A Lishogi alternative
that fits in your pocket and works on a plane.

Lishogi is a web platform without an official native iOS app. Shogiful is a native iPhone, iPad, and Mac app for the training side: an on-device YaneuraOu review of every game, a card for each mistake, 501 tsume problems, and daily training aimed at your weaknesses. Play, analysis, and training work offline with no account. For online play against people, Lishogi in the browser is still the free and excellent choice.

Lishogi is a platform: online matchmaking, server analysis, puzzles, and tournaments, free and open source in the browser. Shogiful is a single-player app that reviews every game you play against its 40 opponents or import as KIF. It sorts your mistakes into 12 shogi mistake types, such as Drop Mistake, Promotion Mistake, Castle Weakness, and Missed Tsume, gives each one a card with the better move and a coach's tip, and builds each day's training around your top weakness. Lishogi shows you the evaluation graph; Shogiful puts each mistake into words and gives you practice on it.

Shogiful is free to download, and play is never limited: you get unlimited games against all 40 opponents, which unlock as you win, plus 2 game analyses, 3 training puzzles, and 2 coach hints a day, with no ads. Premium removes those limits for $1.99/month or $9.99/year, each with a 7-day free trial, or $19.99 once, and Family Sharing is included. Lishogi is entirely free and donation-funded, so if cost is all that matters, Lishogi wins. Shogiful's case rests on the native offline app and the training.

Yes. The YaneuraOu engine, game analysis, mistake cards, tsume problems, and all 40 opponents run on your device. Only buying Premium and Game Center need a connection. Lishogi needs a connection for play and server analysis, so on a flight Shogiful is the one that keeps working.

Yes. Shogiful has 501 tsume problems from 1-move to 9-move mates (381 of them free), plus 99 drop drills, 62 castle drills, 55 joseki drills, 62 endgame races, and 30 tesuji cards. Any mate you find counts, even one that differs from the book answer. Today's Training mixes them around your level and top weakness, and spaced repetition brings back the puzzles you miss.

Yes, as KIF. Shogiful imports KIF game records from a file, the clipboard, or pasted text, shows a preview, and analyzes the game like one you played in the app; the free version's limit of 2 analyses a day applies. An imported game is reviewed with you as Sente (Black).

Yes, and they work well together. Play people on Lishogi, then use Shogiful for offline training and a review of your games, including the ones you import as KIF.