Yardage Book vs ShotStat Live
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Yardage Book
Access detailed course information for thousands of golf courses worldwide. Features include GPS distances to greens, bunkers, and hazards, along with aerial views of each hole that can be zoomed and panned.
- GPS distances to greens, bunkers, and hazards
- Aerial view of each hole
- Zoom and pan functionality
- Access to thousands of courses globally
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Use BlueGolf Yardage Book to tour every hole at thousands of courses across the US and the world - while you play or while you watch the pros! Features: • GPS distance to greens, bunkers and hazards • Aerial view of each hole with zoom and pan
ShotStat Live
Provides live scoring for golf tournaments managed through ShotStat. Track scores and view real-time updates for participants in official events.
- Live tournament scoring
- ShotStat tour management integration
- Real-time score updates
- Golf event tracking
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Live tournament scoring for golf tours that use ShotStat tour management.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: ShotStat Live at every 2 months against Yardage Book's every 12 months. Yardage Book's advantage is review sentiment (21% vs 0%) and ratings volume (58 vs 10). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 2.7 for Yardage Book against 2.6 for ShotStat Live. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Yardage Book has 58 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 21% of Yardage Book's written reviews are positive against 0% of ShotStat Live's.
Yardage Book ships an update every 12 months, ShotStat Live every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on July 5, 2026 and August 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Yardage Book | ShotStat Live |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.7 (58 ratings) — better | 2.6 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 21.2% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 58 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 10.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BlueGolf | ShotStat.com LLC |
Customer experience
Yardage Book
ShotStat Live
In-app purchases
Yardage Book
No in-app purchases
ShotStat Live
No in-app purchases
Questions
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