# DECADE powered by BirdieFire

> Golf course management and statistical profiling app based on the DECADE strategy. (iPhone/iPad app by BirdieFire LLC.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/decade-powered-by-birdiefire/id1142356331 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [BirdieFire LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/1062035946)
- Category: Sports
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.30/5 from 187 App Store ratings · 95 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.1 · 62 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2016-09-06
- Data updated: 2026-08-29
- Monetization: subscription
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/decade-powered-by-birdiefire/id1142356331/reviews.md

## What is DECADE powered by BirdieFire?

You can't play the odds if you don't know the odds

Stop Wasting Shots & Get The Results You Deserve

Harness the DECADE strategy that is used by:
     -5 World #1's
     -PGA Tour Winners
     -Web.com Winners
     -NCAA Champions
     -USGA Champions

Through the DECADE app, you get access to the proven and revolutionary DECADE Strategy. Tour Level Course Management and Statistical Profiling at your fingertips, anywhere.  Learn how tournament winners manage their game by optimizing course strategy.

Also, unlike other tools on the market, DECADE will constantly bring you fresh new video content on a weekly basis, due to work with our PGA Tour players and top college programs.

Its not about Strokes Gained as much as it’s about reducing Strokes Lost. 

DECADE FOUNDATIONS SUBSCRIPTION

Since launching the DECADE App three years ago we have learned many things, not the least of which is that it can quickly make virtually anyone a much better player, and it’s a lot for younger or less experienced players to consume.  The Elite version of the DECADE App was designed to replace the live DECADE Seminar which is over four hours long and intended for elite players.  We did not anticipate all the interest it would generate with junior golfers and mid-handicap players.  I guess we should have.

With that in mind we have created DECADE Foundations to replace our Lite product to better serve that audience.  Junior will drastically slow down the avalanche of information within the App.  This will more appropriately match the Golf IQ of our subscribers.  Over the course of six months the content within the App will walk a player through the basics of course management and mindset slowly morphing into the Elite version of strategy over time.  The statistics portal will also start slow and build into a robust and easy to use portal

DECADE ELITE SUBSCRIPTION required for GPS Stats Entry, Peer Strokes Gained Comparison and Custom Tailored Yardage Books.

**DECADE account required to access content

6 Month DECADE Foundations Subscription available through App Store for $99.99 which is charged to your iTunes account upon purchase. 
The subscription auto-renews unless turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current 6 month period.  You can manage your payment details or cancel your membership in user's Account Settings.

Terms of Use: https://www.birdiefire.com/terms
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## Key features

- DECADE Strategy access
- Tour-level course management
- Statistical profiling
- Weekly video content
- Course strategy optimization
- Strokes lost reduction

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| DECADE | $49.99 | per 6 months |
| DECADE Foundations | $124.99 | per 6 months |
| DECADE Elite | $229.99 | per 6 months |


## Chart rankings

- #148 in Top Grossing · Sports (US App Store)

## What do users think of DECADE powered by BirdieFire?

Overall sentiment: mixed

**Pros**

- 💡 Revolutionary course management strategy based on math and statistics
- 📊 Effective stat tracking and strokes gained analysis
- 🎓 Comprehensive educational content with detailed videos
- ⛳ Proven scoring improvements (multiple users report 2-4 stroke reductions)
- 🧠 Mental game and expectation management framework
- 📈 Applicable to golfers of all skill levels
- 🎯 Clear target selection methodology
- 💰 Good value for comprehensive golf improvement system
- 👨‍🏫 Knowledgeable instructor (Scott) with regular webinars

**Cons**

- 🐛 Frequent app crashes and freezing issues
- 📱 Poor mobile responsiveness on iPhone and iPad
- 🎨 Outdated UI/UX design (described as Windows 98-era)
- 🎬 Video playback problems and black screen issues
- ⚙️ Clunky navigation and confusing interface
- 📖 Excessive verbosity in content (disrespects user time)
- 🔧 Multiple technical bugs requiring workarounds
- 📚 Poorly organized content with redundant videos
- 🗺️ Yardage book download failures
- 🚫 Account creation and login issues
- 💸 High price point given technical quality
- 📞 Lack of customer support and contact information

**Commonly reported bugs**

- App crashes when entering rounds or using driving target tool
- Video player freezes and won't load content
- Yardage books fail to download
- Login screen shows infinite loading wheel
- Tee shot feature red dot misalignment with club selection
- Yardage calculation errors
- App freezes on startup screen after updates
- Driving targets tool crashes on specific courses
- Cannot add strokes gained data
- Rounds not saving without phone restart
- Videos missing audio
- Progress tracking shows incorrect completion status
- Putting simulation fields disappearing
- Embedded web pages display too small
- Constant app crashes on iPad and iPhone

**Most requested features**

- Unified single app (currently requires three separate apps for coaches)
- Ability to edit or delete entered rounds
- Better video organization and progress tracking
- Support for nine-hole courses
- Improved course database coverage
- Dark mode option
- Background audio playback for videos
- Better progress bar positioning in video player
- Clearer FAQs and onboarding tutorials
- GIR percentage tracking in base version
- Side of green miss tracking
- Improved driving tool functionality

## Recent user reviews (10 of 95)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/decade-powered-by-birdiefire/id1142356331/reviews.md

### 1/5 — Promising App, But Yards-Only Is a Deal Breaker

*2026-05-29*

As an Australian golfer, I was very disappointed to discover that everything in the app appears to be displayed in yards, with no obvious way to change distances to metres.

Before writing this review I:

* Confirmed my iPhone is set to metric units.
* Logged into the website version.
* Checked all available settings and menu options.
* Searched online and through Google for instructions.

Despite spending considerable time trying to resolve this, I could not find any way to switch the app to metres.

For golfers outside the US, this is a major usability issue. Having to constantly convert distances from yards significantly impacts the experience and makes many of the app’s features far less practical on the course.

The app itself seems promising, but a modern golf platform should support both metric and imperial units or, at the very least, make the setting easy to find.

Unless this can be resolved, I will unfortunately be cancelling before the trial period ends. I hope the developers address this issue, as it would make the app much more accessible for international users.

### 2/5 — Had potential

*2025-11-08, version 3.4.3*

Great concepts but like so many instructional programs it’s indulgent and inefficient. Too many words which doesn’t respect people’s time. Function very poor on I- pad (format messed up) and I phone (too small to see) Not sure how this app has gotten so much attention with the lack of function and long dialogue’s.

### 5/5 — Stop overthinking your swing learn to golf

*2025-08-28, version 3.3.9*

To keep it really simple, retired pro athlete with a good swing, good work ethic who needed to learn to play the game with proper strategy.  Scoring has dropped with proper application.   Excited to see better results in tournaments.    Forget your score just commit to proper strategy.   It took me years to understand how to aim and now I can get over a ball and trust I have acquired the correct target and send it!  Best money spent on golf guidance.  Period!

### 5/5 — Review of app

*2025-07-29*

Really like the app and the instruction.  Certainly as an older player who has been a very good athlete trying to take there game to a scratch from a 3 is not easy.  But understanding my faults and learning strategy is key.  Scott, I love the lessons.  Thank you.

### 5/5 — Exactly what I was looking for.

*2025-07-12*

The Decade app is, as the title indicates, ‘Exactly What I Was Looking For!’  I have a junior golfer in the family who has a very nice swing, very athletic and coordinated. At 14, he has been playing golf for about 4 years. He hits lots ta of really great shots, but also has an issue that errant shots wind up costing him big time. He will make three pars in a row, then hit one OB, over compensate on the next, into the trees, and put up a quad or something. Then, understandably, gets frustrated and the negative self talk starts and the downward spiral begins. 

I think that many of us are very familiar with that syndrome. 

The Decade system provides education and methods to reduce the occurrence of the OB that triggers the whole thing and how to deal with the results of it does happen. 

This young man has plenty of potential to be a great golfer, but needs to learn every bit of this material. We have already begun seeing results.

### 1/5 — Good content, terrible execution

*2025-07-07, version 3.2.5*

I've heard and read about DECADE for a while now.  Good concepts for course management.  Unfortunately this app is so terribly written it is difficult to get anything of value out of it. Clunky navigation, no guidance, embedded ugly web pages, it's all here. The makers of this app need to hire a UI/UX designer who know how to build intuitive interfaces.  Until then, don't waste your time or money and instead just Google Fawcett's talks.

### 2/5 — Great Content but the videos don’t work

*2025-05-20, version 3.2.5*

Please fix the videos so that they play when you click them.

### 5/5 — Wish I’d known all this before I got to age 66!

*2025-04-04*

The decade approach to cause management is brilliant although may appear counter intuitive if you are a fixed mindset. My handicap went from 6.8 to 5.3 in a month of taking this approach without changing my ball striking. Scott and Alex are very open and have advice is brilliant. Couldn’t recommend this more highly.

### 5/5 — Taking my game to the next level

*2025-03-29*

I started playing in my late 20s, 43 now, so I had no clue about course management as I never played on a team or anything just with friends and the occasional tournament.  Getting down to a single digit handicap I hit a plateau of improvement.  I did find some info on course management which helped but until I found decade I did not have the tools to really understand and implement course management.  Understanding decade strategies and relying on them has really helped me play my best and removed a lot of the stress and frustration as well as understand what I need to work on and how to do so to really shave strokes off my game.  I am now a 5 handicap and really feel that I can reach my goal of dropping to a 2 handicap or better by the end of this 2025 season.  Excited to see the progress and learn from each mistake along the way.  Knowing how to properly select the proper target and being committed to your decision is key to this game, and decade provides you with the knowledge and tools to do so.  No matter what level you are playing at now, decade will help you, if you commit to it, period.

### 5/5 — Yes

*2025-03-27, version 3.2.5*

Yes, get it. Don’t even think any further, if you want to improve learn the system it changed my life.

## Frequently asked questions about DECADE powered by BirdieFire

### What is the DECADE app?

The DECADE app provides access to a proven golf strategy focused on course management and statistical profiling. It teaches players how to optimize their game based on insights used by professional golfers to reduce lost strokes and improve results.

### What are the key features of the DECADE app?

Key features include access to the DECADE Strategy, tour-level course management tools, statistical profiling, and weekly video content. The app helps users learn how tournament winners manage their game and optimize their strategy.

### How much does the DECADE app cost?

The app offers different subscription tiers. The DECADE Foundations subscription is available for $99.99 for 6 months. The DECADE Elite subscription is required for advanced features like GPS Stats Entry and Custom Tailored Yardage Books.

### What kind of golfers is DECADE Foundations for?

DECADE Foundations is designed to better serve junior golfers and mid-handicap players. It breaks down course management and mindset basics over six months, gradually progressing towards the Elite version of strategy, making it more accessible for less experienced players.

### How do I manage or cancel my subscription?

Subscriptions are managed through your iTunes account settings. You can turn off auto-renewal at least 24 hours before the end of the current 6-month period to avoid further charges. Payment details can also be managed within your account settings.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 4.0.15 — 2026-08-24

Adding new 'Goal Posts' feature to help with targeting and practice.

### 4.0.13 — 2026-07-30

minor bug fixes with yardage book stability

### 4.0.12 — 2026-07-23

Updating Tiger5 entry for metric support

### 4.0.11 — 2026-07-15

video play improvements and minor bug fixes

### 4.0.9 — 2026-07-01

Adding Support for Meters in Driving Targets

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