Kifu Snap vs Read19
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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/
Read19
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Read19 brings cloud-powered KataGo analysis to iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Play directly against AI and watch win rate and score lead update move by move. Import SGF records to explore candidate moves, principal variations, ownership, and whole-game trends. Read19 flags inaccuracies, mistakes, and blunders by win-rate and point loss, so you can focus on the moves that changed the game. Your games and reviews stay on device. Sign in to sync privately with iCloud across devices and export standard SGF files. Read19 prefers secure WSS and falls back to HTTPS on restricted networks. Advanced users can connect to a compatible backend with custom HTTPS/WSS endpoints and an optional Bearer token. Free includes 100,000 visits each calendar month with the Fast model. Plus unlocks the stronger Balanced model, more concurrency, and 2,000,000 monthly visits. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Read19 at every 2 days against Kifu Snap's monthly. Kifu Snap's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Kifu Snap sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month and Read19 sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Kifu Snap ships an update monthly, Read19 every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Kifu Snap | Read19 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 87 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kayufu | 思程 陈 |
In-app purchases
Kifu Snap
- Kifu Snap Subscription$1.991 Month
Read19
- KataGo Review Plus$6.991 Month
- 300K Visits$1.99
- 1M Visits$3.99
- 3M Visits$9.99
