GolfCore vs Course Vaults
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GolfCore
This app streamlines golf club operations for members, guests, caddies, and staff. It offers features like tee time booking, live GPS course maps, interactive scorecards, tournament management, and club announcements.
- Tee time booking
- Live GPS course maps
- Interactive scorecard
- Tournament leaderboards
- Club announcements
- Caddie availability
- Tee sheet management
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The golf GPS rangefinder that models the wind. GolfCore treats the course the way an F1 team treats a car. Lidar measures the ground and every tree, and the model moves the air across that surface the way physics says it moves: tree lines act like wings and spoilers, ridges bend the flow, and eddies roll off the canopy. You watch the wind move across the 3D course, and you get its speed where the ball leaves your feet and where it flies at the apex. Then read the green. The wind decides where the ball flies; the green decides how it bounces and rolls once it lands. Contour maps with fall lines on every mapped green show the slope it lands on and the break before you mark the ball, with true yardages to every bunker, carry and edge. 21,000+ courses are mapped green by green, out of 35,000 in the library. Find your course at golfcore.org, then play it here. ON THE COURSE • Rangefinder yardage to the front, center and back of the green at every course, on a satellite map • Distances to hazards, bunkers, carries and layups • Green contour maps from lidar: elevation bands and fall-line arrows that show how the ball will bounce and roll • Wind modeled over every hole: at your feet, at the apex, and swirling across the 3D course • Temperature and today's pin on the hole you are playing • Ask the caddie: one read of your lie, the wind and the number, in plain words • A scorecard in the map that records putts, fairways, greens in regulation, the club off the tee and your first putt • Drop a pin where each shot lands to keep track of the club and the distance SHOT TRACER • Record a swing, or pick a swing video from Photos and add the ball flight to it • The flight is drawn on your video, pinned to the sky even when the camera moves • Save the traced video to your phone, post it to the Yard, or share it anywhere • Premium: trace several shots in one video, choose the line colour and weight, add a comet tail, and share without the watermark YOUR GAME • Sign your card and the round posts to the Yard with the achievements you earned • Your history shows a handicap estimate, your average and best differentials, and every round you kept • Save a course to your phone and play the whole round with no signal ON YOUR WRIST — GolfCore runs on Apple Watch. Premium adds automatic shot tracking from the watch. CADDYCORE PREMIUM Every account has the satellite map, yardage and scoring at every course. CaddyCore Premium draws the course hole by hole with its trees, maps the greens in contours wherever a green has been mapped, models the wind over every hole, puts a caddie's read on every shot, and saves courses to your phone for play without signal. New accounts start with a complimentary preview. New subscribers pay $4.99 for the first month or $49.99 for the first year, then $9.99 a month or $99.99 a year. Cancel any time. THE CLUB • Book tee times in seconds and see who is out • Tournaments with live leaderboards, team formats, and closest-to-pin and long-drive contests scored on the course • Club announcements and messaging in one place • For staff: the tee sheet, bookings, events, and the day's caddie assignments THE CADDIE YARD • Show your availability across every club you loop at • Receive and accept loop requests by text • Check in on play days and keep a record of your rounds Club features unlock when your club runs on GolfCore. Members of a GolfCore club carry Premium with them. Designed for clubs that value discretion and detail, GolfCore replaces the patchwork of texts, spreadsheets and phone calls with one quiet, elegant system. GolfCore is club management software by GolfCore, LLC. It is not affiliated with the golf simulator product of the same name. Payment is charged to your App Store account; subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Terms: https://www.golfcore.app/terms · Privacy: https://www.golfcore.app/privacy Learn more at https://www.golfcore.org
Course Vaults
Track, rate, and rank every golf course you've played. Discover top courses through honest player reviews and build personalized lists of your favorites. This app serves as a digital golf passport for serious players.
- Log every golf course played
- Rate and rank courses personally
- Discover courses via player ratings
- Build bucket lists and collections
- Follow other golfers' rankings
- No ads or paid placements
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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
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: GolfCore at every 2 days against Course Vaults's weekly. GolfCore also leads on device support (5 vs 3). Course Vaults's advantage is ratings volume (156 vs 13). On price, rating, 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. GolfCore sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Course Vaults sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
GolfCore holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Course Vaults has 156 ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two.
GolfCore ships an update every 2 days, Course Vaults weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GolfCore | Course Vaults |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (13 ratings) — better | 4.8 (156 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 90.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 13 | 156 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 124 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Golfcore LLC | Andreoni-Group LLC |
Customer experience
GolfCore
Course Vaults
In-app purchases
GolfCore
- Premium Monthly1 Month trial$9.991 Month
- Premium Annual1 Year trial$99.991 Year
- Premium Day Pass$2.99
Course Vaults
- Course Vaults Pro$4.991 Month
- Course Vaults Pro$6.991 Month
- Monthly$9.991 Month
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- Seasonal$23.993 Months
- 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









