White Pawn
A modern Chess App
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Want to take your chess game to the next level? WhitePawn is the ultimate chess app for players of all levels. Connect your chessboard with a USB or Bluetooth connection and play with friends online or offline. WhitePawn also allows you to analyze games with a powerful engine and play fun puzzles.
# Physical chessboard
Connect your physical chess set to the app and get the ultimate chess experience. WhitePawn can be played on both touchscreen or physical devices, has an inbuilt move announcement function and can display moves on connected chess hardware too.
# Analyse Games
With the WhitePawn app, you'll never have to annotate or analyse your games with a computer anymore! Get all the benefits of engine analysis, but on your device. Analyse your game, find out where you went wrong, find out how to improve.
# Play Online
Whether you're a pawn or a king, WhitePawn's here to make your day better. Play chess across the world - on WhitePawn Online or Lichess, with friends, or strangers! Connect with the world of chess.
# Play Offline
Use the app completely offline, play games which are automatically stored then export them as PGN for your favorite chess analysis software or directly export it to lichess.
# Chess Puzzles
Play handcrafted chess puzzles and bring your position understanding to the next level. Missing some puzzles, create your own puzzles and import them to the App.
# Share Games
Had a stunning game? Want to share that game with your friends? Edit and export your game as GIF-Animation and share it with everyone!
# Standalone Chess Clock
Use the app as a normal chess clock for offline games on electronic and non-electronic chess boards.
# Supported external hardware
DGT Pegasus
Millennium eONE
Millennium Supreme Tournament 55
Millennium Exclusiv
Millennium Performance
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Easy to use and configure. I use this app to play on Lichess using my Millennium eBoard. I actually prefer this to Millennium’s dedicated app because it works consistently and I don’t have to fuss with API tokens. And no personal data collection!While I don't have any experience with the DGT Pegasus, at the time of writing, it seems that White Pawn works better than DGT’s app.
Easy to use and configure. I use this app to play on Lichess using my Millennium eBoard. I actually prefer this to Millennium’s dedicated app because it works consistently and I don’t have to fuss with API tokens. And no personal data collection!While I don't have any experience with the DGT Pegasus, at the time of writing, it seems that White Pawn works better than DGT’s app.
There’s a setting to kill the sound while playing against the computer. It makes no difference how it’s set, you’ll still get sound. In the main menu, the sound setting is for the rate of speech and the language. You can’t turn the sound off no matter what you do with this app.
There’s a setting to kill the sound while playing against the computer. It makes no difference how it’s set, you’ll still get sound. In the main menu, the sound setting is for the rate of speech and the language. You can’t turn the sound off no matter what you do with this app.
This person who created it did an excellent job with this white pawn app. The new Chessnut app doesn’t have the draw by agreement & takeback move.
This person who created it did an excellent job with this white pawn app. The new Chessnut app doesn’t have the draw by agreement & takeback move.
- Camera board: follows the game from more angles, with a hand resting on the board, and on dim or side-on pictures.
- Camera board: starts the game as soon as it clearly sees the starting position.
- Camera board: a game from Lichess is read the right way round whichever side the camera stands on.
- Lichess on one board: an invite opens as a sheet with the board, the clock and one Accept button.
2.17.16 3d ago
- Lichess on one board: works whichever phone sends the invite. Before, the game started but no moves went through when the phone without the board invited.
- Lichess on one board: a new card on the Play tab and a step-by-step guide get you set up, and show who is nearby.
- Board overview: a back button closes it, and the screen is calmer and easier to read.
2.17.15 5d ago
- Puzzles: tap a chapter to see all of its puzzles and play any of them again. A finished chapter has Play again.
- Livestream: stream to Instagram and TikTok in the vertical 9:16 picture, also shown in the studio's Program view.
- Blichess boards: positions are no longer rejected as invalid, and with board lights off the board still gets your opponent's moves and the end of the game.
- Settings: the back arrow is white and easier to see, for example on Chessnut board settings.
2.17.14 Oct 22
- Sign in with Lichess, and new accounts get 14 days of Pro free.
- Meet Mallow, our new chess pieces, plus six new board designs.
- Livestream: stream to Kick, send your games to Lichess, Save battery mode and a Program view of what your viewers see.
- Livestream cameras keep their spot when a phone drops out and comes back.
- Your databases follow the order you set on the website.
- Many livestream fixes.
2.17.13 Oct 20
- New Train mode for rated puzzle collections, such as an opening repertoire: puzzles around your puzzle rating, for all openings or one, at the difficulty you pick. Your rating and streak are the same as on the web.
- Redesigned collection screen: one big button to play, and your streak, rating, week and openings at a glance.
- Puzzle collections no longer get stuck on "Preparing collection" after an update.
- Big collections open faster, and "Next puzzle" opens without a pause.
- Screens fill up faster right after the app starts.
2.17.7 Oct 13
- Livestreams open when you are not signed in, from a shared link or from "Live now", and the collections in Discover load without an account.
- Live updates resume right after a quick reconnect, where lists could stay without live changes until the next sync.
- Sync fixes: a row that is deleted and written again at once shows up in its lists, and lists with a limit use less memory.
2.17.6 Oct 12
- Livestreams with several cameras show each in its own spot, with one camera picker per spot.
- Adding a phone camera to a livestream never takes another one off the stream.
- Several microphones on one livestream, all mixed into the stream.
- Up to 4 RTMP cameras per livestream, as on the web.
- Cloud game analysis: a weekly allowance that starts over every Monday.
- PGN import takes files up to 200 MB.
2.17.4 Oct 9
- Lichess games on your board keep running with the phone locked.
- More reliable Lichess play and a redesigned game notification.
- Livestream: turn your phone camera, pick its quality, and it turns with the phone.
- Livestream move list in proper notation for connected boards, plus move and scene sounds.
- Delete your account from the app.
- Lichess imports your newest games first.
- The bot win card no longer shows on every launch.
2.17.2 Oct 7
- Lichess games on your board keep running with the phone locked and tell you when your opponent moved.
- Lichess on two devices: see when another takes over and "Reclaim here".
- More reliable Lichess play: unsent moves are retried, takebacks restore the position.
- Missed move announcements catch up when your board reconnects.
- Livestreams have sound effects for moves and scene changes.
- Fonts work offline.
2.17.1 Oct 4
- New Play tab built around your board: a live 3D clay board, a board streak, a bot ladder with stars, achievements and a daily board challenge.
- Recorder starts at once, saves every game live into the database you pick, and has a calm new look. Swap or change names while you play.
- Sign in with Google.
- Bots have new clay portraits and talk from their player card.
- Redesigned chess clock, now in landscape.
- Faster Stockfish, and more reliable sync.
2.17.0 Oct 3
- Push notifications: turning them on is quicker to confirm, stays on after a restart, and notifications also show while the app is open.
2.16.13 Oct 1
- Push notifications: turn them on in Settings > Notifications for messages, linkup requests, synced games and finished analysis.
- Livestream: record your stream as a video, then download the MP4 once it ends.
- Livestream studio: a small preview gives the settings more room, and Sources is split into Camera, Audio, Board and Scene tabs.
- Livestream: pickers and the share sheet open as floating cards.
- Livestream: the evaluation bar always shows next to the stream board.
2.16.12 Sep 30
- Puzzles: your progress syncs with the web, where you can now play puzzles too. Solved puzzles stay solved.
- Livestream: you can use your iPhone's microphone on your stream.
- Livestream: cameras and mics from your other devices stay on the stream after they reload or reconnect, and the app reconnects by itself.
- Livestream studio: a clearer layout, one Add button per camera and mic, and a Live evaluation switch.
- Livestream: the default scenes show the eval bar.
2.16.11 Sep 28
- Boards: a USB board that does not answer when plugged in (like a DGT e-Board with its clock attached) is tried again until it connects, no replugging needed.
- Game analysis no longer gets stuck loading.
- Livestream: also stream to YouTube mobile with a second, vertical stream key.
- Livestream scenes: slideshows, gradients and countdowns match between preview and stream.
2.16.10 Sep 27
- Livestream: games played on stream are saved to a Livestreams collection, your DGT clock shows on stream, flip the board, delete past streams.
- Boards: choose when a move counts (right away, after a pause, or on the clock lever). A DGT board with its clock plugged in connects again.
- DGT clock: follows a clock in its own timing mode, "Switch Clock Colors" works, untimed games show 0:00.
- GIF sharing is back, with analysis marks and an editor.
- Analysis arrows fade for weaker moves.
2.16.9 Sep 26
- Camera board: the camera finds the board by itself, no more tapping corners, and finds it again when the camera moves.
- Watch public livestreams in the app from the new Live now row in Discover. WhitePawn links now open in the app.
- Livestream: tap Muted on the studio preview to hear your stream the way viewers do, in step with the board.
2.16.8 Sep 25
- Livestream: add royalty-free background music in Sources, with one playlist for between games and one for during a game.
- Livestream: redesigned scenes with a new fullscreen camera Main scene, a scoreboard and a WhitePawn watermark, plus images, shapes, a countdown, gradients and slideshows from the web scene editor.
2.16.6 Sep 24
- Fixed: a board published from a phone stayed listed as connected after the phone was gone. It now leaves the board picker within about half a minute and comes back when the phone reconnects.
- A published board that is switched off stops publishing after ten seconds, and resumes by itself when it reconnects. A brief Bluetooth drop no longer freezes it.
- The close button on your published board works while the phone is reconnecting. Signing out stops publishing.
- Add a GoPro or any RTMP encoder as a stream camera from the camera picker.
- Fixed: Messages, friends, connected accounts and saved puzzles showing up empty.
- Livestream preview above Go live, with source options in a draggable bottom panel.
- Add this phone's camera, microphone, or board in one tap. A published board goes on the stream at once. Sources are shared with the website.
- New livestream studio: pages for setup, preview, layouts, invites, chat, and outputs.
- Pickers offer None. The original Live Share tile stays available.
- AI coworker posts, messages, and invites have a clear label.
- Sign up and verify email in the app. Game and collection links open here.
- Faster startup and Discover. Long press chat links to open or copy them.
- Only moves you found count on the Accuracy card.
2.14.4 Sep 21
- New livestream studio: pages for setup, preview, layouts, invites, chat, and outputs.
- Pickers offer None. The original Live Share tile stays available.
- AI coworker posts, messages, and invites have a clear label.
- Sign up and verify email in the app. Game and collection links open here.
- Faster startup and Discover. Long press chat links to open or copy them.
- Only moves you found count on the Accuracy card.
2.14.2 Sep 20
Game analysis
- Game analysis now shows the same accuracy, average centipawn loss and mistake count for both players as the website.
- Blunders, mistakes and inaccuracies are marked right in the move list and on the board.
- A win probability graph for the whole game, with the moves that decided it marked on it. Tap anywhere to jump there.
- Gaps the engine could not evaluate are drawn as gaps instead of being smoothed over.
- The board finally highlights the move you are looking at, coloured by how good it was.
- Games that have not been analysed yet can be moved to the front of the queue.
- Picking a different engine is now a row on the engine card instead of a hidden long press.
- The move list no longer ends with a stray chip for the game result.
- The move list is now a two-column list you can read, and it scrolls with you.
- Swipe between Moves, Analysis and Comments, and pull the panel up over the board to read a long game.
- Lichess games replay properly: their clock annotations were being read as moves.
- Sharing a game no longer crashes for games synced from the cloud or imported from Lichess.
- The evaluation, the advantage bar and the best moves now show the cloud's analysis when the on-device engine has not been run, instead of sitting empty at zero.
- Comment on games and tag the moves you mean, just like on the website. Long press your own comment to delete it.
- The evaluation bar now sits beside the board.
Database and sharing
- History is now Database: swipe between your WhitePawn, Lichess, Chess.com and imported collections.
- Long libraries load as you scroll, so a collection with thousands of games opens straight away.
- Share a database by link, or add someone by name or email.
- A flatter, easier to scan game list showing the result, both players and when you played.
- Settings no longer says you are signed out when you are signed in, including offline.
- Player names show up on your WhitePawn games again instead of a question mark.
- Find new friends now shows the four newest players, newest first.
- Lichess games now recover on their own when the connection drops and pick up any missed moves.
- A long think by your opponent no longer resets the Lichess connection.
- The Lichess indicator now says when the connection is quiet, reconnecting or lost, and the clock dims until it is verified.
- If your move does not reach Lichess, the app retries it and tells you if it still could not be sent.
- Returning to the app re-checks the Lichess connection right away.
- Board players hear a sound when the Lichess connection is lost and when it is back.
- The home screen shows your current puzzle collection, how far you are, and a button straight to the next puzzle.
- A puzzle now counts as solved the first time you solve it without hints or mistakes, instead of three clean runs in a row.
- Reset a collection's progress to work through a whole puzzle book again.
Lichess
- Connect Lichess once: connect in the app or on the website and both work.
- Connecting in the app now imports your Lichess games into your collection.
- The Lichess screen shows when your games were last imported.
- Unlinking Lichess now unlinks it on all your devices and on the website.
- The profile ID card no longer tilts with phone movement, only under your finger.
2.14.0 Sep 16
- Your profile and chats show immediately on launch, also offline.
- Recent chats open with their messages already loaded; sending is instant.
- Faster, more responsive syncing of your account.
- The sync banner no longer hangs without a connection.
- Lichess accounts connect again.
2.13.7 Sep 15
- Faster signed-in startup with cached game history.
- Smoother navigation while your account syncs.
- Smoother scrolling in long conversations.
- Smoother scrolling through large game histories.
- Browse categories, new puzzles and find new friends in Search.
- See your public key fingerprint and tap your ID number to switch formats.
- Open searched profiles immediately, with clearer loading states.
- Keep your profile colors consistent while syncing.
2.13.6 Sep 14
Signing in works again on iPhone and iPad
- The App Store build refused every sign-in with "Invalid email or password",
even when the email and password were right. Nothing was wrong with the
account: the part of the app that talks to the server was missing from the
released build. Fixed, and the release process now checks for it before a
build can be uploaded.
Also in this release
- Everything from builds 217 and 218, which had not reached the App Store or the
Play Store yet: puzzles that wait for your physical board, clearer solution
playback, the home-screen pull-down fix, faster messages and store, and the
board clock fixes. See the entries below.
2.13.3 Aug 9
Analysis board
- The engine's best move and its evaluation now show on a connected DGT clock,
so you can keep your eyes on the board. It reads like `+1 E2>E4`.
- Knocking a piece over no longer costs you the line. Put the pieces back where
you were and the analysis picks up exactly where it left off, keeping
anything you tried in the meantime as a variation.
- Recorder moved from the play grid down to the tools list, so the grid stays
two even columns now that Analysis Board sits in it.
Fixed
- Puzzles: castling is accepted again. Castling was offered as a king move but
then scored as wrong, even when it was the solution.
- Puzzles: a hint for castling now points at the square the king lands on
instead of the rook's square, and a castle played for you highlights the
same way.
2.10.0 Jul 26
Fixed
- Fixed sign-in failing on iOS.
- Story mode is hidden until it is ready: it appeared too early in the
previous iOS release and is temporarily removed from the home screen and
settings.
2.9.14 Jul 21
- Camera board: follows the game from more angles, with a hand resting on the board, and on dim or side-on pictures.
- Camera board: starts the game as soon as it clearly sees the starting position.
- Camera board: a game from Lichess is read the right way round whichever side the camera stands on.
- Lichess on one board: an invite opens as a sheet with the board, the clock and one Accept button.
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