Comparison

Cozy Golf vs Fastest Lap

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

Head to head
About

Cozy Golf

Experience a peaceful golf game with no ads or in-app purchases. Explore over 30 charming environments, complete hundreds of unique courses, and collect cute postcards. Master your shots with intuitive controls and a hand-drawn art style for a relaxing escape.

Highlights
  • Relaxing gameplay
  • Hundreds of courses
  • Skill-based gameplay
  • Hand-drawn art style
  • Customization options
  • Daily challenges
Features
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Cozy Golf is a relaxing golf game with no ads, no in-app purchases, and no microtransactions — just pure, peaceful golfing fun. Each course features three holes that can be completed in any order. Aim for par (or better!) and travel through over 30 charming environments, collecting cute postcards from your adventures along the way. FEATURES Relaxing gameplay: Enjoy a simple, cozy golf experience free from ads, pop-ups, or pressure. Pay once and play forever — no interruptions, no hidden costs, just relaxing gameplay. Hundreds of courses: Complete 280 handcrafted courses across 35 charming environments, each with its own mood, colors, and scenery. No golf experience necessary: You don't need to know how to golf in real life to enjoy Cozy Golf. A comprehensive tutorial will walk you through the basics. Skill-based gameplay: Use your driver, iron, wedge, and putter to master every shot. Cozy Golf’s intuitive aiming system rewards precision and timing — it’s about skill, not luck. Cute and aesthetic: Immerse yourself in a hand-drawn art style full of warmth and charm. Every environment is designed to be cozy, colorful, and uniquely relaxing. Customization: Personalize your golf ball and flag colors, unlocking new options by completing achievements. Daily challenge: Tackle a new daily level and compete with friends on the online leaderboard. Completing the daily challenge earns you an encouraging postcard to brighten your day. Whether you’re chasing a perfect score or just looking to unwind, Cozy Golf offers a gentle escape into a calm world of color, precision, and charm. Pay once. Play forever. Relax endlessly.

About

Fastest Lap

Experience a pure time-attack racing challenge with no opponents or luck. Master each circuit with precise driving, where every mistake costs. Enjoy a minimalist aesthetic and procedurally generated music.

Highlights
  • Top-down time-attack racing
  • No opponents or contact
  • Deterministic simulation
  • Minimalist flat color graphics
  • Procedurally generated music
  • 24 unique circuits
  • 21-round career mode
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Fastest Lap is a top-down time-attack racer. One car, one circuit, one clean lap. No opponents, no contact, no luck — and nothing to blame. Pick it up in ten seconds. Then spend a month on one corner. NOBODY SAID IT SHOULD BE EASY Every circuit sets a target time, and it is not a generous one. A career round is cleared by a clean lap driven in that session, under that target. A personal best you set last week cannot clear it for you. Clean is not a judgment call. Put a wheel off the road and the lap is gone; it's decided the same way every time — the simulation is deterministic, so the same inputs produce the same lap on every device. That is also why a ghost and a leaderboard here are worth trusting. The career is ordered by how much a mistake costs, not by lap time. It opens on grass and run-off. It ends on walls three metres from the road. Restarting is one gesture and under half a second. You will use it more than the throttle. That is the design, not an apology. FLAT COLOUR, AND NOTHING ELSE There is not one texture in this game. No gradients, no glow, no lighting — every shape on screen is a flat coloured polygon, and the whole app ships three images, all of which are the icon. Everything else it builds itself: • Twenty-four circuits, each traced from real-world geometry and given a fictional name. Forest, island, desert flats, harbour walls, floodlit night streets. • The night circuits invert every tone, until the road and the lit barriers are the only bright things on screen and the layout draws itself in light — which is what a street circuit lit for racing looks like from above. • Curbs appear only where a corner earns one. Barriers, run-off and scenery are derived from the geometry rather than decorated onto it. • Nothing is painted on: anything the car can reach is solid or drivable, and water stops the car the way a treeline does. • Each circuit's portrait is its own racing line, teal flat-out through to red under heavy braking. It is computed from a driven lap rather than drawn, so two circuits with a similar outline look nothing alike. • The music is generated as it plays rather than recorded. Every circuit has its own tune; the menus are its breakdown, and the lights are its drop. WHAT ELSE IS IN IT • A twenty-one-round career on one car, in order, each circuit opening the next. Four of the rounds are run in the rain. • Rain changes the lap, not just the picture: less grip, a slower target, and a wet ghost of its own to chase. • Your best lap becomes a ghost on the road beside you. Beat it, and it becomes the next one to beat. • A timing screen you can read at speed — a split at every sector, a live delta to your own best, and the four colors a timing screen has used for decades. • Ten liveries, paint and nothing else. Every car drives identically; none is quicker than another, and none costs extra. • Two control layouts — a wheel, or a thumb zone in each corner — picked with the car in your hands during three short drills, and swappable mid-lap without losing your place. • Per-circuit leaderboards and achievements through Game Center, and a record kept on your device whether you sign in or not. ONE PAYMENT No subscription, no adverts, no energy timers, no waiting. The circuits added later cost nothing. Built for one thing: the next lap being quicker than the one you just drove.

Screenshots

Cozy Golf4 screens
Fastest Lap4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Fastest Lap at Free against Cozy Golf's $1.99. Fastest Lap also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 78%). Cozy Golf's advantage is rating (4.5 vs 4.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Fastest Lap is free to download; Cozy Golf costs $1.99 up front. Fastest Lap sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Cozy Golf asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Cozy Golf holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cozy Golf has 56 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 78% of Cozy Golf's written reviews are positive against 100% of Fastest Lap's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cozy Golf ships an update every 2 days, Fastest Lap every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Cozy Golf versus Fastest Lap: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCozy GolfFastest Lap
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.5 (56 ratings) — better4.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews77.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings56 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree — better
Best chart rank#44 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size319 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMulberry Tree Games, LLCMaksym Bilan

Customer experience

Cozy Golf

All ratings54 ratings
Positive88.9%
Neutral3.7%
Negative7.4%
Written reviews40 reviews
Positive77.5%
Neutral5.0%
Negative17.5%

Fastest Lap

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Cozy Golf

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Fastest Lap

One-time1
  • Unlock Full Game$5.99

Questions

Is Cozy Golf free?
Cozy Golf costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Fastest Lap free?
Fastest Lap is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Cozy Golf or Fastest Lap?
Cozy Golf is rated higher. Cozy Golf averages 4.5 out of 5 from 56 ratings, while Fastest Lap averages 4.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Cozy Golf or Fastest Lap have ads?
Neither Cozy Golf nor Fastest Lap shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cozy Golf or Fastest Lap?
Cozy Golf ships an update every 2 days, and Fastest Lap every 5 days. Most recently, Cozy Golf was updated on October 25, 2026 and Fastest Lap on October 15, 2026.

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