Little Gov2.1.0
Released May 8, 2026Major
iOS
What changed
- New featureAdded support for time-based play modes with customizable limits.
- New featureAdded automatic and manual game result recording for the main variation.
- New featureAdded 18 new Game Info items including player names, ranks, and locations.
- UXIncreased touch area size for navigation buttons.
- UXMoved Status Text to a dedicated box above the Go board.
- New featureIncluded app name and version metadata in saved SGF files.
- PerformanceFixed a bug where toggle buttons could trigger the wrong setting.
- UXFixed a layout bug on iPad that reduced the size of text entry fields.
- PerformanceFixed a regression that prevented the app from writing diagnostic log files.
- PlatformDropped support for iOS 15, raising the minimum requirement to iOS 16.0.
Original 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 above the Go board (#440).
- The app now writes its name ("Little Go") and version into the "AP" property when saving an SGF file (#445).
For more improvements/changes, and more details on each item, see the in-game Changelog.
Bugfixes
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- A bug was fixed that could have had potentially unexpected effects when changing settings that use a green toggle button (#442), such as toggling the wro…