Comparison

HNA Handicaps vs Grind Golf

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

Head to head
About

HNA Handicaps

Track your golfing scores, monitor your handicap index over time, and view detailed round history. Connect with friends to see their activity and receive important notifications about updates and comments.

Highlights
  • Monitor handicap and scoring history
  • View detailed hole-by-hole scoring
  • Follow friends' activity
  • Receive golfing notifications
  • Edit profile and upload picture
Features
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The Handicaps Network Africa app – Offers HNA members access to their golfing scores, profile, friends' activity, and relevant golfing notifications. HNA Handicaps features: - Monitor your handicap and scoring history over time. See which scores are counting toward your handicap index. - View detailed hole-by-hole scoring record for each golfing round - Follow your friends with peer review of golfing score history - Receive notifications such as handicap updates, friend activity, comments on scores, and general updates from HNA and your club - Edit your profile details and upload your profile picture

About

Grind Golf

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Grind is a simple golf tracker for the round you're actually playing. Post your score hole by hole, watch score to par update live, and log a small set of stats that show amateurs where strokes are leaking: Not the tour numbers that rarely reflect a weekend round. Track your round • Gross score and putts, hole by hole • Full scorecard with par, handicap, and yardage • Live GPS distances to front, center, and back of the green Stats that matter • OOP tee shots: Tee shots that leave you out of position • 3-putts: Counted automatically from your putts per hole • Botched up/down: Missed greens you fail to get up and down • Inside PW/9i: How you score from prime wedge distance When you finish • Get a free stats email. No signup needed • Create a free account to save rounds and browse your history • Help improve course data by submitting scorecard photos Start a round, play through, and know what to work on next time.

Screenshots

HNA Handicaps3 screens
Grind Golf4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: HNA Handicaps at 3 against Grind Golf's 1. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HNA Handicaps ships an update weekly, Grind Golf every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
HNA Handicaps versus Grind Golf: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHNA HandicapsGrind Golf
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (14 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews8.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings14 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size304 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDotGolf NZ LPFernando Valverde

In-app purchases

None

HNA Handicaps

No in-app purchases

None

Grind Golf

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is HNA Handicaps free?
HNA Handicaps is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Grind Golf free?
Grind Golf is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do HNA Handicaps or Grind Golf have ads?
Neither HNA Handicaps nor Grind Golf shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HNA Handicaps or Grind Golf?
HNA Handicaps ships an update weekly, and Grind Golf every 10 days. Most recently, HNA Handicaps was updated on October 30, 2026 and Grind Golf on October 28, 2026.

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