Comparison

Loop Golf vs Yardbook

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

Head to head
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

About

Yardbook

Features
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Every course you've played — ranked your way, remembered forever. Yardbook is a private golf journal, not another social feed. Log a round in about a minute: a score, a spot in your rankings, and one line you'll want to reread. Deepen it later with notes, photos, and a personal scorecard — or don't. THREE LENSES, ONE LIST Rank with your heart. Score with your gut — as a number, or in plain golf language, bogey to eagle. Then let the math argue: break a course down by category — architecture, vibes, walkability, or categories you invent on your own scorecard — and the composite makes its case. Sort by any lens whenever you like — sorting is a view, not an edit. Your rank is never rewritten. PRIVATE DEPTH, PUBLIC POLISH Every entry keeps a full private version and an optional summary you polish for friends. Your notes have no share button. It doesn't exist. A TRUSTED LIST, NOT A FEED Friends are a short list of people whose taste you trust. Compare books, taste match, and the courses they love that you haven't played. Never an audience to perform for. TRIPS, REMEMBERED PROPERLY Build the itinerary, log the rounds, and settle the awards. One page for the whole week — group rankings, disagreements preserved for the record. YOURS, FOREVER Works fully offline. Syncs privately through your iCloud. Export everything — free, always. Delete everything, anytime. Free while we're early — and everything's included: unlimited photos, custom scorecards, premium share cards, trip recaps, all of it. Yardbook Pro arrives soon. Until then, it's on the house.

Screenshots

Loop Golf4 screens
Yardbook4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Yardbook at none against Loop Golf's 3. Yardbook also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Loop Golf sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $49.00 per year. Yardbook asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Loop Golf ships an update every 2 months, Yardbook every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Loop Golf versus Yardbook: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLoop GolfYardbook
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB7 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperLoop Technologies LLC (Arizona)Christian Graham

In-app purchases

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
None

Yardbook

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Loop Golf free?
Loop Golf is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Yardbook free?
Yardbook is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Loop Golf or Yardbook have ads?
Neither Loop Golf nor Yardbook shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Loop Golf or Yardbook?
Loop Golf ships an update every 2 months, and Yardbook every 2 weeks. Most recently, Loop Golf was updated on October 28, 2026 and Yardbook on October 6, 2026.

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