Comparison

X vs AS IT LIES

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Book simulators
  • Track golf stats
  • Analyze swing
  • Play virtual courses
  • Find venues
  • Create profile
Features
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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/

About

AS IT LIES

Effortlessly manage golf scorecards and live leaderboards for your group. The app reads handwritten scores, calculates totals, and tracks game progress in real-time. It also handles various game formats, group handicaps, and season-long ladders.

Highlights
  • Handwritten scorecard scanning
  • Live group leaderboards
  • Support for multiple game formats
  • Automatic group handicaps
  • Season-long matchplay ladders
  • Trip score management
Features
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Keep one live leaderboard for the whole group read straight from the paper scorecards you already keep. Photograph your card at the turn or after the round. The app reads the handwriting, checks the arithmetic against the totals you wrote, and asks about a digit only when it isn't sure one tap settles it. Confirmed scores post to the leaderboard on every phone in the group within seconds. THE LEADERBOARD Gross and net views, live positions, and thru-hole tracking across every foursome. Anyone can watch from a shared link no install, no account. Players sign up once with just an email (no password), then a join code is all it takes to play. THE ROAR At a real tournament you hear the roar before you see the score. Same here: when anyone birdies or the top spot changes hands, every phone on the outing gets the word on the lock screen. One tap on the leaderboard turns it on or off. THE MONEY Run the games your group already plays: skins, nassau with presses, match play, best ball, scramble, stableford, wolf, vegas, the rabbit, and junk greenies, sandies, barkies, the snake. Settle Up nets the whole day into who-pays-whom, with Venmo one taps. New to a format? The built-in guide explains every game in plain English. RUN THE DAY Captains arm the money game and junk while creating the outing, and keep the format, the game and the junk one tap away on the leaderboard all day. Manage This Outing shows the state of the day on one screen. Outing Messages keeps one list for the whole group, and a captain's notice is promoted right on the leaderboard. When the beer cart is spotted, one tap tells every phone it's coming. THE GROUP HANDICAP Every group keeps its own handicap for every player, built automatically from rounds the group actually played together never typed in, never taken on faith. Before the games start, see exactly how many strokes each player gets and on which holes. Captains can seed a number for a new player until real rounds take over. YOUR HANDICAP Sign in with just your email a code, no password, no profile and every round you post builds the AS IT LIES Handicap: one personal number that follows you across every group and every trip. My Handicap shows the number, every round's math, and the scorecards behind it. Optional, and free forever. THE MATCHPLAY LADDER Run a season-long ladder: challenge the player above you, winner takes the rung, and the app delivers the callout. Crown a champion at season's end, then relaunch a fresh ladder in one tap. Prefer stroke play across the year? Attach outings to a season and the standings build themselves. THE RECORD Every card photo stays on the record, attached to the scores it produced. Anyone can open a player's card and see the paper behind the numbers. Scores you type in by hand carry the same weight marking your card hole by hole works exactly as well as photographing it. THE TRIP Plan the trip months before you go: one tap makes an empty trip with its own code. The crew talks in the trip's messages, pencils in days with courses and dates staying loose, and opens each one for real when it arrives, with yesterday's money game offered again. Every day feeds one trip leaderboard, and the whole weekend nets into one settle. Sign up once with just your email a code, no password and your spot, rounds and handicap follow you to any phone. After that, a join code is all it takes. Paper stays in charge the app just does the reading, the math, and the arguing for you.

Screenshots

X4 screens
AS IT LIES4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: AS IT LIES at 5.0 against X's 2.6. AS IT LIES also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). X's advantage is ratings volume (77 vs 2). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. X sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.49 per year. AS IT LIES asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

AS IT LIES holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: X has 77 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

X ships an update every 2 months, AS IT LIES every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
X versus AS IT LIES: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterXAS IT LIES
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.6 (77 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews12.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings77 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.515.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperXGolf America IncSean Szarkowicz

Customer experience

X

All ratings66 ratings
Positive24.2%
Neutral6.1%
Negative69.7%
Written reviews40 reviews
Positive12.5%
Neutral10.0%
Negative77.5%

AS IT LIES

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

X

Subscriptions2
  • Localization$0.491 Year
  • Gold Tier$5.991 Year
None

AS IT LIES

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is X free?
X is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is AS IT LIES free?
AS IT LIES is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, X or AS IT LIES?
AS IT LIES is rated higher. X averages 2.6 out of 5 from 77 ratings, while AS IT LIES averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do X or AS IT LIES have ads?
Neither X nor AS IT LIES shows ads.
Which is updated more often, X or AS IT LIES?
X ships an update every 2 months, and AS IT LIES every 2 weeks. Most recently, X was updated on October 24, 2026 and AS IT LIES on October 28, 2026.

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