Roundabout vs ShotTrail
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Roundabout
Improve your golf game with precise GPS data for thousands of courses, automatic shot tracking, and AI-powered club recommendations. Analyze your performance with detailed statistics and Strokes Gained analytics to lower your handicap.
- Golf GPS for 40,000+ courses
- Automatic shot tracking with Apple Watch
- AI-powered virtual caddie
- Strokes Gained analytics
- Intelligent scorecard
- Performance statistics
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Improve your golf handicap with Roundabout—your Apple Watch-integrated golf companion featuring precise Golf GPS data for over 40,000 courses, automatic shot tracking, tailored club recommendations from a virtual caddie, and actionable statistical analysis to enhance your performance on the green. ▶ GOLF GPS & GOLF SHOT TRACKING ◀ [GOLF GPS COVERAGE] • Navigate the fairways with Golf GPS data for over 40,000 courses globally, providing accurate distances to greens, hazards, tees, and landing zones on both your phone and Apple Watch. [ GOLF SWING SHOT DETECTION WITH APPLE WATCH] • Capture every golf swing automatically with your Apple Watch, meticulously recording details on strokes, putts, and penalties for live tracking or detailed post-round analysis. [WIND SPEED & DIRECTION INSIGHTS] • Access wind speed and direction data on the map to enhance your strategic decisions on the golf course. ▶ VIRTUAL GOLF COACH & CADDIE ◀ [PERSONALIZED GOLF COACHING] • Gain an edge with Strokes Gained analytics and AI, receiving tailored advice and strategic coaching to enhance your playing style and shot selection. [SMART GOLF CLUB RECOMMENDATIONS] • Benefit from the precision of AI-enhanced Virtual Caddie, providing club choices customized for every shot by considering lie, distance, elevation, and weather, and refined by your unique playing data. [INTELLIGENT SCORECARD] • Easily record and analyze your golf scores with an intelligent scorecard feature that provides a detailed breakdown of your play, helping you understand your game better. ▶ GOLF PERFORMANCE ANALYTICS ◀ [COMPREHENSIVE GOLF STATISTICS] • Analyze actionable post-round data revealing your golf strengths, areas for improvement, and consistent tendencies, complete with key metrics such as Greens in Regulation (GIR), Fairways in Regulation (FIR), and scrambling success rates. [VISUALIZED PERFORMANCE METRICS] • Engage with visually rich statistics, including strokes gained across various play aspects, enabling a deeper understanding of your game progression. ▶ SEAMLESS APPLE WATCH INTEGRATION ◀ [SYNCED GOLF ACTIVITY] • Track golf rounds effortlessly from your Apple Watch, syncing with the Health app for a holistic view of your golf fitness metrics. [ENHANCED WATCH FEATURES] • Access advanced features such as swing detection, convenient score entry, and a range of on-wrist utilities that keep the focus on your game, not the gadget. ▶ GOLF COMMUNITY ◀ [FOR PLAYERS] • Join the Roundabout community to share your golf data with instructors, receive coaching, or simply enjoy the camaraderie with friends and fellow enthusiasts. [FOR INSTRUCTORS] • Collaborate with students within the app, harnessing powerful insights to guide their training, offer targeted lessons, and witness measurable improvement. [EXPLORE GOLF COURSES] • Use satellite imagery to discover new courses, challenge yourself against the community, and celebrate personal victories. [SUBSCRIPTION OPTIONS] • Opt for monthly or annual subscriptions to unlock premium features like Virtual Golf Coach and Caddie, automatic golf shot tracking, golf scorecard functionality, and in-depth golf statistics for comprehensive gameplay analysis. Roundabout is more than just a golf app—it’s an extensive toolkit that revolutionizes how you play and improve in the sport of golf. Whether you're a seasoned pro or just starting out, Roundabout provides the insights and tools necessary for top-tier golf performance. Terms of Use are available at: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
ShotTrail
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Tap once when you're about to hit. ShotTrail takes the position and the time, works out how far the last shot went, and keeps score. Keep up to 10 rounds free. One purchase keeps every round — no subscription, nothing renews. EVERY SHOT WHERE YOU ACTUALLY HIT IT ShotTrail tracks in the background, so your position is already captured the moment you tap — no standing still waiting for a fix. Tap Arm the instant you hit and that exact spot is held, however long it takes you to walk up to it. Shot distance is measured, not estimated. A CADDIE THAT KNOWS YOUR OWN DISTANCES ShotTrail Caddie reads how far you hit each club from the rounds you've played, then gives you the distance to your next target and the club that matches — wind-adjusted, if you want it. It suggests; you decide. PAY ONCE Golf tracking normally means a subscription. This one doesn't. Keep 10 rounds free; one purchase keeps them all — and nothing you've recorded is ever locked, whether you buy or not. STATISTICS THAT NAME THE PROBLEM Not a wall of numbers. Greens, fairways, putting, scrambling, driving and penalties, each set against what's typical at your scoring level, ending in the one part of your game costing you the most strokes — and a drill for it. YOUR DATA STAYS ON YOUR PHONE No account, no sign-up, no analytics, no crash reporting, no third-party SDKs, and no server of ours. Two requests do leave the phone, and only when you ask for something: a coordinate and a date for the round's weather, and a coordinate and a radius when you search OpenStreetMap for a course. Logging shots, scoring and statistics need no network at all. YOUR COURSE, EVEN IF NOBODY HAS MAPPED IT Import from OpenStreetMap with par, stroke index and length filled in — or play a round on a course nobody has mapped and let ShotTrail work the holes out from your own shots. ON THE COURSE • Log Shot, Arm, Log Penalty, Pick Up, and provisional balls that resolve once you say whether you found the original • Course Guide — a tee-to-green map of each hole, every segment's distance, hole-up, with a live wind badge • Shot Plan — draggable landing markers from where you stand to the flag; tap one to aim your next shot at it • Apple Watch remote — Arm, Log Shot, the hole, the scorecard and the Caddie on your wrist, plus opt-in swing detection that arms the shot • Fix a hole while you're still on it: add a forgotten shot, move one, close it where you holed out AFTER THE ROUND • Your round drawn on satellite imagery, the walking dashed so it's never mistaken for a shot • Scorecard, weather, wind and sun position, stored with the round • Green Hit % (GIR), Fairway Hit %, putts per hole and per green hit, scrambling, sand saves, average and longest drive, penalties, score distribution • Min, average and maximum distance for every club, each shot behind it — saved into My Clubs, which is what the Caddie reads • The photos you took while playing, matched by time and place, captioned with the hole • A PDF round report in Files YOUR DATA • Backups to your own iCloud Drive, written automatically after every round • Metres or yards, km/h, m/s or mph, mixed however you like • Apple Health: every finished round filed as a Golf workout, off until you turn it on BEFORE YOU CHANGE PHONES Your rounds live on your phone. There is no account and no server, so they do not appear on a new phone by themselves — you carry them across by restoring your backup file. Check that a recent one is there before you trade the old phone in. The purchase moves separately, with your Apple Account. REQUIREMENTS iPhone running iOS 17.2 or later. The Apple Watch app needs watchOS 10 or later, and swing detection runs a workout all round; the iPhone app is complete on its own. ShotTrail asks for Always location so a position is in hand the moment you tap, phone still in your pocket; tracking starts with the round and stops with it. Privacy policy: https://shottrail.com/privacy Support: https://shottrail.com/support
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: ShotTrail at every 5 days against Roundabout's every 2 weeks. Roundabout's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.2). 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. Roundabout sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and ShotTrail sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Roundabout ships an update every 2 weeks, ShotTrail every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Roundabout | ShotTrail |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (5.1K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 56.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5.1K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 105 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ponti Capital, LLC | Maitreya AB |
Bugs and requests
Roundabout
Reported bugs
4 issues- Incorrect stroke count
- Inability to delete test rounds
- App locking up and requiring reinstall
- Sync issues between phone and watch
Requested features
5 requests- Add shot button for missed shots
- Customizable club selection
- Improved syncing between phone and watch
- Ability to share round data
- Localized versions (e.g. French)
ShotTrail
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Roundabout
- Par Monthly$1.991 Month
- Birdie Monthly$5.991 Month
- Statistics Monthly$6.991 Month
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- Eagle Monthly$11.991 Month
- Par Annual$19.991 Year
- Statistics Annual$59.991 Year
- Birdie Annual$59.991 Year
- Eagle Annual$119.991 Year
- Statistics Week$9.99
- Auto Shot Detection$9.99
ShotTrail
- Unlimited Rounds$19.99









