Lila
Lila is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Games category, licensed AGPL-3.0 and written mainly in Scala. It has 18,894 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 26, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 18,894
- Forks
- 2,794
- Open issues
- 1,233
- Commits, last 12 months
- 9,855
- Last commit
- Oct 26, 2026
- Latest release
- v1.1.0Aug 31, 2017
- Created
- Feb 21, 2012
- License
- AGPL-3.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 26, 2026, 9,855 commits in 12 months.
- Welcomes contributors7 open good-first-issue or help-wanted issues and a contributing guide
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 26, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 9,855 |
| Latest release | v1.1.0 (Aug 31, 2017) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 0 |
| Releases, all time | 2 |
| Open issues | 1,233 |
| Open pull requests | 57 |
| Good first issues | 7 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Feb 21, 2012 |
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About Lila
Ad-less chess server powering lichess.org, with official iOS and Android client apps.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/lichess-org/lila.
Topics
- scala
- chess
- play-framework
- non-profit
- functional-programming
- type-safe
- typescript
- free-software
- game
- lichess
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Is Lila free and open source?
Yes. Lila is open-source software released under the AGPL-3.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Lila with Docker?
Lila does not list an official Docker image. It installs natively (Scala), so follow the install steps in its README or look for a community-maintained container.
What are the best alternatives to Lila?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Lila include Mindustry, Luanti and OpenTTD.
Is Lila actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Lila was on Oct 26, 2026 with 9,855 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v1.1.0, published Aug 31, 2017. It had 1,233 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.