GolfPS vs Golf Pad Classic
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GolfPS
This golf GPS app provides your distance to the next pin and suggests a club based on your average distances. It's designed for simplicity, allowing you to focus on playing. Request new courses or suggest features via email.
- Distance to next pin
- Suggested club based on average distances
- Simple, focused interface
- Course requests
- Feature requests via email
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A simple golf GPS application giving your current distance to the next pin and a suggested club based on your average distances. This app is designed to give you only what you need so you can spend more time playing golf and less time staring at your digital devices. Request any course you would like added to the application and shoot us an email if you have any feature request!
Golf Pad Classic
This golf GPS app helps players improve their game with automatic shot tracking, performance monitoring, and course navigation. It offers Apple Watch integration for quick distances and shot logging, aiming to lower scores and enhance overall performance on the course.
- Automatic shot distance tracking
- Performance monitoring
- Course navigation
- Apple Watch integration
- Plays-like yardages
- One-tap shot tracking
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Join millions of golfers who have made Golf Pad GPS the top-rated free golf GPS app to lower your scores and improve your golf game! Rated 4.9/5 and packed with powerful, free features, this app is designed to improve your golf game and help you easily navigate any golf course. Automatically track your shot distances, monitor your performance, and pinpoint areas where you can improve. Connect to your Apple Watch for quick front, middle, back distances, plays-like yardages, one tap shot tracking and more. Golf Pad is quick, accurate and reliable!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: GolfPS at 5.0 against Golf Pad Classic's 3.5. GolfPS also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Golf Pad Classic's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 7 months) and ratings volume (15 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
GolfPS holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Golf Pad Classic has 15 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
GolfPS ships an update every 7 months, Golf Pad Classic every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GolfPS | Golf Pad Classic |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 3.5 (15 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 15 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 13.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 286 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Greg DeJong | Contorra LLC |
Customer experience
GolfPS
Golf Pad Classic
In-app purchases
GolfPS
No in-app purchases
Golf Pad Classic
No in-app purchases
