Golf GPS vs Chip
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Golf GPS
Enhance your golf game with AI-powered insights and a virtual caddie. Track your performance with detailed statistics and plan your strategy on any course worldwide. Improve your scores round after round.
- GPS satellite maps of golf courses
- Accurate GPS distances
- AI-powered virtual caddie
- Intelligent game planning
- Detailed performance statistics
- Shot tracking
- Bag management
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The best GPS app to improve your golf on every course! Get a better scorecard on your next round of golf by using AI to improve your game. Fill in your scorecard, view your game results and analyse the evolution of your golf performance with numerous statistics. An all-in-one GPS app to improve your game of golf, round after round. It helps you plan your game on a golf course in a rational way by calculating the most effective tactics for your game. It adapts to the particularities of every golf course in the world. It's like having a Tour-level caddie and a GPS rangefinder in your golf bag. Play each hole like a pro with accurate Plays-Like distances based on all parameters related to playing conditions such as golf course altitude, shot elevation, wind, temperature, humidity, etc. Optimize your golf training sessions by relying on your game statistics and AI-based suggestions that will help you improve specific areas of your game. Data from other players with a similar level of golf to yours is used to determine the areas of improvement that will have the most impact on your game. ______________ * Free features *_____________ • GPS Satellite maps of every golf course, • GPS distances. Your distances on the golf course to the green, • Scorecard for each round of golf with stableford and strokeplay calculations, • Shot-tracking for statistics after your round of golf, • Weather info, • Bag management: define the golf clubs you use for your round, • compatibility with Apple Health. ___________________________________ * Premium features - with free trial *__________________________________ • Real-time smart Caddie to get Plays-Like distances and Club Suggestions based on your strategy and game conditions, • Game Plan to prepare a personalized strategy based on your predicted performance, • Telemeter with Plays-Like distances, • Compatibility with Apple Watch Series and Ultra, • Training or Competition mode to enable only the GPS features authorized for your official golf game, • Stableford or Strokeplay mode, • Advanced stats and round history.
Chip
Enhance your golf game by tracking every ball, reducing penalty strokes, and speeding up play. This app requires a compatible smart golf ball to function.
- Track every golf ball
- Reduce penalty strokes
- Accelerate pace of play
- Minimize search time
- Save on spare balls
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Score better Knowing you find every ball will not only boost your confidence but also significantly reduce your penalty strokes. Play faster With the Chiping smart ball and this app you reduce the search time to the minimum and accelerate the pace of play. Save balls Did you know an average player looses 4-5 balls a round? With Chiping smart balls you don't need a bag full of spare balls To fully use this app you need the Chiping golfball.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Golf GPS at 4.6 against Chip's 3.7. Golf GPS also leads on review sentiment (76% vs 50%) and ratings volume (104 vs 3). Chip's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10). On price, update cadence, 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. Golf GPS sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Chip asks for nothing beyond the download.
Golf GPS holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Golf GPS has 104 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 76% of Golf GPS's written reviews are positive against 50% of Chip's.
Golf GPS ships an update every 2 months, Chip every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Golf GPS | Chip |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (104 ratings) — better | 3.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 75.8% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 104 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 83 MB | 96 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hello Birdie | Chip-ing AG |
Customer experience
Golf GPS
Chip
In-app purchases
Golf GPS
- Flexible Subscription Monthly1 Month trial$7.991 Month
- Caddie - Monthly7 Days trial$9.901 Month
- Unlimited Subscription Monthly1 Month trial$15.991 Month
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- Planner - Monthly7 Days trial$15.991 Month
- Caddie - Yearly14 Days trial$47.901 Year
- Flex Subscription Yearly1 Month trial$49.991 Year
- Unlimited Subscription Yearly1 Month trial$99.991 Year
- Planner - Yearly14 Days trial$99.991 Year
- Flex Subscription Yearly14 Days trial$199.991 Year
- Unlock One Golf Course$7.99
Chip
No in-app purchases









