What They Have in Common
Both are no-subscription GPS devices covering 40,000+ courses, with free course updates and full-color hole maps. Both include green view, green contours, slope mode, scoring, and tournament legality. Both charge via proprietary or USB-C connections and carry a one-year warranty. Neither has heart rate or fitness tracking.
Where They Differ
Screen Size — But That Cuts Both Ways
The Caddie's 8-inch touchscreen is the largest GPS screen in the category. It's genuinely easier to read hole layouts, hazard placements, and smart green yardages at a glance. If you're someone who wants to see the full hole map without squinting, there's nothing else like it.
The T11 Pro's 1.2-inch Super OLED is obviously smaller, but OLED is readable in direct sunlight in a way that larger LCD tablets sometimes aren't. It also sits on your wrist, which means it's there when you look down instead of mounted somewhere on your cart. Different experience — not just a smaller version of the same thing.
The real issue with The Caddie's size: 544 grams and 8 × 5.3 inches means it doesn't go in your pocket, your bag pocket, or your hand while walking. Pinned explicitly says this device is for cart or trolley only. If you ever walk a course — even occasionally — The Caddie isn't for you. That's not a knock on the product; it's what it is.
Green Reading and Putting
The T11 Pro's Smart Putt View is the standout feature at this price point. It shows green undulation with slope direction arrows, identifies whether your putt is uphill or downhill, and gives you a long putt guide (aim left, aim right, straight at pin). That level of green reading detail on a watch at $350 with no subscription is unusual.
The Caddie has greens heat maps, but they're behind Pinned Premium — the first year is free right now, but renewal pricing isn't published. If you budget for a free tier and the price later lands at, say, $50-100/year, your three-year cost of ownership on The Caddie is materially higher than it looks today. The T11 Pro has zero subscription cost now or ever.
Shot Tracking
The T11 Pro tracks shots automatically — it detects the swing, logs the distance, and also captures tempo data. Putt tracking is included. The MyVoiceCaddie app stores your stats after the round.
The Caddie's shot tracking is manual. You tap to mark shots. That's not inherently bad — some golfers prefer it because there's no ambiguity about which swing gets marked — but it's a different workflow that requires you to engage with the screen throughout the round.
Wind Data and Club Recommendations
The T11 Pro shows wind direction and speed on-screen and feeds that into V-AI 3.5, which generates a club recommendation based on your location, the hole, slope, and conditions. That's a meaningful loop: you see the wind, the AI accounts for it, you get a suggested club.
The Caddie has no wind data. It has plays-like distances (accounting for elevation), but that's Pinned Premium only. No AI club recommendations.
Battery
The T11 Pro gets 12 hours in GPS mode — enough for most rounds with buffer. Watch mode runs 10 days. The Caddie rates its battery as "72+ holes" (four-plus rounds) without publishing an hours figure. An 8,000 mAh battery on an 8-inch screen is doing real work; the vague rating makes it harder to plan around.
Who Should Buy Which
Buy the Voice Caddie T11 Pro if:
- You walk any of your rounds — even occasionally.
- You want green undulation, wind data, and club recommendations all in one device with no subscription, ever.
- You're a stats-oriented golfer who wants automatic shot tracking and tempo feedback without thinking about it mid-round.
- You want a GPS device that does something useful between rounds (smart notifications, watch functionality).
- You're shopping the $350 price point and want to spend on features, not form factor.
Buy the Pinned The Caddie if:
- You exclusively ride in a cart or use a motorized trolley — always, not sometimes.
- The 8-inch screen genuinely matters to you: you want to see full hole maps and green views at the scale of a tablet, not a phone screen.
- You play mostly courses where you know the layout and the large display adds entertainment or confirmation value, not discovery value.
- You're fine accepting Pinned Premium pricing (currently unknown at renewal) for green contours and plays-like distances.
The Bottom Line
The T11 Pro is the better value for the majority of golfers. It's $100 cheaper, delivers green contours without a subscription, adds wind data and automatic shot tracking that The Caddie simply doesn't have, and weighs 48 grams on your wrist. The Caddie's 8-inch screen is a genuinely different product — impressive if you're always in a cart and that scale of display adds real value to how you play. But for most people, including cart golfers who occasionally walk, the T11 Pro covers more ground, costs less, and doesn't depend on an unpublished renewal price to unlock its headline features.
Get the Voice Caddie T11 Pro.