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The hard part was never the throw.

It’s the getting together. Blackbird is the disc golf app built around your people: who’s on a course right now, who’s free tonight, the card you keep together, and the league night that brings everyone out.

Why Blackbird

Built for Tuesday.

Disc golf is one of the last cheap, outdoor, come-as-you-are things left. The course is free. The baskets were paid for with a city grant and years of five-dollar entry fees. For a few hours a week it turns strangers into the people you text when the week goes sideways.

The hard part is everything around the throw. The 4:15 group text, anyone out tonight?, dying on read. Driving to one course alone while three of your friends are on hole nine at another. The league director on a tailgate with a phone at four percent, squaring the cash, the Venmo and the guy who swears he paid last week.

The apps on those phones are very good at counting: strokes, putts, circle-one percentage to the decimal. But nobody out there is playing for the spreadsheet. They’re playing for Tuesday.

So that’s what Blackbird is for. Who’s out right now and who’s free tonight. The card you keep together, the skins and who owes whom. League night, from the draw to the ace pot. And every number that’s yours, free.

The rest of it

Everything else, in 18 holes.

Every one of them free, with nothing social behind a paywall. Pro is for more of your own game.

Hole 01 · The live map
Blackbird in a browser on a laptop: the map across the window, friends on their courses, and Home beside it.

Hole 18 · On a laptop tooThe map, rounds and friends side by side at app.blackbirddiscgolf.com. Sign in with your account and it’s all there.

What we hold to

Six promises.

Each one is in the app now, and in our privacy policy where it’s about your data.

01Your people are free.

The map, friends, cards, skins and leagues. Nothing social goes behind a paywall, and nothing you’ve played ever will.

02You decide who sees you.

Live is off until you share. It’s mutual, it shows the hole and never your spot, and every fact says how old it is.

03Real courses, real holes.

Only the tees and pins a course really has, marked by players at the basket and checked by local clubs. Never a made-up hole.

04The money stays between you.

Skins, league fees and payouts: Blackbird keeps the count and does the math. It never holds your money or takes a cut.

05No ads. Your data isn’t for sale.

We don’t sell your data, share it with advertisers or show you ads, and there are no third-party analytics or ad trackers in the app. Pro pays for Blackbird.

06Yours to take with you.

Bring your rounds in from another app. Delete your account from the app whenever you like, and your rounds and profile go with it.

Where we are

Starting at home.

Blackbird grows one town at a time, through the leagues and clubs that already bring people out every week. We start where we play, and get it right there before the next town.

Made by
Space Pirate Labs, in Iowa
Starting in
Iowa City and Cedar Rapids
On iPhone
In beta on TestFlight. The App Store is next.
In a browser
app.blackbirddiscgolf.com
Write to us
hello@throwblackbird.com
Get in touch

We read every email.

Players

Something broken, something missing, something you love. In the beta, TestFlight’s feedback reaches us too.

Email us League directors

Run your league night on Blackbird. We’ll set up your first one with you.

For directors Clubs and courses

Want your course on the map, hole by hole? Players who know it help us mark every tee and basket.

Map a course Press and partners

Writing about disc golf, or want to work with us? Say hello.

Email us
App icon · Free for everyone

Pick your favorite wings.

Twenty-five icons for your Home Screen, from plain black to a glow round, a scorecard birdie and a number one bag tag. In the app: Settings, then App icon.

  • Mono: white wings on black, the app’s ownMono
  • Paper: black wings on paperPaper
  • Blaze: white wings on blaze orangeBlaze
  • Gold: black wings on goldGold
  • Red: white wings on redRed
  • Lime: black wings on limeLime
  • Neon: the wings as glowing pink tubesNeon
  • Sunset: white wings on a red-to-gold sunsetSunset
  • LED: the wings lit up in amber dotsLED
  • Chrome: mirror-silver wingsChrome
  • Glow: lime wings glowing in the darkGlow
  • Night: white wings on a starry blueNight
  • Grass: white wings on a mown fairwayGrass
  • Retro: brown wings over seventies stripesRetro
  • Blueprint: the wings drawn in white on blue graph paperBlueprint
  • Tie-dye: white wings on a tie-dye swirlTie-dye
  • Foil: rainbow-foil wings on pink disc plasticFoil
  • Arcade: cyan pixel wings on a dark blue screenArcade
  • Comic: orange wings in heavy ink on halftone yellowComic
  • Camo: blaze-orange wings on camouflageCamo
  • Birdie: the wings circled in red on a scorecardBirdie
  • Ace: the wings as the suit on an aceAce
  • Chains: the wings in front of a basket’s chainsChains
  • Topo: the wings over a hole’s contour linesTopo
  • Tag: the wings engraved on a number one bag tagTag
Credits

With thanks.

The screens on this site are the real app, filled with a demo town so nobody’s actual round is on show. Some of what’s in them is other people’s good work.

The previews
Screens and the map show the app with made-up players. The courses and towns are real.
The demo league
The leagues page shows the app’s demo league: made-up players on a real course.
Imagery
Esri, Vantor, Earthstar Geographics and the GIS User Community
Faces
Personas by Draftbit, under CC BY 4.0