Comparison

Golfer vs Tour It

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

Head to head
About

Golfer

This app simplifies golf handicap calculations for groups and courses. It offers quick access to handicaps for any tee, allowing users to organize friends, family, or league players and favorite courses. Data is saved locally and on iCloud for access across devices.

Highlights
  • Group player setup
  • Course and tee organization
  • Rapid handicap access
  • Local and iCloud data saving
  • Cross-device data synchronization
  • New interface for easier access
Features
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With the recent changes, the calculation of handicaps for any tee has become more complicated. You can get handicaps for any tee from websites or apps, but it requires a number of steps through the process to get them. The Golfer App lets you setup groups of players and courses for the family, friends or league that like play together, and provides fast access to tee handicaps for anyone in your groups. Friends, family or league player groups can be setup to get rapid access to tee handicaps. Golf course tees can also be organized in groups of favorites. Once setup, selecting any golfer will show that persons handicap for all of the tees in all of the groups. Similarly, selecting any tee will show the handicaps for all players in all groups for that tee. The new version has been updated with a new interface providing easier access to handicap information for players and courses.  Your golfer data is now saved locally on your device as well as on your iCloud Drive, making your data available anywhere with good or weak connections. This latest version has several improvements helping you get quick access to handicaps on the golf course, while still allowing you to use the same data on your other iCloud connected devices when you need to review at home. This version will also operate on a single device without an iCloud Drive connection, storing the information locally.

About

Tour It

Scout golf courses hole-by-hole with real video clips from other golfers. Discover new courses, plan your next round or golf trip, and find hidden gems. Contribute your own footage to earn ranks and help the community.

Highlights
  • Hole-by-hole video scouting
  • Discover new golf courses
  • Plan golf trips
  • User-generated content
  • Earn ranks and contribute
  • Find hidden gem courses
Features
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Scout before you play. Discover new courses and see them hole by hole. Real video clips from golfers who've actually played there. Plan your next round or your next trip after you Tour It. Tour It is the video-first hole by hole golf course scouting platform built around the question every golfer asks before a new round: what does this course actually look like? Search any course. Tap a hole. Watch real footage from people who just played it. See the line off the tee. See where the green sheds. Know what you're walking into. DISCOVER WHERE TO PLAY NEXT A vertical, swipeable feed of golf where every clip is tied to a course and a hole. Scroll from Pebble to Pinehurst to a muni you've never heard of three miles from your house. The next great round is usually closer than you think. PLAN THE TRIP Pulling together a buddy trip? Search Bandon, Scottsdale, the Sandhills, Florida. Every course has its own page with hole-by-hole intel uploaded by golfers who've actually played there. Build the itinerary with reads, not photos. FIND THE HIDDEN GEMS Tour It surfaces the courses tour books skip. The semi-private down the road. The reciprocal you didn't know about. The local muni that plays harder than its reputation. Real footage from real golfers, not stock photography. CONTRIBUTE WHAT YOU SEE Filmed something useful from your round? Upload it. Tour It auto-suggests the course and hole from the GPS in your video. Add a quick note about the wind or the line, and you've helped the next golfer who plays it. EARN YOUR RANK Every clip, scorecard, and note earns points. Level up through six golf-native ranks: Caddie, Player, Member, Pro, Champion, Legend. The more you contribute, the more you build your name on the platform golfers actually use. Tour It isn't a brand telling you what to play. It's a community of golfers building the scouting layer the game has always needed, one hole at a time. Scout before you play. Welcome to Tour It.

Screenshots

Golfer4 screens
Tour It4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Golfer at none against Tour It's shown. Golfer also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Tour It's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 4 months). On price, rating, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Golfer against 5.0 for Tour It. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Golfer ships an update every 4 months, Tour It every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Golfer versus Tour It: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGolferTour It
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings23 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterAd-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB4 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperGordon ThomsonCorey Goldstein

Customer experience

Golfer

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Tour It

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Golfer

No in-app purchases

None

Tour It

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Golfer free?
Golfer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tour It free?
Tour It is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Golfer or Tour It?
Golfer and Tour It are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Golfer or Tour It have ads?
Tour It shows ads; Golfer does not.
Which is updated more often, Golfer or Tour It?
Golfer ships an update every 4 months, and Tour It every 5 days. Most recently, Golfer was updated on October 18, 2026 and Tour It on October 1, 2026.

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