Description
Birdie is a golf scoring application, made with golfers' needs in mind.
Besides the ease of use and enhanced speed (compared to traditional score cards), Birdie provides many enhanced features like the fully automated calculation of score card results. In addition to counting each player's strokes during a game, Birdie also automatically calculates the game's results according to different rules including "Stroke Play" and "Stableford".
Features include:
- Access to data of more than 35,000 courses world wide.
- Official USGA handicap (option paid subscription)
- Support for uploading results to USHandicap.com
- Count up to four players per flight.
- Track your strokes, putts, fairway hits, drive lengths and more.
- Automatic calculation of each players course handicap.
- Automatic player statistics.
- Send game results by e-mail as HTML scorecards or as CSV files.
What's New In Version 2.1.2
v2.1.2:
- Fix for crash on iPad
v2.1.1:
- Birdie is now prepared for iOS 4 multitasking (only compatible devices on iOS 4 and later).
- The timer now doesn't stop when the timer view is closed and (only on compatible devices on iOS 4 and later) works even when Birdie is terminated.
- Birdie now natively supports the high resolution "Retina Display" of the iPhone 4.
- Many more enhancements and bug fixes (see homepage for a full list).
v2.1:
- Practice mode is now possible with up to 4 players.
- It's now possible to enter penalty strokes in practice mode.
- Integration of USHandicap.com services:
-- Access to many thousand courses in the USHandicap.com database.
-- Official USGA handicap on USHandicap.com (optional paid subscription)
-- Users can upload round results to their (free) USHandicap.com account.
-- If available, users can automatically synchronize their USGA handicap with USHandicap.com.
- The title of the counter view now shows Par & HCP of the current hole.
- Fixed a glitch with matchplay calculations.
- Many more enhancements and bug fixes (see homepage for a full list).
Customer Reviews
best of the golf scoring apps
This isn't really a five-star app, but I'm trying to counteract the idiots that reviewed the app without using it. Some of them apparently didn't understand that this isn't a game.
It's a solid little golf-scoring app. I've paid for and tried two others in the $20 price range, and one didn't keep score for everyone in my foursome, and the other crashed so frequently as to render it useless.
I wish I could enter golf courses on the phone and not have them subject to review. I find the web site "course editor" a little cumbersome. I also wish that you weren't restricted to a half dozen tee colors.
I also wish there was an alternative score card with less data displayed and oriented in the traditional horizontal manner.
I don't understand the complaints about price. Yes, I'd be excited if there was a good free app, but It was worth $20 to me. I paid hundreds for the phone, a thousand a year in cell service, plus the cost of my golf clubs and greens fees. $20 for a convenience in keeping score is pretty negligible compared to all that.
If you're looking for a decent golf scoring app, this seems to be the one.
Works as Advertised. Fantastic App.
Folks, stop writing bad reviews if you're not even getting what this Application does. This is NOT a game. This is a Golf Scorecard Application with some realy nifty features.
I am tracking all my rounds with Birdie and it works like a charm. Especially nifty is the built in range finder which can show you the distance to the pin (with no use of GPS so it is allowed to use in tournaments too).
I full heartedly recommend this.
Good start with room to grow
I have had other golf-scoring apps for PDA's in the past, but none that are this simple to use. Thinking I would want to track all statistics, I spent half my game playing a PDA instead of golf. Birdie does do a good job of simplifying the interface, but has some minor bugs and missing features that may or may not be a problem for some people.
Starting with the positive points:
The finger-slide interface works pretty well, and I found it didn't take me long to score for a foursome. Since most time consuming entries are done before you start, you can basically keep pretty close to anyone hand writing a card. And hand-written cards don't do the math for you! The ability to switch back and forth from the hole review to the scoring stoke sliders is good. It's also nice that they include a little review of each player's stats beneath his stroke slider on each hole. I haven't tried doing a golf course "On The Go" yet, but a pre-entered course was nice. If they don't have your course in their database, you can take about 30 minutes to enter it from your web browser. They also let you e-mail your scorecard! Pretty neat. And support for this app is great! You submit a question, and get a personalized response back very quickly even though I know they are busy trying to perfect this app after being given such a short time for initial development.
The course I played did not have graphics loaded, so I couldn't rate the distance-finding feature.
The negative points:
Entering courses via their course editor is nice as well, although I wish they had made clear that both slope rating, and course rating were required for stableford. I've only used stableford outside of the US, and suspect that Stableford, Netto, and Brutto are not American. I'm guessing with a good explanation, Americans might find these useful too (but maybe I'm the only one who's not heard of them before). So they could use a good FAQ, but they have already told me that this is in progress and will be released soon, and they e-mailed a specific description of each for me (there's the great support. . .oops, sorry, these are negative points!). Next, is the scorecard. You can flip over to the scorecard to see everyone's score, but it's too small to read. So you enlarge it (also quite easy), but the card is then too big to see the scores and players' names together. It's far too easy to get lost. They could benefit GREATLY from a freeze-pane similar to the feature in MS Exel, that would freeze two rows of information at the top (let it slide side-to-side, but not vertically). It would be nice too if they could allow the pairing of teams so that match play could be scored as a team on the quick reference beneath each individual stroke slider. We kept having to refer to the guy keeping the paper card, which really defeated the purpose of my fancy app.
Finally, more of a wish-list item than a negative point--if they could use the GPS in the 3G iPhone with a system like SkyCaddy, I'd not only rush out and immediately buy a 3G iPhone, but I'd pay a LOT more for the Birdie app. I have no doubt that it would become THE golf app. Integration of phone, internet, PDA, iPod, golf scorecard AND yardage indicator? There'd be a pile of cheap gadgets in my next yard sale!
Overall, I'd say that the developers of this app have done a great job building a platform that is easy to use and can grow into an irreplaceable tool. Get it early and submit your requests while they're still small enough to listen!
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$18.99
- Category: Sports
- Updated:Jul 29, 2010
- Current Version:2.1.2
- 2.1.2 (iOS 4.0 Tested)
- 3.0 MB
- Languages:English, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Swedish
- Seller:Eberhard Rensch
- © 2008-09 Pleasant Software
Requirements:Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.
