Kifubara vs Tangdou Go
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Kifubara
Instantly scan any physical Go board with your camera to detect stones, count territory, and calculate scores. Supports both Chinese and Japanese rules, with options to manually adjust the position and export game data.
- Automatic stone detection from photos
- Territory counting and scoring
- Adjustable komi
- Manual position editing
- SGF export
- Game library
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Point your camera at any Go board and Kifubara reads the position, counts territory, and calculates the score — in seconds. No more counting by hand. Leave scoring to Kifubara. HOW IT WORKS Take a photo of your Go board or pick one from your gallery. Kifubara detects every stone, maps territory for both players, and scores the position under Chinese or Japanese rules. Review the result, adjust anything that needs fixing, and export. FEATURES • Automatic stone detection from a single photo • Territory counting and scoring under Chinese or Japanese rules • Adjustable komi • Mark dead stones and edit the position by hand • Deep analysis to refine scoring accuracy • Group strength and influence visualization • SGF export to share or study in your favorite Go app • Save and name games in your library BUILT FOR REAL BOARDS Kifubara is designed for the moment after you finish a game on a real board. Works with wood boards, printed boards, magnetic travel sets — any physical Go board. Just make sure all four corners are visible and the lighting is decent. Kifubara uses on-device machine learning. Your photos never leave your phone. Go. Baduk. Weiqi. Whatever you call it — Kifubara counts it.
Tangdou Go
This app offers a comprehensive Go experience, allowing users to play online matches, practice against AI, and analyze their games. It provides tools for reviewing past games with detailed statistics and browsing game records to facilitate continuous improvement.
- Online Go matches
- AI opponent challenges
- AI game analysis
- Win-rate charts
- Game record browsing
- Go club integration
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Tangdou Go is a Go platform for play, review, and improvement. Play online games, challenge the built-in AI, review games with AI analysis and win-rate charts, browse game records, and keep improving wherever you play.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Tangdou Go at 5.0 against Kifubara's 4.6. Kifubara's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 88%) and ratings volume (7 vs 1). 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Tangdou Go holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Kifubara has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Kifubara's written reviews are positive against 88% of Tangdou Go's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Kifubara | Tangdou Go |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 87.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days | Every 2 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 148 MB | 308 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Artur Tamazian | 北京泽齐科技有限公司 |
Customer experience
Kifubara
Tangdou Go
In-app purchases
Kifubara
No in-app purchases
Tangdou Go
No in-app purchases
