Comparison

Golf Rival vs Pixel Pro Golf

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Golf Rival

Compete in real-time multiplayer golf battles, showcasing your skills on over 300 courses. Collect powerful clubs and balls to outwit opponents and climb leaderboards. Enjoy various game modes, from 1v1 duels to tournaments, and improve your golf game with every match.

Highlights
  • Real-time multiplayer PvP golf
  • Over 300 courses and 20+ themes
  • Collect golf clubs and balls
  • Tournament mode
  • Play with friends
  • Unlock new challenges and rewards
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The golf course is calling! Tee-off and become the ultimate golf champion in Golf Rival! Golf Rival is a free-to-play real time PVP golf game where real golf skills need infinite creativity. Show off your golf genius like never before! Collect powerful golf clubs and balls and play across 600+ courses in more than 21+ themes! Satisfy your golf dreams of hitting incredible shots, dueling your rivals, climbing the leaderboards and becoming a true golf master. Let's go for the perfect swing, a hole-in-one and prove you're a golf pro! We’re adding a new layer of depth in Golf Rival! With focus on golf clubs players already love, and a new fun world to prove them in! With Course Conditions in play, every hole feels unique. Wind zones and gravity shifts force you to read the course fresh, every single time. And Club Mods help in countering whatever the golf course throws at you. Players dust off clubs they already own, slot in new mod upgrades, and tune their golf clubs to personalized strategies. This exciting free golf game has many modes to play and master. From 1v1 golf shootout duels, to golf championship Tournaments against a global community of golfers, to playing golf with rivals and friends. In Golf Rival, scoring a birdie is only the start of the competitive fun! Outwit rivals with powerful golf balls and clubs, because no two online golf matches are ever the same. Grab your clubs, and enjoy the golfing fun, whether you're a golfing newbie or an ultimate sports game expert! PLAY EXCITING GOLF GAMES -Unlock incredible golf challenges and conquer them by winning real time golf clashes and shootouts -Master your golf swing with precision and creativity and watch your skills grow -Compete in both 9-hole and 18-hole golf championship Tournaments every exciting season -Multiplayer golf mode and daily challenges await - play golf now every single day! -Beautiful 3D golf courses across different themes and difficulties always deliver an ultimate golf challenge GROW YOUR GOLF SKILLS -Golf Rival is unlike any free golf game you've tried - a true golfing simulator with creative and fantastical clubs and balls -Win real golf duels to unlock amazing rewards for your golf bag and take your golf pro skills to the next level -With every real time golf clash, you'll sharpen your genius swing and pull off incredible golf shots! INFINITE GOLF FUN -Every Golf Rival season is fun and fresh, with new courses, golf balls and rewards all the time! -Skill games like Kingdom, Ace Open and Brink events put a unique spin on classic golf - putting, chipping and more -Add your friends and see who has the golf genius to become the #1 golfer! -Connect with players from the Golf Rival community on Facebook and join the conversation Join golf fans around the world and download Golf Rival now to start your journey to becoming an ultimate golf champion! Golf Rival is available in 13 languages. Join the Golf Rival community on Facebook! Golf Rival is FREE to download and includes optional in-game purchases (including random items). If you wish to disable in-game purchases, please turn off the in-app purchases in your phone or tablet’s Settings. Terms of service: https://www.take2games.com/legal/en-US/

About

Pixel Pro Golf

Experience an addictive arcade golf game with realistic physics and beautiful pixel art. Compete in single-player, online tournaments, or challenge friends via iMessage across over 50 unique courses.

Highlights
  • Over 50 unique courses
  • Single player mode
  • Realtime online multiplayer
  • iMessage play
  • Global daily tournaments
  • Equipment upgrades
  • Character customization
Features
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Pixel Pro Golf is a wonderfully unique arcade golf game, that combines realistic physics with zen-like gameplay and beautiful pixel-art. It can be played online, in global tournaments, over iMessage, or as a single player experience. SINGLE PLAYER Play through over 50 gorgeously pixelated courses, each carefully crafted with a unique style and conditions, as you try to become the best of the best. Use the simple controls to aim, change club and swing. Then watch your ball head down stunning pixel fairways. Play well to earn ranking points and rise up the world rankings, unlocking different tours until you reach the Majors and hit the top spot.  Finish a tournament high enough to earn winnings, that you can use to upgrade everything from your driver to putter. Alternatively, use your winnings to customise your character with some awesome clothes, from panda hats to cool new Ts. Challenge friends over Game Center, with achievements and leaderboards for all the courses. TOURNAMENT EVENTS Every day offers new daily tournaments - each played on a different course - with only one attempt at each! When you are done, you can see where you rank against real-world players in the global leaderboard. Daily tournaments are grouped into Seasons, comprising 20 daily events. Hit the top 500 in a daily tournament to earn points, which add up over the season. At the end, the player with the most points is crowned champion. Similar to real life, Pixel Pro Golf's Major series like The Maestros or American Open are multi-day events, with scores aggregated over 4 days. Winning one of these is now the ultimate badge of honour in Pixel Pro Golf. Tournaments are in two leagues, Open and Handicap. In Open, your basic, unedited, score is what counts. In Handicap, as it can be in real golf, your score is handicapped - with less accomplished players given extra shots, so whoever plays well within their own skill level rises to the top! ONLINE MULTIPLAYER Using Game Center, challenge up to 4 online opponents to a realtime game. Choose from randomly selected 3 or 9 hole courses, or select a specific course to play. Invite friends to play via Game Center, or let the matchmaker choose some random players for you, and soon you will be testing your skills against real online opponents. iMESSAGE Play a turn-based match against friends, via the Messages app. Matches can have up to 4 players, and can be played hole-by-hole or shot-by-shot. During a match, players post individual messages for each hole or shot they play. This allows friends in the chat to comment on good, or bad, shots and highlights as the match progresses. Can you become the number one Pixel Pro Golfer? FEATURES: Over 50 unique courses Over 800 holes Single player Realtime online multiplayer iMessage play Global daily tournaments - open and handicap Global tournament seasons Video replays Addictive, fun gameplay Beautiful pixel-art Equipment upgrades Character customisation Quick play Relaxing audio Game Centre leaderboards, achievements and challenges

Screenshots

Golf Rival4 screens
Pixel Pro Golf4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Pixel Pro Golf at 4.7 against Golf Rival's 4.5. Pixel Pro Golf also leads on review sentiment (50% vs 38%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Golf Rival's advantage is chart position (#13 vs #124) and ratings volume (155K vs 32K). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Golf Rival sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Pixel Pro Golf sells 12 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pixel Pro Golf holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 155K and 32K respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 38% of Golf Rival's written reviews are positive against 50% of Pixel Pro Golf's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Golf Rival ships an update every 9 days, Pixel Pro Golf weekly. Both last shipped on September 25, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Golf Rival versus Pixel Pro Golf: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGolf RivalPixel Pro Golf
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (155K ratings)4.7 (32K ratings) — better
Positive reviews37.8% of reviews49.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings155K — better32K
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysWeekly — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#13 — better#124
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size363 MB134 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZynga Inc.Pixamo

Customer experience

Golf Rival

All ratings154,583 ratings
Positive89.4%
Neutral5.1%
Negative5.5%
Written reviews2,415 reviews
Positive37.8%
Neutral12.3%
Negative49.9%

Pixel Pro Golf

All ratings32,094 ratings
Positive93.5%
Neutral2.5%
Negative4.0%
Written reviews656 reviews
Positive49.8%
Neutral17.4%
Negative32.8%

User reviews

Golf Rival

From 155K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Fun and addictive game
  • 👍 No ads
  • 💡 Variety of game modes
  • 👍 Progression without paying

Room to improve

  • 🔒 Unfair matchmaking against higher-level players
  • 💰 Pay-to-win mechanics
  • 🐛 Inconsistent wind and ball physics
  • 🔒 Difficulty upgrading preferred clubs
  • 🔒 Putting is too easy

Pixel Pro Golf

From 32K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Addictive and fun gameplay
  • 👍 Simple and intuitive controls
  • 🌳 Charming pixel art style
  • ⛳️ Variety of challenging courses
  • 💰 Reasonable pricing model

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Inconsistent tree collision detection
  • 🤔 Putting mechanics can be frustrating
  • 🌬️ Wind impact is sometimes unpredictable
  • 💸 Lack of content to spend earned money on
  • 📺 Excessive ad frequency

Bugs and requests

Golf Rival

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Frequent disconnections and sync issues
  • Glitches with shot trajectories
  • Disappearing in-app purchases

Requested features

5 requests
  • More diverse course selection
  • Fairer matchmaking system
  • Ability to replay unlocked levels
  • Improved club upgrade system
  • More challenging putting

Pixel Pro Golf

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Achievements not properly tracking
  • Issues with ball dropping after penalty
  • Swing button not always registering input

Requested features

5 requests
  • More club and equipment customization options
  • Course creator and community sharing
  • Ability to rotate camera view
  • Multiplayer and leaderboard features
  • Practice mode for specific holes

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Golf Rival

One-time10
  • PIGGY_BANK$2.99
  • Save Streak$2.99
  • BIG PILE OF DIAMONDS$4.99
Show 7 more
  • Arena Big Deal$4.99
  • CHALLENGE PASS$4.99
  • FULL BAG OF DIAMONDS$9.99
  • Arena Super Deal$9.99
  • CLUB OFFER 1$9.99
  • FULL CHEST OF DIAMONDS$19.99
  • Arena Amazing Deal$19.99
12 purchases

Pixel Pro Golf

One-time12
  • Pro Pack 1$0.99
  • Amateur Pack 1$0.99
  • Handful of Tee Tokens$0.99
Show 9 more
  • US Pack 1$1.99
  • Unlock all Career tours$1.99
  • Unlock all equipment$1.99
  • US Pack 2$1.99
  • Pocket of Tee Tokens$1.99
  • Pouch of Tee Tokens$2.99
  • Remove Ads$4.99
  • Bag of Tee Tokens$4.99
  • Ultimate Bundle$7.99

Questions

Is Golf Rival free?
Golf Rival is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pixel Pro Golf free?
Pixel Pro Golf is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Golf Rival or Pixel Pro Golf?
Pixel Pro Golf is rated higher. Golf Rival averages 4.5 out of 5 from 155K ratings, while Pixel Pro Golf averages 4.7 from 32K ratings.
Do Golf Rival or Pixel Pro Golf have ads?
Both Golf Rival and Pixel Pro Golf show ads.
Which is updated more often, Golf Rival or Pixel Pro Golf?
Golf Rival ships an update every 9 days, and Pixel Pro Golf weekly. Most recently, Golf Rival was updated on September 25, 2026 and Pixel Pro Golf on September 25, 2026.
Which is more popular, Golf Rival or Pixel Pro Golf?
Golf Rival currently peaks at #13 in the App Store charts, and Pixel Pro Golf at #124. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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