Comparison

Garmin Catalyst™ vs ELZS

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

Head to head
About

Garmin Catalyst™

Access and analyze your motorsports performance data, including lap times, session summaries, and driver profiles, on your smartphone or tablet. Track annual driving metrics and record weather conditions for each session. Customize driver and vehicle icons for a personalized experience.

Highlights
  • Access performance data
  • View session summaries
  • Track lap times
  • Record weather conditions
  • Customizable driver profiles
  • Track annual driving metrics
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For motorsports drivers of all levels, the Garmin Catalyst™ app provides a simple, intuitive way to access your Garmin Catalyst™ performance data — including lap times, session summaries and customizable driver profiles— on your compatible smartphone or tablet. The app also tracks your annual driving activity metrics and provides a record of weather conditions for each session. Garmin Catalyst™ App • Easily access your Garmin Catalyst™ performance data with use of this app on your compatible smartphone or tablet • Shows your session summaries, lap times, session weather conditions, lap-by-lap data and annual driving activity metrics • Customizable icons within the app let you tailor the look of your driver profile and vehicle icons • View vehicles and track notes from your Garmin Catalyst™ device

About

ELZS

This app helps golfers improve their short game by calculating approximate landing zones for chips and pitches. It aims to increase accuracy, lower scores, and make the game more enjoyable for players of all skill levels.

Highlights
  • Landing Zone Calculator
  • Golf Course Directory
  • Detailed Instruction Manual
  • Short game improvement
  • Score reduction
  • Increased accuracy
Features
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The Essential Landing Zone System (ELZS) is a method for calculating the approximate landing zone when chipping and pitching the golf ball onto the green to the hole. ELZS is proven to drastically improve your short game and lower your average score on any course. The ELZS app includes: - Landing Zone Calculator - Golf Course Directory - Detailed Instruction Manual Golfers around the US are using ELZS to: - Lower their average score by improving their short game - Increase accuracy knowing where to land the ball on the green - Learn about chipping and pitching, landing zones, visualization and more - Reduce stress and make the game of golf more fun The ELZS process is easy, quick and informative; players at all levels can learn how to incorporate ELZS to enhance chipping and pitching performance into their game. After reading the instructions and having some valuable practice time around the short game practice facility, golfers will be equipped with a new skill set when chipping and pitching. Here's a quote from the creator of ELZS, "As a former Golf Teaching Professional, I found that students enjoyed hitting balls with their driver and other clubs to see how far they could hit. They just loved to be on the range hitting golf balls, bucket after bucket. I explained to my students that the driver is used for only about 16% of all golf shots, but pitching, chipping, and putting made up around 47% of all shots. When the students shifted their allotment of practice time to the short game, they were thrilled at how much their accuracy and scores improved. Anyone who wants to be more accurate at chipping and pitching the golf ball to lower scores, must spend more time around the practice greens than on the range. It is an aspect of the game of golf that is often overlooked, but time well spent chipping and pitching will take any golfer to the next level." We hope you enjoy the journey of a lifetime of improvement and lower scores with ELZS.

Screenshots

Garmin Catalyst™4 screens
ELZS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Garmin Catalyst™ at 120 against ELZS's 1. ELZS's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 80%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

ELZS holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Garmin Catalyst™ has 120 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Garmin Catalyst™'s written reviews are positive against 100% of ELZS's.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Garmin Catalyst™ versus ELZS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGarmin Catalyst™ELZS
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (120 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings120 — better1
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.511.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size223 MB57 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperGarminEssential Landing Zone Systems LLC

Customer experience

Garmin Catalyst™

All ratings120 ratings
Positive94.2%
Neutral2.5%
Negative3.3%
Written reviews61 reviews
Positive80.3%
Neutral8.2%
Negative11.5%

ELZS

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Garmin Catalyst™

Reported bugs

7 issues
  • Everytime you try logging in the app just glitches anyways can’t even get logged in.
  • Comparing to others frequently fails
  • Compare to friend feature way to frequently fails with the message about the tracks not matching well enough despite being the same track on the same days even.
  • New version is off
  • It won’t let me compare the laps with other friends on the same day. Says lap not similar. Literally same day same track same session.
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  • Friend integration is currently pretty lacking. When I try to compare laps it complains that the tracks aren't similar enough.
  • Worse though is that there's no apparent way of sharing your sessions with friends.

Requested features

17 requests
  • Option to select 1-5 laps for optimum view
  • Watch reference videos side by side on the Catalyst
  • Add video review on phone or iPad
  • Allow moving videos to iCloud for review
  • Ability to download in-car camera footage directly from device to app
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  • Compare data from other sessions
  • Use for Sim racing games
  • More functionality to come
  • Make it even more simple
  • Overall leaderboard
  • Leaderboards of other tracks
  • Compare session data between friends
  • Fix track matching issues for friend comparison
  • Allow browsing friend's sessions
  • Add option to compare against other sessions
  • Add dark mode option
  • Add advanced analytics dashboard

ELZS

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Garmin Catalyst™

No in-app purchases

None

ELZS

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Garmin Catalyst™ free?
Garmin Catalyst™ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ELZS free?
ELZS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Garmin Catalyst™ or ELZS?
ELZS is rated higher. Garmin Catalyst™ averages 4.8 out of 5 from 120 ratings, while ELZS averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Garmin Catalyst™ or ELZS have ads?
Neither Garmin Catalyst™ nor ELZS shows ads.

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