Comparison

Bear Trap Dunes vs Fairways Golf Journal

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

Head to head
About

Bear Trap Dunes

Enhance your golf game with an interactive scorecard, GPS, and shot measurement. Track your performance with automatic stats and access course information. Participate in live tournaments and book tee times.

Highlights
  • Interactive Scorecard
  • GPS and Shot Measurement
  • Automatic Stats Tracker
  • Live Tournaments & Leaderboards
  • Tee Time Booking
  • Hole Descriptions & Tips
Features
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Improve your golf experience with the Bear Trap Dunes app! This app includes: - Interactive Scorecard - Golf Games: Skins, Stableford, Par, Stroke Scoring - GPS - Measure your shot! - Golfer Profile with Automatic Stats Tracker - Hole Descriptions & Playing Tips - Live Tournaments & Leaderboards - Book Tee Times - Message Center - Offer Locker - Food & Beverage Menu - Facebook Sharing - And much more…

About

Fairways Golf Journal

Log and rank golf courses you've played, focusing on the experience rather than just scores. Discover top-ranked courses globally and see what friends are playing. Your profile can be public or private.

Highlights
  • Log and rank golf courses
  • Comparison-based course ranking
  • Discover top-ranked global courses
  • Follow friends' golf activity
  • Public or private profile options
  • Course-centric logging
Features
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Fairways is the journal for golfers who care about where they play, not just how they score. Log every course in your history: the bucket-list rounds, the home muni, the resort weekend, the course you grew up on. Rank them with comparison-based head-to-heads (the way you actually think about courses, not the way Yelp wants you to). Browse what your friends have played. Discover where the world's best courses are, voted by the people who've actually played them. WHAT MAKES FAIRWAYS DIFFERENT • Comparison-based ranking. Picking between two courses is something every golfer can do confidently. Rating a course out of 10 isn't. Your numeric rating is derived from your rank, not made up on the spot. • One entry per course. Played Augusta twice? Update your existing entry. Fairways tracks the course, not the round. Your record gets richer over time, not noisier. • The Fairways 100. The annual community-ranked list of the world's finest courses, voted by every Fairways member who's played them. • Built for taste, not scorekeeping. Fairways isn't a handicap tracker, a yardage app, or a swing analyzer. Those exist already. This is the place where the question is where you've played, not how you played. • Premium, by design. Country-club typography, real course photography, editorial framing. Built to feel like a curated brochure, not a spreadsheet. PRIVATE OR PUBLIC Your profile can be public (the default, anyone can follow you and see your rankings) or private (invitation-only, hidden from non-friends). You stay in control. FOLLOW WHO YOU WANT The Following feed shows what your golf friends are playing. The Clubhouse feed shows what your fellow members at your home course have been ranking. Two ways to keep track of the people whose taste you care about. YOUR DATA, YOUR CALL Delete your account at any time from the in-app settings. Mark your profile private. Hide your home course. We don't sell data, don't run ads, and never will. Available worldwide in English. iOS only at launch.

Screenshots

Bear Trap Dunes3 screens
Fairways Golf Journal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Fairways Golf Journal at 5.0 against Bear Trap Dunes's 2.0. Bear Trap Dunes's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On price, ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Fairways Golf Journal holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Bear Trap Dunes versus Fairways Golf Journal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBear Trap DunesFairways Golf Journal
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size62 MB28 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAntares Golf, LLCAUSTIN J MOLDOVAN

Customer experience

Bear Trap Dunes

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Fairways Golf Journal

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

In-app purchases

None

Bear Trap Dunes

No in-app purchases

None

Fairways Golf Journal

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bear Trap Dunes free?
Bear Trap Dunes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Fairways Golf Journal free?
Fairways Golf Journal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Bear Trap Dunes or Fairways Golf Journal?
Fairways Golf Journal is rated higher. Bear Trap Dunes averages 2.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Fairways Golf Journal averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Bear Trap Dunes or Fairways Golf Journal have ads?
Neither Bear Trap Dunes nor Fairways Golf Journal shows ads.

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