Is Lichess safe?

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:…

Developer: lichess.org
Category: Board Game
First release: 19 Aug 2026
License: Not documented

02 / Package identity

Technical fingerprint

Application IDorg.lichess.mobileV2

Latest APK SHA-2569d8a9fbe6d6a2b1d445b6427b0ccc13ac45ed8da1b52df9a4abcd14d08ae7387

Signing certificate49:6E:D2:C1:54:28:92:A0:94:A2:A6:E2:6D:59:CD:07:FB:7E:8C:71:13:55:87:6D:AD:38:59:EA:82:F8:AF:62

MIN ANDROID26TARGET36ARCHITECTUREarm64-v8a

03 / History

Project timeline

19 Aug 2026

Package observed in source index

Metadata and versions observed from the fdroid repository index.

04 / Version archive

Documented releases

1 TOTAL

VersionReleasedAndroidArchitecture

0.26.419 Aug 202626+arm64-v8a→

05 / Safety & access

Safety verdict

Authentic — file hash matches the source indexNo ads or tracking flagged by the source

IntegritySHA-256 verified vs source

SourceBinary repo · fdroid

Permissions8 declared · 0 sensitive

Signaturepresent

Anti-featuresNonFreeAssetsTetheredNet

Sensitive accessNo sensitive permissions

Declared permissions

android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE android.permission.INTERNET android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED android.permission.VIBRATE android.permission.WAKE_LOCK org.lichess.mobileV2.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

Tracker status: Not assessed by WIKI for Android.

06 / Sources

Evidence ledger

Each entry is a captured public reference backing this record.

RepositorySource package page↗Source codeSource repository↗