Golf Playbook: Strategy & GPS
ExpertCraft Sports iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Golf Playbook: Strategy & GPS is a free Sports app for iPhone and iPad by ExpertCraft. Rated 5.0/5 from 18 ratings. Requires iOS 18.0.
- Rating
- 5.0
- 18 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 62 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Sep 5
- 2026 · v3.4.0
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About Golf Playbook: Strategy & GPS
Aim for your miss, not a miracle. Most strokes aren't lost to bad swings. They're lost to bad targets: pins you were never going to hit. Golf Playbook shows you where to aim, and where it's safe to miss, on every hole. Free, with an AI caddie in your pocket. The features other apps charge $150/year for, we built free. WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT Any golf app can tell you it's 156 yards to the pin. Golf Playbook tells you the play: for your game, in this wind, the smart target is 15 yards left of it. Not just how far. Where. We built our course intelligence from raw open terrain data: every risk zone, every contour, from the ground up. That's why we can do things no other app can: • Color-coded risk zones (patent pending): see where's safe and where's trouble for YOUR game, on every hole. Red, amber, green, computed from the terrain and your real misses. Nowhere else, free or paid. • Weather-compensated shot patterns: the honest shape of where your shots land, adjusted for wind, slope, temperature, and altitude. • AI Caddie: on-device intelligence (Apple Intelligence) that reasons about the hole, not just the yardage. Private. Works offline. • Club-to-target fit: see instantly whether your shot pattern covers the target, or brings trouble into play. • Aim lines: your draw and fade, drawn right on the hole. The result: you stand on every tee already knowing the shot. CREATE - PLAY - REVIEW CREATE your playbook before the round. Pick your course, set your clubs from your 7-iron distance, and get a hole-by-hole strategy with risk zones, dispersion overlays, and club recommendations. PLAY with a live scorecard and your AI Caddie in your pocket. Record shots from your lock screen with one tap. REVIEW every shot on the map, refine your playbook, and share it by QR code or link. PRINT YOUR OWN YARDAGE BOOK Turn any playbook into a pocket-sized PDF yardage book: your strategy, on paper, in the bag. (Premium course-branded books are available through partner courses.) TOURNAMENT READY Switch weather compensations off for conforming play, and keep your strategy, aim lines, and notes. Lock in your plan before the round. WHY IT'S FREE Golf is a beautiful game. Strategy shouldn't cost $150/year. We built our terrain data from OpenStreetMap, and our AI runs on your device, so what costs other companies millions to operate costs us almost nothing. The college kid who can't afford a shot-tracking subscription. The weekend player who won't pay for premium tiers. They deserve real course strategy tools. AI and open source made it possible. Free. Not "free trial." Not "freemium with the good stuff locked." Free. FEATURES • AI Caddie powered by Apple Intelligence (on-device) • Color-coded risk zones (patent pending) • Weather-compensated shot dispersion (wind, slope, temperature, altitude) • Club-to-target fit • Live scorecard with putt tracking • Round Review: replay every shot on the map • Personal playbooks: auto-generated, customizable, shareable • Printable pocket yardage book (PDF) • 3D flyover from every tee • Course search with strategy-tier indicators • Cloud backup • Works offline Made by a golfer, for golfers, a labor of love for the game I love. Let's raise our game together. - Abey
Ratings & reviews
5.0
18 ratings
What’s new
Version 3.4.0 · Updated September 5, 2026
Your caddie got smarter, and your rounds got easier to relive. • Smarter AI Caddie: now recommends the club AND the shot shape, from how you actually hit • Round Review, rebuilt: edit any shot in place, drag to reorder, add putts with a tap • Pars set themselves from hole lengths: you confirm the close calls • Plan any course: no course map needed, plan right on the satellite view • Cleaner weather readout and quieter playbook cards • Bug fixes and performance improvements If Golf Playbook earns a spot in your bag, a quick review genuinely helps a solo developer keep building. - Abey
App privacy
The developer, ExpertCraft, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
- Contact Info: Email Address, Name
- User Content: Photos or Videos, Other User Content
- Identifiers: User ID
Used for: Analytics, App Functionality
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Contact Info: Email Address, Name
- Location: Precise Location, Coarse Location
Used for: Developer’s Advertising or Marketing, Analytics, App Functionality
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