Libro is a portable golf platform that tilts to recreate uphill, downhill and sidehill lies. It goes up to 7 degrees along its length for uphill and downhill lies, and 13 degrees across for ball above or below your feet. You set the lie in seconds with a cam lock, it needs no batteries or charging, and it works with any launch monitor or simulator, or on its own.
That's the short version. Here's why it exists and what you get.
The problem it's built for
Almost every place golfers practise is flat. Range mats, garden mats, sim bays, indoor studios. Then you get to the course and most of your shots after the tee are off some kind of slope, even if it's a gentle one you barely notice until the ball starts left.
Sloping lies change how the club meets the ground, where the ball starts and how it curves. If you've never practised them, you're learning them live on the course, one awkward shot at a time. We go through why that matters in why practising on a flat range mat holds your game back.
The line we keep coming back to is this. No app can teach you a slope. You have to feel it.
What Libro does
Libro tilts in two directions.
- Along its length, up to 7 degrees. That gives you uphill and downhill lies.
- Across, up to 13 degrees. That gives you sidehill lies, with the ball above or below your feet.
If you want a refresher on what each of those lies does to the ball, the four uneven lies explained covers them in one place.
You set the angle you want and lock it with the cam lock. Laser-engraved height lines mean you can come back to exactly the same lie next session, and count your reps on it. That's the bit that makes it useful for proper practice. A slope you can repeat is a slope you can measure yourself against. There's more on the set-up in how Libro sets a lie.
The numbers
| Spec | Libro |
|---|---|
| Uphill / downhill tilt | Up to 7 degrees |
| Sidehill tilt | Up to 13 degrees |
| Size | 670 x 420 mm |
| Height | 136 mm |
| Weight | 4.97 kg |
| Load rating | Materials rated well beyond 250 kg |
| Power | None. No batteries, nothing to charge |
| Subscription | None |
At under 5 kg it goes in the boot with your clubs. You can take it to the range, use it in the garage, or put it in front of your sim.
What it works with
Anything, or nothing. Libro doesn't connect to a launch monitor or sim because it doesn't need to. It changes the ground, and whatever you already use to measure the shot carries on measuring it. If you have a home simulator, it fills the one gap sims can't fill on their own, which we cover in golf simulators only give you flat lies.
If you don't own any tech, it works perfectly well with a net, a range bay or a patch of grass and a basket of balls.
How it compares to the alternatives
Motorised swing stages also recreate slopes, and they're impressive bits of kit. They also cost £20,000 or more, which puts them in tour academies and high-end studios. Libro is the portable, unpowered answer to the same problem, built for golfers who practise in their garage, their local range or their sim.
Who made it
Libro was founded by Dario, who has spent 15+ years as a creative director in sport. It was designed with Aetha, an award-winning UK design studio, and has been through four years of development and prototypes.
When can you get one
Libro is coming to Kickstarter in early 2027. You can reserve one for £10 now, and it's fully refundable. Feel what's real.