Comparison

Fairway Journal vs Coursed Golf

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

Head to head
About

Fairway Journal

Track your golf rounds, visualize your playing history on an interactive map, and collect digital representations of courses played. Compare your performance with friends and global leaderboards, and create wishlists of dream courses.

Highlights
  • Digital ball collection for played courses
  • Interactive map of played courses
  • Bucket list and top-10 course features
  • Global and friends leaderboards
  • Effortless round entry and trend charts
  • Course import and creation
  • Tournament trophy tracking
Features
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Fairway Journal Your personal golf collection, all in one place. Golf is more than a score. It’s the courses you’ve played, the rounds you remember, and the collection you build over time. Collect. Track. Relive. • Collect Digital Golf Balls Every course you play becomes a golf ball in your personal digital collection. • Build Your Course Gallery Turn every played round into a growing gallery of places, memories, and milestones. • Interactive Map See where you’ve played and discover new courses around you. • Rounds & Performance Track scores, follow trends, and understand your game. • Friends & Leaderboards Compare your stats and share your journey with others. • Bucket List & Favorites Plan your next rounds and highlight your best experiences. • Photos & Memories Capture every moment with photos and notes. Designed for golfers who want to remember more than just a score. Fairway Journal helps you build your personal digital golf story. Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Coursed Golf

Track and rank every golf course you've played, discover world-class tracks, and build your ultimate golf bucket list. Plan your trips with course details and a price estimator, and collect unique tournament clock faces. Compete with friends on leaderboards and enjoy an ad-free experience.

Highlights
  • Track played courses
  • Rank favorite courses
  • Discover world-class tracks
  • Course details and price estimator
  • Collect tournament clock faces
  • Leaderboard and friend comparisons
  • Add custom courses
Features
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Coursed is the golf bucket list built for players who take the game seriously. Track every course you have ever played. Rank your favorites. Discover the world's greatest tracks — and check them off one at a time. WHY GOLFERS USE COURSED Notch courses as you play them. One tap marks a course played and your total climbs. Your played resume, always with you. Rank your top 10. Drag and drop to build your personal course ranking and see how your list stacks up. A curated bucket list, not a directory. Every course in Coursed is worth playing — no filler, no driving ranges, just golf worth traveling for. The details you actually care about. Architect, year opened, championships hosted, and access type on every course, at a glance. A live map of everywhere you have played. Watch your golf journey light up across the country and around the world. Tap to zoom in on your travels. Plan your pro shop haul. The built-in price estimator helps you budget the hat, headcover, and logo balls before you ever reach the first tee — so the pro shop never surprises you. Collect tournament clock faces. Every Coursed page is topped by a clubhouse clock, and you can unlock and collect clock faces for your locker — from major-championship editions to seasonal drops. The clock is the flex. Course of the Day. A new story about a different course delivered every morning, written like a magazine feature, not a fact sheet. Add any course in seconds. If a track is not in the catalog yet, add it and the app fills in the architect, year, and championships automatically. Leaderboard. Compete with the community by played-course count. Claim a username and claim your rank. Add friends. Send a request by username and compare your list against your foursome. Refer your golf buddies. Share your player link — bring golfers to Coursed and earn a free clock face for your locker. NO ADS. NO FEED. NO NOISE. Coursed does not sell your data and does not track you across the internet. It keeps score of the game you love, and nothing else. Free to download and start tracking your golf bucket list today. Play more. Course more.

Screenshots

Fairway Journal4 screens
Coursed Golf4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Coursed Golf at 5.0 against Fairway Journal's 3.0. Coursed Golf also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.0). 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. Fairway Journal sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Coursed Golf sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Coursed Golf holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Fairway Journal versus Coursed Golf: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFairway JournalCoursed Golf
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews94.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size130 MB103 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLucas RappCameron Smith

Customer experience

Fairway Journal

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive94.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative5.9%

Coursed Golf

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

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Fairway Journal

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Subscription$1.991 Month
  • Yearly Subscription$9.991 Year
One-time6
  • Championship 2026 – Aronimink$0.99
  • Rydercup 2025 Team Europe$0.99
  • Rydercup 2025 Team USA$0.99
Show 3 more
  • Golfball US Open 2025$0.99
  • 2. Major 2025 – Ball$0.99
  • Pro Version$19.99
10 purchases

Coursed Golf

One-time10
  • The Architect Clock$3.99
  • The Good Doctor Clock$3.99
  • Halloween Clock$3.99
Show 7 more
  • Christmas Clock$3.99
  • The Amateur Clock$4.99
  • The Matches Clock$4.99
  • Tradition Clock$5.99
  • The National Open Clock$5.99
  • Major Glory Clock$5.99
  • Links Championship Clock$5.99

Questions

Is Fairway Journal free?
Fairway Journal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Coursed Golf free?
Coursed Golf is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Fairway Journal or Coursed Golf?
Coursed Golf is rated higher. Fairway Journal averages 3.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Coursed Golf averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Fairway Journal or Coursed Golf have ads?
Neither Fairway Journal nor Coursed Golf shows ads.

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