nRange Golf GPS vs HuntShield
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Accurate GPS yardages
- Aerial course maps
- Shot measurement
- Scoring and stats tracking
- Automatic course access
- Intuitive interface
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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.
HuntShield
This app offers comprehensive hunting tools, including regulations, 3D scouting with lidar, land access, and recovery assistance. It provides detailed legal information, terrain analysis, and offline functionality for field use.
- Legal hunting regulations by state
- 3D terrain scouting with lidar
- Offline functionality for field tools
- Land booking and access
- Animal recovery and meat yield estimation
- Species identification
- Trip planner and gear management
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Tired of paying for a stack of subscriptions just to do the one thing you actually planned on — hunting? HuntShield is your all-in-one hunting multitool: regulations, 3D scouting, lidar, land, recovery and meat yield in one app, with the field tools still working when your signal doesn't. KNOW IT'S LEGAL BEFORE YOU GO Pick your state, the kind of ground you're hunting and the date. HuntShield lays out what's open, legal hunting hours, the licenses and tags you need, blaze orange and gear rules, plus the Don't-Get-Caught laws hunters actually get cited for, each linked to the state's own regulations. The Trip Planner builds a pre-trip checklist, the Season Guide lists every season and bag limit, and your gear, sits, harvests and licenses live in one record. Checks you've run stay on your phone for when the signal drops, and Hunter members get a push and an email when their state's rules change. SEE THE GROUND, NOT JUST THE MAP 3D terrain with slope, aspect, thermals and scent drift, and the sun tracked through the day. Switch on lidar to see the bare earth under the trees — the benches, saddles, draws and old logging roads that funnel deer — and let HuntShield mark the likely ones for you. STAND THERE BEFORE YOU GO Drag the Stand View figure onto the map and look around in first person, built from the real USGS lidar scan: the actual trees at their measured heights, the brush, the lay of the land. Check your shooting lanes from the ground, a ladder or a tower. Where no scan exists, you get a model from terrain and canopy data. Save a stand and it opens with no signal. FIND THE THICK STUFF The brush layer reads the lidar scan to show where the cover is thick two to ten feet off the ground — the bedding cover a satellite photo can't see. CONDITIONS FOR EVERY HUNT AREA Weather, wind, pressure, sunrise and sunset, moon phase and species activity for public land and WMAs, plus a moon and rut calendar by species. FIND LAND TO HUNT Public ground is crowded and private ground is who-you-know. Browse land by the day, season or party, see the rate up front, and book it in the app. WORK THE BLOOD TRAIL WITH NO SERVICE Built to work offline. Tell it where the animal stood and where the shot hit, and it walks you through the sign, how long to wait and which way to push. (Hunter) KNOW THE YIELD BEFORE THE PROCESSOR DOES Twenty species, whitetail to squirrel, with the cut breakdown. No scale in camp? Measure the girth for a weight estimate from published equations for nine big-game species. IDENTIFY WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT Species identification that runs on the phone, even with the bars at zero. FOR LANDOWNERS List your property, set day, season or party rates, manage bookings and issue guest permits. WHAT NEEDS A SIGNAL Straight answer: the marketplace, community and bookings need a connection, a new regulation check or lidar view needs one the first time, and maps are downloaded once to work offline (Hunter). Saved checks, saved stands, saved maps, blood trailing, meat yield and species identification work in airplane mode. WHAT IT COSTS Free: 3 regulation checks a month, 2 gear scans, a trip plan, the meat yield calculator, the moon and rut calendar, a 5-record harvest log, and the land marketplace — browsing and booking are free. Hunter, $14/month, starting with a 1-month free trial: unlimited regulation checks, regulation change alerts, blood trailing, offline map downloads, GPS tracks, waypoints, sit log, compliance certificates and cross-device sync. Landowner, $35/month: everything in Hunter, plus parcel claiming, guest permits, food plot planning, property listing and booking management. Regulations are compiled from state wildlife agency publications and reviewed against the source, but you are always responsible for the rules where you hunt. Verify anything that decides a shot. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.huntshield.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.huntshield.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: HuntShield at 5.0 against nRange Golf GPS's 4.3. HuntShield also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 62%). nRange Golf GPS's advantage is ratings volume (19 vs 2) and device support (4 vs 2). 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. nRange Golf GPS sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and HuntShield sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $14.00 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
HuntShield holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: nRange Golf GPS has 19 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 62% of nRange Golf GPS's written reviews are positive against 100% of HuntShield's.
nRange Golf GPS ships an update weekly, HuntShield every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | nRange Golf GPS | HuntShield |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (19 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 62.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 19 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 8 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 92 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Infinite Solutions, LLC | A & M Venture Group LLC |
Customer experience
nRange Golf GPS
HuntShield
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
HuntShield
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
nRange Golf GPS
- 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
HuntShield
- HuntShield Hunter Plan1 Month trial$14.001 Month
- Landowner Plan$35.001 Month
- Landowner Enhanced$54.001 Month
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- Landowner Featured$115.991 Month
Questions
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