SmartGo One is the only Go app you’ll need, whether you’re just getting started or already a seasoned player. Learn, play, study, and improve with SmartGo One.
Experience the ancient game of Go on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac in a whole new way. Also known as igo (囲碁), wéiqí (围棋), or baduk (바둑), Go begins with an empty board that gradually fills as players surround territory and capture stones.
Start with a 9x9 board and move up to 13x13 and 19x19 as your skills grow. SmartGo One adapts to your strength, automatically adjusting handicaps so games remain competitive and enjoyable. And when you’re ready for a serious challenge, the powerful KataGo-based engine delivers strong, rewarding play.
But SmartGo One is far more than a way to play Go. Read interactive Go books while replaying the moves they describe to deepen your understanding. Explore a collection of more than 138,000 professional game records spanning both modern and historical masters. Improve your reading and decision-making skills with a growing library of Go problems and tutorials.
Want to know how a master would handle a position on your board? SmartGo’s pattern matching technology compares your game with historical pro games and shows how strong players approached similar situations. No matter your level, SmartGo One helps you continue improving.
Features include:
• 9x9, 11x11, 13x13, and 19x19 board sizes
• Powerful KataGo-based engine
• Fast and responsive gameplay
• Manual or automatic handicap adjustment
• Record, annotate, and edit your games
• Territory estimator
• Hints and move analysis
• Undo and replay controls
• Tutorial with over 100 problems
• Extensive user manual
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There is so much in the free version! I was just a at tournament and someone was complaining that their “free” game recording app would not save unless you bought it. Completely nuts! If only I had looked at SmartGo One before, I would have told my friend that the free download records and saves games, has extensive commenting tools, has computer play on small boards, and lets you read and interact with Go books. The FREE tutorial on playing Go is great. Any beginner would be pleased to have so much content in a single package.For the serious student of Go there is so much when you subscribe to the Pro version for less than a dollar a month. 114,000 professional games and counting, a giant set of problems, and play against the computer on full size board.I only purchased an iPad because I wanted a portable version of SmartGo software when I saw it being demonstrated in a cafeteria line at a US Go Congress many years ago. I am so pleased to see a new version come out.
Good gameplay, poor app user experience
rlr524
The gameplay in SmartGo one seems fine so far and it has some good features, especially if you get the very fair priced Pro add-on. The computer gameplay is good; it’s challenging, like playing a very experienced opponent, but that’s how you improve. The thing to keep in mind is this app isn’t to teach you how to play Go or optimal strategy, it’s for you to practice Go. You will need to dive into some of the many great books about playing Go to learn the basics and strategies and the app even helps you find those books. The issues that lose the app a star are around user experience. The app’s layout is not intuitive and if you happen to have skipped the first time user demo (which a professional app developer should know most people do) there is absolutely no help available, not even a way to launch the demo again. Don’t know what that icon does? Too bad. Don’t know what the colors mean on move recommendations? Oh well. You’re left to just click buttons and try to infer what does what and what setting changes what function on your own. This app needs the developer to spend some money having a UX professional do a thorough review and then take their recommendations and implement them.
Developer Response
The icons are explained in the user manual: switch to the Books tab, then Tutorial & Help, then SmartGo One User Manual. The intro screens are available in Settings > About SmartGo One > Welcome Tour. Thanks for the feedback – I'm constantly working on making the app easier to use, but as a lone developer, there's always more to do than there is time for.
Such a step down.
jbrizz
I’ve been running SmartGo apps since they started, mostly for the (GO) problems. I bought this new one just to support the developer. Not that I haven’t played a game against it si this review doesn’t apply to that piece. The GO problems in this game are RIFE with mistakes that a good proofreading would catch. “White to kill”, then black lives and the message says “this exchange doesn’t help black”. Makes no sense. This after following the suggested moves because I thought I was confused. Or, you play the correct sequence but you play one more move than the software was expecting and the stone pictured on the upper right gets a red star indicating you’ve made a mistake. When it’s not a mistake, it’s what would be the correct next move. Probably 20% of the problems have something like these. I’m a paid user, full version.
Quality system
-Gryfon-
An excellent application. Play matches against either computers or other people (in person), review professional games across centuries of Go history, purchase, download, and read texts on Go from numerous authors (including interactive problems within the text). The developer has done an excellent job with building this program, and also responds quite promptly to bug reports. Full 19x19 play does seem to be limited to the pro version, but it is well worth the one-time payment, in my personal opinion.
• Improved book layout with better page/column breaks.
• Export books as EPUB with JPEG images for maximum compatibility.
• Export books you created as PDF (Share > PDF, set up in Settings > Share).
• Fix bottom line cut off in book view when Reduce Transparency is turned on.
• Fix Settings > Book Language to show the right book languages.
• Add Settings > Books > Smaller Variation Diagrams.
• Reduce retries for cellular downloads.
• Enable Group and Compress when selecting multiple games.
Version 3.1
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