Golf data has always had a bit of an identity crisis. There’s plenty of it. It’s accurate. But for most golfers, it’s never quite been easy to act on. You finish a round, you open your stats, and somewhere between strokes gained tee-to-green and approach shot proximity, the whole thing starts to feel like homework.
Arccos built its name on solving that problem. And now, with the biggest update the company has ever released, we’re taking our most serious swing yet at turning all that shot data into something our members can genuinely use.
The new Arccos experience is a ground-up redesign of the entire app. Not a few new features tucked into an existing interface. Every tab has been rebuilt, and in some cases, entirely new ones have been added. The result is something that feels less like a stats tracker and more like your very own Arccos performance team; that knows your game, learns from your rounds, and gives you a smarter path forward every time you pick up a club. For current members, it changes what’s possible with the data you’ve already been collecting. For golfers who haven’t tried Arccos yet, there’s never been a better entry point into what the platform can do.
Here’s a look at what’s new:
The Player Tab: Your New Blueprint to Lower Scores
You think you know which parts of your game have been holding you back? Now Arccos shows you more clearly than ever where you need to focus. Then tells you exactly what to do to improve. The app then generates personalized practice plans built from your data, your numbers, your tendencies, your game, so improvement stops being a guessing game and starts being a plan.
It starts with your goal. Set a handicap target, a scoring average, or a strokes gained benchmark, and the entire tab organizes around it. You’ll see how your recent rounds are trending, a breakdown by facet (driving, approach, short game, putting), and a Where to Focus recommendation that pinpoints which part of your game is costing you the most strokes right now.
Once you dial in your focus area, the Player tab uses this to generate personalized practice drill recommendations to suit the amount of time you have. So by the time you leave the app and head to the range, you already know what you’re working on and why. No more showing up with a bucket of balls and no real plan. You can also lock in your improvement goal and Arccos will track your progress.
One beta tester summed it up this way: “It’s starting to feel like the product actually believes its own thesis. This is not just a shot tracker. That’s a meaningful shift in my perception of value.”
The Activity Tab: Your Round, Told Like a Story
The Activity tab got one of the most noticeable makeovers in the update. The centerpiece is the new Round Story, a visual replay of how your round unfolded from the first tee to the last green, hole by hole, makes it easy to see exactly where things went sideways or came together.
Paired with that is an AI-generated round summary that arrives after every round. It goes well beyond the scorecard, pulling out standout shots, flagging scoring trends, and giving you a read on what actually defined the round. Think of it as the postgame analysis you’ve always wanted but never quite got from a stat summary page.
The AI round summary has been one of the features that resonates most with early testers. One person who has played with Arccos nearly every other day for three years had a reaction that was hard to argue with: “This latest release? OMFG awesome.”
The Clubs Tab: Smarter Data for Every Club in Your Bag
The Clubs tab has been rebuilt to show you not just how far you hit each club, but how consistently you hit it and where your gaps actually are.
Two new AI features live here. The new club tab shows dispersion patterns, consistency data, and insights about where you might be leaving yardage on the table. Club Comparison lets you put two clubs side by side so you can see the real difference in how you perform with each one, whether you’re deciding between two shafts or figuring out which club to carry for a given course, or if there’s an old club that’s worth replacing.
You’ll also be able to see your club performance. Illustrating your top 3 clubs that are helping you gain strokes along with the three that need attention.
Shot dispersion has been one of the most-requested improvements from the Arccos community for years. And for those of you who want to drill into your data, you can plot dispersion charts down to the individual club, for your most recent rounds, or for as many shots as you like.
The Courses Tab: Course Management That Actually Knows You
This might be the tab that surprises people the most.
Open the Courses tab and you’ll be welcomed with a map of every course you’ve ever played with Arccos. Every round, every course, all of it logged and visualized like a golf passport. For anyone who has been tracking their game for a few seasons, it’s one of those moments where you realize just how much history is sitting in this app.
Dig deeper into any individual course and the experience gets genuinely useful. Hole Highlights surfaces your data at the hole level, with a Best Holes vs. Biggest Opportunity view that makes it immediately clear which holes you tend to score well on and which ones have been quietly costing you strokes. Scroll further to see this broken out by facets of your game. The new part isn’t that Arccos tracks your shots; it always has. The innovation is what it now does with that data: it reframes it as course-specific strategy so you can walk into a round knowing exactly which holes deserve your attention.
One beta tester who spent time with this feature put it well: “When I saw my drives on Hole 6 plotted on a satellite image with the shot log underneath, I thought: this is the information that helps me improve today, as if I had a tour caddie walking next to me. Not how did I play overall, but how do I play this hole?”
Start Round: Warm Up Like You Mean It
The Start Round experience includes everything you’re used to, just laid out more intuitively. Plus it now includes a personalized Pre-Round Warm-Up feature that builds you a personalized, data-driven range session, specifically based on your current focus area, recent performance, and how much time (15, 30 or 60 minutes) you have before your round.
It sounds simple, but it fills a real gap. Most golfers show up to the range and beat balls without a plan. The new warm-up feature gives you specific drills, one that’s actually connected to your game, not just a generic stretch-and-swing routine.
As one Arccos member commented: “I’ve done the analysis. And I never felt that was really actionable for me. But now you have a practice plan, a pre round warmup routine, because nobody wants to go to the range and just hit mindless balls.”
What Golfers Are Saying
The update has been in testing with a select group of Arccos users, and the feedback has been striking. Here’s a sample of what members said they would tell a friend about the new experience:
“Stats on steroids.”
“You have something better than ShotLink in your pocket at all times, plus a team analyzing your data to help you improve faster.”
“Feels like the stats that have been there all along are finally coming to life, and becoming actionable.”
“More actionable, more modern, more data.”
“It’s the best thing since the centre shaft.”
“10 times more actionable.”
Who This Is For
This update was built for every kind of golfer.
The data nerd who wants to dig into every strokes gained split will find more to work with here than ever before. But so will the passionate golfer who has always wanted to improve, but never had a clear enough picture of where to start, or did not have time to digest raw data and wants the TLDR. The low handicap competitor, striving to win the next tournament may be surprised to know they’ve been practicing the wrong aspect of their game, or carrying the wrong clubs. The new experience connects the dots between your shot data and your next practice session in a way that’s genuinely accessible, regardless of how deep into the numbers you want to go. You don’t need to understand the difference between strokes gained off-the-tee and strokes gained approach to get real value out of opening the app. You just need to play golf.
How to Get It
The new experience is rolling out now on iOS. If you’re already an Arccos user, this update will be rolling out to your app soon. If you haven’t tried Arccos, this is probably the most compelling version of the product the company has ever put out and we’re excited for you to try it. The new app is fully compatible with all Arccos game tracking products (Smart Sensors, Smart Grips, Link Pro, or Arccos Air) and the Smart Laser Rangefinder.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is new in the Arccos app update?
The new Arccos update is the biggest update ever. Every tab in the app has been redesigned, and several new features have been added, including multiple AI-powered tools, a rebuilt Player tab with personalized practice recommendations, a Courses tab with a visual map of every course you’ve played, and a new Activity experience with AI round summaries. There’s many easter eggs to explore.
What AI features does Arccos have?
The new Arccos includes multiple AI-powered features: AI Strategy (pre-round hole-by-hole planning based on your tendencies), Practice Focus Areas, Pre-Round Warm-Up (a custom pre-round routine built from your current focus area), Practice Drills (targeted drills based on your weakest areas), Club Comparison (side-by-side performance data on any two clubs) and more.
What is the Arccos “Where to Focus” feature?
Where to Focus is a recommendation on the new Player tab that analyzes your strokes gained data across all four facets of your game: driving, approach, short game, and putting. It identifies which specific areas are costing you the most strokes. Once you choose one focus area, you click to “Lock it in”, and the app will generate personalized practice drills specifically targeting that weakness, to get you to your defined goal.
Does the new Arccos update cost extra?
No, the new app experience is available to Arccos members as part of their existing subscription. If you’re already using Arccos, simply update to the latest version of the app on iOS, when available, to access the new tabs and AI features.
What is the Arccos Courses tab golf map?
The Courses tab now includes a visual global map of every course you’ve ever played with Arccos, giving you a complete record of your golfing history across every course and season. From there, you can drill into any individual course to see your scoring history by hole and get strategic insights before your next round there.
Is the new Arccos update available on Android?
Not yet. The new experience is currently rolling out only on iOS. Check the Arccos website or your device’s app store for the latest information on availability.
How is Arccos different from other golf stat apps?
Arccos automatically tracks every shot using Arccos Air and/or Smart Sensors in your grips, no manual input required. The new update goes further by turning that automatically collected data into personalized insights and coaching: practice plans, pre-round strategy, AI round summaries, and course-specific insights built around your game. Most golf apps track your shots. Arccos uses your data and AI trained on billions more, to tell you how to improve your score, play smarter golf, and have more fun.