Comparison

Fairway Journal vs Blazer

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

Blazer

Features
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Blazer is the golfer's passport. Every course you play earns a stamp, pressed with the date, the country and the holes — a record you keep for life, not a spreadsheet. EVERY COURSE ON EARTH More than 30,000 golf courses across 150 countries, from the Old Course at St Andrews to Pebble Beach to the nine-holer down the road. Search by name, or tap "find courses near me" and fill your passport in a minute. STAMPS YOU EARN Log a round and the stamp lands. Only the date is required — score, conditions and who you played with are there for the record if you want them. A wrongly logged round can be removed with one tap. KEEP THE PAPER CARD Photograph the scorecard and it is attached to that round for good. A passport holds the evidence, and the card in your back pocket is the evidence. Yours only — scorecards are private to you. YOUR WORLD MAP Every course you have played turns green. Every course you want turns gold. Tap a pin to open the course. YOUR BUCKET LIST, TURNED INTO TRIPS Star the courses you want to play. Blazer groups the ones close enough to play in one trip — five courses within forty miles — and turns them into a plan. CREWS AND POLLS Golf is not a solo sport. Start a crew, send the six-character code on WhatsApp, and settle where you are going with a poll whose options are real courses. The winner becomes the trip. Crews, chat and polls are free forever. BADGES FOR GOING FURTHER Countries, continents, the Open rota, the Blazer 100, and the mile spread between your two furthest courses. Travel-flavored, never a prestige score. WHAT'S IN THE BAG Your clubs and kit, typeset like a tour player's spec card, with a packing checklist to tick off before you go. FIXED BY GOLFERS Wrong hole count? Course closed? Suggest a correction from any course page. Members fix our data faster than anyone. SHARE THE CARD A passport card with your stamps and counts, made for the group chat. Your scores and notes stay private. BLAZER PRO Blazer Pro is here, as a monthly or yearly subscription or a single lifetime payment. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and you can manage or cancel them in your App Store account settings. Everything you log stays yours. Blazer is not a GPS rangefinder and does not track your swing. Plenty of good apps do that, and they sit happily beside this one. Course data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Privacy: https://blazergolf.com/privacy · Terms: https://blazergolf.com/terms

Screenshots

Fairway Journal4 screens
Blazer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Blazer at none against Fairway Journal's 8. Blazer also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. Blazer asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fairway Journal ships an update every 2 weeks, Blazer fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Fairway Journal versus Blazer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFairway JournalBlazer
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews94.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size130 MB63 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLucas RappWayne Nixon

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
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  • Golfball US Open 2025$0.99
  • 2. Major 2025 – Ball$0.99
  • Pro Version$19.99
None

Blazer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fairway Journal free?
Fairway Journal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Blazer free?
Blazer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Fairway Journal or Blazer have ads?
Neither Fairway Journal nor Blazer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fairway Journal or Blazer?
Fairway Journal ships an update every 2 weeks, and Blazer fortnightly. Most recently, Fairway Journal was updated on October 30, 2026 and Blazer on October 29, 2026.

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