Golf Logbook vs Golf Journal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Golf Logbook
Track and analyze your golf training sessions with detailed logs and visual reports. Define specific training tasks and monitor your progress towards completion. All your data is stored locally and can be easily exported for further analysis.
- Record training duration by category
- Visualize training data with line diagrams
- Generate pivot tables for yearly/monthly analysis
- Define and track training tasks
- Export and import data in JSON format
- Local data storage
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With this app you can record and evaluate your training times. To do this, you only have to record the training duration per category (course, driver, wood, iron, ...) and you can then get an overview of your training in the form of a line diagram per month or a pivot table per year and month. It is also possible to define training tasks with a time period and scope. As part of the time recording for each category, you can then also specify whether and to what extent you have worked on a task. The task overview also gives you the opportunity to see to what extent your tasks have already been completed. All data is saved locally in the app and can be exported as well as imported in JSON format. This makes it possible, for example, to convert the recorded and exported training data from JSON to CSV and process it in Excel with little effort.
Golf Journal
Track your golf performance with this app, logging rounds, practice sessions, scores, and media. Analyze your game with performance graphs and iCloud syncing. Ideal for golfers of all levels aiming to improve.
- Round diary and score tracking
- Practice session documentation
- Photo and video gallery
- Performance graphs
- iCloud syncing
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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 in-app purchases: Golf Logbook at none against Golf Journal's 5. Golf Logbook also leads on iOS requirement (13.4 vs 26.0). Golf Journal's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (12 vs 1). On price, rating, 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. Golf Logbook asks for nothing beyond the download.
Golf Logbook holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Golf Journal has 12 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Golf Logbook ships an update every 3 months, Golf Journal weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Golf Logbook | Golf Journal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.8 (12 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 12 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.4 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Christian Rehn | Gruffydd Johnston |
Customer experience
Golf Logbook
Golf Journal
In-app purchases
Golf Logbook
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









