Comparison

Doctor Go vs 수담

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

Head to head
About

Doctor Go

Learn the ancient game of Go with interactive lessons and AI opponents. Master rules, shapes, and puzzles with clear feedback and a glossary of terms. Play on various board sizes and rule sets with no ads or tracking.

Highlights
  • Interactive chapter-based lessons
  • Glossary of 50+ Go terms with diagrams
  • Mini puzzles for life-and-death and endgame
  • Four AI difficulty tiers
  • Support for 9, 13, 19 line boards
  • Korean, Japanese, Chinese rules
  • Friendly board UI with hints
Features
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Doctor Go is the friendly way to learn the ancient game of Go (Baduk / Weiqi) on your phone or tablet — interactive lessons that teach you the rules and the most important shapes one step at a time. • 30 chapter-based lessons — every lesson has a board example and an interactive move with instant feedback • Searchable glossary of 51 Go terms — atari, ponnuki, ko, ladder, eye, joseki, sente, miai, tesuji and more • 211 puzzles — 131 life-and-death and liberty exercises, plus ladder, endgame and capturing-race problems • Four AI tiers — Beginner / Easy / Medium / Strong, MCTS-based with heuristics • 9·13·19 line boards · Korean / Japanese / Chinese rules · 2–9 stone handicap • OS-native leaderboard and achievements via Game Center • Friendly board UI — last-move marker, optional liberty / atari hints, score-territory preview, undo, full game replay No sign-up. No ads. No tracking. No in-app purchases.

About

수담

Features
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Sit down at the board, and your teacher is already there. Sudam is a fully offline Go (Baduk) app with KataGo — the world's strongest open-source Go engine — built right into your device. No internet, no sign-up, no server. 1. World-class AI, fully offline The KataGo engine lives inside the app, analyzing and responding instantly without a network. Every calculation happens on your device — and only on your device. 2. 27 levels, from 18-kyu to 9-dan Find the opponent that fits you on a finely graded 27-step ladder. Handicap games from 2 to 9 stones, adjustable komi, your choice of Black or White, and scoring under Korean rules. 3. Teaching Games with AlphaGomi Your AI teacher AlphaGomi compares your move with the best move every single turn, explaining the type of move, why it works, and how the game is likely to unfold — in clear, friendly language. 4. Review — down to "why that spot" Step through your game move by move and spot the turning points on the win-rate graph. In Explore mode, replay the AI's recommended lines or try your own ideas and judge the position. 5. Go proverbs, right when they apply In moments like atari, cuts, life & death, or a big group in danger, the Ten Golden Rules and time-honored proverbs appear one line at a time — so the principles sink in naturally. 6. Daily tsumego and Rank Challenges Fresh puzzles every day reveal your strengths and weaknesses by theme — life & death, atari, cutting, and more. Rank Challenges are played on a Korean byo-yomi clock, one rank at a time, with no analysis and no hints — pure skill. 7. Game Insights (weakness report) Sudam looks across your games to find the mistakes you repeat out of habit, organizes them by game phase and move type, and links each key scene straight into review. 8. Progress tracking and backup Rank history, AI match records, and puzzle accuracy on one dashboard. Export to SGF and back up or restore everything as a single file. Reviews, daily tsumego, and daily free games are yours to enjoy — and one single purchase unlocks everything forever: unlimited Teaching Games, Game Insights, and no ads. No account needed; your purchase restores on any device with the same store account. All your data stays on your device, on both iPhone and iPad.

Screenshots

Doctor Go4 screens
수담4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Doctor Go at none against 수담's shown. On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Doctor Go ships an update every 10 days, 수담 every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 7 level
Doctor Go versus 수담: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDoctor Go수담
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews—
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 5 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB94 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLim SangjinaddWisdom

In-app purchases

None

Doctor Go

No in-app purchases

None

수담

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Doctor Go free?
Doctor Go is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is 수담 free?
수담 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Doctor Go or 수담 have ads?
수담 shows ads; Doctor Go does not.
Which is updated more often, Doctor Go or 수담?
Doctor Go ships an update every 10 days, and 수담 every 5 days. Most recently, Doctor Go was updated on October 27, 2026 and 수담 on October 28, 2026.

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