SkillSpot Golf vs Range Diary Golf Practice
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SkillSpot Golf
This app acts as your personal golf coach, analyzing your swing, providing tailored drills, and creating practice plans based on your available time and environment. It helps track progress, estimate handicaps, and offers strategic advice for rounds and tournaments.
- AI swing analysis and biomechanical fault detection
- Personalized drills based on environment and skill level
- Customizable training plans for specific goals
- Hole-by-hole strategy and caddie tips
- WHS-style handicap estimation
- Progress tracking and skill health scores
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SkillSpot is purposely designed for every skill level as a golf improvement system, not just another scorecard, swing analyzer, or stat tracker. It has those too, because of course it does, but the full loop comes with your own coach: Mo. Meet Mo: Mo is your coach, caddie, and training partner from the couch to the course; from the range to the round; from the window to the....you get the point. Ask Mo what to work on next, build a practice plan around the time and space you actually have, prepare for your next round, and turn every scorecard into a clear next plan. Choose Your Coaching Style: Muni Mo keeps it loose. Tour Mo gets analytical. Mo Respect brings the edge. Mo Jr. keeps it encouraging. Spot the Problem: Film or upload your swing and Mo analyzes your movement, detects common faults like early extension or sway, and maps them to drills. You can also voice note a post-round recap, choose pain points manually, or upload past lesson notes so Mo coaches from your actual golf history. Train With a Plan That Fits Your Life: Got 15 minutes? Backyard only? Indoor setup? Short game area? Mo builds drills around your available time, practice location, playing level, and current limitations. Log a sore back or strained knee and Mo adjusts your plan. Build Your Game Over Time: Track the six main parts of your game – Putting Short Game Approach Play Tee Shots Mental Game Course Management Each category has its own Skill Vitality score. Practice well and it grows. Ignore it and it fades. See where faults return, where breakthroughs happen, and which drills actually move your game forward. Play With a Plan: Scan a paper scorecard or set up your round in the app. Mo uses your recent trends, club distances, course layout, weather, and scoring patterns to build a hole-by-hole game plan. During the round, track scores and quick stats like fairways, greens, up and downs, saves, putts, and penalties. Use your Apple Watch to keep score from your wrist, check your hole strategy, and leave your phone in the cart between shots. When the round ends, Mo turns what happened into your next training plan. Play Together: Create group scorecards, invite friends already on SkillSpot Golf, and play competitive formats including Stroke Play, Match Play, Skins, Scramble, Best Ball, Nassau, Stableford, Wolf, and Custom (set awards and penalties, score them live, track the leaderboard, and save your rules for next time). Chase Your Next Breakthrough: New to golf? The Starter Loop walks you from couch to course with structured milestones. Trying to break 100, 90, or 80? Challenger Loops give you multi-stage practice tests with scoring, recaps, and shareable accomplishments. Have a tournament coming up? Tell Mo the date, course features, and holes you dread. Mo reverse-engineers your preparation from today to tee time. Know Your Number: SkillSpot calculates a WHS-style handicap estimate from your logged rounds so you always have a working number between official postings. Note: only an authorized golf club, association, or GHIN record can issue an official Handicap Index. Test Your Rules Knowledge: Every day, Tour Mo gives you a new rules scenario with three choices, one right call, and an explanation that makes it stick. Want more? Head to the Rules Range and keep going. Subscriptions: Access all features with Monthly or Annual Membership. Notes: Mo is AI. Mistakes are possible. Practice safely, use good judgment, and adjust as needed. Terms of service: skillspotgolf.com/terms Privacy policy: skillspotgolf.com/privacy
Range Diary Golf Practice
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Range Diary is the dead-simple practice diary for driving-range golfers. Most people hit a bucket and remember nothing. Range Diary gives every session a clear structure — borrowed from a working instructor's bilingual lesson notes — so you actually improve. THE 30-SECOND LOG • Date fills in automatically. • Tap your ball count (50 / 100 / 150 / 200 or your own number). • Tap the clubs you worked on. • Write one line on what you worked on, and rate the feel 1–5. TODAY'S FOCUS, NEXT TIME Each session ends with one focus line for next time. It surfaces automatically at the top of the app when you arrive at the range, so you always practice with a plan. SWING VIDEO ANALYZER Record a swing in the app or import one from your camera roll, then break it down like a coach: • Frame-accurate slow motion (down to 0.1x), frame-by-frame stepping, pinch to zoom and pan, and an A/B loop to replay the move. • A full telestration toolkit — freehand, straight lines, an angle tool that shows degrees, circles and rectangles — in five colours and three widths, with move-to-adjust, undo/redo, and a reference grid. • Your drawings pin to the exact frame and save with the session, so you can compare week to week. Share an annotated frame in a tap. Videos stay on your device — nothing is ever uploaded. ON-COURSE ROUNDS Take it to the course: log your score, putts, how it felt, and notes (by voice if you like). A light season summary tracks your rounds, average and best. PROGRESS — IS YOUR PRACTICE WORKING? (Premium) This is what a scorecard app or a swing app alone can't do: Range Diary connects your range practice to your scores. See your practice volume, feel, and scoring trends — and get plain-language insights like "in weeks you practiced 3+ times, you averaged 6 strokes better." Finally, proof your practice is paying off. GOALS & REMINDERS Set a weekly practice goal, watch your progress ring, and get a gentle reminder on the days you choose so the habit sticks. VOICE NOTES Tap the mic and talk — Range Diary turns your spoken notes into text right on your device (nothing is uploaded). Perfect for jotting a thought mid-round without stopping to type. STREAK & HISTORY A practice heat calendar shows your active days at a glance, with your balls and sessions for the month. DRILL LIBRARY Targeted drills tagged by the fault they fix — slice, early extension, topping, fat shots, and distance. BUILT FOR EVERYONE Defaults to a comfortable dark theme, with large and extra-large text sizes for easy reading at the range. FREE & PREMIUM Free forever: unlimited sessions, three saved videos, and drill previews. Premium unlocks unlimited videos, the full drill library, and iCloud sync across your devices. No accounts. No ads. No tracking. Your practice stays yours. PREMIUM (AUTO-RENEWABLE SUBSCRIPTION) • Monthly plan: ¥800 / month • Yearly plan: ¥6,000 / year • Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. • The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. • Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. • You can manage or cancel in the iOS Settings app under your Apple Account. Terms of Use (EULA): https://rangediary.netlify.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://rangediary.netlify.app/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: SkillSpot Golf at 4 against Range Diary Golf Practice's 1. SkillSpot Golf also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). 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
Both are free to download. SkillSpot Golf sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month and Range Diary Golf Practice sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
SkillSpot Golf ships an update every 2 weeks, Range Diary Golf Practice fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SkillSpot Golf | Range Diary Golf Practice |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 66 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mir Image Creations LLC | Kentaro Kusumoto |
In-app purchases
SkillSpot Golf
- SkillSpot Golf Monthly Membership1 Month trial$19.991 Month
- SkillSpot Golf Annual Membership1 Year trial$199.991 Year
Range Diary Golf Practice
- Monthly$4.991 Month
- Yearly$39.991 Year
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