“My review — It’s great I just wish you didn’t have to pay for the swing analysis other wise it’s perfect”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 527 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-06.
4.9 ★304,881 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
319 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
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.…
Preview
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Independent evidence report
The evidence behind this assessment
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 16.40.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-06 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 16.40.0, updated 2026-09-22.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Says how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
No theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
90% or more five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
Context 1
Measured and published because a reader would want to know — deliberately not a charge. The measurement alone does not show a harm.
Cheapest and priciest options are far apart
The disclosed in-app purchases span an unusually wide price range. Published as context: the cheapest and priciest items may be different kinds of product entirely, so the spread alone deducts nothing.
What we saw: In-app purchases run from USD 2.99 to USD 99.99 — a 33x spread across 10 items
One source only — shown, not confirmed 1
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Users describe the free version as usable
Reviewers repeatedly say the free version is worth using on its own. Nothing we can measure corroborates that — a free listing with in-app purchases looks identical whether the free tier is generous or a demo — so this is published as what reviewers say, not as a measured credit.
What we saw: Reviewers describe the free version as usable: raised by 7 distinct reviewers (1.3% of 527 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Great app with Apple watch — The free version is great. Works well with my watch. Thank you”
“Free — The free version is good with a score card and swing recorder but the ai swing is a premium feature and most of what they advertise”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 16.40.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown8
Lowest$2.99
Highest$99.99
Weekly Premium Subscription WB$7.99
Weekly Premium Subscription$7.99
Monthly Premium Subscription$19.99
Monthly Premium Subscription$9.99
Yearly Premium Subscription$99.99
Show 3 more purchases
Yearly Premium Subscription WB$69.99
18Birdies Premium$9.99
18Birdies Premium$2.99