Comparison

UDisc Disc Golf vs BackyardPace

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

UDisc Disc Golf

This app is a comprehensive tool for disc golf enthusiasts. It allows users to keep score, discover and navigate courses, track detailed statistics, and measure throws. An optional Pro version offers advanced features like lifetime stats and real-time course traffic.

Highlights
  • Course-specific scorecards
  • 15,000+ course directory
  • Detailed player statistics
  • Throw measurement
  • Hole maps and distance to basket
  • Disc cataloging
  • Putting and accuracy drills
Features
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Meet UDisc, the all-in-one disc golf app. Designed by disc golfers for disc golfers, UDisc lets you quickly and easily keep score, find courses, track your stats, measure your throws, and so much more. Join the hundreds of thousands of disc golfers using UDisc to improve their disc golf experience. Keep Score - Keep score on 15,000+ course-specific scorecards - Multiple scoring modes - strokes, full stats, or map-based scoring - Score singles, doubles, or teams of any size - View photographic hole maps and real-time distance to the basket - Create custom scorecards - Share your completed rounds via social media or email - Leave your phone in your bag and keep score from your Apple Watch Find Courses - Browse 15,000+ courses in our course directory - Sort courses by distance, rating, and location - Read course reviews with detailed categories and up-to-date course conditions - See 100,000+ disc golf hole maps only available in UDisc - Filter courses by dog friendly, cart friendly, or courses with bathrooms - Driving directions and contact information for courses - Add courses to your wish list and track where you’ve played Track Your Stats - Analyze your putting, driving, greens in regulation, and more - Keep track of your aces, average scores, and best rounds - Track steps, distance walked, and weather conditions for all rounds - Review comprehensive statistics and charts Additional Features - Accurately measure your throws - Discover disc golf leagues in your area - Catalog and sort your disc collection - Automatically share scorecards with all players - Easily searchable disc golf rule book - Putting & accuracy practice drills - Hear tee order announcements on every tee box - And many more! Upgrade to UDisc Pro For Even More (Free 14-day trial included) - View your lifetime scorecards and stats - Access real-time course traffic - Participate in global and friend leaderboards - Keep score on your smartwatch - Back up your data to your UDisc account Find us on social media: @udiscapp UDisc is actively developed, constantly improving, and has a very active community. Please reach out to us on social media or inside the app with any feedback, questions, or feature requests. Terms of Use https://udisc.com/terms

About

BackyardPace

Features
Currently charting
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Keep the watch you already race in. BackyardPace runs from your iPhone at base while your Garmin, COROS or any other watch records the run. Or race it from your Apple Watch. Either way it handles the yard timer, the recovery countdown and the next start, so you can stop doing arithmetic at 3am and think about one thing: the next yard. THE FORMAT Finish the loop before the bell, recover, then go again. The last runner standing wins. Everyone else records a DNF, no matter how far they got. Recovery matters more with every hour that passes, and that is the part BackyardPace takes off your hands. RACE FROM IPHONE No Apple Watch needed. Yard timing, recovery countdowns, lap logging and the go-again decision all run from the phone, so you keep using the watch you already trust to record the run itself. The phone sits at base and runs the race, with the corral clock on your lock screen. BackyardPace does not connect to or control your Garmin or COROS. The two run alongside each other. Your watch records the run. BackyardPace runs the race. RACE FROM APPLE WATCH Set your start time before the gun and the watch becomes your race computer. Yard time, recovery countdown, heart rate and distance remaining, all on your wrist. The phone can stay charging in the tent. Every yard, split, GPS route and heart rate is written to Apple Health. AHEAD OR BEHIND, AT A GLANCE A band runs around the edge of the race screen showing how far round the loop you are, with a red mark where the clock is. Ahead of the mark you are banking rest. Behind it you are spending it. No numbers, no arithmetic. REST YOU ARE EARNING While you are running, BackyardPace shows the rest your current pace is buying you. Push and the number grows. Ease off and you watch it shrink. It is the one number that changes how you run the second half of a yard. DISTANCE THAT COUNTS DOWN Most apps show how far you have run. Late in a backyard you want to know how far until you can stop, so BackyardPace counts the distance down instead. RECOVERY THAT KEEPS YOU HONEST The recovery screen counts down to the next yard and changes colour as time runs short. Green while you have room, orange as the start approaches, red when you need to move. Readable from across a tent at 3am, with the yard you just ran underneath: time and pace, so you know what the next one has to look like. MADE FOR WET HANDS AT 3AM Rain and sleeves press things. On Apple Watch, a wet screen can't end your race: ending can be undone, and the workout keeps recording until you hold Save. A mistaken lap can be undone too. IT TELLS YOU OUT LOUD The watch buzzes and says the time at three minutes, two and one, then again the moment the next yard starts. During the yard it calls your distance and the rest you are earning. Head down, eyes shut, and you still get off the line on time. YOUR RACES, ADDED UP Every race is saved with its laps, route and heart rate. A lifetime view keeps your best yard count, total yards, total distance, time running and your average pace and heart rate across everything you have ever run. A yard that runs out is logged automatically, and lap times can be edited afterwards, so one mis-tap does not spoil the record. YOUR RACE ON STRAVA Connect Strava once and upload from the race summary, with every yard as its own lap. Or export a standard TCX file and upload it yourself. BUILT BY A BACKYARD ULTRA RUNNER Tim Dove built BackyardPace after three years of racing this format, most recently 20 yards at Riverhead, New Zealand. Every feature exists because of a question asked during an actual race. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO It does not tell you how to pace yourself. That is your job. It does not replace race officials or official timing. It needs no mobile signal and no internet during a race. In iPhone mode it does not record GPS route or heart rate, because your watch is already doing that. One purchase. No subscription. No account. Nothing locked on race day.

Screenshots

UDisc Disc Golf4 screens
BackyardPace4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: UDisc Disc Golf at Free against BackyardPace's $4.99. UDisc Disc Golf also leads on chart position (#36 vs #135). BackyardPace's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On update cadence, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

UDisc Disc Golf is free to download; BackyardPace costs $4.99 up front. UDisc Disc Golf sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $29.99 per year. BackyardPace asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

UDisc Disc Golf ships an update weekly, BackyardPace every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
UDisc Disc Golf versus BackyardPace: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUDisc Disc GolfBackyardPace
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating4.9 (67K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews65.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings67K — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#36 — better#135
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size198 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperUDisc LLCTimothy James Dove

Bugs and requests

UDisc Disc Golf

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • GPS accuracy issues on some courses
  • Scorecard jumping between holes unexpectedly
  • Watch app connectivity problems

Requested features

4 requests
  • Social features to view friends' profiles and rounds
  • Customizable putting practice modes
  • Ability to edit course layouts and hole locations
  • Disc 'graveyard' to track lost discs

BackyardPace

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

UDisc Disc Golf

Subscriptions1
  • UDisc Pro14 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • 1 Year of UDisc Pro$29.99
None

BackyardPace

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is UDisc Disc Golf free?
UDisc Disc Golf is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BackyardPace free?
BackyardPace costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do UDisc Disc Golf or BackyardPace have ads?
Neither UDisc Disc Golf nor BackyardPace shows ads.
Which is updated more often, UDisc Disc Golf or BackyardPace?
UDisc Disc Golf ships an update weekly, and BackyardPace every 2 weeks. Most recently, UDisc Disc Golf was updated on October 30, 2026 and BackyardPace on October 29, 2026.
Which is more popular, UDisc Disc Golf or BackyardPace?
UDisc Disc Golf currently peaks at #36 in the App Store charts, and BackyardPace at #135. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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