Swing Coach vs The Yips
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Swing Coach
Enhance your golf swing with instant voice feedback and AI-powered analysis. Focus on specific areas like swing plane or hip depth, and practice anywhere without special equipment. Compare your performance to professional golfers.
- Instant voice feedback after each swing
- AI-powered swing analysis
- Focus on specific swing metrics
- Practice anywhere, with or without a ball
- No special equipment required
- Compare to professional swings
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Practice with Voice Feedback: Swing Coach is the #1 golf practice app with instant voice feedback on your golf swing, right after each swing. Focus to Improve: You tell Swing Coach what you want to work on, and it gives you real-time voice feedback. Swing Plane, Hand Path, Hip Depth, Spine Stability, Flying Elbow, Shoulder Plane, and more. See how you compare to the best golf swings in the world. Practice Anywhere: Use Swing Coach indoors or outside. With or without a golf ball. At the range or on the course. It’s simple, fast, and accurate. No Special Equipment: Swing Coach uses the latest in AI technology to track your club head and body, with just your phone. No special equipment. No dots. Just setup your phone, and swing. --------------------- Terms of Service: https://swingintelligence.com/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://swingintelligence.com/privacy-policy
The Yips
This app helps golfers improve their mental game by building focus, composure, confidence, and resilience. It offers guided warmups, post-round reflections, and AI-powered insights to overcome performance anxiety and improve scores.
- Pre-round mental warmups
- Post-round reflection logging
- AI-powered performance insights
- Mental game goal setting
- Progress tracking over time
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STOP GETTING IN YOUR OWN WAY The mental game separates good golfers from great golfers. You know your swing. You've taken lessons. You hit it pure on the range. But on the course? You three-putt from nerves. One bad shot ruins three holes. You overthink every swing. You can't shake the anger. The Yips helps golfers build better focus, composure, confidence, and resilience on the course. IMPORTANT The app offers paid premium access through an annual subscription or a lifetime purchase. A purchase is required to access premium features, including guided warmups, AI-powered insights, mental game goals, and advanced progress tracking. WHAT YOU GET Pre-Round Mental Warmup Use a guided mental warmup before your round with breathing exercises, visualization, focus word selection, and a mental check-in. Post-Round Reflection Log your mental game after each round, including focus, composure, confidence, resilience, and what worked or did not work. AI-Powered Insights Premium access includes AI-generated insights that analyze your patterns and highlight opportunities to improve your mental game. Mental Game Goals Premium access includes goal-setting tools to help you work on areas like staying calm after bad shots or trusting your routine. Progress Tracking Premium access includes progress tracking so you can review trends, patterns, and improvement over time. WHO IT'S FOR The Yips is for golfers who want to stop getting in their own way. If you have ever played tight under pressure, stayed stuck on a bad shot, overthought your swing, or let nerves affect your score, this app is for you. SUBSCRIPTION OPTIONS Premium access is available through: Annual Plan: $29.99/year with 7-day free trial Lifetime Access: $49.99 one-time purchase A purchase is required to access premium features. Annual subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel subscriptions in your App Store account settings. RESULTS The mental game is trainable. The Yips makes it easier to build better habits on the course. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Swing Coach at none against The Yips's shown. Swing Coach also leads on ratings volume (3.4K vs 10) and rating (4.9 vs 4.6). The Yips's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 89%) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Swing Coach sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month and The Yips sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $59.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Swing Coach holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Swing Coach has 3.4K ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 89% of Swing Coach's written reviews are positive against 100% of The Yips's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Swing Coach ships an update every 3 weeks, The Yips monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Swing Coach | The Yips |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (3.4K ratings) — better | 4.6 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 89.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3.4K — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #46 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 309 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Swing Intelligence, Inc. | Nathan Thayer |
Customer experience
Swing Coach
The Yips
Bugs and requests
Swing Coach
Reported bugs
1 issue- None reported
Requested features
2 requests- Option to submit swings for personalized coach feedback
- Ability to import swing videos
The Yips
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Swing Coach
- Monthly7 Days trial$14.991 Month
- Annual7 Days trial$119.991 Year
The Yips
- Annual Plan$59.991 Year
- Annual Exit Trail Plan3 Days trial$59.991 Year
- Lifetime Access$149.99
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