Comparison

OGS Notify vs Go

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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!

About

Go

Features
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One move at a time. Go gets clearer. Go Master breaks every joseki and fuseki into four learning stages — Follow, Understand, Practice, and Challenge — so you meet each shape four times in a row and the moves start to feel natural. Study the sequence, understand the reasoning, reproduce it from memory, then face an AI that plays the same joseki against you — learning and real matches in one flow. Four-Stage Learning Flow 1. Follow — Tap each stone in sequence, tracing the shape by hand. 2. Understand — Watch the sequence auto-play while you read why each stone works. 3. Practice — Reproduce the sequence from memory, no hints. 4. Challenge — Play an AI that uses the same joseki against you. Main Features - Four-Stage Learning Flow: Meet every joseki and fuseki four times through Follow, Understand, Practice, and Challenge until the shapes feel natural. - Joseki and Fuseki Courses: Curated joseki courses paired with fuseki and endgame lessons, every stone annotated with the reasoning behind it. Star ratings track your mastery. - Tsumego Training: Hundreds of life-and-death problems across multiple themes, ELO-based difficulty matching, a daily tsumego streak, with hint and full-solution support. - AI Opponents on 9x9, 13x13, 19x19: Bots ranging from beginner to intermediate across three board sizes, each with a distinct style. Move history, captured stones, and takeback. - Progress and Rank Tracking: Tsumego ELO over time, win and loss per bot, course completion with star ratings, and stats filtered by week, month, three months, or all time. Good For - First-time Go learners - Casual players who want to study joseki systematically - Intermediate players drilling tsumego to break plateaus - Anyone who wants to practice alone without a local opponent or study group Core features run fully offline and no account is required. The app is supported by AdMob advertising; an App Tracking Transparency prompt appears on first launch for device identifier use. Feedback and bug reports are welcome at seungwoo321@gmail.com. One move at a time — let us keep going together.

Screenshots

OGS Notify4 screens
Go4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Go at Free against OGS Notify's $0.99. Go also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2). OGS Notify's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and device support (3 vs 1).

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Go is free to download; OGS Notify costs $0.99 up front. OGS Notify sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Go asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
OGS Notify versus Go: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOGS NotifyGo
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating3.5 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews22.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 7 months—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB51 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGunther CronenbergSEUNGWOO LEE

In-app purchases

2 purchases

OGS Notify

One-time2
  • Green tea for Gunther$2.99
  • Burrito for Gunther$7.99
None

Go

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is OGS Notify free?
OGS Notify costs $0.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Go free?
Go is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do OGS Notify or Go have ads?
Go shows ads; OGS Notify does not.

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