The Scoring Machine vs Wheel Golf
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Scoring Machine
This app helps organize and score golf games for individuals, groups, or entire events. It supports numerous game types, including medal, match play, best-balls, and scrambles, with automatic handling of handicaps, skins, and wagers.
- Organize and score golf games
- Supports dozens of play types
- Accurate individual and team scores
- Appropriate handicaps for all play
- Automatic skins and wagering
- Compatible with Mulligan's Eagle
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Organize and score for yourself, your foursome, your team, or a whole golf event. Keep accurate individual and team scores for dozens of kinds of play, including medal (stroke) play, match play, best-balls, foursomes, scrambles, Chapman, Stableford, Chicago and more. Use appropriate handicaps for every form of play. Handle skins and wagering automatically. You play golf and let The Scoring Machine do the work. Compatible with Mulligan's Eagle for the Mac.
Wheel Golf
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Wheel Golf keeps score and runs the bets for your golf crew. Enter gross scores as you play. The app handles the handicaps, the hole winners, the running money, and a settle up that shows exactly who pays whom. THE GAMES • Your Game. Build your own score and money sheet for whatever your group plays, with optional head to head side matches between players. • The Wheel. Our crew's five man flagship. A fixed team of two plays best ball match play against every pairing of the other three, with front, back, and overall bets and the push carry rule. • Nassau. Front, back, and overall, with presses when someone wants to fight back. • Skins. Carryovers stack until somebody wins a hole outright. • Auto 2-Down. One match for the 18. Go 2 down and a new bet opens automatically and runs to 18. The bets press themselves. • Wolf and Banker. The classics, ready to go. HANDICAPS DONE RIGHT Playing handicaps are adjusted to course and tees, built from index, slope, and rating, with strokes falling on the holes where they belong. Enter each player's index once and the app does the math every round. REAL COURSES Search a course database for real tees, pars, and ratings, or enter a course by hand. Your crew's courses and player profiles save for next time. SETTLE UP Every round ends with the bottom line: who pays whom, across every game you played. Career money and trip settles keep the running tally so the arguments stay on the course. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS No accounts, no ads, no tracking. Everything lives on your phone. THE FINE PRINT Wheel Golf is a scorecard and settlement calculator. It records user-entered stakes and calculates score-based balances. It does not accept, hold, process, or transfer money. Whatever your group plays for is between you and your crew.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Wheel Golf at Free against The Scoring Machine's $4.99. Wheel Golf also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 2 months). The Scoring Machine's advantage is iOS requirement (12.4 vs 15.0). On ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
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Wheel Golf is free to download; The Scoring Machine costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
The Scoring Machine ships an update every 2 months, Wheel Golf every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Scoring Machine | Wheel Golf |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (130 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 75.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 130 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.4 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Mulligan Software | Joseph Romano |
In-app purchases
The Scoring Machine
No in-app purchases
Wheel Golf
No in-app purchases
Questions
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