Comparison

CupTracker vs HuntShield

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

Head to head
About

CupTracker

Automate Ryder Cup-style team golf tournaments with real-time leaderboards and automatic scoring. Supports multi-round formats and live match updates, making tournament management effortless for any group.

Highlights
  • Automated stroke calculations
  • Live team leaderboard
  • Automatic skins tracking
  • Smart matchup scheduling
  • Detailed scorecards
  • Multi-round tournament support
  • Public spectating links
Features
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Other apps try to do everything. CupTracker does one thing obsessively well: Ryder Cup-style team tournaments. No more manual stroke calculations. No more makeshift solutions. Just proper team match play, fully automated. What We Handle Automatically • Stroke Calculations – Every match, every hole, instantly calculated. No manual math, ever. • Live Team Leaderboard – Real-time standings across all matches. See who's up, who's down, and by how much. • Automatic Skins Tracking – Keep every player engaged on every hole. Live skins results mean even players out of their match have something to play for. • Smart Matchups – Schedule matches ahead or pick them live. The app ensures proper formatting and scoring rules. • Detailed Scorecards – Hole-by-hole tracking with automatic gross/net scoring and match results. • Multi-Round Tournaments – Mix formats across days: Best Ball Friday, Scramble Saturday, Singles Sunday. We handle the complexity. • Share & Spectate – Public view-only links let friends follow along. Participants can enter scores without creating accounts. Whether it's your annual golf trip or a monthly club competition, CupTracker makes running a proper Ryder Cup tournament effortless. Set up your event in minutes. Let the app handle the automation. Focus on the competition. Download CupTracker and run your team tournament the right way. Not affiliated with the PGA Tour or the official Ryder Cup. Terms https://cuptracker.com/terms

About

HuntShield

This app offers comprehensive hunting tools, including regulations, 3D scouting with lidar, land access, and recovery assistance. It provides detailed legal information, terrain analysis, and offline functionality for field use.

Highlights
  • Legal hunting regulations by state
  • 3D terrain scouting with lidar
  • Offline functionality for field tools
  • Land booking and access
  • Animal recovery and meat yield estimation
  • Species identification
  • Trip planner and gear management
Features
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Tired of paying for a stack of subscriptions just to do the one thing you actually planned on — go hunting? HuntShield is your all-in-one hunting multitool: regulations, 3D scouting, lidar, land, recovery and meat yield in one app, with the field tools still working when your signal doesn't. KNOW IT'S LEGAL BEFORE YOU GO Pick your state, the kind of ground you're hunting and the date. HuntShield lays out what's open, legal hunting hours, the licenses and tags you need, blaze orange and gear rules, plus the Don't-Get-Caught laws hunters actually get cited for, each linked to the state's own regulations. The Trip Planner builds a pre-trip checklist, the Season Guide lists every season and bag limit, and your gear, sits, harvests and licenses live in one record. Checks you've run stay on your phone for when the signal drops, and Hunter members get a push and an email when their state's rules change. SEE THE GROUND, NOT JUST THE MAP 3D terrain with slope, aspect, thermals and scent drift, and the sun tracked through the day. Switch on lidar to see the bare earth under the trees — the benches, saddles, draws and old logging roads that funnel deer — and let HuntShield mark the likely ones for you. STAND THERE BEFORE YOU GO Drag the Stand View figure onto the map and look around in first person, built from the real USGS lidar scan: the actual trees at their measured heights, the brush, the lay of the land. Check your shooting lanes from the ground, a ladder or a tower. Where no scan exists, you get a model from terrain and canopy data. Save a stand and it opens with no signal. FIND THE THICK STUFF The brush layer reads the lidar scan to show where the cover is thick two to ten feet off the ground — the bedding cover a satellite photo can't see. CONDITIONS FOR EVERY HUNT AREA Weather, wind, pressure, sunrise and sunset, moon phase and species activity for public land and WMAs, plus a moon and rut calendar by species. FIND LAND TO HUNT Public ground is crowded and private ground is who-you-know. Browse land by the day, season or party, see the rate up front, and book it in the app. WORK THE BLOOD TRAIL WITH NO SERVICE Built to work offline. Tell it where the animal stood and where the shot hit, and it walks you through the sign, how long to wait and which way to push. (Hunter) KNOW THE YIELD BEFORE THE PROCESSOR DOES Twenty species, whitetail to squirrel, with the cut breakdown. No scale in camp? Measure the girth for a weight estimate from published equations for nine big-game species. IDENTIFY WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT Species identification that runs on the phone, even with the bars at zero. FOR LANDOWNERS List your property, set day, season or party rates, manage bookings and issue guest permits. WHAT NEEDS A SIGNAL Straight answer: the marketplace, community and bookings need a connection, a new regulation check or lidar view needs one the first time, and maps are downloaded once to work offline (Hunter). Saved checks, saved stands, saved maps, blood trailing, meat yield and species identification work in airplane mode. WHAT IT COSTS Free: 3 regulation checks a month, 2 gear scans, a trip plan, the meat yield calculator, the moon and rut calendar, a 5-record harvest log, and the land marketplace — browsing and booking are free. Hunter, $14/month, starting with a 14-day free trial: unlimited regulation checks, regulation change alerts, blood trailing, offline map downloads, GPS tracks, waypoints, sit log, compliance certificates and cross-device sync. Landowner, $35/month: everything in Hunter, plus parcel claiming, guest permits, food plot planning, property listing and booking management. Regulations are compiled from state wildlife agency publications and reviewed against the source, but you are always responsible for the rules where you hunt. Verify anything that decides a shot. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.huntshield.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.huntshield.app/privacy

Screenshots

CupTracker4 screens
HuntShield4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: HuntShield at every 5 days against CupTracker's every 3 weeks. CupTracker's advantage is ratings volume (44 vs 2). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. CupTracker sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and HuntShield sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $14.00 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for CupTracker against 5.0 for HuntShield. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CupTracker has 44 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CupTracker ships an update every 3 weeks, HuntShield every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
CupTracker versus HuntShield: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCupTrackerHuntShield
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (44 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings44 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size65 MB34 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperOne Step LLCA & M Venture Group LLC

Customer experience

CupTracker

All ratings44 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews25 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

HuntShield

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

CupTracker

One-time10
  • Event Starter$24.99
  • Starter$39.99
  • Event Small$49.99
Show 7 more
  • Event Small$69.99
  • Event Medium$74.99
  • Event Medium$99.99
  • Event Large$99.99
  • Event Large$139.99
  • Event XLarge$179.99
  • Event XXLarge$249.99
4 purchases

HuntShield

Subscriptions4
  • HuntShield Hunter Plan$14.001 Month
  • Landowner Plan$35.001 Month
  • Landowner Enhanced$54.001 Month
Show 1 more
  • Landowner Featured$115.991 Month

Questions

Is CupTracker free?
CupTracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is HuntShield free?
HuntShield is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, CupTracker or HuntShield?
CupTracker and HuntShield are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 44 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do CupTracker or HuntShield have ads?
Neither CupTracker nor HuntShield shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CupTracker or HuntShield?
CupTracker ships an update every 3 weeks, and HuntShield every 5 days. Most recently, CupTracker was updated on October 11, 2026 and HuntShield on October 10, 2026.

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