GHIN

• Upgrade to GHIN Enhanced GPS — $49.99

Last verified 30 Aug 2026

4.8 20621 ratings · App Store

1. 4/5Phone App Great - Watch, not so much

   The app for the phone is amazing. I love that it keeps handicap, has enhanced GPS, has heat and putt maps, stat tracking, handicap calculator, etc…. One major flaw is that with the Apple Watch, the GPS still uses yardage from your phone. So, sorry for you if it’s cart path only. Sorry if your partner drops you and takes the cart. The watch app is also constantly closing on your wrist, so, reopening and having to allow it to calibrate again is annoying. GHIN needs to take a note from Hole19 and GolfShot and allow the watch app to utilize the watch GPS on GPS mode only, this way, your watch shows accurate yardage. I find that the biggest difference is the other apps allow Apple Watch with GPS to use the watches GPS and stay open for the full round (phone or not) by utilizing the health app. I use the phone for approaches and around the greens (mainly when we are driving to an approach shot and/or parking to walk to putt and wanting to see the green slopes), then I leave my phone in the cart and I use GolfShot for my watch GPS.

   Kuhrhfhurdhi · 30 Aug 2026

2. 3/5Great Potential. Support is non existent

   I have been using the app for several years. I use it essentially as an electronic scorecard with the added bonus of automatically submitting for my handicap. It is helpful for match situations with built-in net scoring and even has flexible percentages of net strokes. It is also decent at keeping track of statistics, though there are other apps which are more powerful and offer more granularity, like club and putt distances. The thing that is annoying is that my course, which is a top course in the state, does not have the green heat maps. I know they exist because other apps offer them. I have emailed the developer on several occasions and only get the message "you have already submitted this request," with no path forward. Additionally, the app occasionally has a bug which does not allow proper score input, and reverts to the keyboard instead of the numerical pad input which gives an error in advancing to the next hole. Lastly, the Apple Watch integration has promise, but crashes too many times to be useful.

   RCPanek · 30 Aug 2026

3. 4/5Great golf app could be better

   High Hcp trying to lower it. I track stats, count putts, look for areas to improve, and the app is good for all of that. Also love using my watch on the course. Distances are reliable. Greens on the phone are great. My main beef is this: it will not let me keep score on courses outside their posting windows. I used a free app that let me keep scores that it did not include in my handicap. What gives? I shot my second best score in December this year; my best on New Years Day a few back. I’d like to have the data even if it doesn’t figure in. And when I use it those times without score the app will NOT close on my phone because there is no round to end. Please fix those and I will be your biggest fan!!!

   Gronny2 · 30 Aug 2026

4. 5/5App stopped working again after IOS update

   Update: since updating to the latest app version the iWatch and iPhone now work well together as intended. The team addressed the issues and fix the problem in a very timely fashion. One cannot ask for more than that. Thank You!! The app has been working well up until yesterday when I updated my iPhone IOS to 18.2 and the watch app to 11.2. Now the app on the iPhone works well but when trying to connect the iwatch it just says searching and to start round on iPhone. A problem we had in the past. The app probably needs an update to sync with the iPhone and watch app using the latest IOS updates

   stshbe · 30 Aug 2026

5. 4/5Better Tracking

   I use this app every time I golf to track my round. If I am playing in a league or outing I am likely using golf genius. I cannot “post my score” in GHIN because it will create a 2nd round as Genius is being used. I wish it had a way to just track my stats, and skip submitting that round score, so that I can watch/follow my stats over time but not submit my score 2 times for 1 round. One time through GHIN and again through Genius. ALSO, I would love a way to track penalty strokes per round. I’m working on getting less penalties, and would love to see how they impacted my game overall. If there was just a check box for penalties or something that showed you how many you had with stats/chart over time that would be great. Thank you

   Wendell 1107 · 30 Aug 2026

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