Journal 18 vs Tiger 5 Tracker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Journal 18
Transform your handwritten golf scorecards into detailed performance insights. This app uses AI to read your game data from photos or manual entry, revealing trends and areas for improvement. Track your rounds, drives, and approaches to lower your score.
- Digitize handwritten scorecards with AI
- Track round history and scoring trends
- Analyze drive patterns and approach proximity
- Identify biggest opportunities for stroke reduction
- Manual entry option for scores and stats
- Compare performance to handicap benchmarks
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You already keep the record. Journal18 reads it. Photograph your handwritten journal and Journal18 turns it into stats, trends, and a clear read on your game. Your journal stays on paper. Your insights live here. HOW IT WORKS 1. Snap a photo of your performance log, drives, and approaches pages after your round. 2. Journal18 reads the scores and stats with AI, then shows you everything it found. You review and confirm anything uncertain before it counts. 3. Every confirmed round builds your history, your trends, and your benchmarks. Prefer to type it in? Manual entry works too, hole by hole or as a quick summary. No photo required. WHAT YOU WILL SEE Round history. Every round saved with scores, stats, and notes, ready to revisit. Scoring trends. Watch your scoring move across rounds instead of guessing from memory. Drive patterns. Fairways hit, miss directions, and a landing board that shows where your tee shots actually finish. Approach proximity. How close you hit it from each distance range, and where the strokes are hiding. Benchmarks. See how your numbers compare to handicap benchmarks, so improvement has a target instead of a feeling. Your biggest opportunity. Journal18 calls out the one area costing you the most strokes, in plain words. BUILT FOR GOLFERS WHO WRITE IT DOWN Journal18 is made for players who keep a paper journal and want more from it. The app is calm and quick. No ads. No selling your data. Just your game, organized. FREE AND PREMIUM Creating an account is free, and your first round is included with core logging so you can see how it feels. Journal18 Premium unlocks the full experience: unlimited rounds, complete insights and trends, drive and approach trackers, and editing of completed rounds. PREMIUM SUBSCRIPTIONS Journal18 Premium is available as an auto-renewable subscription: - Premium Annual: $72 USD per year - Premium Monthly: $7 USD per month Prices may vary by region and are shown in the App Store before you subscribe. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.journal18.com/pages/app-terms Privacy Policy: https://www.journal18.com/pages/app-privacy Questions or feedback? We read everything: info@journal18.com
Tiger 5 Tracker
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Tiger 5 Tracker keeps count of the five mistakes that cost a golfer the most — the ones Tiger Woods tracked, on the theory that avoiding them matters more than making birdies: • Double bogey or worse • Three-putt • Bogey on a par 5 • Bogey inside 150 yards • Blown easy up-and-down A scorecard has no room for them, and a pencil is no good in a glove. So this is five big boxes on a green screen, one hole at a time, built to be tapped with a thumb. Start 9 or 18 holes. On each hole, tick whatever went wrong — or nothing, which is the goal. Arrows move between holes. The summary shows the count per mistake, the total, and how many holes were clean, at any point in the round. End the round and it is kept on your phone; open the app the next morning and it offers to pick up where you left off. Every round you end is kept. Rounds lists them, newest first; open one to read it back, or delete it. All Time shows your rate for each mistake per 18 holes across everything, beside your last five rounds, and a practice tip or two from what the numbers say — three-putts are distance control, not luck. There is no account to make and nothing to sign in to. The app connects to nothing — except, when you tap Find Courses Near Me on the first tee, to Apple Maps, to name the course you are standing on. Your rounds stay on your phone. The "Tiger 5" is the name golf instructor Scott Fawcett gave these five mistakes in his DECADE course-management system, after the stat Tiger Woods kept. This app is not affiliated with either.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Tiger 5 Tracker at none against Journal 18's shown. Tiger 5 Tracker also leads on update cadence (daily vs weekly). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Journal 18 ships an update weekly, Tiger 5 Tracker daily. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Journal 18 | Tiger 5 Tracker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (5 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Daily — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Travis Zappia | Larry Ray Staton Jr |
In-app purchases
Journal 18
No in-app purchases
Tiger 5 Tracker
No in-app purchases
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