PDGA Rating Tracker vs RipReader
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PDGA Rating Tracker
This app analyzes your tournament rounds to predict your official rating update. It provides a detailed breakdown of your performance, showing which rounds are weighted, dropped, or about to expire. Ideal for competitive players wanting to understand their rating progression.
- Predicts projected PDGA rating
- Analyzes tournament rounds
- Shows double-weighted rounds
- Tracks dropped outlier rounds
- Calculates consistency score
- Searches PDGA players
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Know Your Rating Before the Next Update PDGA Rating Tracker helps disc golfers estimate how recent tournament rounds may affect their next rating update. COMPLETELY FREE: • Search any PDGA player by number • View current rating and player details • Save favorite players for quick access • See a projected rating for the next update • Review tournament rounds and rating details • Understand recent-round weighting and possible outliers • See which older rounds may soon fall outside the rating window • Track consistency and standard deviation • Add manual rounds for planning RATING ESTIMATES: Calculations use PDGA-style rating concepts, including a rolling results window, recent-round weighting, and outlier handling. Projections are estimates and may differ from official PDGA ratings. Perfect for competitive disc golfers who want to track progress and better understand how tournament rounds may affect their rating.
RipReader
This app uses your phone's camera to measure the speed, spin, and distance of your disc golf throws. It automatically detects forehand and backhand throws, saves slow-motion footage with metrics, and provides an analytics dashboard to track your progress. Build your disc bag and see which discs perform best.
- Measure throw speed, spin, and distance
- Automatic forehand/backhand detection
- Slow-motion playback with metrics
- GPS distance tracking
- Analytics dashboard for trends and records
- Disc bag builder with performance comparison
- Automatic throw-to-disc matching
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Measure your disc golf throws with your phone. RipReader turns your phone's high-speed camera into a $300 radar gun. Set your phone on the ground, throw your disc, and get instant metrics. No extra hardware required. Tap Start and place your phone on the ground or on a spare disc. Throw your disc and motion detection captures it automatically. Review slow-motion footage with your metrics overlaid. No button timing. No second person needed. Just throw. RipReader measures velocity and spin for every throw, plus GPS distance from your throw to the landing spot. Forehand and backhand are detected automatically. Every throw is saved with slow-motion playback, organized into sessions by date and location. An analytics dashboard tracks your averages, trends, and personal records over time. You can also build your disc bag, and after each session RipReader automatically matches throws to the right disc using on-device visual recognition and compares performance across different discs. Dedicated throw measurement hardware can run $300 to $400. RipReader works with every disc you own, runs on the phone already in your pocket, and costs a fraction of the price. RipReader is designed for players who practice with purpose. Auto-detection means you stay in your rhythm, no fumbling with buttons between throws. Capture an entire field session, then review everything after. Privacy Policy: https://ripreaderapp.com/privacy Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
PDGA Rating Tracker and RipReader both sit at 4.3 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of PDGA Rating Tracker's written reviews are positive against 65% of RipReader's. PDGA Rating Tracker also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.6). RipReader's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks) and ratings volume (76 vs 6). On price, rating, ads 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
Both are free to download. RipReader sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. PDGA Rating Tracker asks for nothing beyond the download.
RipReader holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RipReader has 76 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of PDGA Rating Tracker's written reviews are positive against 65% of RipReader's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
PDGA Rating Tracker ships an update every 6 weeks, RipReader weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PDGA Rating Tracker | RipReader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (6 ratings) | 4.5 (76 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 65.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 76 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 163 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Garett Prisock | Sarulian LLC |
Customer experience
PDGA Rating Tracker
RipReader
In-app purchases
PDGA Rating Tracker
No in-app purchases
RipReader
- RipReader Premium Monthly$9.991 Month
- RipReader Pro Annual$39.991 Year
- RipReader Premium Annual$99.991 Year
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