OGS Notify vs Kifu Snap
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
OGS Notify
Receive instant notifications for your Go games on online-go.com. This app helps you avoid timing out by alerting you to new moves, paused games, and the stone removal phase. It provides a quick overview of your current games and displays updated rankings.
- Push notifications for game moves
- Today widget for game overview
- Alerts for paused games and stone removal
- Displays updated ranking system
- Opens games in preferred browser
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OGS Notify notifies you, when one of your Go games at the famous online-go.com server is waiting for you. Never time out on any of your go games! You can instantly get an overview over your current games. • Push notification gives you a glance of the board. Immediately see the played move! • Use the Today widget to get a quick overview of waiting games. • OGS Notify shows you when a game is paused manually, by vacation or weekend. You will also see when the game is in the stone removal phase. • Displays the ranking based on the new rating system • Open the games in your preferred browser ## If you use Facebook to authenticate at OGS: Please log into OGS and create a separate password at OGS under "Settings -> Account Settings". For the login in OGS Notify use your profile name and then created password!
Kifu Snap
This app digitizes Go board positions from images or video streams. It offers AI analysis, instant score counting, and broadcasting to online servers. Analyze game photos shared from any app.
- Capture Go board from picture
- Record game moves from video
- AI game analysis
- Instant score counting
- Broadcast games to OGS
- Analyze shared game photos
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Kifu Snap can capture a go-board position from a picture, or record all the moves of a game from a video stream. With Kifusnap, you can: - get AI analysis of a game you just played on a real board, - instantly count your score at the end of a game, - broadcast a game to OGS, the online Go server, - analyze a photo shared from any other app (web, social media, etc.). EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Kifu Snap at 100% against OGS Notify's 22%. Kifu Snap also leads on price (Free vs $0.99) and rating (5.0 vs 3.5). OGS Notify's advantage is ratings volume (6 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Kifu Snap is free to download; OGS Notify costs $0.99 up front. OGS Notify sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Kifu Snap sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Kifu Snap holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: OGS Notify has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 22% of OGS Notify's written reviews are positive against 100% of Kifu Snap's.
OGS Notify ships an update every 7 months, Kifu Snap monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | OGS Notify | Kifu Snap |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.5 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 22.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 87 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gunther Cronenberg | Kayufu |
Customer experience
OGS Notify
Kifu Snap
In-app purchases
OGS Notify
- Green tea for Gunther$2.99
- Burrito for Gunther$7.99
Kifu Snap
- Kifu Snap Subscription$1.991 Month
