Square Home Edition vs Square Omni: $700 or $1,600 — Which Launch Monitor Should You Buy?

Square Golf has done something unusual in the launch monitor market. In just a couple years, the same company released two camera-based launch monitors at price points that didn’t really exist before they showed up.

The original Square Home Edition opened the door at $700 as the first photometric launch monitor under $1,000.

The Square Omni Edition just released for $1,600 and added outdoor functionality, four cameras, full club data, face impact location, and a built-in screen.

Most launch monitor brands give you a single product at a single price point or a stair-step of options. Square has two products from the same company, in the same camera-based category, separated by $900 and a meaningful set of capabilities.

Which creates the question: Which one should you buy?

I’ve tested both of these devices extensively for PlayBetter. I wrote the original Square review and the full Omni review. Here’s how to figure out which Square is the right Square for you.

The Quick Answer If You’re In a Hurry: Square Omni vs Square Home

If you only plan to use a launch monitor indoors, you’re looking for an inexpensive way into GSPro, you want the option to play sim golf without having to hit a real ball, and you’d rather save $900, the Square Home Edition is the pick. It’s still one of the best values in golf tech, and for a lot of users, that’s plenty.

If you want to take your launch monitor outdoors to the range or your backyard, if you care about getting all of the data, if you want even better accuracy, if you like having a built-in screen, and if you want face impact location tracking, the Square Omni is the device to get. The $900 jump buys real capability, not just incremental improvement.

That’s the quick summary. Here’s the longer one.

Buy the Square Home Edition If…

You’re building an indoor-only simulator on a budget. This is the heart of the Home Edition’s appeal and the reason it became a cult favorite. If your simulator is going in a basement, garage, or spare room that may not have the huge amount of room depth that affordable radar units require, the camera-based Square and its accurate ball and club data and free GSPro connection is the best you can do at this price.

You like the idea of swinging a club without hitting a ball. The Home Edition comes with the Swing Stick, which is a 27-inch club-like training tool that lets you use the Square’s full feature set without actually hitting a golf ball. Now, you need to temper your expectations. This is better suited for entertainment and fun than serious improvement, but for the right situations, it’s pretty sweet. And no other device comes with something like this.

You don’t need every data metric. For a lot of golfers, the data that the original Square delivers is plenty. For others, it’s a non-starter. You’re getting ball speed, launch direction, launch angle, spin, carry distance, and the basic club path and angle of attack numbers. What you’re not getting is clubhead speed, smash factor, and face impact location.

Buy the Square Omni If…

You want to use your launch monitor at the driving range. This is the most obvious reason to choose the Omni. The original Square is for indoor use only. Not only does the Omni work outdoors, its built-in screen gives you six core metrics right on the device itself. That means that you don’t even have to pair to the app for quick range sessions where you just want to get some basic information.

You need clubhead speed, smash factor, and all the data. The Omni and its four cameras give you everything a serious player, coach, or fitter would want. Whereas the Square notably omitted clubhead speed and smash factor, it’s all there with the Omni.

You want affordable face impact location. Until the Omni, face impact location was a feature that always cost more. Even on the similarly priced FlightScope Mevo Gen2, impact location is a $350 upgrade. And that still doesn’t get you all the club data. For that, you have to spend even more. Meanwhile, you get all the data and face impact location right out of the box and with no ongoing subscriptions with the Omni.

What Both Square Golf Launch Monitors Share

Neither Square launch monitor requires a subscription. That’s huge, of course, for plenty of shoppers.

Also, Square has a unique pay-as-you-go credit model for their native golf simulator course play. You pay a credit per hole played, and you get 1,000 credits with the purchase of either the Square Home or Square Omni. After that, it’s like two cents a credit. This makes for a more affordable way for many people to enjoy sim golf.

Both Square editions connect to GSPro and E6 Connect with no additional fee paid to Square. You only owe the third-party software providers what they charge. That’s a meaningful financial difference over most camera-based competitors that make you pay their native software subscription in order to use third-party software.

Also, both of these Square launch monitors interface with the same Square native software, which got a 2.0 refresh with the Omni launch. The software isn’t the strongest part of either package, but it’s the same software on both devices.

Finally, both of these launch monitors are floor-standing, side-mounted, camera-based units that work in compact spaces. And both, like any floor-standing photometric unit, require repositioning if you’re switching between right- and left-handed golfers in the same session.

My Take on Which Square Launch Monitor to Buy

The Omni is the better launch monitor in just about every measurable way. More cameras, more data, more flexibility, more features. For $900 more, you’d expect that.

But the Home Edition is still one of the most disruptive products I’ve ever reviewed, and the value at $699.99 hasn’t gone away just because there’s a more capable Square in the lineup. If you’re the indoor-only sim player who’s not chasing every data metric and who wants into camera-based accuracy and space-savings (not to mention a great way into GSPro), the Home Edition is still a hell of a deal.

The Omni is for the buyer who wants more out of a launch monitor. Outdoor sessions, full club data, face impact location, a built-in screen. At $1,600 for what you get with no ongoing subscription required, the Omni is every bit as much of the value that the original Square is. Just a different kind of value.

Pick the one that matches how you’re actually going to use it. Either way you’re getting a Square. And that’s what more and more savvy golf tech consumers are choosing.

About PlayBetter Golf Reviewer Marc Sheforgen

Marc "Shef" Sheforgen is a golf writer whose passion for the game far exceeds his ability to play it well. Marc covers all things golf, from product reviews and equipment recommendations to event coverage and tournament analysis. When he’s not playing, watching, or writing about golf, he enjoys traveling (often golf-related), youth sports coaching, volunteering, and record collecting.