Comparison

Range 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

Range

Enhance your golf practice with real-time GPS yardages and customizable zones. This app helps you train more effectively by providing precise distances to targets and allowing you to set up personalized practice areas for different aspects of your game.

Highlights
  • Real-time GPS yardages
  • Customizable practice zones
  • Effortless facility integration
  • Dynamic target management
  • Intuitive user interface
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Transform Your Practice Sessions with Range Caddie Range Caddie is a next-generation golf practice app built to redefine your driving range experience. Powered by advanced GPS technology, it delivers real-time, pinpoint-accurate yardages to every flag on the range, helping you practice with focus and precision. Key Features: Precise GPS Yardages: Instantly view accurate distances to all targets, enhancing your shot accuracy and practice efficiency. Customizable Practice Zones: Set up to three distinct practice areas — long game, short game, and putting — tailored to your individual training goals. Effortless Facility Integration: Quickly access Range Caddie by scanning the QR code at participating locations, with no additional hardware required. Dynamic Target Management: Add, edit, and color-code flags to personalize your practice environment for maximum effectiveness. Intuitive User Interface: Navigate the app with ease, designed thoughtfully for golfers of every skill level. Whether you are new to the game or a seasoned player seeking to sharpen your performance, Range Caddie equips you with the tools to practice smarter, train more effectively, and elevate your game to the next level.

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

Range4 screens
Fairways Golf Journal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Range at 12.0 against Fairways Golf Journal's 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

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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Range against 5.0 for Fairways Golf Journal. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Range versus Fairways Golf Journal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRangeFairways Golf Journal
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB28 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZealogics IncAUSTIN J MOLDOVAN

Customer experience

Range

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

Fairways Golf Journal

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

In-app purchases

None

Range

No in-app purchases

None

Fairways Golf Journal

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Range free?
Range 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, Range or Fairways Golf Journal?
Range and Fairways Golf Journal are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Range or Fairways Golf Journal have ads?
Neither Range nor Fairways Golf Journal shows ads.

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