X vs Squabbit
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
X
Experience immersive indoor golf with advanced simulators. Play top courses, track your skills, analyze your swing, and book tee times easily. Enjoy a full entertainment experience with food and drinks.
- Book simulators
- Track golf stats
- Analyze swing
- Play virtual courses
- Find venues
- Create profile
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Welcome to the future of golf. Connect with one of the many X-Golf simulator venues across the U.S. for a one-of-a-kind, immersive golf experience that will level up your game. Inside an X-Golf simulator, you’ll discover the most advanced golf simulator technology, play the world’s top courses, measure and track your skills in many game formats and competitions, practice at the driving range, analyze your swing, and be totally entertained. The X-Golf app lets you easily: *Create a profile *Track your stats *Book a simulator from anywhere, anytime *Find the X-Golf venue closest to you *Log in fast ABOUT X-Golf X-Golf develops fully immersive, powerful, high-end golf simulators, the core experiences of the world's best indoor entertainment golf plus bar-restaurant concept. The X-Golf technology is the most comprehensive indoor golf tracking system available, giving you the ability to accurately replicate all golf shots, including short game. The X-Golf system performs over 6,000 calculations per second allowing for accurate measurement of ball speed, launch, direction, and spin, along with club path, and impact, and speed. Every X-Golf location offers a full-service bar and restaurant serving beer, wine, liquor and a number of food options. *Some features are unavailable for X-Golf venues outside the U.S. & Canada. Terms of use: https://www.xgolffranchise.com/terms-of-use/
Squabbit
This app provides real-time scoring and leaderboards for golf tournaments and leagues. It supports various formats, offers GPS functionality, and includes features like automatic handicap updates and group chat.
- Real-time leaderboards and updates
- Multiple tournament formats
- League and society management
- Full GPS support with yardage
- Apple Watch integration
- Automatic handicap updates
- Add photos and group chat
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Realtime updates Easily see who is leading your tournament or league and get notified when it changes Free to get started No ads and no limits on the number of players, teams or tournaments. The core app is free for everyone, with an optional Host Pro subscription that unlocks advanced organizer features. Choose from many different tournament formats Play Stroke Play, Stableford, Scramble, Best Ball, Ryder Cup, Alternate Shot, Mixed, Shamble, 2 Person Scramble and many more! Leagues and societies support Manage your league events, notify players of new events and see leaderboards for the season Full GPS support Use high quality satellite imagery to see distances to hazards and pins, measure shot distances and see yardage circles Apple Watch app See distances to the front, middle and center of the green with a glance at your watch. You can also measure shot distances and enter hole scores without needing to take your phone out of the bag! Works for all leagues tournaments Perfect for 100+ player multi-day club tournaments, your weekend bachelor party or weekly leagues Easily add new players to the tournament Regardless of whether they already have a handicap or have the app installed, it's easy to add new players Realtime stats See who has the best par streak, lowest combined score on par 3s, biggest blowup hole and many more Add photos and chat Everyone in your tournament or league can add photos and participate in a group chat. Over 30k courses in 30+ countries Your course is sure to be on the list. And if it's not, it's simple to add a new one. You can also edit your course in the app if the holes change. Add games to your scorecard Several games to choose from including match play, skins, stableford and low ball / high ball Automatic handicap updates Squabbit uses the USGA handicap calculation to keep your handicap up to date. Relative handicaps, handicap percentages and per round handicap changes are all supported. Export to CSV You can export your tournament scorecards to a CSV file to view in a spreadsheet HealthKit integration The Apple Watch app integrates with HealthKit to start a workout session when you start a new round and end it when you finish. This keeps the watch app in the foreground so that you can check distances to the pin at any time without having to reopen the app. Host Pro is an auto-renewing annual subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://squabbitgolf.com/privacyPolicy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Squabbit at 98% against X's 13%. Squabbit also leads on rating (4.9 vs 2.6) and update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 months). On price, 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
Both are free to download. X sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.49 per year and Squabbit sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $59.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Squabbit holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Squabbit has 5.5K ratings behind it against 78, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 13% of X's written reviews are positive against 98% of Squabbit's.
X ships an update every 2 months, Squabbit every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | X | Squabbit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.6 (78 ratings) | 4.9 (5.5K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 12.5% of reviews | 97.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 78 | 5.5K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.5 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 158 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | XGolf America Inc | Orrie Shannon |
Customer experience
X
Squabbit
User reviews
X
From 78 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Excellent golf system (X-Golf)
- 🚀 New laser detection system praised
- 👍 QR code scanning to start round
- 👍 Profile picture displayed during play
- 👍 Simulators are the best technology
Room to improve
- 🐛 App does nothing/useless
- 🐛 Cannot see past round information/stats
- 🐛 App is a shortcut to a bad website
- 🐛 Cannot log in to website
- 🐛 App won't allow account creation
Squabbit
From 5.5K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Great app
- 🚀 Perfect for golf trips
- 🚀 Awesome for tournaments
- 👍 Easy to use
- 👍 Intuitive interface
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional scoring issues
- 🐛 Handicap calculation concerns
- 🐛 Offline functionality limitations
Bugs and requests
X
Reported bugs
73 issues- App does nothing
- Cannot see past round information or stats
- App is a shortcut to a website that sucks
- Cannot book tee times via app
- Invalid username/password on website
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- App won't allow account creation past step 3
- App not loading latest rounds
- No link to customer support
- Stats data leaves a lot to be desired
- No submit button on app for account creation
- App records some data but is very lacking
- App doesn't display most data collected
- Cannot track driving range stats
- App doesn't sync with website
- App doesn't remember home course
- No clear link to log into account in app
- No clear way to view upcoming reservations in app
- Half of the functions on the app are just links to the website
- Open tee times listed confusingly
- App is currently useless
- Doesn't track stats or connect account
- QR code scan does nothing
- Clunky navigation
- Most tabs take you to a webpage outside of the app
- Not updating scores even when scanned in
- Stats and rounds don't load after play
- Cannot change profile picture
- Defaults to first picture, cannot change
- Dates of handicap changes not shown
- Doesn't always connect to the game
- Premium stats option gone
- Half the app isn't functional
- Forwards to website when clicked
- Data never makes it to the app
- No way to manually enter data
- Doesn't save games after most recent update
- Cannot view recent games
- Only shows number of times to simulator, no other statistics
- Profile picture upload isn't working again
- Cannot connect to a simulator using the app
- App doesn't update stats
- Only tracked stats for 1 of 4 games played
- Site updating stats problem
- Problem with updating picture and settings within account
- Won't allow upgrade to club membership
- Says it can't connect to the store
- Will not let me connect to iTunes account to subscribe
- No option to contact support
- Nowhere to login online
- App won't let me upgrade subscription
- Says 'there was an issue connecting with the store'
- Won't record any rounds
- Cannot change password in the app
- Password reset autogenerates and that's it
- Lacks meaningful stats that can be viewed after a round
- Cannot view past scorecards or practice session data
- Subscription is just throwing away money
- Profile pops up with photo, but took awhile to update
- Working out bugs with score tracking
- Almost impossible to book tee times
- Website takes you straight to bookings
- Cannot even view website
- Link to contact developer is not working
- Link to add Avatar is broken and crashes the app
- No way to get round code after round started
- Scores were inaccurate
- Paid subscription, no stats, no scorecard
- App underdelivers in a huge way
- Doesn't share any of the data collected
- Cannot see scorecard for a round
- Ball speed and spin not available
- Summarized at a very high level with few stats
- Join Game function only works half the time
Requested features
24 requests- View past round information/stats
- View driving range stats
- Sync with other golfing apps (18Birdies, Blue Tees)
- Better data visibility in the app
- Ability to view/manage stats data
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- Load swing videos during practice sessions
- View history or rounds
- Display club speed, ball speed, distance, spin data
- Ability to set level on the app
- Add round after QR code
- Save/view actual scorecard
- View past scorecards or practice session data
- Add Avatar button functionality
- Fix profile picture upload
- Option to contact support
- Manual data entry for rounds
- Improve app functionality
- Make app more than just a website link
- Improve tee time booking process
- Display handicap change dates
- Display old game scores
- Allow users to set their level in the app
- Option to set up golf bag
- Allow users to upgrade subscription/membership
Squabbit
Reported bugs
2 issues- Scores sometimes get adjusted even after matches are concluded
- Occasionally removes players from the scorecard
Requested features
5 requests- Allow 0.5 strokes for skins games
- Add ability to manually adjust hole handicaps
- Implement a manual handicap calculation option
- Enable video uploads to activity feed
- Provide option to end and lock down rounds
In-app purchases
X
- Localization$0.491 Year
- Gold Tier$5.991 Year
Squabbit
- Player Pro$59.991 Year
- Tournament Pro$99.991 Year
- League Pro$249.991 Year
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- Club Pro$399.991 Year
- Player Pro (event)$4.99
- Tip a beer$4.99
- Tip lunch$9.99
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- Tip my foursome beers$24.99
- Tournament Pro (single event)$29.99
- Tip a golf round$99.99







