Golf Foresight vs byrdy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Golf Foresight
This app helps golfers predict how weather conditions and altitude will affect their ball flight. It allows users to track yardages per club and get accurate distances for each shot. It's a beta app with all data stored locally.
- Track yardages per club
- Predict ball flight with wind conditions
- Account for altitude effects
- Get shot yardages
- Beta app with local data storage
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**Free Golf GPS App** Ever picked the wrong club when playing golf? Never know how much the weather conditions or altitude will affect your ball flight? Fear not, here is a simple app that will allow you to not only keep track of your yardages per club. But predict how the current wind conditions will affect your ball flight. While also giving you an easy way to get yardages for each shot. Please note this is a beta app, all data is stored locally.
byrdy
This app provides a free golf scorecard and rangefinder. Users can select existing courses or map new ones, play anonymously, or create an account to save scorecards to the cloud and sync across devices. It offers performance statistics and handicap estimation.
- Free golf scorecard
- Rangefinding capabilities
- Community course mapping
- Cloud scorecard saving
- Performance statistics
- Handicap estimation
- Light and dark mode
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A golf scorecard and rangefinder in your pocket, all 100% free - Pick from a selection of courses or, if it hasn't been added yet, map it yourself to share it with the community - No account required, use guest mode to play every available course and save your scorecard image to your phone without any data leaving your device - Create an account to save scorecards to the cloud so you never lose one ever again and sync them across devices, no worries if you get a new phone - Get detailed information on your performance and statistics based on your saved scorecards - Get your byrdy handicap estimation once you save five rounds or input it manually to track your progress - Light and dark mode, pick whichever theme you like best or match it to your device
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Golf Foresight at every 2 weeks against byrdy's monthly. Golf Foresight also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On price, rating, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Golf Foresight against 5.0 for byrdy. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively.
Golf Foresight ships an update every 2 weeks, byrdy monthly. Both last shipped on November 4, 2026.
| Parameter | Golf Foresight | byrdy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Richard Allen | Wesley Foree Beard |
Customer experience
Golf Foresight
byrdy
In-app purchases
Golf Foresight
No in-app purchases
byrdy
No in-app purchases
