Home Tee Hero vs Par
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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.
Par
This app transforms your golf rounds into shareable highlight movies with fun recaps, winner podiums, and customizable characters. Track your game, save favorite courses, and easily share your achievements with friends.
- Create highlight movies of golf rounds
- Customizable characters and photo avatars
- Automatic course pars and round options
- Save favorite courses for quick setup
- Shareable recap movies and winner podiums
- Track game history and stats by course
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Par-Tee turns your everyday golf round into a fun highlight movie you will actually want to share. Set up your group, pick your course, tap in your scores as you play, and Par-Tee builds a playful recap complete with a winner podium, a trophy, and your own cast of characters. It is golf scoring that feels like a game. WHY YOU WILL LOVE IT - Three looks, one tap: switch between Arcade retro pixels, premium Fairway Gold, and cute Mochi any time on the home screen. - Make it yours: choose from a full cast of characters, or snap a photo of your face and play as yourself. - Real courses, real pars: pick a course and the pars load automatically, with Front 9, Back 9, or Full 18 options. Save your favorites so they are one tap next time. - Your highlight reel: every round ends with a shareable recap movie and a champion podium. - Share in seconds: send your highlight reel straight to friends and your favorite social apps. - Track your game: My Rounds keeps your full history and your stats by course. NEW IN 2.2 - Three themes to match your mood: Arcade, Fairway Gold, and Mochi. - Photo avatars so you can play as your own face. - A course picker with automatic pars and Front 9, Back 9, or Full 18. - Save your own courses for one tap setup. - Stats by course in My Rounds. - Share your highlight reel in one tap. - A brand new app icon, plus recap movies restyled to match each theme. Grab your crew, tee off, and let Par-Tee turn today's round into a highlight worth replaying.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Par at 100% against Home Tee Hero's 62%. Par also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 4 weeks) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Home Tee Hero's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (1.7K vs 8). 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
Both are free to download. Par sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Home Tee Hero asks for nothing beyond the download.
Par holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Home Tee Hero has 1.7K ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 62% of Home Tee Hero's written reviews are positive against 100% of Par's.
Home Tee Hero ships an update every 4 weeks, Par every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and September 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Home Tee Hero | Par |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (1.7K ratings) | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 62.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.7K — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 682 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Garmin | Ben Reyes |
Customer experience
Home Tee Hero
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In-app purchases
Home Tee Hero
No in-app purchases
Par
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