App freezes
I was loving this app but a recent update has fully broken it for me. Now I can do any app function -except- open current games to submit moves. When I click on a current corsp. game the entire app locks up. I tried reinstalling the app to no avail. Looking forward to a fix!
Response from developer
Hi, Sorry for the issue. I have released version 2.4.1 to fix that. Could you update the app to see if the fix works?
It’s pretty good
UI is a bit wonky for correspondence games but for the most part it is very good! Has notifications if you pay for it. That’s disappointing. Thank you!
OGS on the phone!!
I just beat oroton on the toilet.. what more can u ask for?
Great app they fixed the “Reconnecting” bug
This app is amazing! Great choices on what to include in the interface versus not. The conditional move functionality is outstanding.
The “reconnecting” bug seems to be fixed as of August 2026. Hooray!
Humble feature request: Setting to force Dark mode all the time
The “reconnecting” bug seems to be fixed as of August 2026. Hooray!
Humble feature request: Setting to force Dark mode all the time
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
I would give six stars if I could.
Thank you for creating this app.
