Comparison

Golf Score Stats vs PAR

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

Head to head
About

Golf Score Stats

Track and analyze your golf rounds with detailed statistics. Calculate your handicap, monitor progress over time, and measure performance on different hole types and distances. Suitable for both simulator and real-course play.

Highlights
  • Track golf rounds
  • Analyze round results
  • Calculate handicap
  • Track progress over time
  • Measure performance by hole type
  • Measure performance by distance
Features
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Know your game, not just your scores. Golf Score Stats turns every round into clear, personal insight, scores on your Apple Watch, and can read a scorecard for you. SCORE ON YOUR APPLE WATCH Start a round on the phone and the holes appear on your wrist. Tap in shots and putts, swipe to the next hole, swipe past the last one to finish. The phone keeps every score in step, and Finish Later parks the round on the watch until you pick it up again. SNAP A SCORECARD Adding a course takes seconds. Take a photo of the scorecard, or use a screenshot or PDF, and the app fills in every tee's yardages, pars, slope and rating for you to check. It all happens on your iPhone. Or type a name and pick the course from suggestions worldwide, complete with its location, map pin and photo. If the card has no rating, one tap fills a plausible one, and a rating that can't be right is flagged wherever its tees are picked. A COACH THAT KNOWS YOUR GAME On-device AI reviews each round, each course and your game as a whole, and tells you what really cost you strokes and what to work on next. Every judgment comes from your own numbers, compared with golfers at your handicap, so the advice fits you. YOUR SEASON IN GOLF A review of any stretch of rounds: scoring, handicap at the start and the end, greens and putts against the stretch before, where you improved, your best nine, your steadiest run and your most-played courses. Share it as one picture. HOW EACH COURSE PLAYS FOR YOU See whether a course plays easier or harder for you than its rating says, your good-day score from those tees, the holes that give you the most trouble, and which courses you beat your handicap on. THE STATS THAT MATTER • Your handicap, average and trend pinned at the top of the Stats tab, with one tap to filter by course, tees or dates • Official World Handicap System handicap, including 9-hole rounds, with a full history chart • A what-if that tells you the score you need next round to reach a target index • 40+ stats: putts per GIR, scrambling by par type, bounce-back and blow-up holes, front vs back nine, personal records and more • A dozen full-screen charts and hole-by-hole heat maps, with trends that show your form over a season • Per-course and per-tee breakdowns FAST ROUND ENTRY Enter scores and putts hole by hole on a big keypad with your running score pinned above. Birdies are circled and bogeys squared, just like a paper card, and each hole shows your average on it. Stop part-way and finish later. Afterwards, read the round back: its flow hole by hole, the tally of birdies to doubles, greens hit and whether it counts toward your handicap. Share a club-style scorecard as an image or PDF. ASK SIRI "Start a round in Golf Score Stats", "What's my handicap in Golf Score Stats", "How was my last round in Golf Score Stats". Your courses show up in Spotlight too. MADE FOR SIM AND REAL GOLF Built for golfers who play lots of simulator rounds, and just as good on real courses. Yards or metres, set per scorecard. Find any round by course, tees or notes. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS No accounts, no servers of ours, no ads, no tracking. Your rounds and settings are backed up to your own iCloud Drive automatically, so a new phone picks up where you left off, and an iPhone and an iPad stay in step with each other. Two copies of the same player from two devices merge into one. Export and import your data any time.

About

PAR

This app helps golfers track friendly side wagers and bets within their group. It supports various game formats and automatically calculates handicaps and scores to determine who owes whom, facilitating easy settlement outside the app.

Highlights
  • Track friendly golf bets
  • Supports 9 game formats
  • Handicap-based line calculation
  • Team play with auto-totals
  • Public or private match invites
  • Score entry and tally calculation
Features
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PAR-LAY is a tracker for friendly side wagers between golfers — like Splitwise for the gentlemen's bets your foursome already makes. Add your crew, plug in their handicaps, and PAR-LAY helps you write up clean handicap-based lines for the round. After everyone tees off and finishes the round in real life, enter the final scores and PAR-LAY tallies who owes who. All settlement happens between friends, outside the app. It's a notepad for the bets your group already makes. Nothing more, nothing less. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Set up a match in under a minute. Pick from 9 formats: Stroke Play, Best Ball, Match Play, Skins, 4-Ball, Vegas, Wolf, Captain, and Scramble. • Add your players. Their handicaps drive the lines. • Log handicap-based lines for each player or team — keep everyone on the same page about who's giving strokes to who. • Make matches public so anyone in your group can join, or private and invite-only for your regular foursome. • Team play with auto-calculated team totals. • Approval system: when someone joins, both sides agree to the line. • Enter final scores when the round wraps. PAR-LAY does the math and shows the running tally. WHO IT'S FOR Golfers who already have friendly stakes on every round and want a clean way to track them. The friend group that argues about strokes every Saturday morning. Anyone who's ever scribbled tallies on the back of a scorecard. NO REAL MONEY PAR-LAY does not process, hold, or pay out any real currency. All amounts shown are virtual credits that you and your friends settle in person, outside the app. PAR-LAY is a tracking tool only. ONE-TIME PURCHASE $2.99 to download. No subscriptions. No ads. No in-app purchases. Buy once, use it forever with your group. Built by a golfer who got tired of doing the math.

Screenshots

Golf Score Stats4 screens
PAR4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Golf Score Stats at free against PAR's paid. Golf Score Stats also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 weeks) and ratings volume (7 vs 2). PAR's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, review sentiment 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

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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Golf Score Stats against 5.0 for PAR. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Golf Score Stats ships an update every 5 days, PAR every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Golf Score Stats versus PAR: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGolf Score StatsPAR
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (7 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings7 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS26.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB6 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperPaul KrikkeThomas Dee

Customer experience

Golf Score Stats

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

PAR

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Golf Score Stats

No in-app purchases

None

PAR

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Golf Score Stats free?
Golf Score Stats is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PAR free?
PAR is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Golf Score Stats or PAR?
Golf Score Stats and PAR are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 7 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Golf Score Stats or PAR have ads?
Neither Golf Score Stats nor PAR shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Golf Score Stats or PAR?
Golf Score Stats ships an update every 5 days, and PAR every 2 weeks. Most recently, Golf Score Stats was updated on October 24, 2026 and PAR on October 24, 2026.

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