Baduk Cap lets you capture positions on your wooden Go board and easily transfer them to the SGF file format (Smart Game Format) using built-in image recognition.
Include game information such as player names, ranks, captured stones, and more. You can copy the SGF file to the clipboard, send it by email, save it to Dropbox, or export it to apps like EasyGo or SmartGo Kifu.
Determine the winner and exact score of your game with the scoring function (available as an in-app purchase). Supported rulesets are: Japanese, Chinese, AGA (Area), AGA (Territory), Ing, New Zealand.
Because Baduk Cap automatically recognizes corners of arbitrary size, you can capture problems from books and export them to apps like EasyGo, which offer the spaced repetition system as a study tool.
Live capture of your game while it is being played is also supported, featuring automatic move recognition and automatic photo capture, or photos triggered via a Bluetooth camera remote. (This feature is available as an in-app purchase.) External cameras and webcams (UVC-compatible) can be used with this feature. Focus fully on the game instead of interrupting your concentration with manual recording. If you wish, you can broadcast your live game to the Mastodon social network.
Baduk Cap supports board sizes of 9 x 9, 13 x 13, and 19 x 19, and is optimized for both iPhone and iPad.
The following one-year subscriptions are available (Baduk Cap Pro):
• Scoring: Determine the winner and exact result of the game (tap the result for an explanation of how it was calculated)
• Game recording: Live capture your game with automatic move recognition, automatic photos, or photos triggered by a Bluetooth camera remote. Broadcast to Mastodon is supported. (Includes all features of the Scoring subscription)
These subscriptions do not renew automatically. After one year, you will need to manually resubscribe if you wish to continue using the unlocked features.
You can also choose the 'Lifetime Pro' subscription, which is paid once and provides access to all app features forever.
Each of the Baduk Cap Pro subscriptions also unlocks the following features:
• Siri shortcuts: Take a picture of your Go board with a voice command of your choice
• Dark mode
• Alternate app icons
This app is excellent and fun to use! The software finds the edges of the board pretty well, but just in case that fails it allows you to calibrate the corners and get it accurate. Multiple scoring methods are included too. The live recording is nice too, and I can’t wait to try that feature with my club games. The game can be exported via e-mail to open in other apps such as PandaNet.Things to keep in mind: scoring is an extra $1 and live play recording an extra $5. $10 total was ok for me as it performs the tasks as advertised.
The best Go app in the AppStore
Feivel Xi
BadukCap is easy to use and accurate. For quickly scoring games this app works great. I especially love how simple and fast the image recognition works which doesn’t require any calibration from the user. This is a wonderful tool for regular play and can be a great asset for any tournament director. I’m more than happy to pay for this app and support the development that went into it. Thanks!
Fantastic and should be adopted as the standard
Dr Dooley
Been using this app for many many years now and is absolutely fantastic! For anyone who is new to Go this app is invaluable as the scoring component is probably the hardest part for someone who didn’t grow up playing. I’ve also used the export SGF function to capture hundreds of go problems to import into other apps.
Great app and responsive dev!
DrTenma
This app is purpose built for a wide variety of useful situations regarding playing Go!I think a lot of the functionality and processes in the app are well thought out, but the developer is open to feedback and improving it.New Added that are incredibly useful and I think the app as well worth it’s one time purchase. If you play Go, download this for sure. NEW: On the iPads and iPhones with USB-C, you can now plug-in a USB-C WebCam, which is much lighter than mounting an iPad or iPhone for a live recording and SGF of your game.
User interface improvements
Version 6.2.2
The developer, Thomas Breitling, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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