Ace Trace vs Golf Studio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ace Trace
Easily add professional-looking visual trails to videos of golf swings, disc throws, and other flying objects. Customize trace lines with various effects and add distance labels to showcase your performance.
- Powerful shot tracing
- No tripod needed
- Custom visual effects
- Distance labels
- Flexible tracing modes
- Full customization
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Turn Every Shot into a Highlight with Ace Trace! Ace Trace lets you easily trace golf, disc golf, baseball, or even bird flights with stunning visual effects—no tripod or complex editing required. Key Features: - Powerful Shot Tracing: Transform your videos with pro-level shot trails in under a minute, directly on your phone. No editing experience needed. - No Tripod Needed: Capture footage freely—even with camera movement. The trace line stays perfectly aligned with your shot. - Custom Visual Effects: Make your videos pop with vibrant trace lines. Choose from gradients, solid colors, or special effects like electricity and waves. - Distance Labels: Enter your shot’s distance to display a real-time counter along the trace—perfect for sharing impressive plays. - Flexible Tracing Modes: Use Golf Mode for smooth drives or Free Curve Mode for putts, disc throws, or any flying object. Easily adjust and refine your lines. - Full Customization: Change line color, width, opacity, and control how it interacts with objects or obstacles in your scene. How It Works: 1. Trace manually or let the app auto-detect the trajectory. 2. Choose your style and fine-tune your visuals. 3. Add distance and effects. 4. Export and share your masterpiece instantly. Download Ace Trace now—make every shot unforgettable. Subscribe to access to premium app features; subscription details are the following: - Length: weekly, yearly - Your payment will be charged to your iTunes Account as soon as you confirm your purchase - You can manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal from your Account Settings after the purchase - Your subscription will renew automatically, unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the end of the current period - The cost of renewal will be charged to your account in the 24 hours prior to the end of the current period - When canceling a subscription, your subscription will stay active until the end of the period. Auto-renewal will be disabled, but the current subscription will not be refunded - Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when purchasing a subscription Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Golf Studio
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Golf Studio is your golf swing journal: every swing you film, every round you play and every practice session, kept together on your iPhone so you can see yourself improve. Record a swing, watch the shot tracer draw the ball's flight, check your swing tempo, compare it with last month side by side, and turn your best shots into a highlight reel. Free, no account, and everything stays on your phone. RECORD Film your swing at the range or on the course, or import golf videos you already have. Golf Studio finds the swing in the clip and trims to it for you, and Auto Level straightens a tilted horizon in one tap. SHOT TRACER Film a swing and Golf Studio looks for the ball and draws its flight over the video as a trail of light. Adjust the start, the peak and the landing by hand, choose the tracer's colour and style, and keep it on the clip for good. CLUB TRACER Mark your swing position by position, from setup to finish, and Golf Studio draws the path of the club head as a laser line: one colour going back, another coming down. SPEED RAMPS Ease into slow motion around the strike and back out again. Slide each ramp along its clip and choose how long and how slow. SWING TEMPO See the rhythm of your swing: the backswing and downswing timed on the video as it plays, and the ratio between them. Time a swing yourself in three marks, or let the club tracer's marks do it, in four designs and your own colours. At the end of a reel, a tempo score out of 100, from Beginner to Tour Pro, with confetti and applause. SWING JOURNAL & GOLF DIARY Every swing lands in your journal on the day you filmed it, with no typing needed. Add an entry when you want to remember something: what you did (practice, a round of golf, a lesson), up to ten videos and photos, and your notes on what you worked on and what to try next time. File it by shot, from driver and tee shots to chipping and putting, and search your notes later. SWING COMPARE Put two swings side by side, then and now. They are lined up on the strike so they move together, with slow motion replay at 1/4 and 1/8 speed and frame-by-frame steps for each side. Save it as one video to share with your coach. HIGHLIGHT REELS Cut your best shots together with music, transitions and title cards. Add a hit sound on the strike or a bass drop, and the music dips so you hear the club. Put your scorecard on the clip hole by hole, stand a target flag where you were aiming, add slow motion and freeze frames, choose a look, and export in portrait for Instagram, TikTok and YouTube Shorts. Start from a template or build your own. SCORES & STATS A score tracker for every round: keep score hole by hole, for yourself and your family or playing partners, with your handicap on your profile. Track your season on a chart, see your average at every course you play, and compare this month with last. Practice rounds are kept apart, so they never skew your stats. PRACTICE GAMES Chipping, putting and driving games with a score to beat, from the gate drill and putting ladder to up and down and fairway finder. Every game is logged in your practice log, so you can watch your scores climb week by week. FIND A COURSE Search more than 30,000 named golf courses around the world on the map, see the ones near you, and start a round from the course page. YOUR LIBRARY All your golf videos in one video gallery, grouped by day, with albums, best shots and practice sessions. Everything Golf Studio saves to your camera roll goes in its own Golf Studio album. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account and no sign-in. Your videos, photos, scores and notes stay on your iPhone, and nothing is uploaded. Anonymous usage statistics are only shared if you say yes, and you can turn them off at any time in Settings. Golf Studio is free, with every feature included. SUPPORT Questions or ideas? Write to us: golfstarapp@protonmail.com Privacy policy: https://golfstar.app/privacy.html Terms of use: https://golfstar.app/terms.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Golf Studio at none against Ace Trace's 10. Golf Studio also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 weeks). Ace Trace's advantage is chart position (#115 vs unranked). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Ace Trace sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Golf Studio asks for nothing beyond the download.
Ace Trace ships an update every 2 weeks, Golf Studio every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ace Trace | Golf Studio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (2K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 50.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Subscription | — |
| Best chart rank | #115 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 155 MB | 77 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Fitness & Sports apps SRL | mark fail |
Bugs and requests
Ace Trace
Reported bugs
4 issues- Tracer line speed issues
- Cropping problems with horizontal videos
- Inability to save videos without subscription
- Inconsistent performance across devices
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to erase tracer line
- More color/style options for tracer
- Frame-by-frame controls
- Desktop version
- Improved manual editing tools
Golf Studio
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Ace Trace
- Weekly premium7 Days trial$4.997 Days
- Weekly premium trial7 Days trial$6.997 Days
- Weekly premium$6.997 Days
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- Unlimited Export$35.996 Months
- Ace Trace Gold1 Year trial$49.991 Year
- Silver$69.991 Year
- Yearly premium trial7 Days trial$69.991 Year
- Yearly premium$69.991 Year
- Gold$99.991 Year
- 5 videos$4.99
Golf Studio
No in-app purchases
Questions
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