Comparison

X vs FirstCut Golf

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

FirstCut Golf

Features
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Tap your score. Keep walking. FirstCut is a golf scorecard built for the way you actually keep one: glove on, one hand, standing on the tee box. Big buttons, no menus, nothing to set up between holes. Start in seconds. Play a course you've played before and it's waiting for you — pinned, searchable, one tap. Somewhere new? Find the courses around you, search 24,000+ by name, or enter a card by hand in under a minute. Pick your tee and go. Score without looking twice. Strokes and putts sit under your thumb. One tap logs a birdie, par, or bogey. Undo takes back the last thing you did. Score for the whole group on one phone. Up to four players, nothing for your partners to install, no accounts for them to create. Your card survives the round. FirstCut keeps the round on your iPhone as you play, so a crash, a force-quit, or a save that doesn't go through never costs you the scorecard — anything outstanding is sent the moment you're back on signal. Finish clean. Totals, front and back nines, putts, and the full hole-by-hole grid. Share a scorecard image straight to Messages or Mail — in a group round, one traditional card with everyone on it. Recently completed rounds stay a tap away if you need to look one over or fix a score. Features: • One-phone group scoring for up to four players • Large, one-handed stroke and putt controls • One-tap birdie, par, and bogey • Find the courses near you, no typing • Search 24,000+ courses by name • Add any course by hand — pars, hole count, handicaps • Saved courses with pinning, search, and archiving • Tee-specific pars and yardages • Undo during the round, score edits after it • Automatic recovery if the app is interrupted • Recently completed rounds, tappable to review • Shareable scorecard images, including group cards • Stats that build themselves — scoring trends, putting, accuracy, and records • Track putts and fairways, or turn them off for a faster round Free. No ads, no subscriptions, no in-app purchases.

Screenshots

X4 screens
FirstCut Golf4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: FirstCut Golf at none against X's 2. FirstCut Golf also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months). On price, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

X ships an update every 2 months, FirstCut Golf every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
X versus FirstCut Golf: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterXFirstCut Golf
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.6 (77 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews12.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings77 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.5 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperXGolf America IncCloudFirst Consulting LLC

In-app purchases

2 purchases

X

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

FirstCut Golf

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is X free?
X is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is FirstCut Golf free?
FirstCut Golf is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do X or FirstCut Golf have ads?
Neither X nor FirstCut Golf shows ads.
Which is updated more often, X or FirstCut Golf?
X ships an update every 2 months, and FirstCut Golf every 3 days. Most recently, X was updated on October 24, 2026 and FirstCut Golf on September 24, 2026.

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