Golf Canada Mobile vs AlbertaRELM
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Golf Canada Mobile
Enhance your golf game with GPS course maps, score and stat tracking, and official Handicap Indexes. Track indoor simulator rounds and practice sessions to monitor progress year-round. Join a large community for exclusive benefits and game improvement tools.
- GPS-enabled course maps
- Score and stat tracking
- Official Handicap Indexes
- Indoor golf simulator tracking
- Hole-by-hole distance measurements
- Real-time stats monitoring
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The Golf Canada App is a FREE, all-in-one digital tool that helps golfers enhance their on-course experience with GPS-enabled course maps, score and stat tracking and access to official Handicap Indexes. Featuring hole-by-hole distance measurements for 1,500+ Canadian courses and nearly 200 indoor simulator facilities, stats and social connectivity, it's designed to support all golfers. BECOME A GOLF CANADA MEMBER Join Canada's largest golf community of more than 380,000 golfers and unlock benefits designed to elevate your game. A Golf Canada membership gives you official Handicap tracking, equipment protection, exclusive savings and member-only perks, everything you need to play more, play better and enjoy the game to its fullest.
AlbertaRELM
Manage and carry all your official hunting and fishing licences from the Government of Alberta directly on your mobile device. Easily present your licence details for verification in the field. Future updates will include harvest and effort reporting.
- Manage hunting and fishing licenses
- Carry licenses on mobile device
- Present licenses for verification
- Integrates harvest and effort reporting (upcoming)
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AlbertaRELM is the official hunting and fishing licence management App for the Government of Alberta. Store all your AlbertaRELM hunting and fishing licences here for convenient licence management. Features: ● Manage and carry all your hunting and fishing licences on your mobile device ● Present your licence details to law enforcement for verification in the field ● Plus, more new features are on the way! Such as integration of harvest and effort reporting directly in the App. Important information: ● The only acceptable form of electronic licence is through the AlbertaRELM App and hunters must be able to produce the electronic app or paper licence when requested by an Officer during field compliance checks. ● For licences that require tags please remember that the associated tag forms part of the licence and must be physically produced when requested. ● Alberta’s Hunting and Sportfishing Regulations prohibit the carrying of someone else’s licence.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Golf Canada Mobile at 4.7 against AlbertaRELM's 4.0. Golf Canada Mobile also leads on ratings volume (615 vs 4). AlbertaRELM's advantage is review sentiment (60% vs 30%) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, update cadence, ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Golf Canada Mobile holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Golf Canada Mobile has 615 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 30% of Golf Canada Mobile's written reviews are positive against 60% of AlbertaRELM's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Golf Canada Mobile ships an update every 4 weeks, AlbertaRELM every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.
| Parameter | Golf Canada Mobile | AlbertaRELM |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (615 ratings) — better | 4.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 29.5% of reviews | 59.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 615 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 346 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Royal Canadian Golf Association | RA Outdoors, LLC, d/b/a Aspira |
Customer experience
Golf Canada Mobile
AlbertaRELM
User reviews
Golf Canada Mobile
From 615 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Great app
- 👍 Easy to use
- 💡 Handicap tracking
- 👍 Convenient for juniors
- 👍 Includes Apple Watch functionality
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes and glitches
- 🐛 Unreliable GPS and yardage
- 🔋 Drains battery on Apple Watch
- 🐛 Inconsistent user experience
- 🐛 Login and account issues
AlbertaRELM
From 4 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 👍 Convenient digital copy
- 👍 Good for licenses and regs
- 👍 Works great
- 👍 Handy app
Room to improve
- 🐛 Cannot complete purchases
- 🐛 Cannot sign in
- 🐛 Network connection errors
- 🐛 App not starting after update
- 🐛 Cannot update app
Bugs and requests
Golf Canada Mobile
Reported bugs
5 issues- Hole switching issues on Apple Watch
- Incorrect course and tee information
- Scores not syncing properly
- Inability to post partial rounds
- Frequent app crashes and freezes
Requested features
5 requests- More advanced analytics and statistics
- Ability to track playing partners' scores
- Improved match play features
- Customizable hole-by-hole stats tracking
- Easier score entry and editing
AlbertaRELM
Reported bugs
19 issues- Won't let me complete any purchases
- Haven't been able to purchase a single thing since update
- Keeps telling me it's encountered an error
- Keeps saying there is no network connection and I can't sign in
- Says there is an update but when you install the app, it will not start
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- Can't update app
- App says to update and takes you to the App Store but no way to update
- Says update to latest version and forwards you to App Store yet it's already updated
- Stuck in sign in page saying no network but there is full network
- App will not go to the purchase page, keeps cycling through to the login page
- Weight category is unnecessarily confusing and every combination was rejected
- App still does Captcha verification after login
- Design flaw doesn't trigger phone credit card notification
- Harvest reports don't work
- Cannot finish harvest report when replying no to 'did you hunt' questions
- Harvest report requires entering WMU and days hunted even when not hunted
- Scrolling through licenses feels outdated
- Dashboard views are scrambled and not all information is readable
- Cannot even get past the first step of selecting an identifier type
Requested features
7 requests- Allow in-app license purchases
- Filter harvest reports by draw points
- Include harvest reports, hunter success/effort tables
- Scan tags via barcode
- Show acronym definitions before use
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- More history on draw applications
- Information on past draw applications for the province
In-app purchases
Golf Canada Mobile
No in-app purchases
AlbertaRELM
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Golf Canada Mobile free?
Is AlbertaRELM free?
Which has better reviews, Golf Canada Mobile or AlbertaRELM?
Do Golf Canada Mobile or AlbertaRELM have ads?
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