LDS Scripture Golf vs UpClose
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LDS Scripture Golf
A trivia game designed to help users learn and remember scriptures. Players guess the book and chapter of given scriptures, with the lowest score winning. It's a fun, competitive way to engage with religious texts.
- Scripture trivia gameplay
- Guess book and chapter
- Score tracking
- Multiplayer mode
- Learn and remember scriptures
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Scripture Golf is a classic LDS Sunday School trivia game. Note: This is not a golfing game. This app offers a fun way to learn and remember scriptures. Gather your friends, choose the number of rounds, and start playing! You'll be given a scripture and must guess the book and then the chapter it's from. Each wrong guess adds a point to your score. The player with the fewest points at the end wins! We've worked hard to make this app bug-free, but if you find any issues or have suggestions for future updates, please email woodruffapps@gmail.com. I'll respond as quickly as possible. We plan to continue supporting the app with more scriptures, performance enhancements, and new features.
UpClose
Test your knowledge of Latter-day Saint temples with this engaging trivia game. Identify temples from zoomed-in photos and learn about their history and locations. Play offline and enjoy widgets for quick access.
- Identify temples from zoomed-in photos
- Learn temple locations and history
- Three distinct game modes
- Mastered temples progress tracking
- Home screen widgets for quick play
- Offline play capability
- Cross-device compatibility (iPhone, iPad, Mac)
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How well do you know the temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? UpClose shows you a temple zoomed in, up close, and challenges you to name it. Guess right and the photo pulls back to reveal the whole temple. With more than 300 temples from around the world, including newly announced temples shown from their artist’s renderings, there’s always another one to learn. Three Ways To Play: • Normal: Name each temple from a close-up photo. Reach 25 points before you run out of strikes. • Timed: Name as many temples as you can in 60 seconds. • Photo: You get the temple’s name. Pick the right photo out of four. Master Every Temple: Name a temple on your first try and it’s added to your Mastered Temples. Watch your progress grow as you work your way around the world. Play From Your Home Screen: • Temple widget: A new temple on your Home Screen throughout the day. • Favorite Temple widget: Keep your favorite temple close, wherever you look. • Temple Mini Game: Play a quick round right from the widget, without opening the app. Learn About Each Temple: Tap any temple to see its photos, its location with directions in Maps, and milestones from its announcement and groundbreaking to its dedication. Open houses are shown when one is coming up, with a link to reserve your spot. Play Anywhere: Download temples once and keep playing offline, on a plane or wherever you don’t have a connection. Made For iPhone, iPad and Mac: Make it yours with seven color themes. Play on your iPhone, on your iPad, or on your Mac with a menu bar and keyboard shortcuts. UpClose is free, with no ads and no in-app purchases. Temple photos courtesy of churchofjesuschrist.org.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: UpClose at 5.0 against LDS Scripture Golf's 4.6. UpClose also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 89%). LDS Scripture Golf's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
UpClose holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 17 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 89% of LDS Scripture Golf's written reviews are positive against 100% of UpClose's.
LDS Scripture Golf ships an update every 2 months, UpClose every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LDS Scripture Golf | UpClose |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (17 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 88.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 17 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 68 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | John Woodruff | Alexandr Hadfield |
Customer experience
LDS Scripture Golf
UpClose
In-app purchases
LDS Scripture Golf
No in-app purchases
UpClose
No in-app purchases
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