SmartGo Kifu Reviews – Page 4
5/5 rating based on 52 reviews. Read all reviews for SmartGo Kifu for iPhone.
SmartGo Kifu is paid iOS app published by Smart Go, Inc.
Great app...
Me in Phoenix
Overall, this is a great application with a really rich feature set. I'm a fairly new player and find this application very helpful as I try to become a stronger player. My only nitpick is that you have to play a number of a games to obtain a certain level before the 13x13 and 19x19 boards are unlocked. I appreciate that the engine rates my ability to play on the larger boards ...but given the fact that I purchased the application to use as both a game and a learning tool, I'd really like to be able to play all board sizes from the beginning without having to unlock them.
complete Go app
appleseeds11
There are many, many great features in this app- game review, huge database, computer play, tsumego collection. No other go app compares.
Amazing app
Yipper567433
This app is an amazing product and worth many times its price for anyone looking to start learning or seriously develop their Go game. Every part of the app was done with care and attention to detail. I absolutely recommend this app in tandem with the Go Books app as a great pairing. This is clearly a labor of love by an indie developer which are often the App Store gems that make iOS shine.
Great learning tool!
odie105
This has been a great learning tool. The player is sufficiently difficult for me. I love the annotated games feature. Please add more developers! While I'm still too noob to analyze the pro games deeply by myself, there is still tremendous value for me especially in learning how pros open and attack and counter. Coupled with smart go books and the three books I also bought (also a great value), this has strengthened my game pretty quickly... Much faster than learning from my father alone (single digit kyu player).
Go figure!
G4rrett413
With this app you can really figure with your Go game. With so many features and so many pro games you will never run out of things to explore. An app as deep as the game it built to explore.
Really good. But not quite "perfect"
linuxdaemon
I struggled for a long time before letting go of the $20 for it. But in comparison to other offerings I felt smart go kifu offered the most. It has a nice interface and is very usable even on an iPhone which is not always the case with go apps. There are a wealth of problems, annotated games, and pro games. And if that isn't enough you can easily import more. The one thing I wish it had was some concept of shared storage. Most importantly to sync problems and games between an iPhone and an iPad. The only option is to manually export and import which is kind of lame. Shared storage would also make it easier to import games that you already have from other sources rather than one by one sharing and importing. I also wish there was a little more customization with the "my games" area. Any game you import goes into that area so it is a bit of a misnomer.
Best ago App
Keleion
I was a huge fan of the old Smart Go app, this seems to be the newer version (had hears ago on iPod). Love all the problems and researching old games!
definitely worth it
jabotscrob
I don't remember when I wrote the below review, but it's been awhile. This app has only gotten better. My one concern before was that a database is of somewhat limited value without pattern searching. Either I just plain missed it or it was in one of the updates, but the app definitely has pattern searching now. Combined with the fact that the game library gets updated this app is extremely valuable to me. I remain very glad I purchased it. Previous review below. ------------------ I debated buying this app due to it's cost. $20 is definitely a lot to spend. The main thing I would say in it's favor is this, realize that buying printed go problems in books costs more. I spent $25 for a book with 1001 go problems. This app has double that many, and costs less. Beyond that, realize that you are also getting a very large library of pro go games + a good collection of commented pro games + a program that will play with you + you can use this last program to enter your own games. Further, I feel that the actual implementation of these features is great. I haven't had any problems or encountered bugs. I find the ability to play the moves in a diagram out is really cool. I feel the engine strength is good and it saves the games you play with it. Having said that I think it's easily worth the cost, there is one major improvement I would like to see. It seems to me that one of the main reasons to have a large collection of game records isn't so much the idea that I will actually read tens of thousands of pro game records, rather it's the ability to do pattern searching. This seems to me like kind of a hole in the program that I would like to see filled.
Fantastic kifu!
Mike366363
Uncontested champion of the iOS kifu apps. Add in the tsumego and the pro game archive and it is without a doubt worth the twenty. I use it to record games I play, to study pro games, to review games I play on other services. One of the best tools available for sgf variation trees.