Play Pente against opponents all over the world. The game that makes you smarter
3.87·135 reviews·5,000+ downloads
Pente Live brings turn-based and live Pente matches to mobile, letting players compete worldwide via pente.org on a 19x19 board. It supports a broad array of game modes and variants—ranging from Gomoku-style play to tournaments and King of the Hill—while keeping the pente.org match database at your fingertips. The app shows a long-running presence with 5,000+ total downloads and 76 in the last 30 days.
Pros & Cons
Wide range of game variants and modes
Access to pente.org games on mobile with cross-platform reach
Turn-based and real-time play to suit different playstyles
Tournaments and King of the Hill for competitive play
Scope tied to the pente.org ecosystem; may limit standalone features outside the pente community.
About Pente Live
Pente Live is a board app developed by Walied Othman.
Download Statistics
Pente Live has been downloaded 8.7 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 76 times.
User Ratings
Pente Live is rated 3.87 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 140 ratings.
App Information
Pente Live is FREE to download. The APK download size is 8.30 MB. The latest version available is 2.11.7. The last update was on July 9, 2026.
Technical Requirements
Pente Live requires Android 4.0.3+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play May 2016.
Description
Pente Live lets you play turn-based and live games at your beloved pente.org. No longer are you bound to your computer to play pente against other players. This app supports *all* games available at pente.org. Available for both Android and iOS.
Pente is a board game that is easy to learn, difficult to master. Compete with players all over the world on a 19x19 board. There is - turn-based play, - realtime (live) play, - play against 2 different computer players, - participate in tournaments, - play King of the Hill and earn a crown, - search the game database by position for the most popular or best move!
Gomoku: To win, place 5 (not more) of your stones in a straight continuous line (either horizontally, vertically or diagonally).
Pente is like Gomoku but you can win by getting more than 5 in a row. In Pente you can capture stones by enclosing a pair of your opponent's stones. For example, if the stones are like this XOO and you place your stone so it becomes XOOX, then your opponents' stones are removed from the board, leaving X__X. You can also win at Pente by capturing 10 or more of your opponents stones. You can't play into a capture. Rated games have a "Tournament Rule". It restricts player 1's second move so that player 1's second move must be at least 3 intersections away from the center of the board.
Keryo-Pente is like Pente but you can also capture 3 stones in a row.
G-Pente restricts player 1's second move, like the tournament rule. It additionally prohibits playing on the 4th and 5th intersections away from the center of the board that are one the same horizontal or vertical line as player 1's first move. (These are the most common 2nd moves for white).
D-Pente: Player 1 places 2 white and 2 black stones as a first move. Then player 2 decides to continue playing as player 2, or decides to swap seats and take over as player 1! Afterwards, play continues like regular Pente.
Poof-Pente: The main difference is that you can play into a capture! (e.g., from XO_X player plays XOOX) then the stones are "poofed" (removed from the board and counted as captures). Normal captures are still allowed and the number of captures to win remains at 10 stones. Up to 5 stones could be poofed in one move! Also note that my current implementation performs the following actions in sequence after a move: Check if move captured any opponents stones, if so remove stones from the board. Check if move creates a poof position, if so remove stones from the board. Check if player has a 5-in-a-row, if so the player wins. A player could capture and be poofed in the same move and the capture count could end up as 10-10. The game keeps going until one player has an advantage (i.e., gets more captured stones or gets five-in-a-row). There are no draws.
Boat-Pente differs in the end game. Once a Pente is made (5 stones in a row), the game continues as long as the opponent is able to capture across the Pente! Capturing 5 pairs is still a win like in Pente and the tournament rule is used for rated games.
Connect6: The goal is to be the first player to get 6 pieces in a row, either vertically, horizontally or diagonally. Player one plays one stone at the center of the board. After that each player gets to place two stones on the board at a time.
DK-Pente combines the rules of D-Pente and Keryo-Pente.
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The app crashes occasionally, but it's not terribly irritating. I wish the email function worked better and actually sent me a copy of messages I've sent to another player ... rarely do I get a copy. The in-game chat has limited functionality and is VERY irritating. I think it's 140 char but haven't counted, will crash back to the home screen during an attempt to edit the chat, and doesn't allow cut-and-paste. 5 stars for enjoyment, but 3 stars for the email and in-game chat issues.
★★★★★yay dude· Dec 19, 2025
Pente is a wonderful game, and this is a wonderful app. It seems that the developer actually fixes issues when a user reaches out, as I have not experienced any issues with crashing or intrusive advertisements. Overall really happy about it.
★★★★★N Jo· Jun 16, 2019
Best way to play pente and all its variants. AI is crazy good. Community is great fun. It would be nice to have an easy way to let your opponent mulligan a boneheaded move.
★☆☆☆☆Gavin Richards· Nov 11, 2022
Can't log in to my account. No user profile tools, username/pwd grayed out, tried uninstalling/restarting with no change. Oh well, could've been nice, I'll just use the browser.
★☆☆☆☆Mikhail Onyekachi· Mar 21, 2026
Game is ridiculous in the first place, but AI breaks the rules and cheats which makes it unplayable.
★★☆☆☆K. W.· May 8, 2022
The difficult setting is just for show. The on-board AI plays the perfect move every turn no matter what difficulty it is set to making it frustrating to play. There are no animations for turns so unlike real life pente where you watch your opponent make a move and make any captures the board just jumps to a new setup after the AI's turn. App needs refining and improvement, but is tragically the only viable Pente app currently available on the Google Play Store.
★☆☆☆☆Eric DuBois· Nov 4, 2018
Review Update -- App update on 11/02 has yet to fix crashing issue Would like keep playing the app but every time I log in the game crashes. Cleared cache and local storage, still crashes. Reinstalled, still crashes. Enjoyed the game when I could play it though...
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Technologies used by Pente Live
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Trust & Safety: Uses standard online game permissions (network, internet, notifications, storage) and does not request contacts or location data. A dynamic receiver permission appears for internal push workflows. Overall, the permissions align with typical safety expectations for an online board game app.
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