Comparison

Golf Rules vs GolfRange

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

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About

Golf Rules

Master golf's official rules with AI-powered assistance, interactive quizzes, and a comprehensive e-learning course. Get instant rule clarifications, practice for exams, and track your knowledge progress. Available offline and in multiple languages.

Highlights
  • AI Coach for rule clarification
  • Offline rule lookup
  • Comprehensive e-learning modules
  • Practice exams and quizzes
  • Collect badges and certificates
  • Multi-language support
Features
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NEW IN 2.1 Collect badges, earn shareable certificates per module and get the Golf Rules Theory Diploma. Track your knowledge level per topic and practice for free with the new etiquette quiz. Know the rules, play with confidence. Golfregels is the golf rules app for every golfer, from your very first round to a single-digit handicap. Look up rules on the course, settle debates with the AI Coach, learn with the full e-learning course and keep your knowledge sharp with exams and quizzes. THE CADDIE Ball in the water, in a bunker or lost? Tap your situation and instantly see your options, with penalty strokes, drop area and clear diagrams. Works fully offline. THE RULES, ALWAYS AT HAND All 25 official rules of golf (2023 edition) with sub-rules, in plain English and with real course photography. More than 90 golf terms and definitions, searchable in seconds. AI COACH WITH PHOTO RECOGNITION Debate on the course? Ask your question in plain language or send a photo of the situation. You get a clear answer with the relevant rule right away. One free question every day. FULL E-LEARNING COURSE Eight modules with 28 short lessons take you from the basics to formats like match play, Stableford and foursomes. Complete each module with a module exam; your progress is tracked automatically. EXAMS AND QUIZZES Hundreds of practice questions, quick quizzes and a realistic rules exam simulation. After every answer you instantly see whether you were right, the correct answer and why. WEEKLY QUIZ AND LEADERBOARD Eight new questions every week, one attempt, speed counts. Pick a player name, climb the leaderboard and challenge your friends. The daily rules question earns bonus points. WORKS OFFLINE All rules, lessons and questions are stored in the app, so everything is at hand even without coverage on the course. IN 9 LANGUAGES The entire app is available in English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Swedish, and automatically follows your phone's language. FREE TO TRY Rules, definitions, the Caddie, module 1 and quick quizzes are free. Premium unlocks the full course, all exams and unlimited AI Coach access, as a monthly, quarterly or yearly subscription, each with a 3-day free trial. Golfregels is an independent learning app, not affiliated with any official golf organization. All explanations are written in our own words. Subscription: Premium is an auto-renewing subscription (monthly, quarterly or yearly). Price and length are shown in the app before you buy. Privacy: https://golfrulesapp.com/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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GolfRange

Features
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Practice with a point. GolfRange keeps your rounds and your range sessions in one place, then turns them into the numbers that actually move your scores: fairways, greens, putts, and the miss that keeps costing you strokes. Scoring a round is quick and hole by hole. For each hole you set the par, the strokes, whether you hit the fairway or missed left or right, whether you hit the green, your putts, and a tag for the miss that shaped the hole: fat, thin, slice, hook, push, or pull. A season of those tags becomes a pattern, and the stats screen reads it back to you: your slice shows up on this many holes and cost about this many strokes over par. What you get: - A hole-by-hole scorecard for par, strokes, fairways, greens, putts, and the miss on each hole - A miss pattern breakdown that ranks your misses by how many strokes they cost - Season stats: fairways hit, greens in regulation, putts per round, and up and down - An unofficial handicap-style index computed from your recent rounds, with a scoring trend and index history - Range sessions that log drills by club with a focus note and a rating, plus a practice streak - A fix plan for your dominant miss: the clubs to work, the drills to run, and proof it is dropping round over round - Scoring by hole type, so you see how you play par 3s, 4s, and 5s - Season records: your best round, fewest putts, best fairways, lowest index, and longest practice streak - Search and filter your rounds by course and year - A season summary PDF plus a full CSV export of every hole to keep or send to a coach The index in GolfRange is an unofficial practice number from your recent rounds. It is not a USGA Handicap Index and is not for official competition. Everything stays on your iPhone. No account, no cloud, no tracking. Free and Pro: - Free: three rounds and three range sessions, scored in full, with round search and filter. - Pro: unlimited rounds and sessions, the full stats screen, your fix plan and its trend, scoring by hole, season records, the unofficial index, and the season summary PDF and CSV export. Pro is a subscription (monthly or yearly) or a one-time lifetime unlock. Subscription details: Pro subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. Cancel anytime in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions; cancellation applies at the end of the current period. Prices are shown in the App Store before you purchase. Terms: Apple Standard EULA https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

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GolfRange4 screens

Verdict

The call

Golf Rules and GolfRange 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. Golf Rules sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.95 per month and GolfRange sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Golf Rules ships an update every 6 days, GolfRange every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on November 10, 2026.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Golf Rules versus GolfRange: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGolf RulesGolfRange
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDavid van HovenInnovaLabWorks

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Golf Rules

Subscriptions4
  • Golfregels.app Monthly3 Days trial$3.951 Month
  • Golfregels.app Quarterly3 Days trial$8.953 Months
  • Subscription yearly for Golfregels3 Days trial$8.991 Year
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  • Golfregels.app Yearly3 Days trial$17.951 Year
3 purchases

GolfRange

Subscriptions2
  • GolfRange Pro$5.991 Month
  • GolfRange Pro$34.991 Year
One-time1
  • GolfRange Lifetime$79.99

Questions

Is Golf Rules free?
Golf Rules is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is GolfRange free?
GolfRange is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Golf Rules or GolfRange have ads?
Neither Golf Rules nor GolfRange shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Golf Rules or GolfRange?
Golf Rules ships an update every 6 days, and GolfRange every 2 weeks. Most recently, Golf Rules was updated on November 10, 2026 and GolfRange on November 10, 2026.

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