Kifubara: Go Board Scanner

Fan Club Team

About this game

Point your camera at any Go board and Kifubara reads the position, counts territory, and calculates the score — in seconds.

No more counting by hand. Leave scoring to Kifubara.

HOW IT WORKS
Take a photo of your Go board or pick one from your gallery. Kifubara detects every stone, maps territory for both players, and scores the position under Chinese or Japanese rules. Review the result, adjust anything that needs fixing, and export.

FEATURES
- Automatic stone detection from a single photo
- Territory counting and scoring under Chinese or Japanese rules
- Adjustable komi
- Mark dead stones and edit the position by hand
- Deep analysis to refine scoring accuracy
- Group strength and influence visualization
- SGF export to share or study in your favorite Go app
- Save and name games in your library

BUILT FOR REAL BOARDS
Kifubara is designed for the moment after you finish a game on a real board. Works with wood boards, printed boards, magnetic travel sets — any physical Go board. Just make sure all four corners are visible and the lighting is decent.
Kifubara uses on-device machine learning. Your photos never leave your phone.

Go. Baduk. Weiqi. Whatever you call it — Kifubara counts it.

Ratings and reviews

Super awesome app idea! The board detection works great in all scenarios I have tested so far. However, sgf generation seems broken. I tried uploading the file into ai-sensei to get feedback in a game I played, but kept getting this error: We couldn't parse your game file - please check it in another editor. Add White not allowed in SGFs If this is fixed, the app is perfect!

the web page is great, hopefully the app catchers up. I love everything about it. Only suggestion is have a streamer kifu highlight like the tournament and pro games. that way we can study our favorite ams as well 😉 looking at you batts

Excellent app, works really well!

What’s new

Added 9×9 and 13×13 board support — small boards, big fun!