GolfNow Compete vs ParTab
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GolfNow Compete
Enhance your golf experience with a comprehensive app for competitive play. Track scores, challenge friends, and utilize GPS features for over 30,000 courses worldwide. Improve your game with advanced stats and find local tournaments.
- Live leaderboards
- Virtual wagers
- 30,000+ course GPS
- Advanced stat tracking
- Live scoring for up to 8 golfers
- Tournament and event search
- Custom competitions
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GolfNow Compete – Golf GPS & Scoring Make every round count with GolfNow Compete. Challenge yourself and your friends with the #1 app in competitive golf. Raise the stakes with custom competitions and exciting side games that add excitement to every hole. Plus, you can register for local events, improve your game with stat tracking and use the built-in golf course GPS and rangefinder to measure shots and select the right club every time. Play for more than bragging rights • Compete against your friends in unique multi-games and track standings on the live leaderboards • Add virtual wagers to the round and put some skin in the game Keep your game sharp • Track your round with state-of-the-art golf course GPS maps and yardages for 30,000+ courses worldwide • Identify areas you can improve your game with advanced scoring and stat tracking Ditch the paper scorecard • Make every shot count and score live with up to eight golfers on the built-in scorecard • Score for your friends when they forget their phone, or add guests and we’ll share the scorecard with them • Add your Handicap to your profile and even the playing field with the Net scoring format Tee off against anyone, anywhere • Search for tournaments and outings near you from the Compete tab, or create your very own public or private event. • Find, invite and add your friends to join you in competitions, group rounds, your favorite games and virtual wagers. GolfNow Compete is for golfers, by golfers, and we want to hear from you! If you have feedback for us, please email us at compete@golfnow.com Terms of Use: https://www.golfnow.com/support/about-us/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.versantprivacy.com/privacy?intake=Golf&appname=GNCompete Your Privacy Choices: https://www.versantprivacy.com/privacy/notrtoo CA Notice: https://www.versantprivacy.com/privacy/california-consumer-privacy-act
ParTab
This app simplifies golf game management for groups, handling everything from setup to scorekeeping and payout calculations. It offers live leaderboards, customizable game formats, and even reads handwritten scorecards via QR codes. Track career stats and manage handicaps with ease.
- Customizable golf game formats
- Live, real-time leaderboards
- Automated payout calculations
- Handwritten scorecard scanning via QR code
- Course handicap calculation
- Hole-by-hole GPS and course maps
- Career stats and achievements tracking
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ParTab keeps score for your whole group and handles everything that usually gets argued about afterwards. Score the round for everyone on one card. Real scorecards for real courses, with pars, stroke index and yardages already filled in, so you're not typing them at the first tee. SIDE GAMES, SCORED FOR YOU Pick the games your group plays and ParTab does the maths hole by hole. Banker, Wolf, Skins, Nassau with presses, Match Play, 6-6-6, Best Ball, Bingo Bango Bongo, High-Low, Chicago, Stableford, Scramble, Low Gross and Low Net. Every game keeps a running ledger, so at any point in the round you can see exactly where you stand. No one has to remember what happened on the seventh, and nobody's doing arithmetic in the car park. Skins can be played birdies-or-better, where only a birdie takes the hole — and you only write down the birdies. 6-6-6 can double the stake when someone makes a birdie in a six-hole stretch, and triple it for an eagle. HOLE MAPS AND YARDAGES Every hole drawn from real course data, with distances to the front, middle and back of the green updating as you walk. Switch to satellite view when you want to see what you're actually hitting over. COMPETITIONS Run an event across as many groups as you like. Everyone scores their own card, and the leaderboard updates as scores come in. Nine holes or eighteen, one day or several, with handicaps applied automatically and payouts worked out for you. Invite players by text or email, or share a code. Anyone can follow the leaderboard live, whether they're playing or watching from home. YOUR GOLF, RECORDED Every round is saved. Scoring average, best round, birdies, eagles, how you've played each course, and how you've done against the people you play with. Finished competitions are kept with their final standings. Sign in and your rounds follow you to any device, and to golfpartab.com. BUILT FOR THE COURSE Works with one hand, in bright sun, with a glove on. Big numbers, few taps. Your round is saved as you go, so nothing is lost if your phone rings or the battery gives up. ParTab tracks what your group is playing for so everyone agrees at the end. No money is handled by the app — settling up stays between you and your playing partners, the way it always has.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: ParTab at 100% against GolfNow Compete's 45%. ParTab also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). GolfNow Compete's advantage is ratings volume (5.6K vs 7). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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.
ParTab holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: GolfNow Compete has 5.6K ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 45% of GolfNow Compete's written reviews are positive against 100% of ParTab's.
GolfNow Compete ships an update every 5 weeks, ParTab fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GolfNow Compete | ParTab |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (5.6K ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 45.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5.6K — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 276 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | GolfNow.com | ParTab Limited Liability Company |
Customer experience
GolfNow Compete
ParTab
Bugs and requests
GolfNow Compete
Reported bugs
4 issues- GPS not working properly
- Auto-scoring feature not functioning
- Courses not showing up in search
- Handicap not updating correctly
Requested features
4 requests- Apple Watch compatibility
- Advanced statistics and analytics
- Ability to edit and delete scorecards
- Support for 9-hole rounds and competitions
ParTab
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
GolfNow Compete
No in-app purchases
ParTab
No in-app purchases
Questions
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