Comparison

Swing vs FlightArc

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

Head to head
About

Swing

This app offers a digital clubhouse experience for golfers, providing live leaderboards for any course, global amateur rankings, and social features to connect with friends. Track scores, manage your golf identity, and organize your own tournaments without any fees or ads.

Highlights
  • Live leaderboards for every course
  • Global amateur golf rankings
  • Digital clubhouse and locker
  • Track golf identity and achievements
  • Organize and run invitationals
  • Real-time on-course score tracking
  • Auto-tracked rivalry records
Features
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The "Club" experience, for every golfer. Country clubs have spent a century gatekeeping the best parts of the game - the clubhouse, the locker, the leaderboard, the rivalries, the ceremony of competition. SwingThoughts brings all of it to you. No dues. No gates. No initiation. Every golfer has a scorecard. SwingThoughts gives it a stage. Post a score. Climb the board. No tournament required. SwingThoughts is a live, social golf platform built for the way real golfers actually play - weekend rounds, group trips, backyard rivalries, and yes, the occasional invitational. Every course has its own live leaderboard. Every round counts toward a global ranking that reflects how you actually stack up against the amateur golf world. This is the only app that gives every golfer their own clubhouse, their own locker, and their own place in the game. === YOUR CLUBHOUSE === The social home of your game. See your crew's rounds as they happen, follow their scorecards live, post swing thoughts, share holes-in-one, celebrate the good shots. A feed built for golfers, not for algorithms. === YOUR LOCKER === A heritage walnut-and-gold space that holds your golf identity: birdies engraved, rivals pinned, clubs tracked, course quotes remembered. The way golfers have always displayed their game - now digital, now yours, no membership required. === YOUR CLUB CARD === Your handicap, ST Power score, global rank, achievements, and partners - all on a single engraved card. Your golf identity made tangible. === LIVE LEADERBOARDS, EVERY COURSE === Post a score at any course and you're on the board. No tournament. No registration. Just show up, play, post. See where you rank against everyone who's played that course - in real time. === ST WORLD RANKINGS === The first global leaderboard for amateur golfers. Not just your club. Not just your friends. A weekly-updated ranking built on your ST Power score, decayed over 52 weeks. Play more, climb higher. Stop playing, drop off. A true picture of amateur golf. === LIVE ON COURSE === Know when your friends tee off. Watch their rounds as they happen, hole by hole. No texting back and forth. No refreshing. Just open the app and see the whole crew's scorecards in real time. === RUN YOUR OWN INVITATIONAL === Plan the trip. Set the courses. Track every round across days. Crown your champion. Built for golf groups, member-guest weekends, buddies trips, and founding invitationals. PGA Tour-level infrastructure - your buddies, your rules. === RIVALRIES THAT EARN THEMSELVES === Every match has a story. Rivalry records auto-track from round one, across seven tiers. Silent until earned. The tally is always waiting. === CHALLENGES & BADGES === Par 3 Champion. Birdie Streak. Ace Hunter. Fairway Finder. GIR Master. Real achievements, earned through play, displayed on your Club Card for everyone to see. === NO SUBSCRIPTIONS. NO PAYWALLS. === Every core feature is free. No monthly fee. No premium tier. No ads. Post scores, track rankings, run invitationals, build your Locker - all free, forever, for every golfer. Where Golfers & Their Stories Live. ======================== WHO IT'S FOR ======================== - Regular golfers who want their scores to mean something beyond a paper scorecard - Golf groups running annual trips, member-guests, or buddies tournaments - Players who care about their ranking against the broader amateur world - Anyone who's ever felt that "club membership" was the wrong way to structure golf community - Anyone who's tired of apps that gate their features behind a paywall ======================== HOW IT WORKS ======================== 1. Sign up in under a minute 2. Post your first score at any course 3. Watch yourself appear on the local leaderboard and the global ranking 4. Invite your crew, start rivalries, earn badges 5. Open your Locker. Build your story. Run your own invitational when you're ready. Questions, feedback, or feature requests? Email support@swingthoughts.app

About

FlightArc

Transform your golf videos into professional shot tracers. Easily import footage, mark impact and landing points, and customize the tracer's appearance. Export high-quality, watermark-free videos for social media or personal review.

Highlights
  • Realistic golf shot tracer creation
  • Customizable tracer color, thickness, and trail
  • High-quality video export without watermarks
  • Fast and simple workflow
  • Designed for golfers
Features
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Turn your golf videos into professional-looking shot tracer videos with FlightArc. FlightArc makes it easy to create smooth and realistic golf shot tracers directly on your iPhone. Import a video, select the impact and landing points, customize the tracer, and export a high-quality video ready to share. Features • Create realistic golf shot tracer videos • Customize tracer color, thickness, and trail length • Export high-quality videos without watermarks • Fast and simple workflow • Designed specifically for golfers Whether you're recording drives on the course or practice sessions at the driving range, FlightArc helps you create clean golf tracer videos that are perfect for sharing on social media or reviewing your swing.

Screenshots

Swing4 screens
FlightArc4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Swing at 4.9 against FlightArc's 3.7. On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Swing holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 3 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Swing versus FlightArc: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSwingFlightArc
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (7 ratings) — better3.7 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.1 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size68 MB30 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperRyan ParsonsPavel Gorokhov

In-app purchases

None

Swing

No in-app purchases

None

FlightArc

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Swing free?
Swing is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is FlightArc free?
FlightArc is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Swing or FlightArc?
Swing is rated higher. Swing averages 4.9 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while FlightArc averages 3.7 from 3 ratings.
Do Swing or FlightArc have ads?
Neither Swing nor FlightArc shows ads.

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