Loop Golf vs Yardbook
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Centralized trip itinerary
- AI-generated trip details
- Multiple golf game formats
- Live leaderboard
- Expense splitting with Venmo
- Trip and score archive
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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
Yardbook
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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.
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
| Parameter | Loop Golf | Yardbook |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Loop Technologies LLC (Arizona) | Christian Graham |
In-app purchases
Loop Golf
- Loop Golf Player1 Year trial$49.001 Year
- Loop Golf Captain1 Year trial$199.001 Year
- Single Trip$79.00
Yardbook
No in-app purchases









