Better Off Using a Free GPS Version of a Different App – TheGrint: Handicap & Scorecard Review

I paid for the Pro version of TheGrint app this morning, in anticipation of playing this afternoon. When I got to the course to play, I had NO ACCESS to any of the Pro features that had I paid for earlier this morning. It was the most frustrating round of golf I have ever played as I tried to use the app for the first nine holes before finally giving up and turning it off and using the free version of another app that offered more features than I was able to use with the paid version of TheGrint. I mean absolutely none of the Pro features worked, despite my Membership showing I had the paid version. Rebooting the phone mid-round didn’t help either. Other issues and lack of basic features of the paid Pro version that are included on most free golfapps are: 1. The lack of an option to find a course by zip code and/or location. So, if you’re planning a round in an area you don’t normally play in and would like to browse the area ahead of time, you need to find area courses in another golf app, then reopen TheGrint app and manually enter each course one at a time with no typos. This is utterly ridiculous and a major inconvenience considering that this is a basic feature of free golf apps , yet is not made available in the paid Pro version of TheGrint app. 2. You can’t move the “landing area” cursor around the course to plan strategy or look at options, either pre-round or in-round, so you’re stuck with the distance to whatever point in the fairway the developer of app thinks you need. Many free apps have this feature and I see no reason that TheGrint app does NOT have this feature in the Pro version. 3. Can’t change which tee box you’d like to play from while browsing a course, so you’re stuck with distances from the longest tees and no way to measure the distance to any other point in the fairway. 4. There’s no option to manually enter previous scores and stats that you have already recorded in another app or on a scorecard. I know the app says you can send a photo of a scorecard and they’ll get it entered , but given what a bust this app is, I have zero confidence in their ability to get previous scores and stats accurate. Nor can I find any info about what stats they can import from previous scores. It would be so easy to give us the option to enter scores manually or enter them post round or at a later date if we don’t want the aggravation of trying to use this wannabe golf app while playing. TheGrint does seem to respond quickly to written issues raised by their customers, but I paid for what was supposed to be one of the best golf apps, not fast answers to the lack of basic golf GPS functions that are included on free apps, but not on the paid for, Pro version of TheGrint. And if you want a refund, you have to ask Apple. So it looks like I’m out $20.00 and stuck with an app that don’t even have basic golf GPS functions for 12 months.
Review by Zenman! on TheGrint: Handicap & Scorecard.