ABS Golf Academy vs SKAFT.
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ABS Golf Academy
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ABS Golf Academy helps golfers turn practice into a structured routine. Plan your training, log completed activities, and see how your practice develops over time. Included for free - Browse the activity catalog and use the exercises marked Free. - Create and edit your own activities in Designer. - Organize weekly practice with the Simple Planner. - Log completed sessions and review your training history. - Follow weekly progress, time spent, ball contacts, and discipline statistics. Premium - Access additional exercises marked Premium. - Use Advanced Planner for dated and recurring training sessions. - Make your own versions of accessible activities with the duplication tools in Designer. - Explore Season Highlights: personal records, frequently practised activities, and score rankings. - Preview and share a Statistics Report as a PDF, or send it by email, with charts and eligible Season Highlights. Statistics reflect the activities you log. Reports require at least one logged activity. Season Highlights require at least five activities logged in the current year; score rankings require at least three scored logs for an activity. Email sharing requires a configured mail service. Subscriptions Premium is offered through monthly and yearly auto-renewable subscriptions purchased in ABS Golf Academy through the Apple App Store. Check the displayed price and billing period before confirming your purchase. Manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings. To restore an existing Academy iOS purchase, use the Apple Account that made the purchase and choose Restore purchases in the app's Settings. Academy iOS purchases do not automatically unlock ABS Golf Performance or the Android app; purchases are separate between apps and stores. Privacy Policy: https://abs-golf.com/products/academy/privacy-policy/ Terms of Use: https://abs-golf.com/products/academy/terms-of-use/ Support is available for free in Settings. Activity suggestions are sent only when you choose to email them and are reviewed manually before shared-catalog inclusion.
SKAFT.
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SKAFT. is an independent practice tracker built for golfers who want to turn range time into real handicap movement. WHAT YOU GET (free) • Log every practice session: drills, scores, notes, indoor / outdoor, weather, duration. • A library of 100 drills across putting, short game, approach, tee shots and bunker. Each one has a clear score, so you can see if you are getting better. • Log your rounds in about 30 seconds: score, putts, fairways, greens, up and downs and penalties. • Pick your course from the list of Icelandic courses and the par fills in. • See your round averages next to your practice stats, so you know where the shots go. • Author your own drills (up to 3 on the free tier) and share them with the community. • See your streak, session history for the last 30 days, and a live handicap progression chart. • Watch photos and videos other users have attached to any drill, or contribute your own. • Add friends and enter free competitions. SKAFT. PRO (monthly or yearly subscription) • Unlimited custom drills and full session history. • Advanced statistics: score progress per drill, personal-best markers, a "how you compare" card against peer-handicap and pro averages, weather-impact breakdowns. • Create competitions with your friends. • Weekly AI insight: a Claude-generated summary of your last two weeks of practice with concrete suggestions. Fully opt-in; requires your explicit consent before the first insight is produced. • PDF export of your sessions and statistics. SKAFT. PRO COACH (separate coach-tier subscription) • Everything in SKAFT. Pro, plus tools to coach other SKAFT. users. • Invite students by username; on their acceptance you get a read-only dashboard over their practice and their rounds. • Message each student directly, or talk to a whole group in a group chat. • Write private coach notes (general or session-attached). • Assign drills or a round, with a due date. • Create competitions across your student roster without needing to be friends first. • Organise students into private groups. FREE ACCESS Every new account can activate 14 days of free Pro access by tapping "Try Pro free for 14 days" inside the app. No payment details are collected and nothing renews automatically. When the free period ends your account simply returns to the free tier. Subscribing to SKAFT. Pro is a separate, full-price purchase. Pro Coach has no free period; it is a paid tier from day one. PRIVACY SKAFT. does not sell your data, does not use it for ad targeting, and does not train AI models on it. Practice content sent for translation and weekly insights is not used to train the sub-processor's models (Anthropic commercial API terms). Full privacy policy at skaftgolf.com/legal/privacy. Made in Iceland by an independent golfer and developer, not a corporation. Privacy Policy: https://skaftgolf.com/legal/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://skaftgolf.com/legal/terms Subscription Terms: https://skaftgolf.com/legal/subscription-terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: SKAFT. at every 4 weeks against ABS Golf Academy's every 2 months. SKAFT. also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.1). 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. ABS Golf Academy sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and SKAFT. sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
ABS Golf Academy ships an update every 2 months, SKAFT. every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ABS Golf Academy | SKAFT. |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.1 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jacob Sorensen | Viktor Tumi Valdimarsson |
In-app purchases
ABS Golf Academy
- Premium Monthly$3.991 Month
- Premium Yearly$39.991 Year
SKAFT.
- SKAFT. Pro$5.991 Month
- SKAFT. Pro Coach$12.991 Month
- SKAFT. Pro$39.991 Year
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- SKAFT. Pro Coach$79.991 Year






