Comparison

Home Tee Hero vs The Cut

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

Head to head
About

Home Tee Hero

Experience a realistic golf simulator indoors with over 43,000 courses. Practice your game, play with friends, or compete in weekly tournaments. Requires a Garmin Golf membership and compatible launch monitor.

Highlights
  • 43,000+ virtual golf courses
  • Realistic simulation with fine-tuned physics
  • Enhanced courses with lidar data
  • On-course practice mode
  • Local multiplayer for up to 4 players
  • Weekly virtual tournaments
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The Home Tee Hero interactive golf simulator experience brings the game to you. Practice and play year-round on any of the 43,000+ preloaded courses. To access, you need an active Garmin Golf™ membership and your compatible Garmin launch monitor. • 43,000+ COURSES With more than 43,000 courses, you can tee off on your home course, play where the pros play or practice for an upcoming golf trip. • REALISTIC SIMULATION Enjoy unique course environments, including desert, grassland and tropical, plus fine-tuned shot physics and green friction. • ENHANCED COURSES Enjoy even more realistic play on 15+ courses with high-resolution lidar data for every green and more accurate tree coverage throughout the course. • ON-COURSE PRACTICE Hit a shot from anywhere on any course. Then do it again. On-course practice mode was made for dialing in your game and trying to hit that island green. • MULTIPLAYER MODE Gather your friends to play a virtual round. In local multiplayer mode, you can golf with up to 4 people. • WEEKLY TOURNAMENTS Compete in virtual tournaments against other golfers around the world. Each week, you can play the tournament course as many times as you want to climb higher on the leaderboard.

About

The Cut

Features
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You put the hours in. The index doesn't move. The Cut gives you Chase, a caddie who knows your real distances, your history on every hole, and the one thing costing you the most strokes. So you stand over every shot knowing the club, and walk off with the score you practiced for. "148 to the pin, playing 162 into the wind and up the hill. It's the 7. You came up short here twice this month." That is Chase. He has watched every round you've played and every session you've logged. He remembers, so your work finally adds up. HIT THE RIGHT CLUB, SHOOT LOWER SCORES You're between clubs again. Not anymore. A satellite view of the hole you're standing on, the real distance to anything you tap, and what the shot actually plays once wind, elevation and temperature are in it. Then the club, because he knows what yours really carry, not what you wish they did. He stays on your lock screen the whole round, so you never have to unlock your phone. Pick the club once, and commit. FIND WHERE YOU'RE LEAKING SHOTS Carry by club from real rounds. Where every miss goes and what it costs you. The club that sprays, the holes that keep beating you, and why. Not vanity numbers. Just the handful that explain why your index moved, and where the next two strokes come from. ASK CHASE ABOUT YOUR GAME Where am I actually losing shots? What should I work on this week? Ask him anything, in plain language. He has seen every round you've played and answers in your numbers, not the average golfer's. PRACTICE SMARTER, CARRY IT FURTHER You flush it indoors, then come up short on the course. Log a range or simulator session and Chase connects the two. Ball speed, smash, spin, spread, turned into one drill at a time, aimed at what actually broke in your last round, and the yards you're leaving out there. ONE THING TO FIX. THEN THE NEXT. Chase spots the pattern costing you the most and gives you one honest thing to work on. Fix it, and he finds the next one. That is how an index comes down. Round 1, you stop guessing. Round 5, you know your leak. Round 20, you're a different golfer. PLAY YOUR FRIENDS. SEE HOW YOU STACK UP. Match and stroke play against a friend now move your rating. Every result goes on the record: your rival, your head-to-head against each player, your peak. Then climb the board. Your friends first, then your country, then the world. BRING YOUR FOUR Scrambles in teams of 2 to 4, all on one shared card. Anyone on the team can score a hole, the MVP settles itself, and Chase plans every hole by role: who tees off first, who goes at the flag. Team scores never touch your handicap. And see what your group is up to: every round, every upset, as it happens. HOWEVER YOU GOLF Log every shot if that's you. Photograph the paper card if that's you. Send him a sim screen, or just tell him about the round in the car. He takes whatever you give him and knows you either way. Your next round is the first one he'll remember. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Home Tee Hero4 screens
The Cut4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Home Tee Hero at none against The Cut's 2. Home Tee Hero also leads on update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 2 months). The Cut's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. The Cut sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month. Home Tee Hero asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Home Tee Hero ships an update every 4 weeks, The Cut every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Home Tee Hero versus The Cut: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHome Tee HeroThe Cut
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (1.7K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews62.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.7K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size682 MB48 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGarminNicholas Murmann

In-app purchases

None

Home Tee Hero

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

The Cut

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly$14.991 Month
  • Pro Annual$149.991 Year

Questions

Is Home Tee Hero free?
Home Tee Hero is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is The Cut free?
The Cut is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Home Tee Hero or The Cut have ads?
Neither Home Tee Hero nor The Cut shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Home Tee Hero or The Cut?
Home Tee Hero ships an update every 4 weeks, and The Cut every 2 months. Most recently, Home Tee Hero was updated on November 5, 2026 and The Cut on October 31, 2026.

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