Comparison

Arccos Golf vs Bagpipe Golf

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

Head to head
About

Arccos Golf

This app uses AI to track your golf game, providing personalized practice plans and shot analysis. It offers insights into your performance, helps you focus on improvement areas, and includes a smart rangefinder. Play smarter with data-driven recommendations.

Highlights
  • AI-powered game tracking
  • Personalized practice plans
  • Shot dispersion charts
  • AI round summaries
  • Global course map with insights
  • Smart Laser Rangefinder
  • Automatic game tracking
Features
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PLAY SMARTER GOLF Arccos is the Official Game Tracker of the PGA TOUR. AI-powered game tracking and Smart Laser Rangefinder trusted by pros including Matt Fitzpatrick, and golfers at every level. Now improved with greater depth, personalization, focus, and actionable recommendations. THE NEW ARCCOS APP — NOW ROLLING OUT ON iOS The biggest update we've ever made. Every tab rebuilt. New AI features throughout. The app now tells you exactly what to do — not just what happened. WHERE TO FOCUS — YOUR PERSONAL PRACTICE PLAN Your Player tab pinpoints exactly where your next stroke is hiding across all four facets — Driving, Approach, Short Game, and Putting — using Strokes Gained analysis. Lock in a focus area and get personalized drill recommendations built from your own data. A real plan, for your game. SHOT DISPERSION — SEE WHERE YOUR SHOTS ACTUALLY GO Visual dispersion charts for every club. See where your shots land relative to target — consistency, miss tendencies, weapons vs. liabilities. The clearest scope of your ball-striking you've ever had. AI ROUND SUMMARIES — YOUR ROUND, TOLD LIKE A STORY After every round: an AI-generated summary of what actually happened. Skill Score, Club MVP, PGA Tour Quality Shots, Round Arc, and a Practice Focus with specific drills to work on before your next tee time. COURSES — YOUR GOLF PASSPORT A global map of every course you've ever played. Tap any course for hole-by-hole Strokes Gained, AI Course Insights, and Hole Highlights showing exactly which holes have been costing you strokes. PRE-ROUND WARMUP — SHOW UP READY A personalized 15, 30, or 60-minute range routine, generated based on your recent data and current focus. Specific clubs, specific drills. Practice with purpose. ARCCOS AIR — FIRST YEAR FREE No sensors required. Slip the Air AI wearable into your pocket and play. AI trained on 1.5 billion shots automatically detects every shot with Tour-level accuracy. Or add Smart Sensors for definitive club-by-club analysis. Your choice, every round. Link Pro users upgrade automatically — no purchase required. SMART LASER RANGEFINDER — FIRST YEAR FREE Know it's 176 yards to carry the bunker. Slope-only rangefinders capture just 19% of distance adjustments. Smart Laser factors in slope, wind, temperature, humidity, and altitude to capture it all, often making a club’s difference. Auto pin-setting syncs the flag to your app automatically. AI STRATEGY & GREEN MAPS — ALL iOS SUBSCRIBERS Recommended club and optimal target every shot, based on your tendencies, course layout, hazards, and conditions. The same strategy Matt Fitzpatrick used to win his major. Green Maps: LiDAR-mapped to 1mm precision across 9,000+ courses in the US, 3,000+ worldwide. See slopes, breaks, and exact pin position. AUTOMATIC GAME TRACKING Every shot tracked across 18 holes on 40,000+ courses worldwide. Strokes Gained Analytics. Smart Club Distances — your real numbers, not your best guesses. RESULTS New Arccos members lower their handicaps by 25% on average in the first year. Hit approach shots 14.9 feet closer and sink more birdies. With lower scores, you’ll have more to celebrate and share at the 19th hole. - Official Game Tracker of the PGA TOUR - 1.5 billion shots, 4 trillion data points - Works with Arccos Air, Smart Sensors, Smart Laser, Link/Link Pro, Apple Watch - Fast Company World's Most Innovative Companies — #3 in Sports - Partners: PGA TOUR, PING, Cobra Golf, Club Champion, Golf Digest Stop guessing. Start knowing. Play better golf.

About

Bagpipe Golf

This app manages golf tournaments and leagues, acting as a scorecard and side-games engine. It handles scoring, tracks stats, and automatically settles bets for various golf games, making it ideal for casual groups and organized events.

Highlights
  • Smart scorecard with GHIN-style notation
  • 30+ automatic side games
  • Tournament director tools
  • Buddies trip event management
  • League organization
  • Live leaderboards
Features
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Bagpipe Golf manages your tournaments & leagues and is the scorecard and side-games engine built for golfers who play for something — because the best rounds always have a game going. Perfect for buddies trips or your weekend foursome side games. SMART SCORECARD Score your round the way real golfers do. • GHIN-style notation with birdies, bogeys, and doubles at a glance • Per-hole tracking for fairways, greens in regulation, and putts • Gross and net scoring with handicaps applied automatically • Career stats that build themselves from every round you post 30+ SIDE GAMES, SETTLED AUTOMATICALLY Every game your group plays — and a few you haven't tried yet. Skins, Nassau, Wolf, Vegas, Match Play, Modified Stableford, Quota, Rabbits, Nines, Hammer, Defender, Deuces, Bloodsome, Chairman, Dots, Greenies, and more. • Full settlement math built into every game • Set your unit value once — we track every point, press, and payout • Run multiple games in the same round • End the round with a clear "who pays whom" summary, down to the dollar TOURNAMENT TOOLS Everything a tournament director needs, right from a phone. • Multi-round events with a different format each round — foursomes, four-ball, best-ball, singles, and more • Team rosters with auto-balance by handicap • Auto-pairing for every round, with full manual control when you want it • Shotgun starts or tee times, configured per round, with auto-assigned starting holes • Live leaderboards and standings as scores come in • Score entry per team or per player, depending on format BUDDIES TRIPS Turn your annual trip into a proper event. • Ryder Cup-style team competitions across multiple rounds and courses • Two macro teams that carry across every match of the trip • Match-points scoring with live team standings • Templates that set up the whole event in minutes LEAGUES Season-long golf, organized. • Weekly leagues with Stableford or stroke-play scoring and playoff seeding • Member-guest events with flights and position points • Travel-team seasons with aggregate scoring across courses • Ready-made templates or build your own custom season WHO IT'S FOR Weekend groups tired of doing skins on a napkin. Trip captains running 12 guys across 5 rounds. Tournament directors who want live leaderboards without a laptop. If your golf comes with a game attached, Bagpipe Golf keeps score of all of it. Track the round. Run the games. Settle up. Download Bagpipe Golf and never argue about the math again.

Screenshots

Arccos Golf4 screens
Bagpipe Golf4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Bagpipe Golf at 100% against Arccos Golf's 41%. Bagpipe Golf also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Arccos Golf's advantage is ratings volume (33K vs 8). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Bagpipe Golf holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Arccos Golf has 33K ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 41% of Arccos Golf's written reviews are positive against 100% of Bagpipe Golf's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Arccos Golf ships an update every 10 days, Bagpipe Golf every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Arccos Golf versus Bagpipe Golf: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterArccos GolfBagpipe Golf
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (33K ratings)5.0 (8 ratings) — better
Positive reviews41.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings33K — better8
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size316 MB68 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperArccos Golf LLCTaybuta, Inc.

Customer experience

Arccos Golf

All ratings33,051 ratings
Positive90.2%
Neutral7.3%
Negative2.5%
Written reviews620 reviews
Positive41.1%
Neutral14.8%
Negative44.0%

Bagpipe Golf

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Arccos Golf

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashes and freezes during rounds
  • Incorrect hole and shot tracking
  • Unreliable sensor connectivity

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to view round stats on mobile app
  • Better course mapping and layout visualization
  • Improved handling of penalties and missed shots
  • Integration with other golf apps and platforms

Bagpipe Golf

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Arccos Golf

No in-app purchases

None

Bagpipe Golf

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Arccos Golf free?
Arccos Golf is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bagpipe Golf free?
Bagpipe Golf is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Arccos Golf or Bagpipe Golf?
Bagpipe Golf is rated higher. Arccos Golf averages 4.6 out of 5 from 33K ratings, while Bagpipe Golf averages 5.0 from 8 ratings.
Do Arccos Golf or Bagpipe Golf have ads?
Neither Arccos Golf nor Bagpipe Golf shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Arccos Golf or Bagpipe Golf?
Arccos Golf ships an update every 10 days, and Bagpipe Golf every 6 days. Most recently, Arccos Golf was updated on November 12, 2026 and Bagpipe Golf on November 10, 2026.

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