Leven

Play • Improve • Enjoy

A real caddy in your pocket.

Leven is a golf GPS and AI caddy built in South Africa. Accurate GPS distances, one-tap scoring and stats that are measured, not guessed — everywhere on the course, with or without signal.

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Android private beta 12 Gauteng courses live No ads on the course. Ever.
Leven's play screen on a par 4: satellite hole map with 336 metres to the pin, front, centre and back distances, and a bunker carry marker.
12
Gauteng courses mapped and live
100%
Of holes hand-traced on real satellite imagery
±8 m
GPS lock in on-course testing
0
Ads on the play screen. Ever.

Why Leven

Everything golf apps get wrong, designed out.

We studied what golfers complain about in the big-name GPS and stat-tracking apps — then made every one of those complaints a design rule.

Measured, not guessed.

Greens in regulation are recorded from the GPS moment your ball reaches the green. First-putt distance, fairways and strokes gained are measured in play — never reverse-engineered from your score.

Works with zero signal.

The core caddy runs entirely on your phone. Distances, carries, layups and plays-like numbers keep working at the far end of the course where the towers don't reach.

Courses we map ourselves.

Every tee, green, bunker and dam is hand-traced on satellite imagery and audited against the club's official scorecard. When something's off, tell us and we'll sort it.

Plays-like distances.

Wind and per-hole elevation profiles are built into every number. A 150 that climbs into the breeze doesn't play 150 — Leven tells you what it really plays.

No hardware. No sensors.

No club tags, no dongles, nothing to charge or lose. Your phone is the whole system — and a Wear OS companion for your wrist is in testing.

No ads on the course. Ever.

The play screen is for golf. No banners, no upsells, no social feed between you and your next shot. That's a design law, not a pricing tier.

On the course

See the hole the way your caddy does.

Leven's play screen on a par 5: two dams and bunkers outlined on satellite imagery, carry distances over the water, and fairway waypoints showing the metres left.

Every carry, before you swing.

Front, centre and back of the green. The carry over each bunker and dam on your line. Fairway waypoints counting down what's left — all drawn on real satellite imagery.

  • Automatic hole detection as you move around the course
  • Ghost pin — tap anywhere to measure to it
  • Hole views framed by hand, not by an algorithm
Leven's round setup screen: white, yellow and red tee sets with par and length, 18 holes, practice round, GPS tracking, round history, and a Start round button.

Tee it up in ten seconds.

Pick your course, pick your tee, tap start. Scoring is one tap per stroke, and your round is saved on your phone first — then backed up to your account when you're online.

  • Every tee set on the card, with its own par and length
  • Pause, resume or fix any hole, any time
  • Round history, pace-of-play clock and a shareable summary

The AI caddy

Advice that explains itself.

When you have signal, an AI caddy reads the same numbers you see and talks through the options like a good playing partner would. It never invents a distance.

  • The maths is ours.Distances, carries, layups, wind and elevation come from Leven's own engine — the AI never computes golf.
  • The AI only explains.It chooses between options that are already calculated, and tells you why.
  • Offline is the floor.No signal? The built-in caddy still gives you the club and the play.

Course library

Twelve courses live. More on the way.

Each course is traced hole by hole on satellite imagery and checked against the club's official scorecard before it reaches your phone.

State Mines
18 holes · Par 72
Benoni Country Club
18 holes · Par 72
Benoni Lake Golf Club
18 holes · Par 72
Ebotse Links
18 holes · Par 72
Serengeti Signature
18 holes · Par 72
Kempton Park Golf Club
18 holes · Par 72
Avion Park Golf Club
18 holes · Par 72
SAPS Mechanical School
18 holes · Par 60
Whistling Thorn
18 holes · Par 54
Glendower Golf ClubNEW
18 holes · Par 72
Pollak Park Golf ClubNEW
18 holes · Par 72
ERPM Golf ClubNEW
18 holes · Par 72
Leven is independent. Courses are listed because the app maps them, not because the clubs endorse it. Home course missing? Ask us to map it →

Private beta

Play it before the rest of the fourball does.

Leven is in private beta on Android, being played on real Gauteng courses right now. Beta golfers get every course update over the air and a direct line to the people building it.

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Android first. Google Play listing planned.