18Birdies vs Halved
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
18Birdies
This app provides advanced GPS technology and game improvement tools for golfers. It offers personalized training, AI swing analysis, and a community to connect with friends and compete. Improve your game with detailed stats and course insights.
- GPS Rangefinder
- Digital Scorecard
- Handicap Tracking
- AI Swing Analyzer
- Golf Community
- Shot Tracking
- 3D Green Maps
Read full descriptionHide full description
Play better golf from the first tee to the final putt. Featured by Apple as “The Best App for Golfers” and trusted by more than 10 million golfers, 18Birdies gives every player a smarter way to play, practice, compete, and improve. 18Birdies helps you know the distance, choose smarter shots, track every round, and understand where your game can improve. Get free GPS yardages on 45,000+ courses, keep score, follow your handicap, review your stats, and use Apple Watch tools to stay focused. Improve your swing with AI feedback, Instant Swing Playback, Golf School training, and expert coach reviews. FREE GOLF GPS, SCORECARD & STATS Know the distance before every shot. Get yardages to greens, hazards, layups, and carries on 45,000+ courses worldwide. Keep score, save round history, monitor your handicap, and use shot tracking and stats to improve your game. APPLE WATCH GOLF TOOLS Keep your phone in your bag. Use 18Birdies on Apple Watch for distances, scoring, shot tracking, and automatic swing detection. IMPROVE FASTER Improve your game faster with advanced swing tools built for real results. Upload swing videos to the AI Swing Analyzer for personalized feedback, fault detection, and drills to help you improve. Use Instant Swing Playback to review swings and understand what changed from swing to swing. Build better habits with Golf School drills and lessons designed to help you practice with purpose. For expert feedback, submit your swing to Pro Swing Analysis for a personalized review from a certified golf coach. PLAY WITH FRIENDS Golf is better with friends. Connect, share rounds, compare progress, and create competition with side games, team formats, leagues, tournaments, and live leaderboards. FREE FEATURES - GOLF GPS RANGEFINDER: Distances to greens, hazards, layups, carries, and more - DIGITAL SCORECARD: Track scores for every round - HANDICAP TRACKER: Follow your handicap trend - STATS & ROUND HISTORY: Track performance over time - SHOT TRACKING: Capture shots and learn more about your game - APPLE WATCH: Distances, scoring, and shot tracking - INSTANT SWING PLAYBACK: Review your swing during practice - GOLF COMMUNITY: Connect with friends, share rounds, and celebrate your best golf moments - TEAM MODE & SIDE GAMES: Play Scramble, Best Ball, Skins, Wolf, and more - TOURNAMENTS & LEAGUES: Create live leaderboards for group competition - COACH CONNECT: Share your game with your coach for feedback PREMIUM TOOLS Upgrade to 18Birdies Premium for advanced tools and deeper insights. Free trial available for eligible users after download. - PLAYS-LIKE DISTANCES: Account for conditions that affect true yardage - CLUB RECOMMENDATIONS: Get personalized club guidance - ADVANCED GPS TOOLS: Plan shots with more confidence - 3D GREEN & HEATMAPS: Read slopes, breaks, and green contours - ADVANCED STATS: Analyze your game with charts, filters, and comparisons - STROKES GAINED: See where you gain or lose strokes - SMART TRACKING & AUTO SWING DETECTION: Capture your round automatically with less manual input, with or without Apple Watch - AI SWING ANALYZER: Get personalized swing feedback from video - HD INSTANT SWING PLAYBACK: Review your swing with annotations and deeper analysis - GOLF SCHOOL: Unlimited training, drills, and lessons - SHOT TRACKING INSIGHTS: Understand distance, shape, and performance - PRO SWING ANALYSIS DISCOUNT: 25% off personalized swing reviews from certified coaches LEGAL 18Birdies Premium is an optional auto-renewable subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple ID. Subscription renews unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel in App Store account settings. By using 18Birdies, you agree to Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ and our Terms of Service https://18birdies.com/legal/terms/ and Privacy Policy https://18birdies.com/legal/privacy-policy/.
Halved
This app simplifies golf scoring for various game formats, from casual rounds with friends to larger tournaments. It provides live results, handicap tracking, and an easy way to settle bets at the end of the game.
- Supports numerous golf game formats
- Live scoring and results
- Handicap tracking
- Shareable spectator web page
- Automatic bet settlement
- Group chat and live feed
- Tournament management
Read full descriptionHide full description
Halved keeps score for the games golfers really play. Set up a round, pick your games, enter scores hole by hole, and Halved does the rest — live results, handicaps, a shareable spectator web page, and an easy settle-up at the end. GAMES YOU CAN PLAY • Hot Seat — one golfer anchors each hole and his score counts whatever it is; the team adds the best net of the other three, and the anchor rotates • 40 Balls — a group gets 40 balls for the round and spends 0 to 4 a hole, picked after the scores are in • Better Ball — you pick how many of the group's nets count, and it is that many on every hole • Banker — one golfer takes the hole on against the other three, each in its own match, with doubles called at a ball in the air • Sequoya 3s — six three-hole matches, partners rotating every third hole • Skins, with optional carryover • Nassau — front, back, overall, with presses • Las Vegas — 2v2 team game • Sixes — 2v2 best ball with rotating partners • Wolf • Rabbit • Survivor — three players, last one standing takes the hole • Fourball — 2v2 match play, the better ball of each pair counting • Honors — win a hole outright and you hold the honor, scoring every hole until somebody takes it off you • Triple Nassau — three golfers, every pair playing its own match • Nassau Nine — one match over the holes you actually play, with presses: the Nassau for a nine-hole or back-nine round • Points 5-3-1 • Stableford, with a custom points table • Spots — greenies, sandies, chippies and the rest, from a list your group agrees on • Match Play • Stroke Play • Multi-Group Skins across foursomes, in whatever groups you are playing in • On your own against par — stroke play, a Nassau or an 18-hole match • One-round team cup • Scramble and Shamble team events • Two-golfer teams — best ball, alternate shot, Scotch, Chapman CASUAL ROUNDS Playing with friends? Start a round, choose one or more games, and assign players and tees. Halved tracks every hole and shows who's ahead in real time. PLAY WITH FRIENDS Add a golfer by phone number and send a text invite in one tap. When a friend adds you to a round — or invites you to watch one — it shows up right on your own Casual Rounds and Tournaments lists, clearly flagged so you know whether you're playing or just following along. GROUP CHAT & LIVE FEED Every round has a group chat and a live feed that calls out birdies and key moments as they happen — so the whole group can follow the action, even players in other groups. TOURNAMENTS Running something bigger? Halved supports multiple foursomes, several games at once, and multi-round events — with live leaderboards, team cup play, and formats like Irish Rumble, Pink Ball, and Singles. Dream Round takes the best score on every hole number across the whole event and makes one card of them; Road Trip plays several courses over several days with the best rounds counting, scored to par so a hard course is not a penalty. Team events run small teams or two-golfer pairs against the whole field on one board, each format with the allowance it is actually played off. FIND YOUR COURSE FAST Just start typing a course name and pick it from one list — your own courses, a shared catalog, and a full course database, all in a single search. HANDICAPS YOUR WAY Score net (with an adjustable handicap percentage), gross, or strokes-off-the-low-player — set per game to match how your group plays. Every scorecard shows exactly where each player gets a stroke, hole by hole, so the handicap is never a mystery. SETTLE UP At the end of the round, the Settlement tab nets every game into one summary and shows exactly who owes whom — plus the fewest payments to square up. Settle in seconds, with no spreadsheets and no napkin math. Halved is built for friendly play among friends. It tracks informal stakes for scoring purposes only and does not process payments.
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: 18Birdies at 4.9 against Halved's 4.0. 18Birdies also leads on ratings volume (306K vs 4) and chart position (#5 vs unranked). Halved's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and review sentiment (100% vs 74%). On price, update cadence, 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. 18Birdies sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Halved asks for nothing beyond the download.
18Birdies holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: 18Birdies has 306K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 74% of 18Birdies's written reviews are positive against 100% of Halved's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
18Birdies ships an update weekly, Halved every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 18Birdies | Halved |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (306K ratings) — better | 4.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 73.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 306K — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #5 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 297 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | 18Birdies LLC | Paul Lipkin |
Customer experience
18Birdies
Halved
Bugs and requests
18Birdies
Reported bugs
4 issues- Yardages not syncing correctly between watch and phone
- Inability to save rounds or enter scores
- Incorrect course information and tee box layouts
- Frequent crashes and performance issues
Requested features
7 requests- Automatic handicap calculation
- Customizable home course stats
- Dark mode option
- Ability to record scores for non-app users
- Layup yardages and hazard distances
Show 2 moreShow fewer
- Improved Apple Watch integration
- Better social features and leaderboards
Halved
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
18Birdies
- 18Birdies Premium7 Days trial$2.997 Days
- Weekly Premium Subscription$7.997 Days
- Weekly Premium Subscription WB$7.997 Days
Show 5 moreShow fewer
- Monthly Premium Subscription7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- 18Birdies Premium7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Monthly Premium Subscription7 Days trial2 variants$19.991 Month
- Yearly Premium Subscription WB7 Days trial$69.991 Year
- Yearly Premium Subscription7 Days trial2 variants$99.991 Year
Halved
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is 18Birdies free?
Is Halved free?
Which has better reviews, 18Birdies or Halved?
Do 18Birdies or Halved have ads?
Which is updated more often, 18Birdies or Halved?
Other comparisons















