Custom Golf Lab vs JaMaGolf
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Custom Golf Lab
Improve your golf game with automatic shot tracking, AI swing analysis, and personalized practice plans. Get real-time GPS data and insights into where you're losing strokes to lower your handicap.
- Automatic shot detection on Apple Watch
- GPS distances and hazards
- AI swing analysis with skeleton tracking
- Personalized 4-week practice plans
- Strokes Gained analysis
- AI golf coach (Hosel)
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Better golf is no longer guesswork. TheLAB tracks your shots automatically on Apple Watch, analyzes your swing from video and uses Strokes Gained to show where you really lose shots. Plus Hosel, your AI golf coach who knows every round and every swing, and a 4-week plan built around your weaknesses. APPLE WATCH CADDIE • Automatic shot detection right on your wrist • Distances to the front, middle and back of the green • Hazards like bunkers and water, plus the wind • Club selection, putts and scorecard on the watch • Start a swing recording from the watch GPS ROUNDS ON IPHONE • Satellite view of every hole with distances and live stats • Finish a hole in two taps • Round summary with Strokes Gained (off the tee, approach, around the green, putting) compared with your handicap level AI SWING ANALYSIS • Film face-on or down the line • AI skeleton on every frame, with Start, Top, Impact and Finish phases • Draw lines and angles, slow motion from 0.2x to 1x • A swing score and points to work on, each explained with a drill to fix it HOSEL, YOUR AI COACH • Knows all your swings, rounds and stats • Answers with your real numbers • Talk or type, in your language • Hosel is an AI, not a person. Answers may contain mistakes. YOUR PLAN, YOUR GAME • 4-week practice plan with drills and practical examples • Birdiebook: plan every hole before you tee off, with your own club set • Know-how: 24 swing faults and 60+ drills explained, with a guided tour by Hosel • Mental patterns, quiz and all your numbers at a glance WELCOME WEEK AND SUBSCRIPTION After signing in, everything is free for 7 days – no subscription, no purchase. Afterwards you get 3 free rounds with GPS and the watch, and your data stays. Stats, swing analysis, coaching, Hosel and more rounds come with TheLAB Pro (monthly or yearly). You see the price in your local currency before you buy. Your subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment is charged to your Apple Account; you can cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://customgolflab.de/en/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://customgolflab.de/en/privacy/
JaMaGolf
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JaMaGolf is your personal golf coach – with you on the range and at home. VIDEO SWING ANALYSIS Record a swing or import a video. JaMaGolf detects your body pose on-device, segments the swing into phases (setup, backswing, top, downswing, impact, follow-through) and measures tempo, spine tilt, head movement and more. An AI coach explains clearly what worked and what to practice next – with concrete drills. LIVE COACHING ON THE RANGE Prop your iPhone up 3–4 meters away and just hit balls. The app detects every swing automatically, analyzes it and speaks a short tip right away – like a real coach standing next to you. The coach remembers your recent swings and never repeats itself. YOUR PROGRESS Every swing lands in your history – with video or skeleton playback, phase timeline and swing metrics. Progress charts show whether you are improving: today, this week, this month. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS Videos never leave your iPhone. For coaching tips, only derived metrics and a few downscaled frames are sent encrypted to our EU server and never stored. No accounts, no tracking, no ads. FEATURES • Video swing analysis with skeleton overlay • Live range mode with spoken tips (English & German) • Club selection – the coach judges a driver differently from a wedge • Phase timeline & swing metrics (tempo, head movement and more) • Progress charts across days, weeks and months • Weekly tour news • Fully localized in English and German THE FOCUS LOOP After three swings the coach picks exactly ONE thing for the session — quiet head, tempo, long lead arm or posture — and only speaks when it matters. You get a concrete drill to go with it. Next visit, the first swings re-measure whether it stuck: "4 of 5 in the green, before 2 of 6." SHARE WITH YOUR PRO Swing card with skeleton frames and the tip plus a trimmed clip — two taps to send it to your coach via WhatsApp.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: JaMaGolf at none against Custom Golf Lab's 2. JaMaGolf also leads on iOS requirement (15.5 vs 17.0). Custom Golf Lab's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, ads 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. Custom Golf Lab sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. JaMaGolf asks for nothing beyond the download.
Custom Golf Lab ships an update every 5 days, JaMaGolf every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Custom Golf Lab | JaMaGolf |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sebastian Burges | Jan Matysik |
In-app purchases
Custom Golf Lab
- TheLAB Pro Monatlich$8.991 Month
- TheLAB Pro Annual$69.991 Year
JaMaGolf
No in-app purchases
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