Sandbag Golf vs Caddium
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
Caddium
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Sandbag Golf ships an update weekly, Caddium fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sandbag Golf | Caddium |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (22 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 22 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 174 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sandbag Sports, LLC | Jeffery Cook |
In-app purchases
Sandbag Golf
No in-app purchases
Caddium
No in-app purchases









