The short version:SimplyStroke is a free tool for counting your golf strokes. Use it for that and you'll never hear from our lawyers. It works offline with no account; if you make one, a few extra features turn on. We do our best to keep it running, but it comes as-is, your scores are whatever you tap in, and it isn't an official scorer. Be decent to other players in group rounds. That's basically it — the rest is detail.
1. Agreeing to these terms
By using SimplyStroke — the website at simplystroke.app, the app at app.simplystroke.app, and any mobile apps we release — you agree to these terms. If you don't agree, please don't use it. If you use SimplyStroke on behalf of someone else, you're confirming you're allowed to accept these terms for them.
2. What SimplyStroke is
SimplyStroke is a golf stroke counter. You tap to count strokes, add penalty strokes, and get a scorecard at the end of the round. The core counter is free and works fully offline — no account, no subscription, no ads. Some optional extras (below) need an account or a network connection.
Optional extras include: backing your rounds up to the cloud so they follow you across devices; group rounds, where you share a join code and everyone's scorecard shows up in one live view; looking up nearby courses by GPS to auto-fill par; and sharing a finished scorecard as an image or text.
Some features are new and may change, break, or disappear while we're still building them. We'll try not to lose your data when that happens (see below), but we can't promise any specific feature will stick around.
3. Who can use it
SimplyStroke isn't aimed at children under 13, and you need to be at least 13 to make an account. If you're between 13 and the age of majority where you live, you should have a parent or guardian look these terms over with you.
4. Your account
You can use the stroke counter without ever signing in. If you do create an account — with Google or an email and password — keep your login details to yourself. You're responsible for what happens under your account, so tell us at hello@simplystroke.appif you think someone else has gotten into it. You can delete your account at any time; email us and we'll remove it and the rounds tied to it.
5. Your scores and your data
Your rounds are yours. We don't claim ownership of your scores. Every stroke saves to your device first, and only syncs to the cloud if you're signed in and online — so the app keeps working when the course has no signal.
When you start or join a group round, the other players in that round can see your per-hole scores and total for that round, live. Only share a join code with people you actually want in your group. When you share a scorecard image or text, that's you choosing to send your own scores somewhere — what happens to it after that is up to you and whoever you sent it to.
How we handle the data behind all of this — your email, your synced rounds, analytics — is spelled out in our Privacy Policy.
6. It counts strokes — it isn't an official scorer
SimplyStroke records the numbers youenter. It doesn't watch you play, it doesn't verify anything, and it isn't a system of record for handicaps or competition. We are not affiliated with the USGA, R&A, GHIN, or any golf governing body or tour. Par data pulled from third-party sources can be wrong or missing, and any “share to GHIN” convenience is just formatting your own numbers for you to submit yourself. For anything official — a tournament, a posted handicap — follow the process your club or association actually requires.
7. Playing nice
Please don't use SimplyStroke to:
- break the law, or help anyone else break it;
- get into accounts, group rounds, or data that aren't yours — including guessing or scraping other people's join codes;
- attack, overload, reverse-engineer, or otherwise mess with how the service runs;
- resell or repackage the service as your own, or scrape it at scale; or
- upload anything abusive, or impersonate someone else.
If you do, we may suspend or close your access. We'll try to be reasonable about it.
8. Payments, tips, and Pro
Today, SimplyStroke costs nothing and there is nothing to buy. If we later add optional things — a “buy me a beer” tip, or a Pro tier with extra features — they'll be clearly optional, and any charge will run through the App Store, Google Play, or a payment processor under theirterms and refund rules, not ours. The free stroke counter will stay free. We'll update these terms before any of that actually starts charging anyone.
9. Other companies we rely on
SimplyStroke is glued together from services other people run: Supabase (accounts and cloud data), Google (sign-in), OpenStreetMap's Overpass API and GolfCourseAPI (finding courses and par), Vercel (hosting), and — for the mobile apps — Apple's App Store and Google Play. Your use of those pieces is also subject to their terms, and we aren't responsible for outages or behaviour on their end.
10. We do our best, but it's “as is”
We work hard to make SimplyStroke reliable and to never lose a stroke you've tapped. But we provide it “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, to the fullest extent the law allows. We don't promise it will always be available, bug-free, or that features (especially newer ones like group rounds and GPS course lookup) will work perfectly everywhere. It's a tool to help you enjoy your round — not something to bet your livelihood on.
11. Limits on our liability
To the fullest extent the law allows, SimplyStroke and the people behind it won't be liable for indirect or consequential losses, or for things like a lost or miscounted score, a round that didn't sync, or a wrong par from a course database. Golf is golf; a counting app is a counting app. If we're found liable for something despite all this, our total liability is limited to the greater of what you paid us in the last 12 months (for most people, nothing) or US $50.
12. Ending things
You can stop using SimplyStroke whenever you like, and delete your account by emailing us. We may suspend or end your access if you break these terms or misuse the service. If we ever shut the service down, we'll try to give reasonable notice so you can export your rounds first.
13. Changes to these terms
We'll update these terms as SimplyStroke grows — most obviously when the mobile apps ship or if we introduce paid features. When we do, we'll change the date at the top, and for significant changes we'll give notice in the app or by email. Continuing to use SimplyStroke after a change means you accept the updated terms.
14. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of [jurisdiction to be set — see note], without regard to conflict-of-laws rules, and any dispute will be handled by the courts located there. Nothing here takes away consumer-protection rights you have where you live that can't be waived.
15. Contact
Questions about these terms, your account, or anything else go to hello@simplystroke.app.