PinFlag vs Arccos: what is the difference?
Arccos captures shots automatically from sensors you buy and reports strokes gained after the round. PinFlag needs no hardware, prices any target before you swing with your own dispersion and the lie read from the course map, draws your real pattern on the hole with Shot Cloud, logs a shot in two taps, and works with no signal. Arccos tells you what happened; PinFlag tells you what the shot in front of you is worth.
About this topic
Where PinFlag stands against the apps a golfer usually shortlists. The whole topic, PinFlag compared, answers 6 questions in full.
The figures behind the answer
Every plan includes every feature, Shot Cloud, launch monitor import and Insights; the plans differ in how many golfers they cover.
PinFlag plans
| Plan | Price | Covers |
|---|---|---|
| Golfer | $14.99 a month or $99.99 a year, 14-day trial on the annual plan | One golfer, in the app through the App Store |
| Coach | $80 a month, 20 percent off annually, 7-day trial | The coach plus up to 10 students |
| Facility | $299 a month | Every coach and student in a program |
Computed from the published baselines, the same ones the app prices your shots with. Pricing.
- Which strokes gained app is best?
- PinFlag vs a GPS rangefinder app like Golfshot or 18Birdies?
- Is there a golf app that shows strokes gained without sensors?
- Is PinFlag free?
- PinFlag vs a sensor system: which is better?
PinFlag, in plain facts
- PinFlag is an iPhone app; the course maps and every shot live on your phone, so it works anywhere on the course.
- PinFlag is launching on the App Store; the download page takes an email and tells you the day it is live.
- Every number is strokes gained on Mark Broadie’s published PGA TOUR baselines, priced on the same published baselines in the app and on this site.
- PinFlag prices the target you choose, with your own dispersion and the lie read from the course map; the decision stays yours, with the arithmetic done.
- Every number is labeled Measured (your own data) or Estimated (a benchmark standing in), and the two are never blended.
- Pins you set during a round are yours, and every round exports as CSV or JSON on request.
See the number before you swing
Leave your email and PinFlag will tell you the day it is live on the App Store.