# Go Garden: Learn Go & Baduk — Offline Weiqi, Tsumego & Bots

> Offline Weiqi, Tsumego & Bots (iPhone/iPad app by Naveen Kumar.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/go-garden-learn-go-and-baduk/id6811286975 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Naveen Kumar](https://appshunter.io/developer/1837716995)
- Category: Games, Board, Strategy
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 120 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-09-17
- Data updated: 2026-10-26

## What is Go Garden?

Find your next good move.

Go Garden brings the board game Go—also known as Baduk or Weiqi—to iPhone and iPad with a calm board, offline opponents, and lessons that explain what happens on the board.

START FOR FREE
Learn liberties, captures, legal moves, and scoring. Play unlimited games against beginner opponents or share a device for local two-player games. Choose 9×9, 13×13, or 19×19 boards. Undo a move, save a match, revisit it in replay, and share a game as SGF.

UNDERSTAND YOUR MOVES
Place stones with a tap, or enable move confirmation. Invalid moves explain the rule without closing the board. Finish games using an explicit area-scoring review, mark dead groups, or resume play when the position needs more attention.

GO GARDEN PLUS — OPTIONAL ONE-TIME PURCHASE
Continue with four guided chapters and 60 exercises covering capture and rescue, group survival, territory, and finishing a game. Try two free previews in each chapter. Plus also unlocks the Forest, Willow, Cedar and Mountain opponents, up to three Key moments after a game (one is free), plus a lead graph for the whole game, and five more board styles. For bot games it adds two optional helpers: Coach offers a second try when a move gives up a lot, and Hint points to where to look. Free players get one Hint per bot game as a taste.

The initial Plus campaign is a non-consumable purchase, not a subscription. Future separately sold expansions are not included. Existing foundational lessons and core play remain free.

Play offline without an app account. No ads, energy meters, or paid retries. Purchase and restore require access to the App Store.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Go Garden Plus | $4.99 | one-time |


## Is Go Garden safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Go Garden.

## Is Go Garden legit?

Go Garden: Learn Go & Baduk appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Go Garden is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.7 — 2026-10-24

Everyone now gets a free Hint once in each bot game. Tap the lightbulb and it says where to look; Show me circles one move. Plus has Hint in every game, and Coach.

After a game, the result screen suggests a next step (the next opponent after a clean win, one stone fewer after a handicap win, a head start after two losses) and shows what grew in your garden.

The full-screen garden is new: the garden fills the screen and your plants sit in a sheet below it. The field guide lists every plant and landmark, shows how many grow in each garden, and takes you to them. Dusk and night gardens are easier to read, and on iPad the Garden tab uses both columns.

See your garden in 3D: open the full-screen garden, choose View > 3D, then turn, tilt and zoom it with your fingers.

With Plus, Key moments adds a graph of the lead across the whole game, and the result screen sums up what Coach flagged.

### 1.6 — 2026-10-08

Coach and Hint, the Plus helpers for bot games, now work on 19×19 as well as 9×9 and 13×13. On the big board Coach only steps in for tactical mistakes, so it stays quiet.

Starting a new game over one in progress can now resign the old game instead of discarding it, so it stays in your history.

### 1.5 — 2026-10-06

Explore your garden: open it full screen, turn it, tilt it and zoom in, browse a list of its plants, tap one to see its details, and step between your gardens. The garden itself looks richer too, with a soil ground and larger plants.

A small tick now marks the Path stops you have finished.

A redesigned Play tab: a full-width Continue card that shows your game and whose turn it is, a Recent games list, Play again in one tap, and a new-game sheet that remembers your last board size, color and handicap.

New with Go Garden Plus, for bot games on 9×9 and 13×13:
Coach offers a quiet second try when a move gives up a lot. It is off by default; turn it on in Me.
Hint is a lightbulb on your move. It tells you where to look, and Show me can circle one move.

### 1.4 — 2026-10-01

A garden that grows while you're away: sprouts, moss and ferns mature as the days pass, quiet ground cover fills in beside them, Morning Dew moss gets its own dew-drop look, and opening a game's replay blooms its moss. Nothing wilts and there are no streaks.

A winding Path: each section is its own page with its own scenery, from still water to mountain mist, with bigger stops and a "You are here" marker.

Built for iPad: a sidebar to jump to a Path section or pick up your game, lessons and exercises beside the board, bigger boards in play, keyboard shortcuts, and a hover preview with a pointer.

Native on iPhone: the standard tab bar, with the new glass look on iOS 26 that tucks away as you scroll.

Opponent strength: every bot shows a strength number on 9x9, 13x13 and 19x19 boards.

Also new: standard pickers in the new-game sheet, Mountain stays ready through a whole game, and Continue takes you back to where you were.

Go Garden now needs iOS 18 or later.

### 1.3 — 2026-09-27

A sharper ladder: opponents in five tiers from Seedling to Mountain, each with a style and habits you can learn to punish. Seedling adapts as you win, Grove got sharper, and Willow and Cedar join.

A roomier Path: one section per page, with bigger steps along the garden path that show what each lesson teaches.

A livelier garden: separate Learning, Practice and Play gardens, real seasons, and tap any plant to revisit what grew it. Plus adds garden themes.

Practice that pushes back: a wrong move now shows what it allows.

Handicap games: take 2–9 stones against any opponent.

Review any game: open an .sgf from Files or paste one, and see its key moments.

Fairer scoring: disagree about dead stones? Play on and settle it on the board.

Also new: Paper, Slate and Kaya board styles, a game history with delete, and an optional live score estimate (turn it on in Me).

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