DaisyChess

Free · Open source · No ads, no tracking

Every move, understood.

DaisyChess is a chess app for playing, reviewing and learning. Stockfish runs right in your browser, Maia plays like a human at your level, and every game ends with a clear, friendly review.

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  • Coming sooniPhone & iPad app
  • Coming soonAndroid app
An ivory chess pawn crowned with a white daisy
  • Free, for everyone.No subscription, no premium tier, no paywalled analysis. Every feature, for every player.
  • No ads, no tracking.No analytics, no trackers, no fingerprinting. No account needed to play or analyse.
  • Open source.GPL-3.0-or-later. Read every line, change it, or run your own server.

What you can do

Everything you need between two games.

From a quick look at the eval bar to a full review with a guided tour — without leaving the board.

Analyse with Stockfish

Stockfish 19 runs in your browser — or faster on a server. Eval bar, best-move arrows and up to five lines at once.

Automatic review

Accuracy, key moments and a guided tour through your best moves and mistakes — plus what players at your level usually play.

Openings trainer

Search about 3,900 named openings, drill them with spaced repetition, then play the position out against Maia or Stockfish.

Play your way

Stockfish with clocks and premoves, human-like Maia from 1100 to 1900, a friend via a link, or your live lichess games.

Import in a click

Fetch your recent lichess and chess.com games — clock times included — or paste any PGN, and review straight away.

Explore openings

The opening name as you play, plus lichess masters and database statistics for every position you reach.

All features

Game review

Learn from the game you just played.

Finish a game and the review is already running. DaisyChess points out where the game turned, shows the better move with its line, and walks you through it.

  • Accuracy for both players and an evaluation graph
  • Time spent per move and mistakes made in time trouble
  • Where you left the opening book, and what the book move was
  • Reviews are saved, so a game opens instantly next time

Community nodes

Lend your engine. Help a player.

Got a spare computer, a home server or a Raspberry Pi? Run a DaisyChess node and lend its engines to friends — or to everyone through the shared pool. It only connects out: no open port, no domain, no certificate.

Run a node Operator portal
  • Private node — only people you give a token can use it.
  • Pool node — share part of your machine with strangers.
  • Fair by design — the hub spot-checks pool results.
  • One command — Docker on amd64 or arm64.

Open source

Built in the open.

DaisyChess is free software under the GPL-3.0-or-later, built on Stockfish, Leela Chess Zero, Maia and the lichess board. Read the code, run your own server, send a fix.

Source code Licence & credits 
# your own DaisyChess, web app + engine server
git clone https://github.com/refaustria/daisychess
cd daisychess
docker compose -f docker/docker-compose.yml up -d
# → http://localhost:8080

Ready for your next game?

Open DaisyChess in your browser — on a laptop, a phone or an iPad. Nothing to install, nothing to sign up for.

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