A golf app for beginners

Birdia product page (in beta) · reviewed 12 Oct 2026

For a beginner, what helps is fixing your setup and working on one thing at a time. Birdia (our product, in beta) corrects your knees, posture and stance out loud before you hit, explains each fault with its source and gives you one specific drill. If you don't know why a shot went wrong, you start from what the ball did. There's a free plan.

What Birdia does for this

A spoken setup coach before you hit: one correction at a time, and it also tells you when your setup is good.
"What is your ball doing?": if you hit it fat, thin or slice it, you see the likely causes in order and their drill.
Encyclopedia entries in plain language: what the fault looks like, what it does to the ball, how to fix it and where the advice comes from.
A weekly plan built from your goal and a daily focus in "Today", so your practice has an order.
Chip/pitch, bunker and putting modes: the short game counts from day one.

From the encyclopedia: one fault and its drill

Fat contact

Birdia doesn't measure it with the camera: it suggests it as a likely cause according to the doctrine

What it looks like: The ground contact or the divot starts behind the ball; on video, the low point of the arc falls before the ball.
What it does to the ball: The ground steals the energy: a huge loss of distance and a short ball with no predictable spin.
How to fix it: Shift the pressure to your lead foot BEFORE the club comes down: the divot must start at the ball or after it
Sources: Adam Young — The Practice Manual · TrackMan A/S — TrackMan Averages & Ball Flight Laws

Full fault entry →

Drill: The chalk line

Goal: Move the low point in front of the ball
How to do it: Draw a line on the ground perpendicular to the target and make practice swings trying to have the ground contact start right at the line or beyond it, never before. Once you repeat it 5 times in a row, put balls on the line and repeat.

Full drill entry →

Limits (what Birdia doesn't do)

Birdia doesn't replace a teaching pro: if you're starting from zero, a few lessons will save you from bad habits. It also has no on-course GPS or scorecard, and it is in beta.

Start free in your browser →Join the Android or iPhone beta

The web app runs at golf.birdia.app. The Android and iPhone apps are in beta: sign up and we send you an invite.

Frequently asked questions

Is a swing app useful if I'm just starting?

Yes, if it keeps you on the basics: setup, contact and one correction at a time. An app that throws twenty numbers at you confuses more than it helps. If you're starting from zero, pair it with a few lessons from a pro.

What should a beginner fix first?

Usually the setup (grip, posture, alignment and ball position) and contact: fat and thin shots, which cost the most strokes early on. Birdia corrects your posture and stance out loud before you hit and, if you hit it fat, takes you to the likely causes and a drill like "The chalk line".

Can I use Birdia for free?

Yes, there is a free plan. Premium costs €14.99/month or €99/year and Pro-IA €29.99/month, VAT included, with payment only inside the app (App Store or Google Play). Birdia is in beta.