Comparison

Sandbag Golf vs Caddium

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

Head to head
About

Sandbag Golf

Receive live, on-demand golf instruction from PGA professionals instantly. Connect with instructors for real-time feedback and coaching without any scheduling or waiting. Get personalized help wherever you play, with features like telestration and lesson recordings.

Highlights
  • Live video lessons with PGA professionals
  • Instant, on-demand coaching
  • No scheduling required
  • Vetted instructors with ratings
  • Telestration for live drawing
  • Lesson recordings and summaries
  • Pay-per-use pricing
Features
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Struggling with your swing? Get connected to a PGA professional in seconds for a live lesson over a video call (like Zoom but tailored for golf instruction) — no scheduling, no waiting, no back-and-forth messaging. Get help whenever you need it. It is like having a pro in your pocket. Just open the app, tap “Find an available Pro,” and connect with a golf instructor within seconds for real-time coaching. Whether you’re trying to fix something on the driving range before a round, work through swing issues at home, or get help during practice, Sandbag makes professional instruction instantly accessible. Features include: -- Live video lessons with PGA teaching professionals -- Instant, on-demand coaching -- No scheduling required -- Vetted instructors with ratings and reviews from golfers -- Telestration - instructors can pause, rewind, slo-mo, and draw on the screen, live -- Lesson recordings and feedback summaries -- Pay only for the time you use — no need to commit to a full 30- or 60-minute lesson -- Get real golf instruction exactly when you need it. Note that Sandbag Golf is only in English

About

Caddium

Features
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You keep score on the course. Caddium keeps score on the range. Golfers practice for hours and never see a number for it. Caddium turns range sessions into six scored games — benchmarked to your handicap — so every practice session tells you exactly where you stand, and where to work next. COMBINE · COMPETE · COMPARE Play six games modeled on real scoring: • Putting Combine — 18 putts across 9 distances, scored the way Arccos Golf and Lou Stagner benchmark real putting performance. • 14 Drives — driver or 3-wood off the tee, graded fairway-found / playable / penalty. • 18 Irons — approach shots by club band (short / mid / long irons), graded on to the green / playable / in trouble. • 9 Wedges — scoring wedges from 40, 70, and 100 yards, graded on proximity. • 9 Shapes — draw, fade, and straight on call, graded on whether you hit the shot you called. • Game Combine — 18 alternating drives and mid-irons, the closest thing to playing a hole from tee to green. Every shot in a grade game is simple: +1 striped, 0 playable, −1 penalty. Putting scores as putts-to-hole-out. Tap a result after every shot — no launch monitor, no data logging, no dashboard to interpret. THE HANDICAPS HIDING INSIDE YOUR HANDICAP Your single index is really four: Off the Tee, Approach, Short Game, and Putting. Caddium tracks each one as its own handicap from your last three rounds of that game, then rolls all four into one headline number — your Caddium Index. See which department is carrying you and which one is costing you strokes, with trends and drill-downs (by club, by iron band, by shot mix) as your history builds. Every score comes with strokes gained or lost against a target index you set — so you always know whether today's range session actually moved the needle. HONEST ABOUT THE NUMBERS Putting benchmarks are measured, drawn from real Arccos Golf data (Lou Stagner). Long-game benchmarks are Caddium's own modeling estimates, clearly labeled, and they sharpen as more real sessions accumulate. Nothing is dressed up as more precise than it is. BUILT TO BE USED ON THE RANGE Large tap targets, an Undo for mis-taps, and a running total you can read at a glance — designed for a bucket of balls in one hand and a phone in the other. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Caddium runs entirely on your phone. No account, no sign-in, no network connection, no ads, no third-party trackers. Your rounds stay on your device, with export/import so you're always in control of your own data. Practice that keeps score.

Screenshots

Sandbag Golf4 screens
Caddium4 screens

Verdict

The call

Sandbag Golf and Caddium are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sandbag Golf ships an update weekly, Caddium fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Sandbag Golf versus Caddium: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSandbag GolfCaddium
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (22 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings22 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size174 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSandbag Sports, LLCJeffery Cook

In-app purchases

None

Sandbag Golf

No in-app purchases

None

Caddium

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sandbag Golf free?
Sandbag Golf is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Caddium free?
Caddium is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Sandbag Golf or Caddium have ads?
Neither Sandbag Golf nor Caddium shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sandbag Golf or Caddium?
Sandbag Golf ships an update weekly, and Caddium fortnightly. Most recently, Sandbag Golf was updated on October 31, 2026 and Caddium on October 29, 2026.

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