“Too Much Advertising — I upgraded to one level, and lo and behold I keep getting messages to upgrade further, which I find particularly annoying! I just want to play golf and get yardages and fill in a computerized scorecard! Before I was…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 415 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.8 ★78,093 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
219 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Get pinpoint GPS distances on 47,000+ golf courses worldwide, automatic shot tracking, scoring, handicap posting, and Strokes Gained analytics — whether you're a beginner or a scratch golfer chasing a course record.
*Why Golfers Choose Golfshot* - Best golf app for Apple Watch — the original Apple Watch golf GPS since 2015. Play hands-free with distances, auto-advance, scoring, and shot tracking right on your wrist. - Best shot tracking app in golf — Auto Shot Tracking (AST) uses Apple Watch machine learning to capture every shot automatically.…
Preview
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Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
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 4.90 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 4.90, updated 2026-09-14.
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 a price and a billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
2 themes 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
80–89% 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.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 2
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: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Aggressive ad load: raised by 9 distinct reviewers (2.2% of 415 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Upgrade prompts use guilt-trip wording
Declining an upgrade is written as a loss ('No thanks, I don't want to improve'), or users report being repeatedly pushed to subscribe during normal use.
What we saw: Constant upsell pressure: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (1.2% of 415 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Too many Ads — I have owned this application since it was beginning, and I was forced to upgrade to the newer model. Now EVERY time you open the app, it ask you for a monthly subscription. I’ve asked tech-support why I can’t get around…”
“Add — Why too many ads are now popping up….. way too many!!”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 4.90.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.