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Google sign in bug

Sign in with Google option pops up a small window where you can log in but the main window is still not logged in.

Great app with one frustrating bug

I was excited to see an update to this app suggesting “2.x”. I hoped that the bug had been fixed, alas, no…

The frustrating bug is the app gets frequently gets stuck in the “Reconnecting” state which requires a force quit and relaunch. It is especially annoying when I am locked-in to a game, decide on my move, but cannot submit my move because “Reconnecting”.

This bug is a shame because otherwise this app is amazing! Great choices on what to include in the interface versus not.
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Best Go Client

Best go server and best client. Use it every day. Thanks dev!

Login doesn’t work

Has an issue where, when logging in, the app opens a small web browser window. It then allows login to OGS in that small browser, but it wont load the login to the actual app.

Makes me log in every time I open the app

The app is best used for correspondence games. I like OGS!

Note to dev: I deleted the app, and upon redownloading it and signing in I found that I was not able to access the same UI as before I deleted the app. It now is permanently on the “web version” of the app, and prompts me to log in every time I open the app.
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Excellent client for OGS

A wonderful app for Go, connects to OGS and has an v excellent UI.

Main two complaints I have is primarily when you reopen it oftentimes says reconnecting until you shut down the app and launch it again.

Secondly, to start a game with an AI you first have to add them as a friend, but I would have preferred to have a dedicated list with AI opponents from OGS.
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Great app with one frustrating bug

The frustrating bug is the app gets frequently gets stuck in the “Reconnecting” state which requires a force quit and relaunch. It is especially annoying when I am locked-in to a game, decide on my move, but cannot submit my move because “Reconnecting”.

This bug is a shame because otherwise this app is amazing! Great choices on what to include in the interface versus not.

I am a paid subscriber and will continue to be, but hope the “Reconnecting” bug is fixed someday.
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"Reconnecting..."

this bug is the only major issue, everything else works great.

Can’t login

I try to login and it brings up a browser login screen where I do so, but then never comes back to the app. Once I click done, the app still asks for me to sign in

Love it

Love this app. Nice clean interface. Useful widgets on macOS and iOS.
Subscription is refreshing cheap, even though I only tend to play one correspondence game at a time it’s well worth it for the notifications.

Great app with one big bug

The big bug is the app gets frequently gets stuck in the “Reconnecting” state which requires a force quit and relaunch. It is especially annoying when I am locked-in to a game, decide on my move, but cannot submit my move because “Reconnecting”.

This bug is a shame because otherwise this app is amazing! Great choices on what to include in the interface versus not.

I am a paid subscriber and will continue to be, but hope the “Reconnecting” bug is fixed someday.
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Great app, but broken

This app is fantastic. It’s what OGS has needed for a long time. Drawback is that push notifications cost extra (pretty much THE feature if you play correspondence). This is really a shortcoming of OGS though as they don’t actually offer a push service. This forces the Surround dev to poll the server and roll their own notification server so they have to offset their costs.

The real problem is that the app doesn’t load properly. Every time I open the app it’s stuck in the “loading” state. You can bypass it with a full restart of the app, but it’s a pain and feels unfinished. I contacted the dev about it and basically got “yeah I know it does that but I’m not going to take the time to fix it.” Seems like kind of lazy support for an app that’s darn near perfect.

I want to give this 5 stars, but not until I see a fix. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

In any case, thanks for the good app!
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Needs repair

When I open public games tab on iPhone 11, app crushing

Hidden gem of a Go (Igo, weiqi, baduk) app

I found this app completely by accident (never came up in search, which is the curse of all Go related things) and it has turned out to be all but perfect. If you play on OGS (or want to but you’re turned off by the interface) this is all you need. It’s an actual free fully featured OGS client, with the only upsell being a tiny subscription fee if you want push notifications for your games. There is currently a very small bug in the chat feature but after emailing the developer Khoa, they responded promptly to let me know it has been fixed in the next release and shared a TestFlight link to download the improved dev version. They are clearly in it for the love and not for the money, so if this review is corny, it’s only because I feel likes this kind of work deserves some love in return.
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Very nice Go app

I bought this to have notifications for my correspondence games, and it does that nicely. Feels like a native iOS app, not too many frills which is good. Easy to just get into a game using the OGS server.

Simple and efficient (no bullsh*t)

This app lets you play the games through OGS server in a simple and efficient way.
I would give six stars if I could.
Thank you for creating this app.

Great app

Really nice looking app, but IMO stones should be a little bit bigger - almost touching each other. That's the idea of the "dame" - breathing points for a stone or a group of stones.

Fantastic OGS Client

My only minor complaint is that navigation within the app on the phone can feel a bit unintuitive at times. Besides that, I love it! The app has everything I’d want from a mobile OGS client as well as some extras. The widget is a very nice touch!

Works great

Functional and attractive client for OGS. My only feature request: saving settings for custom games. Still love playing on this app!

Keali

Great to have an app for OGS.