Questions, answered.

The beta is on TestFlight now for iPhone, starting with players around Iowa City and Cedar Rapids, and the App Store is next. Join the list and we’ll send you an invite. Until then, you can sign up in your browser at app.blackbirddiscgolf.com.

Yes. Scoring and every round you’ve ever played, your stats and rating, the live map, friends, open to play, skins, tournaments, putting practice, measuring with the camera and choosing your tees and pins are free. Blackbird Pro adds deeper insight into your game: $19.99 a year with 14 days free, or $3.99 a month. Free and Pro, side by side.

Not yet: Blackbird is on iPhone first. On an Android phone or any computer, app.blackbirddiscgolf.com works in the browser.

Blackbird uses real courses on satellite imagery. Hole layouts are mapped course by course: open map data where it exists, players marking tees and baskets with their phones, and checks by local clubs. Want yours mapped? Tell us which course.

Yes. Add anyone to your card by name and keep their score like always. After the round, send them their card: a link that shows their scores in any browser, and saves the round to their own history if they get Blackbird.

Turn skins on when you start a round and set what a skin is worth, or nothing for bragging rights. The lowest score on a hole takes its skin; a tie carries it to the next hole. The summary lists who took which holes and who owes whom. Blackbird only keeps the count: you settle up between yourselves.

Yes. When you start a round, pick the layout: long or short tees, today’s pins or the A or B positions, or set it hole by hole. Only the tees and pins the course really has, never a made-up hole. Blackbird remembers the last layout you played at each course, and anyone on your card can play their own tees against their own par.

Yes. Export your scorecards as a CSV from the app you use now, then in Blackbird open Rounds and tap Import. Your own scores come in at the courses Blackbird has, with the pars you played to, so your history starts full on day one.

Nobody, until you turn live sharing on. Then friends, or everyone if you choose, see the course and hole you’re on while you play. Never your exact location, and you see them only while you share too.

No. We don’t sell your data, share it with advertisers or use it to show you ads, and there are no third-party analytics or advertising tools in the app. The privacy policy has the details.

In the app: You, then Account, then Delete account. That deletes your profile, rounds, friends, cards and notifications right away, and it can’t be undone. Hole positions you saved as a course mapper stay with the course. You can also email hello@throwblackbird.com and we’ll delete it for you.

From Tournaments, choose Post an event: the course, dates, divisions, fees and caps. Leagues and local events take sign-ups right in Blackbird. Players keep paying you the way they do now, and Blackbird keeps the record: who’s paid and how, who’s checked in, the ace pot and closest to the pin, payouts, and a spreadsheet for the club’s books.

On league night you draw the cards (random doubles with a cali for the odd one out, or singles), everyone gets a push with their start hole and cardmates, each card scores itself, and the results and tag swaps go out when you finish. PDGA events can point players to your Disc Golf Scene page instead. Your first event gets a quick check before it’s listed, usually within a day.

No. Running leagues and events is free, and so is playing in them. No money moves through Blackbird.