openings and other learning resources within the app. ### 5/5 — Beste Schach App *2026-08-16* Diese App ist das Perfekte Beispiel für eine Super App. Funktionen die sonst bei anderen Plattformen Geld kosten sind hier komplett kostenlos. ### 5/5 — Beats the pants off everything else *2026-08-14, version 0.25.5* There’s a lot of features to lichess that you will discover with time. It’s a great platform and i prefer it to chess.com and duo ### 5/5 — 5 stars *2026-08-13, version 0.25.5* Substantial improvement to Lichess experience. Beautiful UI and not as many bugs as I expected. ### 5/5 — best lichess *2026-08-11, version 0.25.5* please add in app seem old app training with computer you see your mistake when offline mode many thanks team ### 5/5 — Libre Chess *2026-08-11, version 0.25.5* It’s free! ### 5/5 — Great app, five stars. I have a suggestion *2026-08-10* every time the opponent leave the game, the counter start at 120 seconds. it should continue from the time that he left. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-27.*