Comparison

Golf Channel vs Golf Sync

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

Head to head
About

Golf Channel

Access live golf tournament coverage from major tours, including PGA and LPGA. Get breaking news, video highlights, expert analysis, and interviews. Watch and listen to the best golf content anytime, anywhere.

Highlights
  • Live tournament coverage
  • Major championship news
  • Video highlights and interviews
  • Expert analysis
  • 24/7 Golf Channel stream
  • Women's golf coverage
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The all new Golf Channel app is your guide to everything golf. Watch live action from all the major tours and get up-to-date news, highlights, videos, interviews and analysis. Watch, listen and read the best golf coverage in the sport. It's Golf Channel in your pocket! Live tournament coverage from the PGA Tour, LPGA, DP World Tour, PGA Tour Champions, Korn Ferry Tour and NCAA and amateur golf. Major championship news, updates, highlights and analysis from The Players, Masters, PGA Championship, U.S. Open and Open Championship, as well as the FedEx Cup Playoffs, Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup. Home to women’s golf coverage, including live tournament action of all five major championships and the Solheim Cup. Watch Golf Channel 24/7 on the app for live tournaments and replays, and shows like “Golf Central,” “Golf Today” and “Live From.”

About

Golf Sync

Simplify golf coordination and scoring for your foursome or league. Easily schedule tee times with polls, automatically record scores from paper cards using AI, and manage group communication and payments all in one place.

Highlights
  • Tee-time scheduling polls
  • AI-powered scorecard scanning
  • Group chat and direct messaging
  • Payment tracking for rounds
  • Tournament organization tools
  • Live leaderboards
  • Peer rating for partners
Features
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Golf Sync is the group-chat-that-actually-golfs for your weekend foursome — and the league that grew out of it. Stop coordinating tee times in five separate text threads. Stop spreadsheeting handicaps. Snap a paper scorecard and watch every hole fill in by itself. WHAT IT DOES Tee-time polls that actually settle. Pick three Saturdays. Your foursome votes. The thread closes itself when you have four. No more "is anyone in for 8 a.m.?" left on read. Snap a paper scorecard. Our AI reads pars, yardages, and your strokes from a photo in 10 seconds. Works on the napkin-sized scorecard your club hands you. No typing. Clubhouse Chat for your group. One tap to start a new chat. Group threads for your league, DMs for your foursome, picker for the people you actually play with. No more searching three apps for who said what. Group rounds with money in. Track who paid, who's playing, who's the marker. Your league owner sees who needs to Venmo without chasing. Tournaments built for organizers. Stableford with USGA-correct stroke index. Net allocation. Countback tiebreaks. Multi-course tournaments — run a 4-week league across 4 different courses. Per-flight leaderboards so your A-flight isn't reading off the same board as the scratch golfers. Live leaderboards your foursome can refresh on the cart path. Team play, including Ryder Cup style (preview). Two-team format, match play scoring, points roll up to the team — same shape as the tournament you watched on TV last September. Jump straight from your league page to whatever's live. Per-hole detail that respects your time. Pars, yardages, gross + net on every scorecard, hole-by-hole. Standard mode for "just strokes." Advanced mode when you actually want to track GIR, putts, fairways. Polls that reach everyone. League owners post a poll, every member gets an email — so the people who don't open the app every day still vote. Multi-question support for the "where are we playing next month and who's bringing the beer" kind of post. Peer-rated partners. Played with someone? Rate their pace, etiquette, honesty. Build a private profile of who you want to play with — only visible after multiple independent reviews so it stays honest. WHO IT'S FOR Weekend foursomes who book the same Saturday tee time week after week. Organized groups — the ten friends who play together every weekend but don't call it a "league." Polls, chat, roster, scoring. No tournament setup required. Casual leagues — Stableford, scrambles, Ryder Cup weekends, club championships — where the organizer is one person with a real job. Tournament organizers who want a leaderboard they're not building from a Google Sheet. WHAT'S DIFFERENT We don't send you generic "rounds in your area" notifications. We don't badge-gate features behind ads. We don't make you type your scorecard. Free through June 30, 2026 — no credit card required. After that, the free plan stays free for everyone who plays in someone else's league. New membership options for league and tournament organizers are coming in a future update. Built by a former weekend-foursome organizer who got tired of texting six people to lock in a Saturday tee time. Voice-powered scoring Record your score, ask for the current leaderboard, or look up your round without breaking your swing rhythm. Works with Siri on iOS. Snap-a-card Already wrote your round on a paper scorecard? Snap a photo and the app reads every hole automatically. Questions or feedback: support@golfsync.io

Screenshots

Golf Channel4 screens
Golf Sync4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Golf Sync at 100% against Golf Channel's 29%. Golf Sync also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 5 weeks). Golf Channel's advantage is ratings volume (32K vs 4). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Golf Sync holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Golf Channel has 32K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 29% of Golf Channel's written reviews are positive against 100% of Golf Sync's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Golf Channel ships an update every 5 weeks, Golf Sync every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Golf Channel versus Golf Sync: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGolf ChannelGolf Sync
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (32K ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews28.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings32K — better4
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple TViPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size145 MB61 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVersant Media LLCGolf Sync LLC

Customer experience

Golf Channel

All ratings31,557 ratings
Positive90.6%
Neutral3.3%
Negative6.1%
Written reviews149 reviews
Positive28.9%
Neutral6.7%
Negative64.4%

Golf Sync

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Golf Channel

No in-app purchases

None

Golf Sync

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Golf Channel free?
Golf Channel is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Golf Sync free?
Golf Sync is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Golf Channel or Golf Sync?
Golf Sync is rated higher. Golf Channel averages 4.6 out of 5 from 32K ratings, while Golf Sync averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Golf Channel or Golf Sync have ads?
Golf Channel shows ads; Golf Sync does not.
Which is updated more often, Golf Channel or Golf Sync?
Golf Channel ships an update every 5 weeks, and Golf Sync every 3 days. Most recently, Golf Channel was updated on November 13, 2026 and Golf Sync on November 9, 2026.

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