Golf GPS vs PinFinder
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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)
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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
PinFinder
This app provides golfers with a straightforward and precise GPS rangefinder. It helps players accurately measure distances on the course to improve their game.
- Accurate GPS rangefinding
- Simple user interface
- Golf course distance measurement
- Improves gameplay
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PinFinder is a simple accurate rangefinder for golfers.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PinFinder at none against Golf GPS's 1. PinFinder also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 74%). Golf GPS's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 9 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On price and ads 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. Golf GPS sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. PinFinder asks for nothing beyond the download.
Golf GPS ships an update every 2 months, PinFinder every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Golf GPS | PinFinder |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (24 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 74.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 24 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 8.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Seong Park | Cameron Cronheimer |
Customer experience
Golf GPS
PinFinder
Bugs and requests
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
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- 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
PinFinder
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Golf GPS
- Remove Ads & Upgrade$0.99
PinFinder
No in-app purchases









