The golf scorecard that keeps your foursome together.
Pins is a free app for scoring your round and sharing it with the people you play with: the regular Saturday group, your dad three time zones away, the buddy who moved. Keep score in a few taps, then let the clubhouse do the talking.
Free · iPhone (iOS 17.6+), Android (8.0+) or any browser · No subscription
One round, three ways
Caldy Golf Club, 18 July. An 89, which is a perfectly good day out. This is what it actually looks like in Pins.
The moment
A photo, a note in your own words, and the score. This is what your group sees.
The card
Hole by hole, with putts, fairways and greens in regulation if you track them.
The payoff
Round Moments land on their own when you earn them. Breaking 90 should not go unmentioned.
A clubhouse, not a dashboard
Think Strava and Instagram, for the golf course. Most golf apps want to turn your round into a data set. Pins is built for the part you actually retell afterwards: the chip that went in, the drive nobody believed, the back nine that fell apart.
Score it in seconds
Tap in each hole as you play. No menus to dig through, nothing to set up before you tee off.
Post the card
Finish, and the round goes to your clubhouse feed with photos and notes if you want them.
Hear about it
Comments, reactions, and the group chat that follows. That is the point of the whole thing.
The stats are there when you want them. Handicap trend, fairways, greens in regulation, putts. They just aren't the reason to open the app.
Questions people actually ask
- Does it work when I lose signal on the back nine?
- Yes. Every hole is written to your phone the moment you tap it, so a dead zone, a backgrounded app, or a force-quit will not cost you the card. The scores wait on your phone and sync when you are back on signal. If a sync does fail, Pins tells you and lets you retry rather than pretending it worked.
- What does Pins cost?
- Nothing today. There is no subscription and no in-app purchases. We may look at a paid plan in the future, and if that happens we will say so here first. We will not quietly move your existing rounds behind a paywall.
- Is my home course in there?
- Probably. Pins uses the golfapi.io course database: over 40,000 courses across 160+ countries, with hole-by-hole detail. If yours is missing, or you play somewhere private, you can add the course yourself and reuse it every round after that.
- Do I need my friends on it for it to be useful?
- No. Scoring, your round history, and your stats all work on your own. The feed is better with people in it, but nothing is locked behind an invite.
- Who can see my rounds?
- You choose per round: public, friends-only, or private. You can change it after posting, and you can delete your account and its data from the Help page at any time.
- Can I score for my whole group?
- Yes. One phone can keep score for the whole foursome, in stroke play, net, or Stableford. Range sessions and simulator rounds can be logged too.
- Is there an Android app?
- Yes. Pins is on Google Play for Android 8.0 and later, and on the App Store for iPhone. Your account and your rounds are the same on both, and on the web app.
Who's behind it
I'm Eric, and I build Pins. It started because the people I most wanted to play with were scattered. Old golf buddies, friends who moved, family in another time zone. A group text of blurry scorecard photos was a poor substitute for a clubhouse.
If something is broken or missing, email me. It comes to me, and I answer them myself.
clubhouse@pinsgolf.comYour next round is worth keeping
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Curious what's next? The roadmap is public and you can vote on what gets built.