Griptonite vs Loop
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Griptonite
Enhance your climbing experience by discovering beta, routes, and inspiration from a community of climbers. Track your progress, identify areas for improvement, and compete with others through global and venue-specific rankings.
- Discover beta and routes
- Learn from community experience
- Track personal progress
- Identify areas for improvement
- Global and venue rankings
- Filterable leaderboards
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The Griptonite app is a perfect companion to your climbing life. Discover what's important to you. Be it beta, routes, or inspiration. Our community ticks thousands of routes every day and we enable you to learn from their experience. Everyone loves to get better, and seeing gains is a crucial part of staying motivated. In climbing, it's often hard to pin these down and so progression tends to plateau. The app helps you drill into the areas you can improve at your own pace. Got a competitive or curious side. Or, just want to smash your own PB? The app has both global and venue linked rankings that are fully filterable to help you in your quest.
Loop
Log golf rounds with a one-tap scorecard, track your handicap, and share your game with friends. Features GPS rangefinder, real hole maps, and practice modes. Offers advanced analysis and insights with an optional subscription.
- One-tap scorecard
- GPS rangefinder
- Real hole maps
- USGA/WHS-style Handicap Index
- Live foursome scoring
- Practice modes
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Loop is where your golf lives. Log every round with a one-tap scorecard, keep a USGA/WHS-style Handicap Index, and share it all with the people you actually play with. No fake users. No invented stats. Just your game, tracked honestly, getting better. TRACK EVERY ROUND • One-tap scorekeeper — score, putts, and fairways logged in seconds, GIR figured out for you • GPS rangefinder, free — real distances to the front, centre and back of the green, measured from where you actually stand • Real hole maps, free — the true shape of every mapped hole, with each shot you hit plotted on it • 12,600+ real U.S. courses built in from OpenStreetMap, playable offline • Real scorecards — pars, yardages and stroke indexes from OpenStreetMap, plus 30 hand-verified championship cards • Practice mode for range sessions, putting, and short game — training counts too KNOW YOUR HANDICAP • A USGA/WHS-style Handicap Index computed from your rounds — the same differential math used for official indexes • Course Handicap and live net scoring on every round • Score trends, scoring distribution, fairways & greens, and putting breakdowns PLAY WITH YOUR PEOPLE • A feed of your friends' rounds — give kudos, leave comments • Group Loops: score your whole foursome live on one card, with a live leaderboard • Clubs & leagues with gross, net, and 30-day-average leaderboards • Follow friends by username; private accounts require approval GO PRO — THE ANALYSIS LAYER Logging and social are free, forever. Loop Pro adds the intelligence: • Satellite hole view — the real hole from above on licensed satellite imagery, with your live GPS position on it • Caddie Memory — what you scored, hit, and noted the last time you played this hole • Course Intel — where you leak strokes at each course you play • Handicap Outlook — the score you need to shoot to cut your index • Shot Quality lab and putting-by-distance breakdowns • Unlimited career archive and unlimited private leagues Loop Pro is $9.99/month or $79.99/year, each with a 7-day free trial. Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends; manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Everything in Loop is real: real courses (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL), real math, real friends. We don't sell your data and we don't show ads. Terms of Service: https://thegolfloop.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://thegolfloop.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Loop at 5.0 against Griptonite's 3.0. Loop also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). Griptonite's advantage is ratings volume (21 vs 3). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Griptonite sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Loop sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Loop holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Griptonite has 21 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Griptonite ships an update every 3 weeks, Loop weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Griptonite | Loop |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (21 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 45.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 21 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 92 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Cascom Ltd | Jameson Vasquez |
Customer experience
Griptonite
Loop
Bugs and requests
Griptonite
Reported bugs
30 issues- App constantly erroring
- Filters won't reset or apply
- Projects not registered properly
- App freezes when uploading video
- App crashes frequently
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- Login screen freezes
- White screen of death on sign-in
- Filters not filtering properly
- Feed is glitchy
- Cannot log anything
- App crashes on iOS 16.3.1
- UI lags and jumps when scrolling
- Phantom notification icons
- Cannot clear notification badges
- Novice/intermediate/advanced grading inaccurate
- Ability breakdown doesn't show all grades
- Notification badges not clearing
- Grading of beginner/novice out of line with French system
- Blank screen after entering name
- App instant crashes on opening
- Latest update not working on older iOS
- Cannot get past sign-up page
- Password not visible due to privacy
- Slide to tick interaction not working
- Delay on feedback requests
- Cannot correct age category
- App crashes after a few minutes of usage
- UI is broken, cannot make account
- App crashes on iPhone 12
- App crashes on older iPhone/iPad
Requested features
34 requests- Social sign-in (Apple/Google)
- Total grades/routes climbed count
- Sortable monthly gym results table
- Quick navigation between map and stats
- REST API for data access
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- More holistic progress tracking (training, mood)
- Integration with health apps (Google Fit, Apple Health)
- Privacy mode (hide from leaderboards)
- Ability to log climbs offline
- Star/favorite problems
- Filter for routes not completed this month
- Visual indicator for attempted problems
- Add friends and leaderboards for friends
- Trophy section for comp achievements
- Check beta videos on profile
- Add/follow other climbers
- Clear breakdown for grade progression (novice to advanced)
- Search gyms by name
- Follow gyms for reset notifications
- Apple Watch integration
- Option to log 'clean/dogged' status
- Nominate incorrect grades
- Option to permanently skip video submission
- Toggleable option for route reset points
- Dark mode option
- AI driven training plans
- Filter by grade in free version
- More detailed analysis of climbs
- Sort completed climbs by grade
- League table for top ten climbs
- Line graph of points or top ten grades over time
- Ability to add line pics
- See which problems you’ve attempted at least once on the gym view
- Make it easy to see which problems you’ve attempted at least once on the gym view (eg making the number amber)
Loop
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Griptonite
- Griptonite Pro1 Month trial$4.991 Month
- Griptonite Pro14 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Griptonite Pro$39.991 Year
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- Griptonite Pro1 Month trial$49.991 Year
- Griptonite Pro$49.991 Year
- Griptonite Pro14 Days trial$49.991 Year
Loop
- Loop Pro Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Loop Pro Annual7 Days trial$79.991 Year
Questions
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