Cap Patrol vs BigTeamGolf
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cap Patrol
This app helps golfers monitor their handicaps and track performance with detailed analytics. Understand your strengths, compare stats with friends, and gain insights to improve your game. Features include score tracking, club rankings, and tournament analytics.
- Detailed trends and analytics
- Comprehensive score tracking
- Club rankings and comparisons
- Hot Gauge for recent performance
- Posting percentage tracking
- Smart scorecard entry
- Tournament analytics
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Cap Patrol is the ultimate golf handicap monitoring and performance tracking app, designed to give you deeper insights into your game and fuel friendly competition. Whether you're a weekend golfer or a tournament competitor, our innovative features help you understand your strengths, track your progress, and compare your stats with friends. Features include: • Detailed Trends and Analytics – See how you and your friends are playing over time, including your round history, lowest scores on every course, and performance in tournaments versus regular rounds. • Comprehensive Score Tracking – Monitor your lowest gross and net scores for the current year and all time, and see how you rank compared to others at your club. • Club Rankings – Get ranked in multiple categories at your home course and compare your performance against your peers. Compare essential stats like indexes, rounds at the club, posting percentage, and unique courses to get a real-time snapshot of where you stand. • Hot Gauge – Instantly see how your recent performance stacks up against your partners and know who's on fire. • Posting % Tracking – Keep a close eye on your consistency with posting percentage insights. • Smart Scorecard Entry – Easily enter your scorecards and let our auto-balancing match-up feature create evenly matched teams, making every round more competitive. • Tournament Analytics – Track your tournament results and use our analytics to optimize team setups and strategy. With Cap Patrol, you're not just keeping score – you're unlocking the insights to elevate your game. Download now and join a community where every round counts, and every stat tells a story.
BigTeamGolf
This app uses a proven algorithm to create balanced golf teams based on past performance data. It aims to ensure fair competition, where skilled teams are more likely to win. Enjoy more competitive and enjoyable golf matches.
- Fair team selection algorithm
- Uses past scores and birdies
- Near-optimal team picking
- Promotes competitive matches
- Accepts user data for analysis
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The BigTeamGolf App picks fair teams for golf matches based on averages of scores and birdies from previous golf rounds played. The algorithm for picking teams was established in the late 1970’s and has been modified over the years and now has been accepted as a near-optimal teams picking algorithm. Our promise is to create fair golf teams – and the typical result is that teams that play well will win and teams that play poorly will lose; but that’s how it should be! Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: BigTeamGolf at 100% against Cap Patrol's 11%. BigTeamGolf also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.0) and update cadence (weekly vs monthly). Cap Patrol's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 14). On price, ratings volume, ads and device support 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. BigTeamGolf sells 14 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Cap Patrol asks for nothing beyond the download.
BigTeamGolf holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 25 and 10 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 11% of Cap Patrol's written reviews are positive against 100% of BigTeamGolf's.
Cap Patrol ships an update monthly, BigTeamGolf weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cap Patrol | BigTeamGolf |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (25 ratings) | 5.0 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 10.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 25 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cap Patrol, LLC | Black Dog Apps Limited Liability Company |
Customer experience
Cap Patrol
BigTeamGolf
Bugs and requests
Cap Patrol
Reported bugs
70 issues- Login impossible
- Sign in fails
- App never loads
- App is unstable
- Doesn't show recent hot rounds
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- Shows old tournament data
- Very buggy
- Rarely works
- Unreliable
- Doesn't work regularly
- Can't create account
- Errors on registration
- Login stalls
- Password reset email not received
- App still doesn't work
- Non-functioning app
- Version 1.1.12 is broken
- App hangs and CTDs
- Can't log in
- GHIN number incorrect
- App crashes on GHIN registration
- Does not recognize GHIN
- Won't recognize GHIN number
- Garbage app
- Can't connect
- App does not work
- Lost historical data
- Login just sits there
- Technical development is bad
- Very glitchy
- Often stops working
- App functional very poor
- Poor explanation of meters
- Hard to understand rankings
- Doesn't allow positive index
- Misleading statistics
- Data doesn't match GHIN
- Member listed as HOT passed away
- Stroke penalty for tournament
- No answers from support
- Cannot support allegations
- Has app been abandoned?
- Won't accept verified GHIN
- Error message loop
- Contact support didn't work
- Work out the bugs
- Doesn't recognize GHIN
- GHIN app says different
- Chalk full of useless information
- Mumbo-jumbo
- Participation trophy winners
- Punishes winners
- Club members hate it
- Half baked
- Implementation doesn't inspire confidence
- No explanation of results
- Broad sweeping assumptions
- Zero stars
- Account issue: needs to be email
- Hard to use
- Rushed to market?
- GHIN # entry problem
- App continues to cycle
- No GHIN Recognition
- Keyboard blocks login button
- Password reset email never arrived
- Pathetic App
- Failure notice on GHIN entry
- Can't find GHIN
- Can't log in
Requested features
7 requests- Better explanation of data points
- More explanation of index assessment
- Better defining of data points
- Explanation of how odds are calculated
- Clarification on positive/negative index entry
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- Odds calculation based on rounds played, not time
- Guidance on account creation issues
BigTeamGolf
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Cap Patrol
No in-app purchases
BigTeamGolf
- Par Tier Monthly Plan14 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Birdie Tier Monthly Plan14 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Eagle Tier Monthly Plan14 Days trial$2.991 Month
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- Par Tier Annual Plan$9.991 Year
- Birdie Tier Annual Plan$19.991 Year
- Eagle Tier Annual Plan$29.991 Year
- Club Level I$0.99
- 1 Member Add On$0.99
- Club Level II$1.99
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- 10 Member Add On$1.99
- Club Level III$2.99
- Club Level IV$4.99
- 50 Member Add On$4.99
- Club Level V$9.99
