Go Problems vs Go (Recommended for beginners)
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Go Problems
Sharpen your Go skills with a vast collection of hand-picked problems. Track your progress, solve life and death, and tesuji challenges, and receive personalized problem recommendations based on your skill level. Daily practice is made easy with this app.
- Over 4,500 Go problems
- Life and death and tesuji problems
- Automatic rating calculation
- Bookmarking favorite problems
- Auto-problem mode adjusts to skill
- Progress tracking by difficulty
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Improve your go by solving go problems. All problems hand-picked from the goproblems.com database. Over 4,500 problems to start, and more will be added over time. This app will automatically calculate your rating as you attempt the problems. Life and death and tesuji problems are the fastest way to get stronger at go. This app will help you practice every day. App features: * Over 200 free problems * Retina display on iPhone and iPad * Bookmarking your favorite problems * Auto-problem mode finds problems at your level and adjusts to your skill * Track your progress at each problem difficulty level * Two-finger swipe to quickly change between problems
Go (Recommended for beginners)
This app offers a traditional board game experience for players of all skill levels. It features adjustable computer difficulty and supports multiplayer matches on various board sizes. Practice your strategy and track your game history.
- Adjustable computer difficulty
- Multiplayer matches
- Multiple board sizes (6, 9, 13, 19 roads)
- Handicap options
- Game record playback
- Countdown timer
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▼ How can I improve my skill? Beginners first recommend starting from 6 roads. It is good to challenge the wide board with nine roads as you improve ▼ Computer game · Suitable for 6 · 9 roads ▼ You can change the strength of the computer! Beginners should start from 1. Let's raise the strength steadily as I get used to go. ▼ Interpersonal opponent (opposed to one opponent Corresponds to 6, 9, 13 roads and 19 roads ▼ Other Functions - You can attach handicap with a stone stone or a comic. · You can set the countdown. · You can play game records. ▼ About rules · I am adopting Chinese rule. · This application can not accurately calculate the ground. Please put the stone to the end. · The termination condition of the game is when black / white passes each other, or when either one is thrown.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Go (Recommended for beginners) at none against Go Problems's 10. Go Problems's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (45% vs 14%). On price, rating, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Go Problems sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Go (Recommended for beginners) asks for nothing beyond the download.
Go (Recommended for beginners) holds the better App Store score, 3.4 against 3.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 7 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 45% of Go Problems's written reviews are positive against 14% of Go (Recommended for beginners)'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Go Problems ships an update every 2 months, Go (Recommended for beginners) every 16 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Go Problems | Go (Recommended for beginners) |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (15 ratings) | 3.4 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 44.8% of reviews — better | 14.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 16 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Adumbration, Inc. | HAREPPO |
Customer experience
Go Problems
Go (Recommended for beginners)
In-app purchases
Go Problems
- Carpenter's Square Problem Set$0.99
- Standard Problem Set 9$1.99
- Standard Problem Set 1$2.99
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- Standard Problem Set 2$2.99
- Standard Problem Set 3$2.99
- Standard Problem Set 4$2.99
- Standard Problem Set 5$2.99
- Standard Problem Set 6$2.99
- Standard Problem Set 7$2.99
- Standard Problem Set 8$2.99
Go (Recommended for beginners)
No in-app purchases
Questions
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