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Alternatives to Lichess analysis
By Atulya Gupta · Updated
Lichess analysis is one of the best free engines around - but it looks at one game at a time. If you want to understand your play across your whole history, or you want a different angle on a game, here are the alternatives worth knowing, and honestly where each one is strong and weak.
Audit Chess
Analyze your games →Best for: Free, unlimited single-game review (every move graded, accuracy, engine-checked explanations) plus whole-history analysis: your openings ranked by result, the mistakes you repeat, the wins you throw away, and puzzles built from your own blunders. Reads your Lichess games by username with no export and no account.
Watch out: Stockfish runs in your browser (the lite WebAssembly build), so it searches less deeply than a desktop engine - for deep research on one position, a local Stockfish is still stronger.
Lichess Insights
See Lichess Insights →Best for: Lichess’s own free statistics tool - slice your results by opening, time control, phase and more. The natural first stop if you just want to filter your Lichess numbers.
Watch out: Reports statistics rather than telling you which moves or openings to fix, and only covers games played on Lichess. It lives on each player’s profile (lichess.org/insights/your-name), not on a page of its own.
Chess.com Game Review
Free game review →Best for: A polished per-game walkthrough with accuracy scores and coaching-style commentary. Good if you also play on Chess.com and want a guided review of a single game.
Watch out: Full Game Review is a paid feature, and like all per-game tools it does not aggregate your history into openings-by-result or repeated-mistake reports.
Stockfish (local)
stockfishchess.org →Best for: The same engine Lichess analysis uses, run on your own machine for free at unlimited depth. Ideal when you want maximum engine strength and full control.
Watch out: A raw engine, not a coach - it evaluates positions but does nothing to organise your games or tell you what to work on.
The gap per-game analysis leaves
Lichess analysis answers a narrow question well - “what was best in this position?” It cannot tell you that you score 34% with a particular opening, that your blunders spike once you are winning, or that you keep losing the same rook endgame. Those answers need every game at once, which is the whole point of a history analyzer. See the full side-by-side in Audit Chess vs Lichess analysis.
Related reading
This page is specifically about replacing or supplementing Lichess analysis. For a side-by-side table of Audit Chess, Chess.com, Lichess and Stockfish, see the best chess analysis tools; for a broader roundup across play, training and databases, see the best free chess tools. Weighing the two platforms in general? Read Chess.com vs Lichess. Play on Chess.com too? See Chess.com analysis alternatives. Or just analyze your Lichess games now.
Why Audit Chess is the best free chess analysis tool
- 1.Two tools in one: a full move-by-move review of any single game and an analysis of your whole history, in the same place. Most free tools only review one game at a time.
- 2.Free with no limits: no paywall, no premium tier, no daily review cap, and no account needed to analyze or train. Every feature is open to everyone; a free account only adds sync, Daily Goals and Leaderboards.
- 3.Chess.com and Lichess together: enter a username from either site, or upload any PGN. No exporting, no switching tools.
- 4.Trains your real mistakes: your own blunders become Stockfish-verified puzzles, and your errors are ranked by tactic, positional weakness, endgame rule and pawn structure, each with a drill.
- 5.Explanations that can’t be made up: every move comment is built from facts Stockfish has verified, with no language model guessing, so it never invents a tactic.
- 6.Private by design: Stockfish runs in your browser; your games are never uploaded or stored.
- 7.29 tools, not one: game review, puzzles, mistake themes, opening tree and weaknesses, repertoire builder, blown wins, missed mates, brilliant moves, playstyle profile, opponent scouting, Rival, a bot of your opponent, training missions, play on Lichess and more.
Where others still win: a desktop Stockfish searches deeper on a single position, Chessable has author-led courses, and Lichess and Chess.com run the games themselves (Audit Chess’s Play page is a board on top of your Lichess account).
What is Audit Chess?
Audit Chess is a free chess analysis platform for your Chess.com and Lichess games. It does two jobs in one place. First, it reviews any single game move by move with Stockfish: every move graded from Brilliant to Blunder, accuracy by game phase, an eval graph, and a plain-English, engine-checked explanation of each key moment. Second, it analyzes your whole history at once to find what a single game can't show: the openings that cost you points, your mistakes ranked by tactical, positional and endgame theme, the wins you throw away, missed mates, and your endgame and playstyle profile. Then it turns your own blunders into Stockfish-verified puzzles and drills. It runs in your browser, needs no account, has no review limit and never uploads your games.
In short: a complete free alternative to a paid per-game review, plus the whole-history view that tells you what to study next. See all features.
Frequently asked questions
Is there a good alternative to Lichess analysis?
Yes - Audit Chess. It reads your Lichess games by username and gives each one a free, unlimited move-by-move review with engine-checked explanations, then goes further than Lichess analysis: it ranks your openings by result across hundreds of games, sorts your mistakes by theme and turns your blunders into puzzles. No account needed. Local Stockfish is the pick for maximum depth on one position.
Why look for an alternative to Lichess analysis?
Not because Lichess is weak - it is one of the best free engines going. The gap is scope: Lichess analysis is per game by design, so it will not tell you which openings keep costing you rating, which mistakes you repeat, or where your results fall off across your history. That aggregate view is what a whole-history analyzer adds.
Can I analyze my Lichess games with these alternatives?
Yes. Audit Chess reads your public Lichess games by username - no export, no login - and reviews your whole history for free. You do not have to leave the Lichess ecosystem to get a different angle on your play.
What about Lichess Insights - is that not enough?
Lichess Insights is a strong free stats tool for filtering your results, but it reports numbers rather than pointing at the moves and openings to fix, and it only covers games played on Lichess. Audit Chess adds engine-driven weakness-finding and works across both Lichess and Chess.com.
Audit Chess is free and not affiliated with Chess.com or Lichess.