# Give it a Go — Play Go. Learn Go. Get better.

> Play Go. Learn Go. Get better. (iPhone/iPad app by Jonathan Patrick Moses.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/give-it-a-go/id6822975704 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Jonathan Patrick Moses](https://appshunter.io/developer/6789298008)
- Category: Games, Education, Board, Strategy
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 16.4 · 135 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-11-07
- Data updated: 2026-11-13

## What is Give it a Go?

Give it a Go is the best place to learn how to play Go, on your phone.

PLAY A BOT, WITH OR WITHOUT A NETWORK
Ten bots, from Socrates (~100 Elo) to Confucius (~2,000 Elo, about 1 dan), play on your phone itself: on the train, on a plane, anywhere. Choose 9×9, 13×13 or 19×19, or Capture Go, where the first to capture a set number of stones wins. Bot games are never rated. When you are back online, the games you finished go to your account.

PLAY PEOPLE
Automatch finds you a live game against a person. Challenge a friend, play a slow game over days, and get a notice when it is your move. Your Elo is your everyday rank, on a scale a chess player reads at a glance.

LEARN FROM THE FIRST MOVE
Oggo, the president of the Go club, teaches the rules a step at a time on small boards, and every step changes the board in front of you. Then play a tutor game: Oggo checks each of your moves and explains a bad one.

PUZZLES
Timed problems: life-and-death positions against the clock, with a board of the week's best scores. Puzzle collections: classic problem collections and beginner exercises, every answer checked against a strong Go program's reading.

REVIEW YOUR GAMES
The coach goes through a finished game on your phone and finds the moments that decided it, explained at your level, in points.

TOURNAMENTS
Join elimination and Swiss tournaments and earn a kyu or dan tournament rank.

THE CLUB
Playing is free. Club members get as many tutor games, game reviews and puzzle runs as they like, more correspondence games at once, and a gold Member tag. The club is an auto-renewable subscription, monthly or yearly, with a 7-day free trial; it renews until cancelled in your App Store settings.

Everything on the board says what it means in shape and text as well as color, and the app follows your phone's dark mode and Reduce Motion settings.

Terms of Use: https://giveitago.io/terms
Privacy Policy: https://giveitago.io/privacy

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Club Membership, Monthly | $7.99 | per month |
| Club Membership, Yearly | $59.99 | per year |


## Is Give it a Go safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Give it a Go.

## Is Give it a Go legit?

Give it a Go has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Give it a Go is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 1.2.0 — 2026-11-12

- New game: one screen for every game. Choose Online or Bot, then the board, time and color. Online has Live and Correspondence.
- Correspondence with strangers: 9×9, 13×13 or 19×19, at 1 or 3 days a move, with vacation days and a weekend pause.
- Challenges: challenge a friend from Friends, or make a link anyone can join.
- Tournaments: sign up, check in, the schedule, standings and chat.
- Home leads with today's puzzle, your mistake deck and upcoming tournaments.
- Home-screen widgets: Streak, Your move and Play 9×9.
- Mistake deck: your own mistakes as cards to play again.
- Game review: lines, notes, marks and grades, saved to your account. Import a game or open an .sgf file.
- Study rooms: review a game, watch a live game or use a teaching board together.
- Puzzles: Puzzle Quest, Puzzle Blitz, Rated puzzles, Skills, puzzle races, 29 ko problems and Gokyo Shumyo.
- Insights: your accuracy and where you lose points.
- The placement test estimates your rating in one game against Oggo.
- Bot games with no time limit. Undo in unrated and correspondence games.
- The app follows your phone's light or dark setting, and the board matches the website's.

### 1.1.0 — 2026-11-07

No release notes.

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