Extend Lichess
Is Lichess lacking a setting you want? Sometimes, it can be offered as an external userstyle or browser extension.
Here's a list of our favourite community Lichess extensions. Please let us know if we missed one!
Styles
These are custom styles that you can install with Stylus for Chrome, Firefox or Opera.
- How to Install User Styles
- Streamer Layout Puts usernames and clocks around the board for easier screen capture
- Stealth Mode Fades out the playing board, and hides it when the mouse goes away
- No Arrows Hides arrows and circle shapes on game boards
- Dark Board Factor Configure the dark board theme darkness factor
- True Black Use a truly black background for screen energy saving.
- Prettier Lichess A different, "prettier" aesthetic for Lichess
- Remove The Homepage Timeline Removes the homepage timeline
Extensions
- Dimitri Lichess Provides commentary for your games from GMs Dmitri Komarov and Maurice Ashley.
- Chess.com analysis at Lichess (Chrome)
- Chess.com analysis at Lichess (FireFox) Analyze your Chess.com games on Lichess. Also supports chessgames.com, chess-db.com and chesstempo.com.
- Ublock Origin/Privacy Badger Not Lichess related, but they should be on every browser!
- Accept Random Challenge Adds a button that accepts a random challenge from your list of challenges. Especially useful for streamers that need to pick from the list in an unbiased way. Available for Chrome and Firefox.
- Lichess Tweaked Challenge Accept Another random challenge app. It supports rating ranges, team-only challenges, and accepting based on the number of previous games played. Available for Chrome.
- Updated LichessARC OG Yet another random challenge app. It supports choosing challenges by time control. Available for Chrome.
- Mental Health Mode Removes all visible ratings from Lichess. This goes further than zen mode, there is no possible way to see your rating or anybody else's.
Non-Lichess websites
- OpeningTree.com Supports Chess.com and Lichess, provides a personalized opening explorer for every user
- Listudy.org Some extra functionality for Lichess studies
- Pychess.org All those strange variants you want? Find them here
- Lidraughts.org Like Lichess, but for draughts (checkers)
- Lishogi.org Like Lichess, but for Shogi
- BlitzTactics Various fast and slow puzzle variants
- PlayStrategy Like Lichess, but for two-player strategy games
Background images
If you open the user menu on the top-right of the screen, then click "Background" and then "Picture", then you can enter an image URL to change the Lichess background. Feel free to try out these images:
- Universe Image
- Wood Paneling
- Fire!
- Black Rock Lasers
- A Storm Coming
- Chess Pieces
- Animated Landscape #1
- Animated Landscape #2
