Tygem Go Lite vs Tsumego Pro (Go problems)
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tygem Go Lite
Play Go online with millions of players worldwide. Watch professional game broadcasts, enjoy quick 9x9 matches, and review games with analysis tools. Supports Picture-in-Picture mode and guest access.
- Live professional game broadcasts
- 9x9 board Go games
- Game review and analysis
- Picture-in-Picture mode
- Guest mode for instant play
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This is the online Go 'Tygem Go · Lite' that can be enjoyed with more than 4 million players worldwide! ■ There are more features! - Live broadcast Watch Profeesional game live broadcasts from all over the world - 9-9 board game Enjoy a 9-9 board Go game so you can enjoy it quickly when you don't have time - Review Anybody can use features like preplay, analyzing the situation during watching the game - Support for PIP mode You can check out the progress of the game during using other apps - Guest mode You can enter right away without any membership registration ■ What's the live broadcast of a professional game only on Tygem? - Tygem KOR-CHN Time Match The semifinal tournament of professional Korean and Chinese Go players, which is held every day in a new match - Tygem KOR-CHN Super Match The real time game between Korean and Chinese top rankers - Smile club(Korean young professional go players club) league Live broadcast fo the Smile club
Tsumego Pro (Go problems)
Enhance your Go skills with a vast library of tsumego puzzles. Learn from detailed solutions and explore variations to understand mistakes. Features daily problems, adaptive difficulty, and customizable game settings.
- Daily tsumego problems
- Adaptive difficulty modes
- Detailed solutions and bad variations
- Color selection (black, white, random)
- Hint system
- Book theme
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Improve your Go game (weiqi, baduk) with Tsumego Pro and its large collection of tsumego problems! Each problem contains all valid answers and a lot of bad variations, to help you know why you are wrong. Features: - 6 daily problems - A simple mode: try to solve all problems in each package - A progress mode: the difficulty increases or decreases depending on your level - Choose your color (black, white, random) - Browse the solution, or just get a hint - A book theme (black and white)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Tsumego Pro (Go problems) at 4.5 against Tygem Go Lite's 2.8. Tsumego Pro (Go problems) also leads on review sentiment (74% vs 39%) and ratings volume (1.8K vs 18). Tygem Go Lite's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Tygem Go Lite sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Tsumego Pro (Go problems) sells 12 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Tsumego Pro (Go problems) holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tsumego Pro (Go problems) has 1.8K ratings behind it against 18, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 39% of Tygem Go Lite's written reviews are positive against 74% of Tsumego Pro (Go problems)'s.
Tygem Go Lite ships an update monthly, Tsumego Pro (Go problems) every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tygem Go Lite | Tsumego Pro (Go problems) |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (18 ratings) | 4.5 (1.8K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 39.5% of reviews | 74.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 18 | 1.8K — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 80 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Com2uS TYGEM Corporation | Emmanuel Mathis |
Customer experience
Tygem Go Lite
Tsumego Pro (Go problems)
Bugs and requests
Tygem Go Lite
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Tsumego Pro (Go problems)
Reported bugs
3 issues- Purchases do not work
- Incorrect problems
- Issues with the progress mode and problem selection
Requested features
6 requests- Explanation when a move is correct or incorrect
- More explanations and instructions for beginners
- Ability to play out variations and see different outcomes
- Consistent difficulty ratings for problems
- Ability to bookmark and revisit problems
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- More content and problem sets
In-app purchases
Tygem Go Lite
- 젬 30개$1.99
- master$5.99
- 젬 100개$6.99
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- 젬 350개$19.99
- master 6m$34.99
Tsumego Pro (Go problems)
- +150 Basic Problems$0.99
- +150 Intermediate problems$0.99
- +150 Easy problems$0.99
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- Beginner problems$1.99
- Elementary problems$1.99
- Intermediate problems$1.99
- Advanced problems$1.99
- Advanced problems #2$1.99
- Basic tesuji$1.99
- Daily problems - Easy$1.99
- Daily problems - Hard$1.99
- All-Access Pass$9.99
Questions
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