DeepSwing vs ShotTrail
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DeepSwing
Transform your iPhone into a comprehensive golf tool. Analyze your swing with AI, measure shot data like a launch monitor, and navigate over 12,000 real golf courses with GPS. Improve your game with detailed feedback and practice drills.
- iPhone launch monitor for shot data
- AI swing analysis and feedback
- GPS for over 12,000 golf courses
- Home golf simulator capabilities
- Apple Watch integration
- Progress tracking and comparison
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DeepSwing turns your iPhone into a golf launch monitor, an AI swing coach and a golf course GPS. Measure every real shot, play more than 12,000 real courses at home, see why the ball flew that way, then take it all to the course. LAUNCH MONITOR • Play more than 12,000 real golf courses at home, mapped 1:1 from the real course, the same courses as in the GPS • Put your iPhone on a tripod next to the ball and hit real golf balls, indoors or at the range • Ball speed, launch angle, direction, carry and total distance for every shot • No radar, no sensor: the launch monitor uses your iPhone's camera • Every shot flies on a 3D driving range or on real golf courses from around the world • Range games and challenges: closest to the pin, longest drive, targets and live duels with friends • Home golf simulator: show the range or the course on an iPad, a Mac, a TV or a projector, or connect to GSPro • Your real carry distance per club, with averages and dispersion AI SWING COACH • Film your swing and get the full analysis in seconds, right on your iPhone • Over the top detected: the clubhead trail shows whether you come down steep from outside or on plane • Swing plane: a green band shows the plane for your club, the trail shows if you swing above or below it • Face-on and down the line: Swing Score with 27 checks, phases from setup to finish, tempo • Clubhead speed and ball speed from a face-on video • The drill that fixes your biggest fault, and a training plan for your week • Live Coach at the range: spoken cues after every swing GOLF COURSE GPS • More than 12,000 golf courses worldwide with hole maps • Distances to the front, middle and back of the green and to hazards • Green heatmaps: the surface of every green in colour, so you see the slope and where the ball will break • Scorecard for you and your group: stroke play, Stableford, match play • Handicap calculator based on the World Handicap System • Live on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island APPLE WATCH • Distances, hole map and score on your wrist • Play a round with your watch alone, it syncs to your iPhone afterwards HOW THE LAUNCH MONITOR WORKS 1. Put your iPhone on a tripod beside the ball, camera facing the ball 2. Enter the tripod height and place the ball in the frame on screen 3. Hit as usual: the numbers and the ball flight appear within seconds SWING CAMERA • Use a second iPhone or an iPad as a swing camera: every launch monitor shot comes with its swing video and analysis PROGRESS • Every swing, every shot and every round saved and grouped into sessions • Compare two swings side by side, export clips and share them with your coach FOR EVERY GOLFER Right- or left-handed, in 18 languages. Plain tips for beginners, exact numbers for low handicappers and coaches. The swing analysis runs on your iPhone, no video upload. Tip: good light and a steady tripod give the cleanest numbers. PLANS • Coach: the full AI swing analysis and coach, monthly, yearly, or once for life • Launch Monitor: unlimited shots, monthly, yearly, or once for life • Complete: Coach and Launch Monitor together, monthly, yearly, or once for life • Apple Watch GPS: the watch on its own, yearly. Included in every other plan Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period; manage them in your Apple ID settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://deepswing.io/datenschutz.html
ShotTrail
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Tap once when you're about to hit. ShotTrail takes the position and the time, works out how far the last shot went, and keeps score. Keep up to 10 rounds free. One purchase keeps every round — no subscription, nothing renews. EVERY SHOT WHERE YOU ACTUALLY HIT IT ShotTrail tracks in the background, so your position is already captured the moment you tap — no standing still waiting for a fix. Tap Arm the instant you hit and that exact spot is held, however long it takes you to walk up to it. Shot distance is measured, not estimated. A CADDIE THAT KNOWS YOUR OWN DISTANCES ShotTrail Caddie reads how far you hit each club from the rounds you've played, then gives you the distance to your next target and the club that matches — wind-adjusted, if you want it. It suggests; you decide. PAY ONCE Golf tracking normally means a subscription. This one doesn't. Keep 10 rounds free; one purchase keeps them all — and nothing you've recorded is ever locked, whether you buy or not. STATISTICS THAT NAME THE PROBLEM Not a wall of numbers. Greens, fairways, putting, scrambling, driving and penalties, each set against what's typical at your scoring level, ending in the one part of your game costing you the most strokes — and a drill for it. YOUR DATA STAYS ON YOUR PHONE No account, no sign-up, no analytics, no crash reporting, no third-party SDKs, and no server of ours. Two requests do leave the phone, and only when you ask for something: a coordinate and a date for the round's weather, and a coordinate and a radius when you search OpenStreetMap for a course. Logging shots, scoring and statistics need no network at all. YOUR COURSE, EVEN IF NOBODY HAS MAPPED IT Import from OpenStreetMap with par, stroke index and length filled in — or play a round on a course nobody has mapped and let ShotTrail work the holes out from your own shots. ON THE COURSE • Log Shot, Arm, Log Penalty, Pick Up, and provisional balls that resolve once you say whether you found the original • Course Guide — a tee-to-green map of each hole, every segment's distance, hole-up, with a live wind badge • Shot Plan — draggable landing markers from where you stand to the flag; tap one to aim your next shot at it • Apple Watch remote — Arm, Log Shot, the hole, the scorecard and the Caddie on your wrist, plus opt-in swing detection that arms the shot • Fix a hole while you're still on it: add a forgotten shot, move one, close it where you holed out AFTER THE ROUND • Your round drawn on satellite imagery, the walking dashed so it's never mistaken for a shot • Scorecard, weather, wind and sun position, stored with the round • Green Hit % (GIR), Fairway Hit %, putts per hole and per green hit, scrambling, sand saves, average and longest drive, penalties, score distribution • Min, average and maximum distance for every club, each shot behind it — saved into My Clubs, which is what the Caddie reads • The photos you took while playing, matched by time and place, captioned with the hole • A PDF round report in Files YOUR DATA • Backups to your own iCloud Drive, written automatically after every round • Metres or yards, km/h, m/s or mph, mixed however you like • Apple Health: every finished round filed as a Golf workout, off until you turn it on BEFORE YOU CHANGE PHONES Your rounds live on your phone. There is no account and no server, so they do not appear on a new phone by themselves — you carry them across by restoring your backup file. Check that a recent one is there before you trade the old phone in. The purchase moves separately, with your Apple Account. REQUIREMENTS iPhone running iOS 17.2 or later. The Apple Watch app needs watchOS 10 or later, and swing detection runs a workout all round; the iPhone app is complete on its own. ShotTrail asks for Always location so a position is in hand the moment you tap, phone still in your pocket; tracking starts with the round and stops with it. Privacy policy: https://shottrail.com/privacy Support: https://shottrail.com/support
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: ShotTrail at every 5 days against DeepSwing's every 2 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. DeepSwing sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and ShotTrail sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
DeepSwing ships an update every 2 weeks, ShotTrail every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DeepSwing | ShotTrail |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (52 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 64.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 52 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 17.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 550 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Deep Platforms GmbH | Maitreya AB |
In-app purchases
DeepSwing
- DeepSwing Pro Monthly$9.991 Month
- DeepSwing Complete Monthly$14.991 Month
- Apple Watch Golf GPS Yearly$29.991 Year
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- DeepSwing Pro7 Days trial$59.991 Year
- Golf Launch Monitor Yearly7 Days trial$79.991 Year
- DeepSwing Complete Yearly7 Days trial$119.991 Year
- Total Upgrade for LM Lifetime$67.99
- Total Upgrade for Pro Lifetime$84.99
- Golf Launch Monitor Lifetime$135.99
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- DeepSwing Total Lifetime$214.99
ShotTrail
- Unlimited Rounds$19.99
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