Comparison

Course de l‘Escalade vs BirdiePot Golf

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

Head to head
About

Course de l‘Escalade

Features
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Application officielle pour la 47e Course de l'Escalade L’application mobile Course de l'Escalade propose une expérience unique pour les coureurs et les spectateurs. Elle vous permet de suivre en direct tous les participants (sans utiliser leur téléphone), de consulter la carte interactive du parcours, de prendre des selfies et d'obtenir toutes les informations dont vous avez besoin sur l'événement. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

BirdiePot Golf

Features
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Less screen. More golf. BirdiePot brings the essentials of golf together in one simple app: your scores, distances to the green, and your rounds with friends. Enter strokes quickly, let BirdiePot do the math, and keep your mind on your game. THREE WAYS TO PLAY • Personal round: Stroke Play or Stableford, with gross and net scores, points and strokes received calculated for you. • Shared pot with friends: everyone contributes by your rules, and BirdiePot tracks the amounts for the whole group. • Match Play: one-on-one or teams, with or without handicap, hole by hole. DISTANCES TO THE GREEN • Front, center and back of the green, live from GPS. • On iPhone and Apple Watch. • In meters or yards (Settings). • A satellite view of the hole, whenever you ask for it. APPLE WATCH • Distances and score entry on your wrist. • The watch picks up exactly where your iPhone left off. YOUR SCORECARDS • Every round is saved: par, HCP, hole-by-hole score, front nine and back nine. • In landscape, the card fills the screen on an ivory background, just like a real golf scorecard. • All your rounds in “My rounds”, searchable by course or month. • Made a typo? Correct the scorecard after the round. • Export to PDF or Excel. YOUR STATS • Birdies, pars, bogeys…: the breakdown of all your scores. • Your average strokes on par 3s, 4s and 5s. WITH FRIENDS • Calendar: suggest a date, everyone replies, and the round is confirmed once all players are available. • Group chat in every pot. • The same amounts, rounds and history for every member (iCloud). COURSES READY TO PLAY • Find nearby courses or search by name. • Pars, HCP, Slope and course rating shared by the BirdiePot community, for men’s and ladies’ tees. WORKS OFFLINE Your scores are saved on the device and sync as soon as you're back online. PRICING Three free rounds to try the app. After that, a one-time purchase unlocks the full version: no subscription, and your rounds are kept. BirdiePot calculates the pot amounts but never collects or transfers money between players. Green outlines: © OpenStreetMap contributors, on mapped courses.

Screenshots

Course de l‘Escalade4 screens
BirdiePot Golf4 screens

Verdict

The call

Course de l‘Escalade and BirdiePot Golf are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Course de l‘Escalade sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per year and BirdiePot Golf sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Course de l‘Escalade ships an update fortnightly, BirdiePot Golf every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Course de l‘Escalade versus BirdiePot Golf: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCourse de l‘EscaladeBirdiePot Golf
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size145 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCourse de 'EscaladeDavid Alvarez

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Course de l‘Escalade

Subscriptions1
  • PLUS Unlimited$5.991 Year
One-time1
  • PLUS Single Event$3.99
1 purchases

BirdiePot Golf

One-time1
  • Version complète$4.99

Questions

Is Course de l‘Escalade free?
Course de l‘Escalade is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BirdiePot Golf free?
BirdiePot Golf is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Course de l‘Escalade or BirdiePot Golf have ads?
Neither Course de l‘Escalade nor BirdiePot Golf shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Course de l‘Escalade or BirdiePot Golf?
Course de l‘Escalade ships an update fortnightly, and BirdiePot Golf every 2 weeks. Most recently, Course de l‘Escalade was updated on November 8, 2026 and BirdiePot Golf on October 31, 2026.

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