What a golf scorecard app needs
- Hole-by-hole scoring with par and stroke index
- Putts, fairways hit, and greens in regulation per hole
- Running score and to-par during the round
- Round history with per-course stats
- Group rounds: score up to four players on one card
The screens
| Screen | What it does |
|---|---|
| Home | Start a round, recent rounds, handicap trend |
| Course Setup | Pick or create a course, tees, par and stroke index per hole |
| Scoring | One hole per screen: score stepper, putts, fairway, GIR, swipe to next |
| Round Summary | Full card, to-par, stats breakdown, share as image |
| Stats | Scoring average, putts per round, fairways and GIR percentages over time |
The data model
Course: name, holes, parPerHole, strokeIndexPerHole, teesRound: courseId, date, playerIds, weather, statusHoleScore: roundId, playerId, hole, strokes, putts, fairwayHit, gir
The build prompt (copy this)
Paste this into ShipNative and it becomes a working React Native app with these screens, navigable in a live preview, in about two minutes:
Then iterate with small, screen-specific prompts (“make the primary button bigger”, “add an empty state”), preview on your own phone, and export the full Expo project whenever you want. The full method: how to build an app with AI.
How it makes money
Subscription ($3–5/mo) or one-time unlock ($10–20) gated on stats history beyond the last five rounds, group scoring, and course library size. Golfers spend freely on the sport and the season is long — but ship the offline scoring free, because a scorecard that fails at hole 7 gets deleted at hole 8.
Implementation and the revenue math for every model: how to make money from an app. When you’re ready to ship: App Store and Google Play publishing guides.
Build it now
The prompt above is free to run at shipnative.dev — working golf scorecard app on your phone today, full code export, no credit card.