Great app and amazing customer support
This is a great app. I thought my Callaway uPro was perfect until it was discontinued but that set the bar for me. Ive been looking for an equivalent GPS device with satellite, not cartoonish, imagery thats very easy to use and gives me distance to any spot on the course. I didnt want to fool around with scoring, club stats or other clutter. I was not really wanting to use a smartphone app unless it was really something special because of the risk of damage to an expensive phone.
Fast forward to golfing with a friend who suggested SkyDroid. It is incredibly simple and easy to use. The maps are beautiful and I find very little battery drain when I follow the suggestions given. Two important things to rave about are the course mapper and customer support. A course that holds a lot of tournaments was redesigned last year and only the old map was available. So... I mapped the new course myself! It was unbelievably easy to do. No more wishing that a pre-mapped course had just one more reading to a particular landmark, with the course mapper you can add it yourself. The course mapper tool allows SkyDroid to crowdsource the list of mapped courses so ANY course you want can be mapped or edited. As for customer support, I was pleasantly surprised that the app support is great. This is where George comes in. Ive dealt with many customer support people over the years but George puts them all to shame. At one point I wondered whether he might be the developer of the app; he knows so much and was so keen to resolve any issue. George patiently answered every question I had, he tried every solution on his iPhone before suggesting it to me, and he always encouraged me to provide feedback to make the app better. Finally, I was planning to use SkyDroid on a golf trip and George was still educating me on how to use the app. I couldnt find a course and didnt have time to map it. Well, George mapped it for me. Thats amazing customer support.
In the way of improvements it would be nice if the long press time on the iPhone was shortened just a little, supporting more than one custom measurement on the screen would be nice, and the real-time read-out thats available in FreeCaddie Pro would really be a great addition to SkyDroid. Even without those enhancements its a great app. SkyDroid - get it - and with George in customer support you cant go wrong.
FirstReviewHopeItHelps about SkyDroid - Golf GPS, v1.9.1
