Comparison

TripCaddy vs Loop Golf

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

Head to head
About

TripCaddy

Features
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TripCaddy is the only app built specifically for organizing golf trips. Create a trip, invite your crew, choose your scoring options, run a fantasy-style snake draft to pick teams, score every round hole-by-hole, and watch the leaderboard update in real time. ORGANIZE YOUR TRIP IN MINUTES Create a trip and invite players with a simple join code. Assign roles for admin, captains, and players. Set up multiple rounds across your trip and track everything from planning to final results. SCORE EVERY FORMAT Stroke Play: Individual scoring Match Play: Head-to-head hole-by-hole scoring Four Ball: 2v2 best ball match play Foursome: 2v2 alternate shot match play Scramble: 4-man scramble scoring Skins: Side game with carryovers or halves DRAFT NIGHT, BUT FOR GOLF Run a live snake draft to create teams. Captains pick players in real time while everyone watches. Full draft board so nobody misses a pick. Commissioner can undo picks when someone inevitably fat-fingers it. LEADERBOARDS THAT ACTUALLY WORK Enter scores hole-by-hole after your round. Automatic gross and net leaderboards. Skins results calculated instantly. Multi-round trip leaderboard aggregates everything across your entire trip. Team standings update in real time. CASUAL ROUNDS TOO Don't need a full trip? Create a standalone round, invite your foursome, enter scores, and see who's buying drinks at the turn. BUILT FOR GROUPS OF ANY SIZE Whether it's a weekend foursome or a 64-player annual trip, Golf Trip scales to fit your crew. Your trip. Your rules. Your leaderboard.

About

Loop Golf

This app simplifies golf trip planning and management for groups. It centralizes trip details, manages game formats and scoring, handles expense splitting, and archives past trip data for easy retrieval.

Highlights
  • Centralized trip itinerary
  • AI-generated trip details
  • Multiple golf game formats
  • Live leaderboard
  • Expense splitting with Venmo
  • Trip and score archive
Features
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The trip management app for golf groups. Plan the trip. Run the games. Remember the loop. Built by Captains who actually run these trips, for the Captains who run them. No more shared docs nobody updates. No more group texts about who owes who. No more digging through camera rolls for last year's scores. — The Trip — Courses, lodging, and itinerary in one place. Invite players with a link. AI-generated trip details so everyone shows up knowing the plan. — The Round — Stroke play with handicaps, dialed in. Wolf, Nassau, Skins — set the format, the app handles the math. Live leaderboard the whole crew can see in real time. — The Settlement — Expense splitting with Venmo deep links. Nobody chasing nobody for $43. Done in five minutes, not five days. — The Archive — Every trip, every round, every game— kept forever. Pull up scores from 2022 in two taps. The Commissioner writes a recap of every trip: readable, shareable, slightly biased toward whoever buys him dinner. — Pricing — Free for invited Players Captain — $199/year. Unlocks the full kit. Player — $39/year. Full access without needing an invite. Subscriptions are managed on the web at loopgolf.ai. — Loop Golf started as a tool for one trip — the Arizona Copper Cup. It turned out every group has the same headaches. So we built it for everyone. If you've ever been the guy who plans the trip, this is for you. Questions? hello@loopgolf.ai Terms of Use (EULA): https://loopgolf.ai/terms

Screenshots

TripCaddy4 screens
Loop Golf4 screens

Verdict

The call

TripCaddy and Loop Golf are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. TripCaddy sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Loop Golf sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $49.00 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
TripCaddy versus Loop Golf: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTripCaddyLoop Golf
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequency—Every 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB43 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperRobert FreethyLoop Technologies LLC (Arizona)

In-app purchases

3 purchases

TripCaddy

One-time3
  • 5-15 Trip Tier$9.99
  • Trip Tier Upgrade (5-15 to 16+)$9.99
  • 16+ Trip Tier$19.99
3 purchases

Loop Golf

Subscriptions2
  • Loop Golf Player1 Year trial$49.001 Year
  • Loop Golf Captain1 Year trial$199.001 Year
One-time1
  • Single Trip$79.00

Questions

Is TripCaddy free?
TripCaddy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Loop Golf free?
Loop Golf is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do TripCaddy or Loop Golf have ads?
Neither TripCaddy nor Loop Golf shows ads.

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