Gonarabe
Five in a Row online & vs CPU
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Five in a Row, anytime. Play a friend with a room code, meet random opponents worldwide, or take on the CPU offline. Simple rules, deep strategy.
Gonarabe is a beautifully crafted Gomoku (Five in a Row) board game you can play anywhere - against players around the world, against a friend, or offline against the CPU.
Black and white take turns placing stones on a 15x15 board. Line up five of your stones vertically, horizontally or diagonally to win. The rules take seconds to learn, but every game is a battle of reading ahead.
THREE WAYS TO PLAY
- Random Match: tap once and get paired with someone who is playing right now.
- Friend Match: agree on a room code, both enter it, and you are in a private one-on-one game.
- CPU Match: three difficulty levels (Easy, Normal, Hard) and your choice of black or white. Works fully offline.
CLIMB THE RANKS
- Global leaderboard driven by a rating system, calculated on the server
- Ranks from 10 Kyu all the way up to Master
- Win, loss and streak records tracked for every mode
- Rematch with colors swapped as soon as a game ends
DESIGNED TO FEEL GOOD
- Realistic wooden board and glossy stones
- Smooth stone-placing animation, sound effects and haptics
- Winning line highlighted with a celebration
- Clean, uncluttered controls
PLAY FOR FREE
Each game uses one life, and lives refill automatically over time. You can also earn coins by winning and spend them to refill instantly. Coin packs are available as an optional in-app purchase - the game is fully playable without spending anything.
SWITCHING PHONES?
Account Transfer moves your rating, records and coins to a new device with a one-time 8-digit code. No sign-up and no login, ever.
AVAILABLE IN 11 LANGUAGES
English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Russian, Vietnamese, Spanish, French, German and Portuguese. The app follows your device language and can be changed any time in Settings.
Start your first game now.
Ratings & Reviews
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- Now available in 11 languages. The app follows your device language automatically, and you can switch any time in Settings.
- Added lives and a coin shop. Earn coins by winning or buy a pack to refill lives instantly - the game is still fully playable for free.
- Global ranking is now calculated on the server for more accurate ratings.
- Added Account Transfer in Settings so you can move your progress to a new device with an 8-digit code.
- Online games now award a win if your opponent stops responding, plus connection stability fixes and other small improvements.
The developer, Toru Kitajima, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Toru Kitajima
- Size
- 31.5 MB
- Category
- Board
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.1 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.1 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.1 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 10 more
- English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- 1500 Coins $9.99
- 700 Coins $4.99
- 120 Coins $0.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Toru Kitajima