SWHub-v0.2.8

SWHub is a personal Swiss army knife for the game of Go/Baduk/Weiqi study, with some cool features I built for myself.

F.A.Q.

You can see all info in app: Settings > F.A.Q. or look for the ? icon after launching app.

Overview of v0.2.8

More ways to play, easier data updates and another round of fixing things :3

• Puzzles:

  • Puzzle data can now be downloaded and updated separately from the app.
  • Opening a puzzle feature now checks for puzzle-data updates, even without a stats-sync account. Installed puzzles stay usable offline.
  • Download the data when you first open a puzzle feature, then keep training offline. Updates ask you to close and reopen the app before switching to the new data.
  • Improved progress migration when problems change rank or topic, and cleaned up references to removed problems without losing progress on the ones that remain.
  • Improved collection results, collection/SRS resume sessions, repeated mistakes and exam history during stats sync.
  • Fixed Custom Exam’s Unique tasks only option: it prevents repeats within the current exam while still allowing problems you solved in earlier sessions. Your filters and saved preferences are kept.

• Tools:

  • Joseki:
    • The dictionary is now a separate download, offered when you first open Joseki.
    • Check for dictionary updates independently of app releases, and browse offline after installation.
    • Failed updates keep your existing dictionary available.
  • Game Focus:
    • You can use separate profiles now. #5
  • KataGo:
    • Updated the optional large transformer model and the Colab/Modal notebook dependencies.
    • Improved model compatibility checks and fixed the Linux OpenVINO fallback download verification.
    • KataGo coordinate cycling now follows the app-wide coordinate preference.
    • Guide to free cloud hosting your own KataGo
  • KataGo Contribute:
    • Top-move labels now follow your regular KataGo settings, including letters, score/win-rate metrics and precision.
    • Android contribution settings now show remote mode only.
    • Optional endpoint login fields stay hidden until enabled, and existing saved credentials are recognised.

• Play / Online:

  • Variant Server replaces SSGS.
    • Browse games, use a guest profile, send invitations, play and return to ongoing games.
    • Added multiplayer seats, combined variants, custom/Circloid boards, hidden and Joseki setups, scoring and review.
    • Added clock and reconnect handling.
  • OGS, KGS and IGS (Pandanet):
    • Remember the game-room sidebar width and resize the Players section.
    • Added dismissible pass notices above the game navigation controls.
    • Improved OGS review navigation, comments, branch deletion and shared variation links.
    • Fixed KGS room/watch list updates, repeated joins, chat closing and reconnect state.
    • Improved IGS room refreshes and concurrent observations. A failed listing refresh now keeps the room you successfully switched to selected.
    • Added a configurable shortcut for cycling move numbers through none, last and all, including OGS reviews. Suggested key: M.
  • Removed external review-upload actions from game records and finished games. Use Open in KataGo for analysis inside SWHub.

• Me:

  • Improved cloud stats sync while keeping your existing username and sync key.
  • Fixed delayed cloud replies and queued uploads affecting a newly restored account.
  • Stats imports preserve all imported fields, local account credentials and sync state. Malformed imports leave existing data intact.
  • Improved handling of invalid compressed uploads and protected newer task progress from older app/catalog versions.

• Other:

  • Reorganised keyboard shortcuts into six groups: Global, Board & game tree, Online play, KataGo, Puzzle solving and Study tools. Each action shows where it works.
  • App now checks for app updates on launch once 24 hours have passed since the last successful check, instead of once a week.
  • Mouse gestures work independently of keyboard shortcut enablement. The FAQ now includes the mouse controls reference.
  • Added separate size sliders for custom black and white stone images, with live previews and individual resets.
  • Split realistic stone placement into Fuzzy placement and Stone animation, preserving existing preferences. Hover previews stay centered.
  • Guide to free cloud hosting your own KataGo

After updating

• Puzzle data and the Joseki dictionary need a first download in v0.2.8. Open the relevant feature while online to install its data. Both work offline afterward.
• After downloading a puzzle-data update, follow the prompt to close and reopen the app so it can activate the update and migrate your progress.
• Keep using your existing stats-sync username and key.
• Update your other devices before syncing with the new task data. Once an account adopts the new catalog, its other devices need a compatible app and current task data. Older clients without supported sync must upgrade; offline progress stays local until you update and sync.

Excluded

These aren't available in the packages listed below and are only for my friends or coffee supporters

• My personal 350k~ Pro games Pattern Search database. I have about 80k more games to add, so please wait while I fix some other matters as adding games to the db takes a while cause I try to cleanup the metadata as much as possible.
• Teaching Rooms
• FoxWQ

Future

Might do some frequent updates this month. As now I won't have to make an app update just to update the puzzles or joseki. So some related and unrelated bugs may show up and require hunting.

SWHub-v0.2.7

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SWHub is a personal Swiss army knife for the game of Go/Baduk/Weiqi study, with some cool features I built for myself.
Tsumego training/battles, KataGo analysis, Pattern Search, online play etc.

Full Features Overview

You can see all info in app: Settings > F.A.Q. or look for the ? icon after launching app.

Overview of v0.2.7

More ways to play, study and review your games. And another round of fixing things :3

• Puzzles:

  • Added 750 Korean Problem Academy problems across four volumes.
  • Reorganised the topic and collection lists.
  • Custom Exams now have an Only new tasks, without repeats option, with up to 10,000 problems depending on the available pool.
  • Fixed cloud restores making already completed SRS reviews due again.

• Tools:

  • Local Board:
    • Import a position from a board photo! Align the corners, correct detected stones and continue studying or save it as SGF. Detection runs locally.
    • Improved local score estimation, with manual dead/alive group correction and Black/White/neutral ownership correction on empty points.
  • KataGo:
    • Improved Auto Setup, hardware detection, downloads and engine startup.
    • Updated CUDA setup and the Colab/Modal guides to KataGo v1.18.2.
    • Added a shared Rank guide, from 20k to 9d, for rank-aware analysis and unranked teaching practice.
    • Improved Details, mistake navigation and variation previews. You can scroll through a preview without changing your selected game position.
  • Game Focus:
    • Choose a target rank for analysis and generated drills, or use the recorded player rank.
    • Added game tags like Comeback, Dragon Slaying, Perfect Play and Rollercoaster.
    • Export whole drill categories as SGF.
    • Improved the Imports / Games layout and offline saved reviews.
  • KataGo Contribute:
    • Rectangular boards can now be displayed.
    • Improved Finish & stop and clarified the game counters.
    • Improved the cloud notebooks and reusable engine/model caching.

• Play / Online:

  • Added native OGS, KGS and IGS (Pandanet) clients inside SWHub.
    • Sign in, browse players and games, send or accept challenges, play, spectate and chat.
    • Improved connection recovery, clocks and game controls.
    • Open game records in SWHub, KataGo or AI Sensei, or download the SGF.
  • OGS Reviews:
    • Create and join shared reviews with variations, comments, setup stones, marks and pen drawing.
    • Follow the presenter or explore the game yourself.
  • Career Mode:
    • Refined the rank-guided HumanSL opponents.
    • Unranked teaching practice is now available through KataGo’s Rank guide.

• Me:

  • Moved your playing profile below the training heatmap.
  • View rank history and win/loss charts from your configured EGD and supported server accounts.
  • Improved stats sync while keeping your existing username and sync key.

• Other:

  • Added searchable, customisable desktop keyboard shortcuts. Enable the actions you want in Settings.
  • Added custom board/stone images and more sound/voice options.
  • Improved mobile layouts, translations and the topic-based FAQ.
  • Added weekly update checks to production builds. When an update is found, a dismissible popup offers to download it and start the platform’s update process. Android still asks for installation confirmation.
  • Release notes appear on the first launch after updating.
  • Guide to free cloud hosting your own KataGo

Before updating

• Game Focus starts with a new library in v0.2.7. Older Game Focus games are not imported automatically. Keep your old database as a backup, then reimport and analyse your source games. Your puzzle/training statistics are stored separately.
• Keep using your existing stats-sync username and key.
• Install v0.2.7 manually to get the new updater for future releases.
• Teaching Rooms and FoxWQ are not included in this public build.

Excluded

These aren't available in the packages listed below and are only for my friends or coffee supporting friends

• My personal 350k~ Pro games Pattern Search database
• Teaching Rooms
• FoxWQ

Future: IDK :3 Hopefully fewer bugs, but I probably made some new ones too XD

SWHub-v0.2.6

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SWHub is a personal Swiss army knife for the game of Go/Baduk/Weiqi study, with some cool features I built for myself.
Tsumego training/battles, KataGo analysis, Pattern Search, Teaching rooms etc.

Full Features Overview

You can see all info in app: Settings > F.A.Q. or look for the ? icon after launching app.

Overview of v0.2.6

I renamed and reorganised a few things.

• Puzzles(Previously Train):
  • Fixed some Tsumegos
  • Puzzles Leaderboard Backend is Improved
• Tools(Previously Home):
  • Pattern Search: (My personal 350k~ Pro games database is only available for coffee supporting friends
    • Fixed database import/export, caching and Crashes
  • Joseki page with approx 20k variations.
  • KataGo: Guide to free cloud hosting your own KataGo
    • Updated everything to Katago v1.17.x and the new Transformer Models
    • You can now check the estimated rank of both players in Performance Report
    • Tried to optimise the page for better performance
  • Game Focus (New):
    • You can import Local or Online Server(OGS/Fox/KGS/Pandanet) Games and let Katago analyse them all, and it'll build an overall dashboard of your mistake-prone areas and create tsumegos out of your mistakes that you can solve in SRS style
  • KataGo Contribute (New): Guide to free cloud hosted KataGo for contributing
    • Mainly built so I could contribute to https://katagotraining.org/ from my Remote KataGo, while being able to watch the games
    • Currently cannot show rectangular boards
• Play:
  • Career Mode: Improved feedback of the KataGo analysis to try to match your level
• Online:
  • Improved all servers and connections.
  • Teaching rooms (Kinda like old KGS days): (Is only available for coffee supporting friends or Teachers)
    • Create a room, optionally with a password.
    • Teacher can broadcast voice, and allow one student at a time to allow speaking, the rest use chat.
    • Teacher can assign B/W to a student to allow them continue from any given position
    • All features needed for live teaching are there
• Other:
  • Improved stats sync between various devices
  • Improved local score estimation
  • And various other improvements

Future: IDK :3 I created more bugs to fix later I guess XD

Below I only listed the main 4 download files, but if someone prefers the specific android builds or regular windows installer lemme know, I'll upload below.

SWHub-v0.2.5

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SWHub is a full Go/Baduk/Weiqi study and play app: offline tsumego training, KataGo analysis, Pattern Search, Tsumego battles, teaching rooms, stats sync and a lot more.

New/Updates in v0.2.5

• Train:
  • Joseki page with approx 5k variations.
  • Improvements to SRS.
• KataGo:
  • With local, and remote WebSocket engines.
    • Guide to have your own free cloud hosted katago
  • Analysis/play modes.
  • Score/Win-rate/Point-loss graphs.
  • Ownership, Rank & top move overlay.
  • One click Game Tsumegos creation.
  • Career Mode(Experimental): Fox Themed server where you play against different styles of Human Katago of selected ranks for rank up/down.
• Local board and SGF tools:
  • Visual game-tree navigation and variations.
  • Move comments, board markups.
  • Score estimation,
  • SGF load/save, and opening positions in KataGo.
• Pattern Search: (My personal 250k~ Pro games database is only available for coffee supporting friends)
  • Improved database import/export and loading states
  • Added more tools in Pattern management page.
  • New - Search historywith pattern thumbnails.
• Online:
  • Improved all servers and connections.
  • Go variants
  • Teaching rooms (Kinda like old KGS days): (Is only available for coffee supporting friends or Teachers)
    • Create a room, optionally with a password.
    • Teacher can broadcast voice, and allow one student at a time to allow speaking, the rest use chat.
    • Teacher can assign B/W to a student to allow them continue from any given position
    • All features from Local Board
• Player stats and sync:
  • Improved stats sync between various devices.

If you upgraded from previous version

• Some folder organisations were done, so on desktops, under your Documents > SWHub folder move the files where appropriate if needed

Full Features Overview

You can see all info/faq in app: Settings > F.A.Q. or look for the ? icon after launching app.

Notice

The app is updated but I still need to update some tsumegos.
so redownload from this page when you see a different text here instead of this notice