Comparison

nRange Golf GPS vs Golf GPS

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

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About

nRange Golf GPS

This app provides accurate golf course yardages and distances using your phone's GPS. It offers features like aerial maps, shot measurement, scoring for multiple players, and advanced statistics. Enjoy a user-friendly interface without needing a dedicated rangefinder.

Highlights
  • Accurate GPS yardages
  • Aerial course maps
  • Shot measurement
  • Scoring and stats tracking
  • Automatic course access
  • Intuitive interface
Features
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nRange Golf GPS has been completely re-designed for the latest iOS. Features: EASY, INTUITIVE screens AUTOMATIC online access to courses, FAST, ACCURATE yardages, get distances to any course feature via overhead AERIAL MAPS, Measure your shots, Scoring for you and your foursome, advanced stats and round history. No need for an expensive dedicated golf GPS rangefinder. The Free version is ad supported. We have over 99% courses in the US available for play plus courses in over 22 countries around the world. We are able to get any US and many international course mapped in as little as 2 days if you just email us the info. Feature details: • Use your phone’s existing GPS chip to provide similar accuracy to dedicated devices costing hundreds of dollars • Automatic course access via your phone’s internet data connection (unlimited data plans recommended) • Full scoring and statistics tracking to help you improve your game • Automatic listing of the three closest courses to make start-up fast and easy • Simple, fast, intuitive interface • Distance to front, back, and center of the green • Visualization of the green outline • Overhead aerial maps of the course with your location and the center of the green • Ability to pan and scroll around the course to see distances to specific course features such as landing areas, bunkers, water, trees, etc. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

About

Golf GPS

This app provides distances to course features like bunkers and water hazards. It displays customizable yardage circles around your current location and allows you to drop custom markers to measure distances to any point on the course. It works on any course with an internet connection and supports both yards and meters.

Highlights
  • Distance to bunkers, water hazards, and pins
  • Customizable yardage circles (50-300 yards/meters)
  • Drop and drag custom yardage markers
  • Compass view for orientation
  • Supports yards and meters
  • Saves yardages for later use
  • Marker history view (with purchase)
Features
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Golf GPS is a simple app. It tells distance to bunkers, water hazards, and pins. Many similar apps requires subscription (hopefully no additional cost) , or you need to build your own map ahead of time. While struggling with my terrible iron shot, I got an idea. When you play golf, you see red, white, blue yardage represents 100, 150 and 200 yards respectively from the pin. The idea was why don’t I reverse it on my iPhone screen. It draws a map around you, and put blue pin where you are. And draw red, white, blue circle around you. Since I can add circle easily, I add three more: 50, 250 & 300 yard. For those who are familiar with meter, I add an option for you. Those circle should be enough for most player while the app allows you to drop yardage wherever you want. Drop and drag it to a point you want, and it will tell exact distance from your location. Those yardages will be stored internally and will be displayed again until you delete it. *** You need internet connection to use this app *** Features - It works any courses as long as you have internet connection - Distance circles around your current location: 50, 100, 150, 200, 250, 300 - Support both yard and meter - 10-yard(meter) circles when you zoom in - Drop yardages wherever you want to know exact distance - Relocate yardages by drag & drop - App saves yardages for later play - Compass view (rotate map) to match the direction you are facing; easy to find green - Yardages in 3 different sizes - Support background mode for quick restart - More yardage circles when zoom closely for accuracy - Drop a marker (shot from) where you hit and calculate distance from it - Purchase option to remove ads and enable Marker History View, which allows you to review your mark (short from) history after a game

Screenshots

nRange Golf GPS4 screens
Golf GPS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: nRange Golf GPS at weekly against Golf GPS's every 2 months. nRange Golf GPS also leads on rating (4.3 vs 4.0). Golf GPS's advantage is review sentiment (74% vs 62%) and iOS requirement (8.1 vs 15.6). On price, ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. nRange Golf GPS sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Golf GPS sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

nRange Golf GPS holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 19 and 23 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 62% of nRange Golf GPS's written reviews are positive against 74% of Golf GPS's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

nRange Golf GPS ships an update weekly, Golf GPS every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
nRange Golf GPS versus Golf GPS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameternRange Golf GPSGolf GPS
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (19 ratings) — better4.0 (23 ratings)
Positive reviews62.0% of reviews74.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1923 — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.68.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperInfinite Solutions, LLCSeong Park

Customer experience

nRange Golf GPS

All ratings18 ratings
Positive88.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative11.1%
Written reviews71 reviews
Positive62.0%
Neutral8.5%
Negative29.6%

Golf GPS

All ratings23 ratings
Positive78.3%
Neutral8.7%
Negative13.0%
Written reviews104 reviews
Positive74.0%
Neutral8.7%
Negative17.3%

User reviews

nRange Golf GPS

From 19 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🎯 Accurate yardages
  • 🗺️ Great aerial views
  • 📊 Good statistics tracking
  • 💡 Long-time user satisfaction

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashing issues
  • ⚠️ Unreliable performance
  • 📉 Declining performance
  • ❌ No longer honoring lifetime subscriptions
  • 🚫 Difficulty verifying email

Golf GPS

From 23 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Simple and easy to use
  • 🚀 Quick to acquire position
  • 🔋 Excellent battery life
  • 💡 No course downloads needed
  • 🎯 Accurate distance measurements

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Map loading can be slow
  • 📍 Accuracy issues (sometimes off)
  • 📶 Requires internet connection/reception
  • 🖼️ Images can be outdated
  • 🧭 Compass orientation issues

Bugs and requests

nRange Golf GPS

Reported bugs

14 issues
  • App crashes mid-round
  • Email verification issues
  • Lifetime subscription not honored
  • Scorecard not saving
  • Distance display shows bars instead of numbers
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  • No keyboard for scoring input
  • App shuts down when entering score
  • GPS distances inaccurate
  • App hiccups between holes
  • Lost scoring and stats due to crashes
  • Distances showing as bars after iOS 10 update
  • Cannot pan map
  • In-app purchases not honored
  • Email verification loop

Requested features

7 requests
  • Apple Watch integration
  • Ability to pan map
  • More user-friendly interface
  • Ability to enter score for zero putts/saves
  • Support for meters instead of yards
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  • Dark mode option
  • Advanced analytics dashboard

Golf GPS

Reported bugs

14 issues
  • Flag/pin cannot be removed, app shuts off
  • App shuts off after placing flag
  • Geo error-204, operation could not be completed
  • Map takes several minutes to load
  • App crashes a few times
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  • App crashes when locking/unlocking screen
  • App crashes after being open for a while
  • App is slow and not always working
  • v1.8 doesn't work
  • Quit working
  • Map does not show
  • Glitch occasionally
  • Roams to another location before locating position
  • Too dark for golf

Requested features

15 requests
  • Add compass data to rotate map
  • Apple Watch integration
  • Ability to delete previous tags/markers
  • Add a basic scorecard
  • Ability to create names for dropped markers
Show 10 more
  • Always show distance with crosshairs
  • Larger yardage marker numbers
  • Link to an instructional page
  • Add more circles
  • Add a remove cloud feature
  • Update to newer iOS versions
  • Add search functionality for courses
  • Allow crosshairs to show yardage as it scrolls
  • Automatically position map according to hole direction
  • Add score/fairway/greens in regulation tracking

In-app purchases

10 purchases

nRange Golf GPS

One-time10
  • Weekly Unlimited Pass$3.99
  • Monthly Unlimited Pass$9.99
  • Weekly Unlimited Pass$10.00
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  • Quarterly Unlimited Pass$19.99
  • Monthly Unlimited Pass$20.00
  • For iOS Devices only$28.99
  • Half-Year Unlimited Pass$29.99
  • Quarterly Unlimited Pass$40.00
  • Half-Year Unlimited Pass$60.00
  • Lifetime Unlimited$79.99
1 purchases

Golf GPS

One-time1
  • Remove Ads & Upgrade$0.99

Questions

Is nRange Golf GPS free?
nRange Golf GPS is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Golf GPS free?
Golf GPS is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, nRange Golf GPS or Golf GPS?
nRange Golf GPS is rated higher. nRange Golf GPS averages 4.3 out of 5 from 19 ratings, while Golf GPS averages 4.0 from 23 ratings.
Do nRange Golf GPS or Golf GPS have ads?
Neither nRange Golf GPS nor Golf GPS shows ads.
Which is updated more often, nRange Golf GPS or Golf GPS?
nRange Golf GPS ships an update weekly, and Golf GPS every 2 months. Most recently, nRange Golf GPS was updated on September 19, 2026 and Golf GPS on September 21, 2026.

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