Golf rangefinder & course planner
What it does
A free app for your phone: see distances, plan how you'll play each hole, and keep score for your group. No ads.
Three modes, one app
The app is built around three modes — the same three you'll find in its menu.
Free range
A GPS rangefinder for quick measurements on the spot. Point at any target on the map and see the distance from where you stand — or measure between two points to check a gap or a carry.
No account neededPlan
Prepare a round before you play it. Draw relevant OBs and hazards. Visualize your strategy for each hole, by mapping out every shot you plan to play tee to green — taking dog-legs, trees, OBs and other hazards into account. Add notes to remember important details.
Map your strategy shot by shotPlay
Keep your plan at hand while you score your round – the hole plan can be shown on the map while scoring. Add other users or guests to a round and help each other enter scores – scores are synced between users and devices. Net scoring is available when hole index and HCP is added.
Play your plan, solo or with friendsAlso in the app
- Every course in the world, near enough — more than 25,000 on a searchable map, with your favourites kept close at hand.
- Pars for most courses, kept by the community. Missing or wrong? Add or fix a sheet yourself — it becomes playable right away and everyone benefits.
- Net scores when the course has a stroke-indexed sheet and you've entered your handicap.
- Club choices on your plan — tell the app how far you hit each club and it suggests one for every shot you map.
- Where your misses land — each planned shot can show a wedge for that club's likely spread, skewed to your actual left/right miss if you're not straight.
- Share what you make — courses, plans and rounds — or copy what others have shared.
- Private by default — an account is only needed to save your own things. Your email is never shown to other players, and your scorecards stay private. See exactly what's stored.
- Nothing to install, no ads — it runs in the browser. Course maps come from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors).
Version log
What's new, newest first. Each entry is what changed in Azimuth Golf that day.
A sharper map underneath
minor2026-11-01- The satellite imagery under every course is now served by Mapbox — noticeably sharper on modern phone screens, and it zooms one step closer before the picture starts to soften.
- Why the switch: the previous imagery source wasn't cleared for an app that takes donations. Mapbox is a proper commercial arrangement, so the map under your plans sits on solid licensing ground as Azimuth grows.
- The map's corner credit now reads Imagery © Mapbox. Course and hole maps remain © OpenStreetMap contributors, free for anyone to reuse under ODbL.
- Nothing changes day to day: viewed map areas still cache on your phone for dead zones on the course.
A way to chip in
minor2026-10-30- Settings gained a Support Azimuth section at the bottom: the app stays free and ad-free, and a Donate button lets you chip in toward server and map costs if it's helped your game.
- The front page and footer of this site, and the footer of www.azimuthgolf.com, now carry the same donate link. Donations are voluntary and never unlock or lock anything.
- This site gained a Support Azimuth page and the landing page a matching section: a short piece on why donations matter — the app is free, but its server, backups, email and map data are real monthly costs paid out of pocket so far — each with a bigger donate button.
- A plain-words Terms of use page joined it: the deal on accounts, sharing and donations, with the recovery-code warning up front. Sign-up in the app and both footers now link to it.
A cleaner course page — and a nudge to map
minor2026-10-29- The course page's buttons got a proper layout: Play / scorecard is now the big blue button, with Share, Save and Edit details in tidy pairs beneath it — the old row overflowed phone screens.
- Buttons now appear only where they belong: Share and Edit on courses you created, Save (the star — it turns yellow once saved) on everyone else's.
- Courses without hole maps get a "No map yet" box — GPS distances and plans need mapped tees and greens, and the box's Map this course button starts the mapper. Opening a fully unmapped course shows it as a pop-up first, once per course.
- The old golf.kampen.cc address is retired — app.azimuthgolf.com is the app's only address now. If your home-screen icon still points at the old address, reinstall it from app.azimuthgolf.com.
- Small fix: pop-up ✕ buttons now sit on their pop-up's corner on desktop screens too.
Open map data, credited properly
minor2026-10-21- The map's corner credit now names OpenStreetMap contributors, and Settings gained a "Map data & credits" section saying where the map comes from.
- Course and hole maps are built from OpenStreetMap data and stay open for anyone to reuse under the ODbL license. Your own plans, scorecards and club bag stay yours.
Plans that start ready — and a course mapper
major2026-09-24- A new plan now covers the whole course from the first tap — every mapped hole is listed, and the ‹ › arrows step through all 18. You fill the plan in as you go instead of adding holes one by one.
- Jump to any hole: tap the hole name at the top ("Hole 3 · 5/18") and pick from the grid that slides up.
- New Map course flow for courses without hole maps: say how many holes it has (18, 9 or 6), then tap each tee and green — every hole saves as you go and the map turns to frame it. A finished 9- or 6-hole course can be turned into an 18-hole course (played as loops) with one tap.
- Try to plan a course that isn't mapped yet and the app offers to map it first — you can still continue and draw freely if you prefer.
- Inside a plan, unmapped holes show as dashed tiles — tap one to map it right there and keep planning. All the hand-managed "hole slot" buttons are gone: mapping a hole is now simply how a hole comes to exist.
- It's now obvious when you're signed in (added 2026-09-26): the corner menu button gets a thin blue ring, and the menu's Account line gets a blue dot with a small "Signed in" note. The earlier lone blue dot on the menu button was easy to miss.
A mark of its own
minor2026-09-14- Azimuth has a logo: the A turned upside down, two rays opening onto a measured arc — the angle the app is named after. The browser tab and these docs wear it now.
- If you had the app on your home screen from before, reinstall it once from app.azimuthgolf.com and the new icon comes with it.
- www.azimuthgolf.com is now a small page that shows what the app does; plain azimuthgolf.com takes you there. The app itself hasn't moved.
- Sharing a link to the app now shows a proper card (name, mark, one-line pitch) instead of a bare URL.
The app is now Azimuth Golf
major2026-09-13- The app has a name — Azimuth Golf — and its own address: app.azimuthgolf.com. Point at the map, read the bearing: that's what it does.
- Nothing else changed. Your account, plans, scorecards and settings are exactly as they were — sign in on the new address with the same email or username and password.
- The old address (golf.kampen.cc) still works for now, so nothing breaks — but the new one is the keeper.
- These docs moved too: docs.azimuthgolf.com (the old docs address keeps working).
- If you had the app installed on your phone's home screen, reinstall it once from the new address to update its name and icon label.
A sharper look across the app
minor2026-09-10- Every button symbol in the app now comes from one clean line-icon set — the mixed bag of little pictures (flags, faces, globes) that could look different on every phone is gone.
- The app now moves like a phone app: windows ease in and out instead of popping, the score pad slides up from the bottom, and every button acknowledges your press.
- The distance number at the top is now big and bold, with a small unit beside it — much easier to read at a glance on the course.
- Settings was cleaned up: the choices there are now proper joined toggles, and keep-the-screen-awake is a single switch instead of an On/Off pair.
- Clearer map buttons: the rangefinder is now the same crosshair symbol everywhere, and "back to my position" got its own arrow — the two can't be mixed up any more.
- If your phone is set to reduce motion, the new animations switch themselves off.
A more consistent app, end to end
fix2026-09-09- Every colour, spacing and rounded-corner value in the app now comes from one shared set of design values — buttons, tabs, inputs and pills that used to differ by a pixel or two now match exactly across screens.
- Fixed a glitch where the Share and Edit buttons stayed visible inside a plan view where they didn't belong.
- Straightened out small inconsistencies: arrow and close buttons on the planning bars are one size now, all tabs have the same corner rounding, and the sign-in fields match the ones elsewhere.
- Ticking clubs in Settings no longer flashes a "saved" message for each tap — the tick itself is the confirmation. (Your bag still saves automatically.)
- Under the hood: an automated check now guards the design values, so future updates can't quietly drift away from them.
Where your misses land
minor2026-09-08- Turn on the new spread button and each planned shot grows a shaded wedge showing where the ball will likely land — wide for an unreliable club, narrow for a steady one.
- The wedge widens and lengthens with the shot, and it uses your own numbers: in Settings you can now say how wide each club sprays.
- Most golfers don't miss symmetrically — so there's a Left / Right option per club: how far each side's miss carries and how wide each side sprays. Your wedges come out skewed, leaning toward the side you actually miss.
- The distances and spread numbers got their own sections in Settings, so the rows stay short and readable.
- The spread button now works in the plain rangefinder too — turn it on and your shot line gets club labels and wedges, turn it off for bare distances. (It's hidden when you're not signed in, since it needs your club numbers.)
- With GPS on, the label sits on your live position dot — shown as a blue label so you can tell it apart from a placed point.
- You now stay signed in until you choose to sign out — no more signing in every time you open the app. (This also softens an earlier security fix that had gone too far.)
Security hardening behind the scenes
fix2026-08-31- Fixed a rare fault that could have shown a private scorecard to everyone in a shared round.
- Suggestions and corrections on a course are accepted only by the course's creator or the app's maintainer — never by the person who sent them.
- Your sign-in now stays remembered on this device — it only asks you to sign in again if you sign out (revised 2026-09-08: an earlier version of this fix asked you to sign in every time you opened the app, which was more hassle than it was worth).
Clubs on your plan
minor2026-08-30- When you plan a hole, each dot on your line can now show which club you'll hit from there — the dots grow into small labels with the club name.
- New Clubs page in Settings: tick the clubs in your bag and enter how far you hit each. It follows your account, so it works the same on every device.
- Clubs are suggested automatically from your distances — drag a dot and the suggestion updates. You can always choose one yourself by holding a dot down.
The whole world's courses
major2026-08-28- The course library grew from around 1,100 to 25,373 courses worldwide.
- New map view built to stay fast with that many courses.
- Course lists now sort by what's nearest to you.
- General speed-ups, and a fix for a map bug some browsers hit.
Courses now come hole by hole
major2026-08-26- Thousands of courses now include where each tee and green is. The app zooms straight to each hole and points you at the green.
- When you plan a hole, the tee-to-green line is drawn for you — just adjust it to your game.
- Something mapped in the wrong place? Anyone can suggest a fix.
- Smaller wording and highlight fixes.
Scorecards are now private
minor2026-08-20- Your scorecards are locked with your password on your phone before they're stored — nobody can read them without it, not even the person running the service.
- New accounts get a one-time recovery code, in case you ever forget your password.
- Fixes for signing up and for changing your password.
Par sheet previews
minor2026-08-13- Tap a par sheet to see its pars and stroke indexes before you play.
- Par sheets are tagged Men's or Women's, and you can hide one category in Settings.
- A plan can use a specific par sheet.
Scoring with your handicap
major2026-08-12- Enter your handicap and the app works out net scores for you — including the strokes you get on each hole.
- A big, simple number pad for entering scores, with the hole's par highlighted.
- The scorecard got tidier — the full 18 holes fit on screen when you turn your phone sideways.
- New settings: your handicap, and keeping the screen awake while you play.
Login & settings tidy-up
minor2026-08-11- You can now log in with your username instead of your email.
- New Settings menu for units and other preferences.
- Fixed the distance rings — they were drawn half the size they should be.
Pars, plans & usernames
major2026-08-10- Par sheets: every course gets pars, stroke indexes and ratings that anyone can view, copy or correct.
- Share a single plan without sharing the whole course — and browse plans other players have shared.
- Accounts now use a public username; your email is never shown to other players.
Scorecard improvements
minor2026-08-06- Distance rings around the green for short approach shots.
- Finished rounds can be reopened if you closed one by mistake.
- You can enter scores without leaving the map, and switch metres/yards in Settings.
Play together
major2026-08-05- Share a round with your group — everyone enters scores on their own phone and the card stays in sync.
- A home screen for your rounds: live ones first, then past ones.
- Your plan for the hole is shown while you play.
Scoring arrives
major2026-08-04- Keep score: start a card on any course, enter strokes hole by hole, see the running total.
- When you create a course, you place it on the map with a pin.
- Security hardening behind the scenes.
More plans, official courses
minor2026-08-03- Keep several named plans on the same course — say, one careful and one aggressive.
- Thousands of real courses appeared on the map, starting with Norway.
- Arrow buttons to step between holes; your plan saves as you go.
Sharing & the drawing toolkit
major2026-08-02- Share courses with other players, and browse courses they've shared.
- Save courses to a favourites list.
- Drawing got much better: undo, delete by holding a dot, smooth freehand lines for hazards, and width markers.
Courses & planning
major2026-08-01- Create courses and holes, and draw a plan for each hole: your line to the green, hazard lines, notes.
- Accounts, so your work is saved.
First release
major2026-07-30- A GPS rangefinder in your browser: point at a spot on the map and see the distance.
- Measure between any two points — handy for fairway widths.
- Works on your phone and can be added to the home screen.
User guide
How to use the app, one topic at a time.
Getting started
Open app.azimuthgolf.com in your phone's browser. That's it — it works straight away. To make it feel like a normal app:
Put it on your home screen
iPhone (Safari): tap the Share button ⬆ → Add to Home Screen.
Android (Chrome): tap the menu ⋮ → Install app or Add to Home screen.
Open it from your home screen. It runs full-screen and keeps working even with poor signal on the course.
The menu
The button in the top-left corner switches between the app's three modes:
- Free-form rangefinder — measure distances, anywhere. No account, no setup: open it and point.
- Plan / Strategy — your courses and plans.
- Play / Scorecard — start or continue a round.
Below those are Account and Settings. Each menu item has its own line symbol — the crosshair is the rangefinder, the winding route is planning.
Rangefinder
The screen is a satellite map. You are the blue dot; the number at the top shows the distance you're measuring.
Measure from where you stand
Drag the map so your target sits under the measuring point — the number shows the distance from you to it.
Tap + to add a point along the way (say, a layup spot) and see the distance to it too. − removes one.
Drag any dot to fine-tune. Reset clears everything; ⟲ undoes the last change.
Measure between two spots
Turn GPS off with the pin button (bottom-right). Then tap point A, then point B — the distance between them is shown. Handy for "how wide is that gap?". Turn GPS back on to return to normal.
Good to know
- One finger drags the map; two fingers zoom and rotate it.
- The ◎◎ double-circle button (bottom-right) shows distance rings of 5, 10, 15 and 20 m around the green — useful for chips and pitches.
- Metres or yards? Change it in Settings.
Courses
The library covers more than 25,000 courses worldwide. Open → Plan / Strategy to browse.
Find a course
- My courses — your saved courses and ones you've created.
- Community — courses other players have shared, closest to you first.
- Map — every course on one map. Tap a cluster to zoom in; the list at the bottom follows the map.
- Use the search box to find a course by name. Open a course and tap Save (the star — it turns yellow once saved) to keep it in My courses.
Add a course that's missing
Tap + New course and type its name.
Tap Set position on map, drag the pin to the course, and confirm with the ✓ button.
If the app notices a course already exists nearby, it will suggest using that one instead.
Is a course listed twice, or in the wrong place? Open it → Edit details, or use Merge to combine duplicates.
Planning your game
A plan is your playbook for a course: for each hole, the line you want to play, the dangers to avoid, and notes to yourself. You can keep several plans on the same course — say, one for calm days and one for wind.
On courses that come with hole maps, each hole opens zoomed in with the green at the top of the screen, and a suggested tee-to-green line already drawn — just drag it to match how you want to play.
If the course isn't mapped yet
Every hole in Azimuth is its tee and green on the map. Most courses already have them; when one doesn't, the course page shows a "No map yet" box with a Map this course button (fully unmapped courses pop it up once when opened) — or it's offered automatically when you try to plan:
Say how many holes the course has — 18, 9 or 6.
For each hole, tap the tee, then tap the green. The hole saves as soon as both are placed, the map turns to show it green-at-the-top, and you're on to the next. Skipped holes can be mapped later — the flow picks up where you stopped.
Finished a 9- or 6-hole course? One tap repeats it as loops to make it an 18-hole course — or keep it as it is.
Draw a hole
Open a course → Create your plan → give it a name. (If the course isn't fully mapped yet, the app offers to map it first — Continue anyway still lets you draw freely.) Then tap a hole number.
Pick a tool at the top: Route (your line, yellow dots), Red or OB (draw a danger line — it shows on every hole of the plan), or Width (measure a gap or landing zone).
Route: tap the map to add points; drag them to adjust. Red/OB: draw the line with one finger, like a pen. Width: drag the two end bars apart.
Write a note ("take the 3-wood — driver runs through the dogleg"), then tap Save. The ‹ › arrows step through the holes — or tap the hole name at the top ("Hole 3 · 5/18") to jump straight to any of them.
Put your clubs on the line
Each dot on your route can carry the club you plan to hit from that spot — the tee shows your drive, the dot before the green shows your approach. The club name appears inside the dot, so the whole hole reads like a shot list at a glance.
- Suggested automatically. If you've entered your club distances in Settings, every dot starts with the club whose distance best matches the shot — and the suggestion updates as you drag the dots around.
- Choose yourself. Hold a dot down and pick from your bag — or turn the label off for that dot.
- Choices you make yourself are saved with the plan; automatic ones always reflect your current bag.
See where your misses land
Turn on the ▷ spread button above the rings and each planned shot grows a shaded wedge from its dot — the area where your ball will likely come down, based on that club's numbers in Settings. A driver sprays wide, a wedge stays tight; a longer shot stretches the wedge, a shorter one shrinks it.
- The wedges use your spread numbers — enter them once in Settings and every plan shows them.
- By default every club is treated as even (same miss both sides). Switch Settings to Left / Right and you can say how far and how wide each side misses — if your left miss flies 15 m past your right, the wedge leans long-left, exactly where that miss lands.
Your plans live in the plan list
On a course, "Plans on this course" shows your plans and any that other players have shared. You can copy someone's plan to make it your own with ⧉ Copy this plan.
Pars, stroke indexes & ratings
A par sheet lists each hole's par and stroke index, plus the course and slope ratings for that set of tees. Every course can have several — one per tee.
Sheets are what the app runs on: playing a round requires one, and planning shows pars when one exists. Most courses already have a sheet with pars; stroke indexes and ratings are thinner on the ground — that part improves as players contribute theirs.
- Tap a sheet's name to see it before you use it.
- Enter par sheet adds one: fill in par and stroke index per hole. The app warns you if a number is used twice.
- Each sheet is marked Men's or Women's.
- The ⋮ menu on a sheet lets you make your own copy (for a different tee), suggest a correction, or flag it if it's wrong. Sheets that have been checked show a green verified mark.
Playing & scoring
→ Play / Scorecard. You'll see your rounds — any still in progress at the top, finished ones below. Tap Start new round.
Set up the round
- Players: add yourself, friends who don't use the app (just a name), or invite players by their username. Each player can enter a handicap and picks which scores to track: gross, net, or both.
- Caddie book (optional): each player picks one of their plans on the course to follow during the round — its lines and notes show on the map as you play.
- Par sheet: pick the one matching the tees you're playing. Its pars drive everything.
- Track (optional): putts, penalty strokes and a note per hole.
While you play
- Each player has a score box for the current hole. Tap it → a big number pad slides up. Tap the score and it saves; the hole's par is highlighted so you can find it fast. Pick up if the hole is lost; Clear to undo.
- Tap a player's name to switch to them — then putts, penalties and the note are theirs.
- Tap the crosshair button (bottom-left) to use the rangefinder without leaving the round — the same crosshair as the menu's rangefinder. The ‹ › arrows move between holes.
- Tap the hole name at the top to see the full scorecard. Finish ends the round (you can reopen it later), and Players lets you adjust the group mid-round.
Reading the scorecard
- Familiar marks: a circle is a birdie or better, a square a bogey, a double square a double or worse.
- Little blue dots mark the holes where a player gets a stroke for net play.
- If someone picked up, their gross and net totals show a dash — but the adjusted total still counts.
Sharing & community
Share what you've made
- A course: open one you created → Share. Others can see the course; your plans stay yours.
- A plan: in the plan list, tap the globe/padlock symbol on a plan to share just that plan (globe = shared, padlock = private).
- A round: invite players when you start the card — everyone scores on their own phone and it stays in sync.
Borrow what others made
- Browse the Community tab for shared courses, and shared plans on any course. Copy anything — the copy is yours to change privately.
- See a wrong par or a tee in the wrong place? Use the ⋮ menu to suggest a correction or flag it. Someone will review it.
Account & settings
Account
- Create an account with an email, a username and a password. The username is what other players see — never your email. Creating one means agreeing to the terms of use.
- Display name (optional): the friendly name shown on scorecards. Leave it empty to just use your username.
- Forgot your password? Your scorecards are protected by it. When you signed up you were shown a recovery code — that code is the only way back in, so keep it somewhere safe.
- Staying signed in: your sign-in is remembered on this device for a long time — you only sign in again after you sign out yourself. Using "Sign out" on a shared device is what keeps your account safe there.
- Who accepts suggestions? Anyone can send a correction for a course, par sheet or hole mapping. The person who created it — or the app's maintainer — decides whether to accept it.
Settings
- Clubs — tick the clubs in your bag. This one follows your account, so it's the same on every device; the rest of Settings is per device. Changes save on their own — a small "✓ Saved" appears once a distance or spread number sticks.
- Distances — how far you hit each club in the bag, in metres or yards. Used to suggest a club on every dot of a plan.
- Dispersion — how wide each club sprays, which sets the size of the miss wedges on a plan.
- Even / Left-Right — leave it on Even if your misses are the same both sides. Left / Right gives each club two distances (how far each side's miss carries) and two spread numbers (how wide each side is) — the wedges on your plan come out skewed to match.
- Metres or yards.
- Your handicap — filled in automatically when you start a round.
- Keep the screen awake while you play.
- Par sheets to show — hide Men's or Women's sheets in the list.
- Map data & credits — where the map comes from: course and hole maps are © OpenStreetMap contributors and free for anyone to reuse under the ODbL license; the satellite imagery is © Mapbox.
- Support Azimuth — a Donate button at the very bottom of Settings. The app is free with no ads; donations go toward server and map costs. Voluntary — every feature works the same without one.
Data & privacy
Exactly what the app stores, where it keeps it, and what each thing is for — no legalese. This is the actual list.
Stored on the server
Only when you have an account, and only what's in this table. The backend is a single server we run ourselves — no advertising or analytics company gets any of it, because the app talks to none.
| What | Why | Who can see it |
|---|---|---|
| Email & password | Sign-in. The password is stored only as a one-way hash. Your email is never shown to other players — you sign in with it (or your username), and that's its whole job. | Only you |
| Username | Your public identity in the app — the name other players see on shared plans and rounds. | Signed-in players |
| Display name (optional) | A friendlier label on scorecards than the username. Leave it empty and the username is used. | Signed-in players |
| Your club bag | Clubs, how far you hit them and how you miss. Powers the club suggestions on plans and the dispersion wedges, and follows your account across devices. | Signed-in players |
| Encryption keys | Your public key lets other players seal shared rounds for you. Your private key is stored sealed — locked with your password and with your one-time recovery code. The server cannot open either. | Public key: signed-in players. Sealed keys: nobody |
| Plans & strategies | Your playbook: drawn routes, club labels, hazard lines and notes, hole by hole. | You — others only what you share |
| Rounds (scorecards) | Course, date and player list, so a round can be reopened and followed by the group. The scores themselves — strokes, putts, penalties, notes — are sealed before they leave your phone. | You + players on the card |
| Favourite courses | Your saved-course list, for quick access. | Only you |
| Courses & holes you create | The shared course library is built by players. What you map is yours until you share it. | You — or everyone if shared |
| Corrections & flags | Par-sheet and hole-mapping fixes you submit, kept under your name so maintainers can follow up. | Signed-in players |
Your location
Your GPS position is read into the app's memory to draw the blue dot and compute distances — and that is where it stays. It is never uploaded, never written to the database, never attached to your plans or rounds.
What does reach the server is what you draw by hand: the course positions, routes and hazard lines on your plans. Those are points you placed on the map, not a record of where you stood.
Stored on your phone
- Your sign-in — a token that keeps you signed in on this device until you sign out (it lasts up to a year).
- This device's key copy — lets a signed-in device open your sealed rounds without asking for the password again. Removed the moment you sign out.
- Preferences — units, handicap, screen-wake, par-sheet filters, dispersion settings. Ordinary settings, nothing else.
- The round in progress — a draft of the current card, so a dropped signal or a closed browser doesn't lose it.
- Cached maps — the app itself, the course index and the satellite tiles you've recently viewed (a few hundred at most), so the app keeps working with poor signal on the course.
Clearing the browser's site data for the app removes all of it in one go.
Third parties
Two, and both are map-data sources, not trackers:
- Mapbox serves the satellite map tiles. Requesting a tile naturally tells Mapbox your IP address and which map square you're looking at — that's inherent to any tiled map. Nothing about you, your round or your account travels with it.
- OpenStreetMap — the worldwide course positions are derived from OSM data (© OpenStreetMap contributors).
That's the entire list. No analytics service, no ad network, no fonts or scripts loaded from elsewhere, no crash reporting. The app loads nothing that watches what you do.
How long it's kept — and how to remove it
- Server data is kept until the account is deleted — then it's removed with it: profile, plans, rounds, keys, the lot.
- Signing out removes that device's token and key copy; clearing site data (above) empties the phone.
- Export or deletion on request: your data is yours — ask at [email protected] and you get a copy of it or a full deletion.
This page describes the app as it works today and is updated whenever that changes. Last reviewed 2026-10-30.
Support Azimuth
Free on purpose — and kept that way with a little help.
Azimuth has no subscription, no ads, no tracking and no paywall: every feature works the same whether or not you've ever paid anything. That's a choice, not a launch promotion.
The app does cost real money to run, though — the server that carries your account, plans, scorecards and the shared course library, off-site backups, email, and the map data and satellite imagery under every course. Those bills arrive every month, and so far they've come out of the maintainer's own pocket.
If Azimuth has helped your game, a donation is the direct way to say so: it covers the running costs, keeps the app independent of advertisers and investors, and frees up time to build what comes next.
Any amount, one-time, via PayPal. You'll find the same button at the bottom of the app's Settings.
Terms of use
The deal in plain words: what Azimuth is, what it asks of you, and where the limits are. No legalese — this is the actual agreement.
The service
Azimuth Golf is a free web app — rangefinder, hole planner and scorecard — built and run by one maintainer on personally funded servers. No company behind it, no ads, no tracking.
It comes as-is: features may change, and the service may one day be paused or discontinued. If that day comes, the aim is to say so in advance and let you take your data with you — you can already ask for a copy or a deletion at any time (see Data & privacy).
If paid features ever arrive, they'll be clearly priced additions with their own terms at the point of purchase — never a quiet change to something you already use.
Your account — and your recovery code
An account is an email, a username and a password, and it's yours: keep the password to yourself and don't let others play under your sign-in. You can leave any time — deleting the account removes your data with it.
You need to be old enough to agree to all this yourself — in the EU/EEA that means 13 at minimum, up to 16 depending on your country.
What you share
What you keep private stays private: unshared plans, your rounds, your bag. Nobody else sees them, and neither do we — sealed rounds read as ciphertext on the server.
Sharing is publishing. Plans and courses you share appear in the Community tab, where other players can view and copy them for their own use — that's what the button is for.
Shared course and par-sheet data goes one step further: it joins the open course library, published under the Open Database License (ODbL) — the same license as the OpenStreetMap data the app is built on — so anyone can reuse it, with credit kept via the app's map credits. Map in what you've measured yourself; don't import datasets you don't have the right to publish.
The bar for anything shared: legal and decent — no abuse in names, notes or content, nothing that isn't yours to publish. The creator or the maintainer can remove content that breaks this, and accounts that repeatedly abuse the Community tab lose the ability to share. To report something: the ⋮ menu's flag, or [email protected].
Donations
Donations are voluntary gifts toward the running costs. They buy nothing: no goods, no services, no perks or priority. Donating doesn't change what the app does for you, and not donating doesn't either.
Distances, GPS and competitions
The rangefinder is an aid, not an instrument. GPS drifts, maps have errors, and a carried distance is a model — you still choose the club and the line.
In competition, what a device may tell you is set by Rule 4.3a and the Local Rules of the day. Plain distances are widely allowed; aids that go further — like the club suggestions and dispersion wedges — may not be. Ask the committee before using Azimuth in a medal round.
If something goes wrong
To the extent the law allows, Azimuth carries no warranty and the maintainer isn't liable for data loss, lost rounds, lost matches or other indirect losses. Wherever the law doesn't allow that limit, it doesn't apply — this section yields, not you.
What the maintainer does commit to: fixing what breaks when it's reported, giving notice before anything big changes, and never selling or sharing your data — see Data & privacy for the whole picture.
Changes to these terms
These terms change when the app does. The date below is the current version; material changes get a changelog entry and, where it matters, a note in the app. If you keep using Azimuth after a change, the updated terms apply.
The companion page is Data & privacy. Last reviewed 2026-10-30.