Little Go 2.1.0

Little Go is a free and open source iOS application that lets you play the game of Go on the iPhone or iPad.

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About Little Go

Little Go is a free and open source iOS application that lets you play the game of Go on the iPhone or iPad. You can play against another human (on the same device), or against the computer. The computer player is powered by the open source software library Fuego ([link removed]). The minimum requirement for running this version of Little Go is iOS 16.0.

Features:
- Board sizes between 7x7 and 19x19 (start a new game to change the board size)
- Let the computer player suggest a move or immediately play the move for you
- Calculate the score at any time during the game (area scoring is the default, territory scoring can be selected at the start of a new game)
- Adjust the computer's playing strength and resign behaviour by selecting from a number of presets, or by fine-tuning advanced settings
- Play even games, or games with 2-9 handicap stones (fixed stone placement)
- Select from 5 pre-defined rulesets when you start a new game, or adjust game rules to your preference (komi, ko rule, area/territory scoring system, number of passes to end game, resume play by alternating/non-alternating play, four passes end game)
- Optionally play with time limits (Main time only, Overtime only, Main time + Overtime), with a choice from 5 Overtime systems
- Place arbitrary black and white stones for initial board setup before a game starts
- View board positions for moves played earlier during the game
- View and create game variations
- Discard moves (aka "undo")
- Display move numbers and coordinate labels
- Zoom & scroll board
- Create and edit board and move annotations (e.g. good/bad move, good position for black/white, etc.) and add textual notes to a position
- Mark intersections on the board with symbols, markers and labels, and draw arrows or lines on the board
- Display player influence (aka territory statistics) for an estimate who owns an area
- Computer vs. computer game for entertainment
- Save & load games to/from the archive using the SGF file format
- Support for almost all properties of the SGF file format, with strict conformance to the specification
- Use file sharing to transfer saved games from your iOS device to your computer, and vice versa
- Import/export game files from/to other apps on your device (e.g. Mail, DropBox)
- In-app user manual
- Submit bug report email from inside the app (yes, this *is* a feature :-))
- For the technically inclined: Watch what happens behind the scenes when Little Go and Fuego talk to each other over the Go Text Protocol (GTP)

Your contribution in any form (coding, UI design, testing, bug reports, creating an app video preview, website design) is welcome - please contact me or visit the support website to find out more.

A note about the project state: Several years of development have gone into Little Go since its inception in January 2011. The app now has a feature set that is, I believe, quite nice :-) for a free program. My main focus therefore lies on fixing any remaining bugs (of which I am sure there are plenty) and keeping the app running under future versions of iOS.

Little Go is released under the Apache License 2.0 ([link removed]).
Release info New Release on May 08, 2026
Release notes Known issues
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- iPhone devices only: On iOS 26 versions older than 26.4 (i.e. iOS 26.0.x through 26.3.x) the app crashes when you rearrange tabs ("More" tab > tap "Edit" button > attempt to put one of the tabs in the "More" section on the main tab bar). If you are affected by this, upgrade your device to iOS 26.4 or newer.

Features
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- The app now supports time-based play (#29). The default mode to play Go in this app is without any time limit. If you like, however, you can now give yourself (and your opponent) a limited amount of time to make your moves. You can read all about the details of this feature in the user manual under "Playing the game > Timed play".
- The app now has full support for recording the game result for the game's main variation (#414). The app automatically sets the result when the game ends, but the user can override the automatically determined result in the Game Info screen. You can read all about the details of this feature in the user manual under "Playing the game > The game result". Thanks go to user Deionus for requesting this feature.
- The app now supports entering 18 different so-called "Game Info" items (#384). These are pieces of information that describe various aspects of the game being played, such as the dates when the game was played, player names, player ranks, the location where the game was played, etc.. You can read all about the details of this feature in the user manual under "Other features > Game info screen > The "Info" tab".

For more features, and more details on each item, see the in-game Changelog. The user manual is also available from within the app.

Improvements and changes
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- The touch area size of several buttons has been increased (#441), notably for the buttons with which to navigate back and forth between the nodes of the current game variation. Thanks go to Merlin Faidherbe for requesting this improvement.
- The Status Text is now shown in its own box just ab
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