Comparison

JB Golf vs Shotline

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

Head to head
About

JB Golf

Features
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The ultimate way to book and enjoy your golf experience at Jababeka Golf & Country Club. As a premier semi-private club, Jababeka offers an exceptional golfing atmosphere just 40 minutes from the Semanggi Cloverleaf in Jakarta. Conveniently accessible for golfers from Jakarta, East Jakarta, and surrounding suburbs

About

Shotline

This app accurately measures your golf shots by marking your swing location and ball position. It helps you understand your real club distances, identify gapping issues, and visualize your rounds on a map, all from your wrist.

Highlights
  • Measures carry and roll distance
  • Records swing and ball locations
  • Builds personalized club distance data
  • Identifies bag gapping issues
  • Visualizes rounds on a map
  • Operates independently on Apple Watch
  • Exports data as CSV
Features
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Shotline measures the shots you actually hit. Most golf apps hand you a distance chart and let you guess where you fit on it. Shotline does something simpler and more honest: it marks the spot you swung from, follows you to your ball, and tells you exactly how far it finished — carry and roll, the number that decides your next club. TWO TAPS. NOTHING ELSE. Tap Mark start before you swing. Walk to your ball. Tap Mark ball. That is the entire workflow, and it all happens on your wrist. No phone out of your pocket, no course to download, no hole to set up before you play. YOUR REAL CLUB DISTANCES Pick a club right after the measurement and Shotline starts building your bag. Every club gets a typical distance, a best strike, and the honest spread in between — drawn from your own swings, not from an average golfer's. Shotline uses the median rather than the mean, so one shank on a wet Tuesday never moves the number you rely on. A CADDIE THAT ONLY KNOWS YOU Dial in a yardage and Shotline names the club, with the distance and shot count it is basing that on. Gapping shows where your bag has a hole in it — the yardage no club in your set actually covers. SEE THE ROUND ON THE MAP Every shot is drawn twice: the straight line the ball travelled and the path you walked to reach it. Filter to a single hole to study it, or zoom out to watch the whole round unfold across the course. HOLE BY HOLE Shots group themselves under the hole you were on, with the hole counter living on the watch so nothing lands in the wrong place. Add a club or a note afterwards on the phone whenever you like. ON APPLE WATCH Shotline runs on its own on Apple Watch — the iPhone can stay in the bag or stay home. Haptics confirm every mark so you can keep your eyes on the fairway. Check your club distances on your wrist when the yardage question comes up, which is exactly where it comes up. Optional Apple Health integration saves the round as a golf workout with its route. IT IS YOUR DATA Shotline collects nothing. No account, no sign-up, no server. Rounds live on your devices and sync between watch and phone directly. Export any round as CSV or share a plain-text recap whenever you want it somewhere else. A NOTE ON ACCURACY Shotline measures with GPS, so it reports where your ball finished rather than where it landed. Readings are honest about their own margin — every shot records the accuracy it was measured at.

Screenshots

JB Golf3 screens
Shotline3 screens

Verdict

The call

JB Golf and Shotline are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
JB Golf versus Shotline: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterJB GolfShotline
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size53 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPT. Padang Golf CikarangKeaton Rozema

In-app purchases

None

JB Golf

No in-app purchases

None

Shotline

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is JB Golf free?
JB Golf is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Shotline free?
Shotline is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do JB Golf or Shotline have ads?
Neither JB Golf nor Shotline shows ads.

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