GolfXplore vs Shankdt
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GolfXplore
Discover and explore golf courses across South Africa. Compare green fees, view facilities, and find course information easily. Track played courses and plan your next golfing adventure with this comprehensive guide.
- Explore South African golf courses
- Compare green fees and membership info
- View course contact details and facilities
- Discover specials and upcoming events
- Browse course photos and reviews
- Track played courses
- Capture scores and view stats (Premium)
Read full descriptionHide full description
Discover golf courses across South Africa, all in one place. GolfXplore makes it easy to explore courses, compare green fees, view facilities and find important course information without endless searching or phone calls. Whether you’re planning a golf trip, looking for a new course to play or tracking the courses you’ve conquered, GolfXplore helps you make the most of your golfing journey. EXPLORE WITH GOLFXPLORE • Explore golf courses across South Africa • View green fees and membership information • Access course contact details and facilities • Discover specials and upcoming events • Browse course photos and reviews • Track the courses you’ve played GET MORE WITH GOLFXPLORE PREMIUM Take your golfing journey further with an optional Premium subscription. • Capture your scores and revisit your past rounds • View your stats and follow your scoring progress • Check weather insights before you tee off • Find nearby courses using location-based filters • Follow your Top 100 journey and track your progress by province • Explore your trophies and celebrate golfing milestones GolfXplore Premium is available as a monthly subscription that renews automatically until cancelled. View pricing in the app and manage or cancel your subscription through your app store account. Built for golfers who love discovering new courses. GOLF COURSE OWNERS Want to showcase your course on GolfXplore? We’d love to hear from you. Contact the GolfXplore team at admin@golfxplore.com. Privacy Policy: https://www.golfxplore.com/legal/privacy-policy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Shankdt
Read full descriptionHide full description
Shankdt is South African golf, in one app. PLAN THE WHOLE TRIP IN ONE GO The Trips tab takes a golf trip from an idea to a sent enquiry in five steps — Courses, Beds, Nights, Check it, Send it. Search 369 courses across all nine provinces by name, town or province, add them in the order you want to play them, and shuffle the route until it reads right. Pick the day you tee off on the first course, or say it is not fixed yet. Say roughly what time you would like to go out each day. Then send the whole thing as one enquiry, and a founder reads it and replies by email. A trip enquiry is not a reservation: nothing is held or charged when you send it, and the tee times come back to you after we have asked each club, because the clubs own their sheets. WHERE THE GROUP SLEEPS Tell us how many golfers and how many rooms, whether you want a bed near each course, one base to drive out from, or somewhere in town near the restaurants, and roughly what a room a night is worth to you. The app then shows what is actually mapped near each of your stops — guesthouses, hotels, chalets, apartments — nearest first, and you tick the ones you want us to price up. No prices and no availability are shown, because we do not have them until we phone. Those come back from a founder with the rest of the answer. Accommodation data © OpenStreetMap contributors. EVERY GREEN FEE, SIDE BY SIDE Rates at 369 courses, from championship tracks to your Sunday local, with the whole price on every one: the club's rate with Shankdt's booking service included, typically 8–10% of the club's rate and never more than 12%. Green fees are paid at the club, exactly as always, and the club keeps 100% of them. KNOW THE PRICE Every price tells you where it came from — the club's published rate, or our own indicative figure. Where a club publishes a reduced rate for golfers with an official South African handicap, you see it, and a verified badge for golfers whose handicap we've confirmed, checked by a real person. NEVER PLAY ALONE See open games near your handicap from the Open fourballs row on the Courses tab. Solo on a Saturday doesn't have to mean playing alone. GOLF DAYS AND CLUB COMPS When a club runs a golf day, a club competition or a pro-am, the club posts the fixture itself — the date, the format, the field and what it costs to enter — so it reaches you instead of dying in a forwarded WhatsApp. ASK MULLY Mully is the golf caddie built into the Trips tab. Ask about a course, a green fee or a rule in your own words. It answers on golf and nothing else. Own every shot. Even that one.
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Shankdt at none against GolfXplore's 1. On price, update cadence, ads 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
Both are free to download. GolfXplore sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month. Shankdt asks for nothing beyond the download.
GolfXplore ships an update every 8 days, Shankdt every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 14, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GolfXplore | Shankdt |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | GolfXplore | Shankdt |
In-app purchases
GolfXplore
- GolfXplore Premium$2.991 Month
Shankdt
No in-app purchases









