Golfmetrics vs Golf Score Stats
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Golfmetrics
This app helps golfers improve their game by tracking key performance metrics. It is designed for ease of use, even for time-pressed competitive players.
- Strokes Gained tracking
- Performance metric analysis
- Usability expert design
- Competitive golf focus
- Simple and easy to use
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Start improving today! Developed with usability experts and golfers to be simple and easy, for the time-pressed reality of competitive golf. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Golf Score Stats
Track and analyze your golf rounds with detailed statistics. Calculate your handicap, monitor progress over time, and measure performance on different hole types and distances. Suitable for both simulator and real-course play.
- Track golf rounds
- Analyze round results
- Calculate handicap
- Track progress over time
- Measure performance by hole type
- Measure performance by distance
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Know your game, not just your scores. Golf Score Stats turns every round into clear, personal insight, scores on your Apple Watch, and can read a scorecard for you. SCORE ON YOUR APPLE WATCH Start a round on the phone and the holes appear on your wrist. Tap in shots and putts, swipe to the next hole, swipe past the last one to finish. The phone keeps every score in step, and Finish Later parks the round on the watch until you pick it up again. SNAP A SCORECARD Adding a course takes seconds. Take a photo of the scorecard, or use a screenshot or PDF, and the app fills in every tee's yardages, pars, slope and rating for you to check. It all happens on your iPhone. Or type a name and pick the course from suggestions worldwide, complete with its location, map pin and photo. If the card has no rating, one tap fills a plausible one, and a rating that can't be right is flagged wherever its tees are picked. A COACH THAT KNOWS YOUR GAME On-device AI reviews each round, each course and your game as a whole, and tells you what really cost you strokes and what to work on next. Every judgment comes from your own numbers, compared with golfers at your handicap, so the advice fits you. YOUR SEASON IN GOLF A review of any stretch of rounds: scoring, handicap at the start and the end, greens and putts against the stretch before, where you improved, your best nine, your steadiest run and your most-played courses. Share it as one picture. HOW EACH COURSE PLAYS FOR YOU See whether a course plays easier or harder for you than its rating says, your good-day score from those tees, the holes that give you the most trouble, and which courses you beat your handicap on. THE STATS THAT MATTER • Your handicap, average and trend pinned at the top of the Stats tab, with one tap to filter by course, tees or dates • Official World Handicap System handicap, including 9-hole rounds, with a full history chart • A what-if that tells you the score you need next round to reach a target index • 40+ stats: putts per GIR, scrambling by par type, bounce-back and blow-up holes, front vs back nine, personal records and more • A dozen full-screen charts and hole-by-hole heat maps, with trends that show your form over a season • Per-course and per-tee breakdowns FAST ROUND ENTRY Enter scores and putts hole by hole on a big keypad with your running score pinned above. Birdies are circled and bogeys squared, just like a paper card, and each hole shows your average on it. Stop part-way and finish later. Afterwards, read the round back: its flow hole by hole, the tally of birdies to doubles, greens hit and whether it counts toward your handicap. Share a club-style scorecard as an image or PDF. ASK SIRI "Start a round in Golf Score Stats", "What's my handicap in Golf Score Stats", "How was my last round in Golf Score Stats". Your courses show up in Spotlight too. MADE FOR SIM AND REAL GOLF Built for golfers who play lots of simulator rounds, and just as good on real courses. Yards or metres, set per scorecard. Find any round by course, tees or notes. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS No accounts, no servers of ours, no ads, no tracking. Your rounds and settings are backed up to your own iCloud Drive automatically, so a new phone picks up where you left off, and an iPhone and an iPad stay in step with each other. Two copies of the same player from two devices merge into one. Export and import your data any time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Golf Score Stats at 100% against Golfmetrics's 16%. Golf Score Stats also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.9) and in-app purchases (none vs 13). Golfmetrics's advantage is ratings volume (125 vs 7) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Golfmetrics sells 13 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Golf Score Stats asks for nothing beyond the download.
Golf Score Stats holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Golfmetrics has 125 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 16% of Golfmetrics's written reviews are positive against 100% of Golf Score Stats's.
Golfmetrics ships an update fortnightly, Golf Score Stats every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Golfmetrics | Golf Score Stats |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (125 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 16.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 125 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 71 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Golfmetrics LLC | Paul Krikke |
Customer experience
Golfmetrics
Golf Score Stats
Bugs and requests
Golfmetrics
Reported bugs
19 issues- App crashes on startup or during round entry
- Missing holes after round submission
- Cannot place shots on first hole
- App freezes during initial setup and login
- Endless login loop with email already in use error
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- Cannot edit rounds or access edit round feature
- Home screen stuck on loading circle
- Crashes when clicking on previous rounds
- Crashes when selecting scorecard holes
- Subscription paywall not functioning
- Password reset functionality broken
- Login credentials not saved between sessions
- Incorrect course hole yardages (900K yards)
- Strokes gained calculations don't add up correctly
- Data syncing issues between iPhone and iPad
- Course data not persisting after app updates
- App requires reinstall to function
- Overlapping and misplaced UI icons
- Home course selection crashes app
Requested features
18 requests- Restore old manual data entry method as option
- Bring back legacy app version
- Add detailed putting statistics by distance
- Include handicap breakdown by shot distance
- Add make percentage and 3-putt statistics
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- Enable practice round data entry
- Implement round filtering by date range
- Add time series analytics and trend analysis
- Include shot miss characteristics (left/right/short/long)
- Allow offline GPS functionality
- Add ability to select specific rounds for analysis
- Implement easy hole editing after advancement
- Support satellite map view instead of cartoonish maps
- Add recovery shot designation option
- Enable tournament golfer mode (phone-free entry)
- Allow manual yardage entry option
- Add session save functionality to avoid re-login
- Support multiple tee box viewing
Golf Score Stats
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Golfmetrics
- Individual Premium Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Coach Lite Monthly7 Days trial$49.991 Month
- Coach Pro Monthly7 Days trial$69.991 Month
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- Individual Premium Yearly7 Days trial$99.991 Year
- Coach Academy Monthly7 Days trial$199.991 Month
- Coach Lite Yearly7 Days trial$299.991 Year
- Coach Pro Yearly7 Days trial$499.991 Year
- One Month$9.99
- Team Subscription$19.99
- Six Month$39.99
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- Team Subscription$39.99
- Annual$69.99
- Annual Full Team Subscription$299.99
Golf Score Stats
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Golfmetrics free?
Is Golf Score Stats free?
Which has better reviews, Golfmetrics or Golf Score Stats?
Do Golfmetrics or Golf Score Stats have ads?
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