Bidon vs TracerBuddy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bidon
Follow professional cycling's Grand Tours directly from your home screen. Get real-time standings, countdowns to the next stage, and race progress without needing to open the app.
- Home screen widgets
- Current race standings
- Stage countdowns
- Automatic season following
- No accounts required
- Ad-free experience
- No user tracking
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Bidon brings pro cycling's Grand Tours to your home screen with current standings, stage countdowns, and race-progress widgets — for the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia, Vuelta a España, and more. WIDGETS AT A GLANCE - Add Bidon to your home screen and follow the race without opening an app. See the next stage, current standings, and race progress in seconds. CURRENT STANDINGS - Track the general classification and key jersey battles as each race unfolds. Bidon keeps the important updates close without making you dig through a full sports app. STAGE COUNTDOWNS - Know when the next stage starts with a clean countdown widget built for race days, rest days, and quick checks throughout the tour. FOLLOWS THE SEASON - Bidon automatically follows the calendar across the Grand Tours and major stage races, so the right race is always front and center — no setup, no switching. NO ACCOUNTS. NO ADS. NO CROSS-APP TRACKING. - Open the app and use it right away. Bidon does not require an account, does not show ads, and does not use your data for advertising profiles, data brokers, or cross-app tracking. Limited product analytics help improve the app. Bidon is localized in English, Italian, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Danish, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian, Slovenian, and Japanese across the app and widgets. -------------- *Bidon is unofficial and is not associated in any way with Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.), RCS Sport, Unipublic, the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), any specific cycling team, or any rider. Tour de France, Giro d'Italia, Vuelta a España, and related marks are trade marks of their respective owners, including A.S.O., RCS Sport, and Unipublic. All assets used, including team and race names, are owned by their respective teams, riders, organizers, and other entities. Bidon is an independent project and does not claim to have any official relationship or partnership with these organizations, any specific cycling team, or any rider. Any references to the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia, Vuelta a España, the UCI, or related marks are made solely for editorial purposes and do not imply any endorsement, sponsorship, or affiliation by their respective owners, any specific cycling team, or any rider.* Privacy Policy: https://www.getbidon.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.getbidon.com/terms Support: hello@getbidon.com
TracerBuddy
This golf app offers GPS distances and AI caddie assistance, functioning independently on Apple Watch. It tracks shots, provides detailed scorecards, and analyzes performance with AI-driven insights for personalized practice plans. Enjoy course maps, weather overlays, and social competition features.
- Standalone Apple Watch operation
- AI caddie with voice interaction
- GPS shot tracking on 42,000+ courses
- Automatic swing detection on Apple Watch
- AI Coach Cards for performance analysis
- Digital scorecards and stats
- Course maps with weather overlay
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TracerBuddy is a complete golf GPS and AI caddie app for iPhone; that also runs entirely standalone on your Apple Watch, no phone needed to play. Club selection uses your own yardages, or smart averages if you're new — with a signal, it's already picked by the time you reach your ball, no taps needed; offline, one tap at your ball does the same thing. When you've got a signal, ask your AI caddie, powered by Claude, right from your phone or your wrist; out loud, and it talks back. Say "Hey Siri, TracerBuddy start my round" and you're teeing off before you've touched your phone. SHOT TRACKING & SCORECARDS - GPS shot tracking on 42,000+ courses worldwide - Digital scorecards: stroke play, Stableford, match play, skins & best ball - Hole-by-hole breakdown with fairways, GIR, and putts APPLE WATCH — SWINGTRACE - Automatic swing detection from your wrist, no manual input needed - Estimated swing speed, tempo, and backswing duration on every shot - No extra hardware required — built into the Watch you already wear AI COACH CARDS - After every round: your biggest strokes leak identified - Club misfiring detection and miss pattern analysis - Custom practice plan from your actual data - Handicap tracking and goal progression PERFORMANCE STATS - Strokes Gained breakdown - Club Confidence distances from your real swing data - 3-putt rate, 1-putt rate, GIR %, fairway % COURSE MAPS & WEATHER - Satellite maps with live GPS distances - Wind and weather overlay - Hazard and layup yardages SOCIAL & COMPETITION - Buddy Battles — head-to-head match play - Group tournaments and leaderboards Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Bidon at free against TracerBuddy's free with in-app purchases. Bidon also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Bidon sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and TracerBuddy sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Bidon against 5.0 for TracerBuddy. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bidon has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Bidon ships an update every 5 days, TracerBuddy fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bidon | TracerBuddy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 50 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Connor High | Brett Miller |
Customer experience
Bidon
TracerBuddy
In-app purchases
Bidon
- Bidon Pro Weekly$2.997 Days
- Bidon Pro Yearly$23.991 Year
TracerBuddy
- Monthly$4.991 Month
- Annual$25.991 Year








