Comparison

BLG vs 18 Greens

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

Head to head
About

BLG

This app connects golfers of all skill levels to nationwide social golf leagues. Participate in weekly 9-hole games that are fun and competitive, whether you join with friends or solo. Discover a unique and enjoyable way to play golf.

Highlights
  • Nationwide network of social golf leagues
  • Weekly 9-hole games
  • Suitable for all skill levels
  • Join with friends or solo
  • Fun and competitive gameplay
Features
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Beer League Golf is a nationwide network of 9-hole, social golf leagues for golfers of all levels. Our weekly games are fun, competitive, and fair for everyone. Join with friends or come out solo and meet golfers that are actually fun to play with. Join today and see what makes Beer League Golf different!

About

18 Greens

This app helps golfers analyze their launch monitor data to improve club distances and swing consistency. It provides tools to create club yardage dashboards, track averages, and set practice goals for more precise shots.

Highlights
  • Club yardage/range dashboard
  • Carry and total yardage tracking
  • Swing deviation analysis
  • Swing speed practice
  • Data import/export/management
  • Target and goal setting
Features
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At our core, every golfer wants to hit more greens in regulation. At 18 greens, we want you to hit all 18. To truly have a chance of hitting greens, you need to know with a degree of certainty how far your club will carry and/or roll out. With the proliferation of launch monitors and their function moving more into everyday practice, lessons and simulated rounds, a unique opportunity to leverage the data you generate into practical use. 18 Greens sole purpose is to take your launch monitor sessions and turn them into usable and actionable data. First and foremost is to create a club yardage/range dashboard for both carry and total yards. Use this to view to create your club distance profiles initially. 18 Greens also calculates the averages of all your statistic to view. Take it a level deeper and use your averages and try to get your swing deviations down and practice your way to more precise yardages. Work on swing speed for all clubs so your clubs gap properly. Have a portable monitor? Warm up for your round or tournament to your numbers, get the feel and groove them for that day's round. 18 Greens is meant to be dynamic. Easily enter, import, export, include, exclude and delete data. Keep your launch data fresh as you work towards your goal of dialing in your swing and generating more consistent clubs distances. Easily enter targets or goals for your clubs and view them with your averaged data. We know there are tons of different products out there, but I think this just gets to straight to the point and is pretty easy to use. Hopefully 18 Green will either get you into analyzing your swing data or just make it quicker. Try it out and see if you like it. It will take a little effort on your part to get your session's data into the application but after doing it a couple times it becomes really fast. You may have been doing something similar on the side already. Check out the tutorials: https://www.thumbsupapplications.com/18greens Currently targets and goals are synced between devices but launch data is not. With the ease of importing, including, excluding, deleting, exporting and the need to keep data fresh this should not be an issue if files are stored in your iCloud drive and not on the device. Check out the "How I use 18 Greens" tutorial. Hope this makes your golf game just a little better and you hit a few more greens until one day, you may hit all 18. 18 Greens is not free. A monthly subscription gives access to all the functionality of the 18 Greens application. There is a 30 day free trial followed by $1.99/month. There is a small discount if you sign up for a year. There are no in app purchases. Everything is covered by the subscription. Privacy Policy: https://www.thumbsupapplications.com/18greens/privacypolicy.html EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

BLG4 screens
18 Greens4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BLG at none against 18 Greens's 2. BLG also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. 18 Greens sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. BLG asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for BLG against 5.0 for 18 Greens. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BLG ships an update fortnightly, 18 Greens monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
BLG versus 18 Greens: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBLG18 Greens
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB2 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperBeer League GolfThumbs Up Applications LLC

Customer experience

BLG

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

18 Greens

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

BLG

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

18 Greens

Subscriptions2
  • 18 Greens1 Month trial$1.991 Month
  • 18 Greens$19.991 Year

Questions

Is BLG free?
BLG is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is 18 Greens free?
18 Greens is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, BLG or 18 Greens?
BLG and 18 Greens are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do BLG or 18 Greens have ads?
Neither BLG nor 18 Greens shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BLG or 18 Greens?
BLG ships an update fortnightly, and 18 Greens monthly. Most recently, BLG was updated on November 3, 2026 and 18 Greens on November 4, 2026.

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