Fairway vs Golfshot: Which Golf GPS App Is Actually Simpler?
Comparing Fairway and Golfshot for casual golfers: pricing, feature tiers, and which app gets you a yardage without the paywall maze.
What Golfshot actually costs
Golfshot used to offer a one-time lifetime license. That option is gone now. Today it's split into two paid tiers billed once a year: Plus runs about $79.99 a year, and Pro runs about $99.99 a year. There's a free version too, but it holds back things like more detailed GPS data, club tracking, and Apple Watch support. The catch for casual golfers: it's annual billing only. If you play a dozen rounds a summer and then put your clubs away for the winter, you're still paying for the months you're not golfing.
The confusing part: which tier has what
Golfers reviewing the app online consistently say the same thing: it's not obvious what you get in Plus versus what you only get in Pro. You end up guessing, or paying for the higher tier just to be safe. That's the exact kind of decision Fairway is built to skip. There's one version of the app. Every feature we have, you have.
What Fairway does instead
Fairway is $0.99, paid once. Not once a year, once ever. You get GPS yardages to the pin, a digital scorecard, and course maps. That's it, and that's the point: no tier to pick, no annual renewal to remember, no feature you're not sure if you're paying for. If you're the kind of golfer who wants the number to the pin and an easy way to keep score, and you don't want to think about a subscription while you're doing it, that's exactly who we built this for.
Which one fits you
If you want detailed shot tracking, club-by-club stats, and Apple Watch integration, and you're fine paying every year for it, Golfshot's tiers give you that. If you just want accurate yardages and a scorecard for a fair price, paid once, Fairway does that without asking you to pick a plan first.
Fairway keeps a round to three things: yardages, a scorecard, and course maps.
Try Fairway for $0.99