Hole19 Golf GPS & Range Finder

good app with distances. club/shot tracking needs work. while trying to edit shots off the course the gps is pretty glitchy and can register a shot 500 yards away. as much as i like to think i can hit a 7 iron 500 yards i would rather have accurate distances. if your always perfect and hit the button when you approach your ball every time then its great, but i missed one shot, tried to add it from the clubhouse, it regestered 500 yards and i had to manually input every shot into a new "round".

I've used this app for about 3 years now and I wasn't having any issues till this year. The issues are, it's not locating my position so it can't find the course that I'm playing to download even though I've played on them before and everytime I try to type it in it just tells me that there was an error but it doesn't say what the error is. App works great when it's working but lately it hasn't been. I've uninstalled the app a couple of times and redownload it again it does the same thing.🤷‍♂️

Got this for use mainly on my OS watch. Keeps losing the distances on the watch and then I have to go back open the app on my phone, which will allow to watch the work for a couple of holes and then it locks up again. Also tracking does not work well on the watch. Lastly, a complaint I've seen in other reviews. The distances on the watch keeps reverting to the GPS on the phone, which is useless when you have your phone in the cart and have to walk to your ball.

So so. 2.5 stars. Can be difficult to find your way around the app at first. The free version is pretty good. Minimal intrusion from the ads, which in and of itself is worth recommending the app. I was thinking about the premium version, but based upon few comments here, and that fact that it's $50 A YEAR, there's no way. That amount of money on a yearly basis for a premium upgrade that is spotty is ridiculous. It's rediculous even if the premium upgrade works flawlessly.

Love this app. I'm now using it on a Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 and it works great. The distance updates in an acceptable time and an 18 hole round uses 10-15% battery. There are a few minor changes I'd like (1) ability to switch between watch & phone GPS without starting a round (2) ability to check current score, maybe an option in the settings menu (3) ability to delete courses I've downloaded. The course I play the most is usually the one that gets removed when more space is needed.

I'm a long time user, but this app has become so buggy that I am looking for an alternative. The biggest bug I've encountered is that the app loses track of which hole it is on. The hole number frequently doesn't correspond to the hole that or scoring data that is being display, leading to player confusion. This is a very easy to reproduce bug and I'm surprised it has not been fixed yet.

Wow. GPS, great statistical information. For Free! Better than the stand alone GPS I had before. Love the statistical analysis. Statistics are gone. Lower rating. I upgraded to Premium since my original post. Premium not only restored the statistics from before, but the shot tracking provides true on course yardage by club which gives me more confidence in club selection. Very satisfied with my decision to upgrade.

Good app, but keeping score isn't the easiest, as you have to expand other's in your groups name's to enter their scores every time. Also, I like using my Wear watch and the standalone app doesn't work good enough. It takes way too long to load every time and the free companion app uses my phone's GPS. So you need to purchase the standalone Wear app for your watch to use it's own GPS signal.

Enjoyed the free features, even got the smartwatch (android). Since then, took advantage of the deal to upgrade to the premium. Have never seen any of the premium features on the watch, can't even keep score on the watch. I've asked for help, to no avail. Works good, basically, if you carry your phone. But can't get the watch to work.

The X button that closes ads is too small to be functional, it forced me to click on ads and thats the last thing I want 3 holes into a round. The free version is unusable. why should I pay you for a subscription to fix YOUR problem with the app? Just fix your app so the ads actually close. Good luck converting people to subscriptions if they can't even use the app.

This app is nice because it give GPS data on your watch. If you want to use this app for shot-by-shot tracking, this app not recommend. To track your shots, you'll need to take your phone out of your pocket for every shot. You cannot track shots through your watch. This is a major disappointment! Also, this app is every slow in saving your shot to the app. This slows down game play and takes your focus off your round, because you need to spend so much time interacting and waiting on the app.

I really love this app compared to every other golf mapping/stats app out there. The gps is more accurate and faster than 18 birdies and taylormade app. As i have used the app for the entire year, it would be nice if there were more ways to sort your stats (by year, golf course, etc) more than just your last 5 and 20 rounds. Also the strokes gained stat would be a nice feature to add for the advanced rounds, in its current state, there's no real need to ever do an advanced round

Inputting scores is a horrible experience. I signed up for the trial and the watch app gave no options to enter strokes. Being able to use my watch was my primary use case. So, I used my phone. First, needing to take my phone out for every hit was a distraction and a pain. First unlock, then there was the prompt asking if I wanted to switch to GPS only mode (every single time). Keeping track of putts kept switching to a club recommendation despite standing on the green. The app lasted 5 holes.

Tried using it during the round, but couldnt figure it out, since most people dont want to mess around with an app when trying to golf. (there should be a dummy course that we can play around and learn the app BEFORE we are on the course). i figured i could add my scores after the round, since why wouldn't i be able to? but i guess i was wrong, once you are done with a hole, you can never add a score again! Oh, and you cant log your round score anywhere either? To keep a score history? what?

This app does not work with Samsung smart watches, the primary reason I selected it. In addition, several features did not work such as automatic hole advance, swing count and shot tracking distance. Perhaps a connection to another device is required for this functionality but since it doesn't work with my watch, which was not disclosed anywhere in their descriptive information, I can't attest to that.

This is a great app! been using it for the last 3 years...no major complaints... however, lately ive realised that when I tap on any past games played in Performance, the past games data doesnt load up.. hope you can rectify this issue immediately as editing or looking back at past games is impossible now... thanks in advance !!

Won't work on a local course. Totally inaccurate on mobile. Bought it to use on my Samsung watch, watch app is unusable as it won't update distance to my location. When it does work with watch, I have to leave app open on my phone and constantly go into bag to check app still open. Unusable for me. *edit, I uninstalled app from phone and watch, working better now.

Nice tracker. Really like app just haven't used enough still learning. No understanding how to add previous rounds from another app or enter a previous round.

Changing my review to 5 stars, the issue was fixed, thanks for the support and now I can recommend the app without hesitation :) isssue before fix: This app ignores the device auto rotate option (if you disable it, it will still turn).Therefore, if you use a phone holder on a golf cart and ride over bumps, the app will uncontrollably switch from scoreboard to the map mode making it impossible to see the distance to the hole.

Update (11/8/2025): I'm still having the exact issue as below before this review update, making the app virtually useless. Please fix, so I don't have to switch to a competing app. First review(Aug. 2025): Great app, on my second season with it. There's an annoying issue that started happening over the last few weeks to a month. I frequently have to force close the app and reopen to get accurate yardages, at least once every hole, at the start of the next hole.