Tsumego Pro (Go problems) vs Go
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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)
Go
Engage in a strategic board game where the goal is to surround more territory than your opponent. Capture enemy stones by surrounding them. The game concludes when both players consecutively pass their turn.
- Surround territory to win
- Capture surrounded enemy stones
- Game ends on consecutive passes
- Deep territory analysis
- Convenient move navigation
- Pleasant gameplay and interface
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A logical game with a deep strategic content and simple rules: — The winner is the one who will surround more territory — A stone or a group of enemy stones that you have surrounded with your stones is removed from the board. — The game ends when both players in turn skip the turn Features: — Deep analysis of territories — Convenient navigation on the moves — Pleasant gameplay and interface
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Tsumego Pro (Go problems) at Free against Go's $1.99. Tsumego Pro (Go problems) also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 45 months) and ratings volume (1.8K vs 1). Go's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and in-app purchases (none vs 12). On 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
Tsumego Pro (Go problems) is free to download; Go costs $1.99 up front. Tsumego Pro (Go problems) sells 12 one-off in-app purchases. Go asks for nothing beyond the download.
Go holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tsumego Pro (Go problems) has 1.8K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 74% of Tsumego Pro (Go problems)'s written reviews are positive against 63% of Go's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Tsumego Pro (Go problems) ships an update every 3 weeks, Go every 45 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tsumego Pro (Go problems) | Go |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (1.8K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 74.1% of reviews — better | 62.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.8K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 45 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Emmanuel Mathis | Stepan Grachev |
Customer experience
Tsumego Pro (Go problems)
Go
Bugs and 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
Go
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
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
Go
No in-app purchases
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