Comparison

Course Vaults vs LFG Golfing

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

Head to head
About

Course Vaults

Log every golf course you've played, rate your favorites, and build a personal golf passport. Discover new courses based on community ratings and rankings, and create custom lists for your golfing adventures.

Highlights
  • Log played golf courses
  • Rate and rank courses
  • Build a golf passport
  • Discover new courses
  • Create custom golf lists
  • View community ratings and reviews
Features
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Course Vaults is a golf course tracking and discovery app for golfers who want to log every course they’ve played, rate and rank their favorites, build a golf passport, and discover where to play next. As seen in MyGolfSpy, Course Vaults brings golf course tracking, community ratings, rankings, reviews, lists and discovery into one place. Build your passport. Rank the courses you’ve played. See what thousands of other golfers think. Find the next course worth the trip. YOUR GOLF PASSPORT Track every golf course you’ve played and build a personal record of your golf history. See your played courses on a map, revisit where you’ve been, and watch your golf passport grow as you play new places around the world. RATE & RANK GOLF COURSES Rate every course you’ve played from 0–10 and create your own personal golf course ranking. Compare your ratings with the Course Vaults community, see how other golfers rate each course, and find out where your favorites stack up. DISCOVER WHERE TO PLAY Find golf courses around the world using community ratings, rankings and filters. Explore courses by location, architect, public or private access, rating and more. Discover nearby golf courses, browse top-ranked courses, and find places worth adding to your next golf trip. BUILD YOUR GOLF BUCKET LIST Create lists for anything: bucket-list courses, upcoming golf trips, favorite public courses, regional rankings or your own Top 100. Sort and filter your lists by location, access, Course Vaults rating or your personal rating. SEE WHAT OTHER GOLFERS THINK Follow friends and other golfers whose opinions you trust. See what they’re playing, discover courses through their ratings and reviews, and get a better sense of what a golf course is actually like from people who have played it. COURSE VAULTS PRO Upgrade to Course Vaults Pro for unlimited course logging and lists, expanded rankings, advanced map filters, course insights, partner perks and more. BUILT FOR GOLF COURSES, NOT GOLF SHOTS Course Vaults isn’t a GPS, rangefinder, scorecard or shot-tracking app. It’s a golf course tracker for the places themselves — a home for your golf passport, course ratings, personal rankings, bucket lists and golf course discoveries. Track where you’ve played. Remember what you loved. Discover what’s next. Terms of Use: https://www.coursevaults.com/terms

About

LFG Golfing

Log your golf rounds, track your stats, and relive your golf trips with friends. This app helps you organize your golf history, from courses played to playing partners, all in one place.

Highlights
  • Log rounds quickly
  • Track courses played globally
  • Organize golf trips with friends
  • View personalized golf stats
  • Create bucket lists
  • Share golf cards
Features
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Your golf life — every course, every trip, every person you've played with — lives in group texts and a dying spreadsheet. LFG Golfing is where it actually belongs. LFG Golfing is your golf passport: log every course you play, pool every buddies trip, and watch your stats turn into something worth showing off. It's the logbook, not the caddie — no GPS, no swing tips. Just the memory of the game. LOG A ROUND IN UNDER A MINUTE Course, date, a score if you feel like it, the crew, a few photos. Tag your playing partners and the round lands in their logbook too. YOUR PASSPORT Courses played, rounds, states, countries — on a globe of pins you can spin through your golf travels. Year tabs let you relive any season. TRIPS, DONE RIGHT One link invites the whole crew. Plan tee times for each day, everyone's rounds and photos pool automatically, a leaderboard settles the arguments, and a clean recap card lands in the group chat when the trip ends. GAMES SETTLED Match play, Nassau with presses, handicaps, even a full Ryder Cup with team sessions. Scores come straight off the shared scorecard, and the app tells everyone who owes who. CHASE THE LISTS Top-100 and bucket lists with progress bars and a map of what's left. "14 of 100" hits different. SHARE CARDS FOR THE GROUP CHAT Every stat, trip, and milestone exports as a clean, branded card for your stories and texts. FREE TO START, CHEAP TO KEEP Your first trip, your first 4 rounds, and 5 courses you've already played are free — and joining a buddy's trip is always free. LFG Pro unlocks unlimited rounds, trips, past courses, and photos — $1.99/month or $19.99/year, with a 7-day free trial on the annual plan. Share cards always export free. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://lfggolfing.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://lfggolfing.app/privacy Built for one 36-man golf group — opening it up to yours. LFG.

Screenshots

Course Vaults4 screens
LFG Golfing4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: LFG Golfing at daily against Course Vaults's every 3 days. LFG Golfing also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and review sentiment (100% vs 91%). Course Vaults's advantage is ratings volume (156 vs 12) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Course Vaults sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and LFG Golfing sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

LFG Golfing holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Course Vaults has 156 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 91% of Course Vaults's written reviews are positive against 100% of LFG Golfing's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Course Vaults ships an update every 3 days, LFG Golfing daily. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Course Vaults versus LFG Golfing: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCourse VaultsLFG Golfing
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (156 ratings)5.0 (12 ratings) — better
Positive reviews90.6% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings156 — better12
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size120 MB94 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperAndreoni-Group LLCLFG Golfing LLC

Customer experience

Course Vaults

All ratings156 ratings
Positive96.2%
Neutral1.9%
Negative1.9%
Written reviews53 reviews
Positive90.6%
Neutral3.8%
Negative5.7%

LFG Golfing

All ratings12 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Course Vaults

Subscriptions10
  • Course Vaults Pro$4.991 Month
  • Course Vaults Pro$6.991 Month
  • Monthly$9.991 Month
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  • Seasonal$23.993 Months
  • Course Vaults Pro$29.991 Year
  • Founding Member$44.951 Year
  • Course Vaults Pro$49.991 Year
  • Pro+ Annual$54.991 Year
  • Course Vaults Pro$59.991 Year
  • Annual$74.991 Year
2 purchases

LFG Golfing

Subscriptions2
  • LFG Pro$1.991 Month
  • LFG Pro Annual7 Days trial$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Course Vaults free?
Course Vaults is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is LFG Golfing free?
LFG Golfing is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Course Vaults or LFG Golfing?
LFG Golfing is rated higher. Course Vaults averages 4.8 out of 5 from 156 ratings, while LFG Golfing averages 5.0 from 12 ratings.
Do Course Vaults or LFG Golfing have ads?
Neither Course Vaults nor LFG Golfing shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Course Vaults or LFG Golfing?
Course Vaults ships an update every 3 days, and LFG Golfing daily. Most recently, Course Vaults was updated on October 30, 2026 and LFG Golfing on October 28, 2026.

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