# DECADE powered by BirdieFire — user reviews > 95 indexed App Store user reviews of DECADE powered by BirdieFire by BirdieFire LLC, rated 4.30/5 from 187 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/decade-powered-by-birdiefire/id1142356331/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/decade-powered-by-birdiefire/id1142356331.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 141 · 4★ 6 · 3★ 9 · 2★ 13 · 1★ 18 ## 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webinars **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent app crashes and freezing issues - 📱 Poor mobile responsiveness on iPhone and iPad - 🎨 Outdated UI/UX design (described as Windows 98-era) - 🎬 Video playback problems and black screen issues - ⚙️ Clunky navigation and confusing interface - 📖 Excessive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 ## Newest reviews (10 of 95) ### 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. ### 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. ### 3/5 — Decade *2025-03-09, version 3.2.5* App is terrible , great product if I could actually get a course book to load… ### 3/5 — Could Be Great *2024-03-15* The app is so embarrassingly bad. My team and I struggle to enter rounds without constant crashing and lock ups. Back end management is scattered and disorganized. Also, as a coach, I have to download and use THREE separate apps to effectively use all functions. Scott’s approach to the game is totally effective but the app makes it cumbersome. If the app is difficult to use my players don’t want use it. If they don’t want to use it then what’s the point? Also, why can’t I delete or modify my player’s rounds? IE sometimes they enter a practice round as a tournament round. It happens. But once it’s in I can’t edit it and they haven’t figured out how they can either (see above about the app being cumbersome). Could be so good but it’s just not right now. If there isn’t a massive update and convergence of three apps into one, we’ll be looking elsewhere for next season. I pray it gets fixed. I’d be glad to beta test it as well. ### 3/5 — Why does it crash so much when in “Rounds”? *2024-02-02, version 3.0.8* The videos are great. Idea is great and revolutionary but the videos could be organized better. The same video shows up in many different folders and lists and while it’s supposed to self check after watched, it doesn’t. And I have watched all the videos and they still show as 4 watched out 10 in folders. The reason I am motivated to write a review (which I typically don’t) is because I am Trying to input my first round and the app just keeps crashing while dragging the dots (where shots landed). It has done it about 8 times so far so I decided to write a review to give me a break while I take a deep breath and dive back in. Maybe the content needs to be separated from the app. I love what decade and the philosophy and all the ideas but the app’s technical aspects are like being on WindowsMe and having to hit control alt delete to end the “task not responding”. I know it’s a low quality technical production but maybe separate the content/philosophy from the technology? Youtube Channel (Subscription?). This app it’s not worth the cost and less the continued cost. The content is valuable and worth some price but Someone is just going to grab the idea and create a modern app to be able to implement ideas and this combo will be out competed. Look at the quality of the grint, 18Birdies, Golfshot apps and compare it (it’s like 720p camera to compared 4k). yeah I am grateful for some things. Which account for the 2-3 stars. ### 5/5 — Love it five stars *2023-08-23* But, if you could fix the driving tool so it works on my home course which consists of three 9 hole courses that would be great. It glitches out the driving tool when I try to load a nine hole course. Still love the app and am giving it five stars 🍻🏆 ### 5/5 — New App is great *2023-05-24, version 3.0.4* The work they’re doing to update the app is making it much easier to use. ### 1/5 — App crashes *2022-11-20, version 2.9.0* App keeps crashing when I try and do driving targets. Pretty much useless for this ### 1/5 — Product did not work as advertised *2022-09-22* I purchased an annual subscription to this product based on the glitzy marketing. I was traveling to Scotland and the product was unable to produce the green maps for several major Royal clubs I visited. When I came back I tried to stop services but since I purchased an annual subscription they were unable to credit me for the 11 unused months. Shady mc’shady business practices. Customer comes last ### 5/5 — A Must for Competitive Golfers *2022-08-15* I have been using the decade app and yardage books for a little over a month now, and it has transformed my thinking. I watched the videos and used the book as designed and I almost qualified for the US Amateur missing it by a few strokes, and have become a first alternate for the US Mid Am. If anyone is wanting to shoot lower scores, definitely recommend!! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 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. ### 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. ### 1/5 — Waste of money! *2025-03-05, version 3.2.5* What a waste of money! Haven’t been able to download and print a yardage book for a month now. Garbage! ### 1/5 — Horrible App *2024-12-27* This app is atrocious. For how much money we spend for a membership, the lack of effort put into this app is genuinely embarrassing. The interface is something out of windows 98 and there are bugs everywhere leading to constantly closing the app to fix them. As far as content, most of the videos are low quality or just a black screen with the Decade logo. Overall disappointing content for the price. I expected HQ videos and user friendly interface for $250 but it falls drastically short. Will edit once next season starts and can attempt to see if the system works. ### 1/5 — Tee Shot Feature is Broken! *2024-06-25* The selection of tee shot club, the resulting red dot, and the approach distance correlation is buggy. The selection of a club does not align with the position of the red dot and the resulting yellow approach line. Additionally, the yardage calculation appears to match the drawn line, but not the club selected. From what I can tell, the yardage info at the bottom of the screen (distance to front/middle/back) are correctly tied to the red dot location. But the red dot location is incorrectly placed relative to the chosen club(s). ### 1/5 — User interface is remarkably bad. *2024-06-11, version 3.2.3* Whew. Unusable. Typos, glitches, double negatives. No good even if it was free. ### 1/5 — App doesn’t stop freezing and crashing *2023-09-05* Works well on computer, but this app needs major improvement. ### 1/5 — The app is so incredibly bad *2023-05-24* I have truly love the learning content so far. Found the concepts very helpful, and at times mind blowing. But the app is detracting from its usefulness. Tried to go through the putting simulation and the short and long fields just disappeared. Had to do it from the web page which is comes up in a really small box that i had to zoom in on. Also would help if the FAQs were actual FAQs and not random videos. An introduction on how to move through the program would be helpful. I specifically bought the foundations to work through the concepts slowly. Did I have to buy the elite to get a better app and user experience? ### 1/5 — Gave up after 30 minutes *2023-05-02, version 3.0.4* Very little worked on this app. I had to shut off my phone after entering data for it to save a round. Couldn’t add anything relating to strokes gained. I’m an IT pro and after 30 minutes I gave up. Concept seems great. Execution? Poor, especially at that price. I’d come back if it worked properly ### 1/5 — Can’t even create an account *2023-04-25, version 3.0.3* This app seems very bad. I can’t even create an account. The screen just goes black and you have to start over and it does it again. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 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. ### 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. ### 5/5 — Scott is the best *2025-03-26* I’m as new member. The information you learn from Decade is priceless! I’ve been approaching strategy, tournament prep, and practice wrong for my entire golfing life. I’m so excited to apply all I’ve learned this season. Thanks for everything Scott! ### 5/5 — Great program *2024-04-05, version 3.2.1* Scott’s content is fantastic, and has improved the way I both think and play the game! ### 5/5 — Game changing *2024-03-25, version 3.2.1* Affordable for the vast amount of content provided. Worth it for any golfer who wants to maximize their potential. ### 5/5 — Great content *2024-02-22, version 3.2.0* I’ve been playing golf for 40 years and was already pretty good at course management. But the content has provided more knowledge and refinement. I highly recommend this app. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-24.*