X vs Loop Golf
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/
Loop Golf
This app simplifies golf trip planning and management for groups. It centralizes trip details, manages game formats and scoring, handles expense splitting, and archives past trip data for easy retrieval.
- Centralized trip itinerary
- AI-generated trip details
- Multiple golf game formats
- Live leaderboard
- Expense splitting with Venmo
- Trip and score archive
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The trip management app for golf groups. Plan the trip. Run the games. Remember the loop. Built by Captains who actually run these trips, for the Captains who run them. No more shared docs nobody updates. No more group texts about who owes who. No more digging through camera rolls for last year's scores. — The Trip — Courses, lodging, and itinerary in one place. Invite players with a link. AI-generated trip details so everyone shows up knowing the plan. — The Round — Stroke play with handicaps, dialed in. Wolf, Nassau, Skins — set the format, the app handles the math. Live leaderboard the whole crew can see in real time. — The Settlement — Expense splitting with Venmo deep links. Nobody chasing nobody for $43. Done in five minutes, not five days. — The Archive — Every trip, every round, every game— kept forever. Pull up scores from 2022 in two taps. The Commissioner writes a recap of every trip: readable, shareable, slightly biased toward whoever buys him dinner. — Pricing — Free for invited Players Captain — $199/year. Unlocks the full kit. Player — $39/year. Full access without needing an invite. Subscriptions are managed on the web at loopgolf.ai. — Loop Golf started as a tool for one trip — the Arizona Copper Cup. It turned out every group has the same headaches. So we built it for everyone. If you've ever been the guy who plans the trip, this is for you. Questions? hello@loopgolf.ai Terms of Use (EULA): https://loopgolf.ai/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Loop Golf at 5.0 against X's 2.6. X's advantage is ratings volume (79 vs 1). 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
Both are free to download. X sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.49 per year and Loop Golf sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $49.00 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Loop Golf holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: X has 79 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | X | Loop Golf |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.6 (79 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 12.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 79 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.5 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | XGolf America Inc | Loop Technologies LLC (Arizona) |
Customer experience
X
Loop Golf
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
Loop Golf
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
X
- Localization$0.491 Year
- Gold Tier$5.991 Year
Loop Golf
- Loop Golf Player1 Year trial$49.001 Year
- Loop Golf Captain1 Year trial$199.001 Year
- Single Trip$79.00
