Comparison

Bantee vs Course Vaults

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

Head to head
About

Bantee

Connect with other golfers, share your experiences, and track your game. Discover new courses, join conversations, and build your golf profile. Offers basic tracking for free, with advanced features available via subscription.

Highlights
  • Connect with golfers
  • Live Feed conversations
  • Basic round tracking
  • Course discovery and reviews
  • Share golf photos
  • Advanced analytics
  • Premium community access
Features
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Join the Bantee Golf Community Bantee is the community-first platform for golfers to connect, share adventures, and track their golf journey. FREE FEATURES: • Connect with fellow golfers • Join the golf conversation on Live Feed • Basic round tracking • Course discovery and reviews • Share golf memories and photos PREMIUM SUBSCRIPTION ($4.99/month after 30-day free trial): • Track unlimited rounds & scores • Advanced analytics & insights • Premium community access • Exclusive golf content & tips • Detailed performance tracking Build your complete golf profile, showcase courses you've played, and create lasting memories from the links. Whether you're sharing scores on the Live Feed or discovering new courses, Bantee helps you stay connected to the game you love. Auto-renewable subscription terms: • Monthly subscription at $4.99/month • 30-day free trial included • Cancel anytime in App Store account settings • Subscription automatically renews unless cancelled Privacy Policy: https://banteegolf.com/policies/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Course Vaults

Log every golf course you've played, rate your favorites, and build a personal golf passport. Discover new courses based on community ratings and rankings, and create custom lists for your golfing adventures.

Highlights
  • Log played golf courses
  • Rate and rank courses
  • Build a golf passport
  • Discover new courses
  • Create custom golf lists
  • View community ratings and reviews
Features
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Course Vaults is a golf course tracking and discovery app for golfers who want to log every course they’ve played, rate and rank their favorites, build a golf passport, and discover where to play next. As seen in MyGolfSpy, Course Vaults brings golf course tracking, community ratings, rankings, reviews, lists and discovery into one place. Build your passport. Rank the courses you’ve played. See what thousands of other golfers think. Find the next course worth the trip. YOUR GOLF PASSPORT Track every golf course you’ve played and build a personal record of your golf history. See your played courses on a map, revisit where you’ve been, and watch your golf passport grow as you play new places around the world. RATE & RANK GOLF COURSES Rate every course you’ve played from 0–10 and create your own personal golf course ranking. Compare your ratings with the Course Vaults community, see how other golfers rate each course, and find out where your favorites stack up. DISCOVER WHERE TO PLAY Find golf courses around the world using community ratings, rankings and filters. Explore courses by location, architect, public or private access, rating and more. Discover nearby golf courses, browse top-ranked courses, and find places worth adding to your next golf trip. BUILD YOUR GOLF BUCKET LIST Create lists for anything: bucket-list courses, upcoming golf trips, favorite public courses, regional rankings or your own Top 100. Sort and filter your lists by location, access, Course Vaults rating or your personal rating. SEE WHAT OTHER GOLFERS THINK Follow friends and other golfers whose opinions you trust. See what they’re playing, discover courses through their ratings and reviews, and get a better sense of what a golf course is actually like from people who have played it. COURSE VAULTS PRO Upgrade to Course Vaults Pro for unlimited course logging and lists, expanded rankings, advanced map filters, course insights, partner perks and more. BUILT FOR GOLF COURSES, NOT GOLF SHOTS Course Vaults isn’t a GPS, rangefinder, scorecard or shot-tracking app. It’s a golf course tracker for the places themselves — a home for your golf passport, course ratings, personal rankings, bucket lists and golf course discoveries. Track where you’ve played. Remember what you loved. Discover what’s next. Terms of Use: https://www.coursevaults.com/terms

Screenshots

Bantee4 screens
Course Vaults4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Course Vaults at none against Bantee's shown. Course Vaults also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 10 days) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). Bantee's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 91%). 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. Bantee sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month and Course Vaults sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Bantee against 4.8 for Course Vaults. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 72 and 162 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Bantee's written reviews are positive against 91% of Course Vaults's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bantee ships an update every 10 days, Course Vaults every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Bantee versus Course Vaults: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBanteeCourse Vaults
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (72 ratings)4.8 (162 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better90.6% of reviews
Number of ratings72162 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size133 MB120 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperBantee, LLCAndreoni-Group LLC

Customer experience

Bantee

All ratings72 ratings
Positive93.1%
Neutral2.8%
Negative4.2%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Course Vaults

All ratings156 ratings
Positive96.2%
Neutral1.9%
Negative1.9%
Written reviews53 reviews
Positive90.6%
Neutral3.8%
Negative5.7%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Bantee

Subscriptions1
  • Bantee Premium$4.991 Month
10 purchases

Course Vaults

Subscriptions10
  • Course Vaults Pro$4.991 Month
  • Course Vaults Pro$6.991 Month
  • Monthly$9.991 Month
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  • Seasonal$23.993 Months
  • Course Vaults Pro$29.991 Year
  • Founding Member$44.951 Year
  • Course Vaults Pro$49.991 Year
  • Pro+ Annual$54.991 Year
  • Course Vaults Pro$59.991 Year
  • Annual$74.991 Year

Questions

Is Bantee free?
Bantee is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Course Vaults free?
Course Vaults is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Bantee or Course Vaults?
Course Vaults is rated higher. Bantee averages 4.8 out of 5 from 72 ratings, while Course Vaults averages 4.8 from 162 ratings.
Do Bantee or Course Vaults have ads?
Bantee shows ads; Course Vaults does not.
Which is updated more often, Bantee or Course Vaults?
Bantee ships an update every 10 days, and Course Vaults every 3 days. Most recently, Bantee was updated on November 3, 2026 and Course Vaults on November 5, 2026.

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