MindTRAK vs Golf Journal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MindTRAK
This mental-fitness platform helps golfers improve performance by developing proper thought-skills and a focused mindset. It offers tools for self-tracking or coach-assisted programs to enhance attentional focus and overcome mental barriers on the course.
- Mental-fitness protocol for golfers
- Improve attentional focus
- Reduce performance anxiety
- Share performance data with coaches
- Self-tracking and performance reports
- Develop mindset for pressure situations
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MindTRAK Golf is a mental-fitness platform for golfers, coaches, and instructors who want to acquire the proper thought-skills protocol to improve performance. The MindTRAK protocol has been proven in PGA Tour competition and conditions the golfer to have the proper mindset, ‘for this present moment’ for each and every golf shot. It is your Personal Playing Performance Command Center on your phone. Our protocol transforms a golfer’s playing perception and perspective. It strengthens attentional-focus and optimizes performance by removing mental-barriers that hold golfers back. GOLF—THE PROBLEM AND THE SOLUTION Every golfer knows golf is a mental game. The golfer’s mind is widely misunderstood and universally misused. This ‘Golf Insanity’ causes even the best players in the world to struggle. MindTRAK Golf remedies this mindset-gap for all levels of players. BETTER MINDSET. BETTER GOLF. Our protocol shifts mindset away from being ‘result-oriented’, diminishes performance anxiety, and calms a hyperactive mind on the golf course. Learning our protocol will shift a golfer’s attentional focus onto ‘assessing’ and ‘executing’ every shot in each ‘now moment’, rather than being consumed with results. COACHING If you have a PGA swing coach, the app allows you to share your MindTRAK ‘Scorecard’, ‘KPM Trend Graph’ and a ‘Summary Report’. The reports allow your coach to design customized programs specifically tailored from your performance data to improve your game. If you don’t have a coach, you can self-track or self-quantify from your performance reports. PRACTICE Whether applied during play or in a post-round review, our protocol will develop a golfer’s mindset to detach emotionally from results and empower play at a higher level. Mindset improves by shifting attentional focus onto MindTRAK’s two Key Performance Markers (KPMs) of each shot. Our thought technique is the model to perform successfully in pressure situations. PLAY And here's the great thing about MindTRAK Golf. Once a golfer has learned to shift focus onto their two KPMs of each shot during play, the game is simplified. The new mindset changes perceptions and perspective. The game is easier when you can detach emotionally from results and discover your personal golf freedom. APP & SERVICE USAGE DETAILS We’d like to invite you to participate in MindTRAK’s ‘First 500’ Founding Members. The first 500 participants can download the MindTRAK Golf App and play 10 rounds using the MindTRAK app will become Founding Members of MindTRAK Golf and use the app for free as long as they are active members. For all other players who download and activate the app, we are pleased to offer the benefits of MindTRAK Golf and its game changing capabilities for free until the start of the 2021 golf season.
Golf Journal
Track your golf rounds, practice sessions, and handicap estimate with detailed stats and insights. Log scores hole-by-hole, add notes and photos, and analyze your performance trends. Syncs across devices via iCloud.
- Log rounds hole-by-hole or by total score
- Track strokes, putts, fairways, GIR, and penalties
- Add notes, feel ratings, photos, and videos to rounds
- Estimate handicap using World Handicap System formula
- Log practice sessions with time, balls, and notes
- Analyze scoring trends and performance insights
- iCloud sync across all your devices
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Golf Journal is a golf diary for your rounds, your practice and your handicap. Log a round from its total in about 20 seconds, or hole by hole, and watch your handicap estimate move as you play. ROUNDS • Log the total, or score hole by hole: strokes, putts, fairways, greens in regulation and penalties. • Out and In totals, and a scorecard with your birdies, bogeys and doubles marked. • Notes, a feel rating, photos and videos for every round. • Scan a paper scorecard: take a photo and the hole scores are read on your iPhone for you to check. • Golf workouts recorded with the Workout app on Apple Watch show up ready to become rounds, with the date filled in. HANDICAP ESTIMATE • Uses the World Handicap System formula: the best 8 of your last 20 rounds, with nine-hole rounds paired. • See your trend, which rounds count, which one drops out next and what score would bring your estimate down. • Course handicap for each set of tees, net score and Stableford points. • Have an official Handicap Index from your club? Enter it and Golf Journal uses it for course handicap, net and Stableford. It's an estimate to follow your game, not an official Handicap Index. COURSES • Tees with course rating, slope, par and yardage, and a scorecard with par and stroke index for every hole. • Look up courses near you or by name. Course data comes from OpenStreetMap. • Your average and best score at each course. PRACTICE • Log practice sessions: range, putting, chipping, bunker, on course, lessons and more, with time, balls and notes. • Keep your swing cues and drills from one session to the next. • Start the practice timer and fill in the rest when you finish. • Turn a round's notes into a plan for your next session. INSIGHTS • How often you make birdie, par, bogey and worse, and how you score on par 3s, 4s and 5s. • Your hardest holes, your scoring by course and by month, and where your practice time goes. • Set a goal, such as breaking 90 or getting down to 15, and see how far off it you are. ON ALL YOUR DEVICES • iCloud sync between your devices. No account to create; your diary stays on your devices and in your iCloud. • Widgets for your handicap estimate and your last round. • Siri and Shortcuts: "Log round", "Log practice", "What's my handicap". • A reminder when you haven't logged a round for a while. • Yards or meters. GOLF JOURNAL PRO Golf Journal is free for up to 3 rounds, 3 practice sessions and 2 courses. Golf Journal Pro removes the limits and adds export: your rounds as a spreadsheet (CSV) and a printable season report (PDF). Pro is available as a subscription or a one-time purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. Manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.mygolfjournal.app/posts/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Golf Journal at 4.8 against MindTRAK's 3.3. MindTRAK's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and iOS requirement (12.4 vs 26.0). 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. Golf Journal sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. MindTRAK asks for nothing beyond the download.
Golf Journal holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 12 respectively.
| Parameter | MindTRAK | Golf Journal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (6 ratings) | 4.8 (12 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 12 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.4 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 85 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | MindTRAK Golf Inc. | Gruffydd Johnston |
Customer experience
MindTRAK
Golf Journal
In-app purchases
MindTRAK
No in-app purchases
Golf Journal
- Pro7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Pro7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Pro7 Days trial$9.991 Year
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- Pro7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Lifetime$49.99









