Loop Golf vs golfhawk
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
golfhawk
Discover and plan golf trips with a global course map and community features. Log rounds, write reviews, and share your golfing experiences with friends.
- Global course discovery map
- Advanced course search filters
- Custom trip planning tools
- Round logging and reviews
- Golfer profiles and social following
- Route and accommodation mapping
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Find better golf. Plan smarter trips. Share the rounds worth remembering. golfhawk combines course discovery, trip planning, and a community of golfers in one map-first experience. Explore 38,000+ courses worldwide and narrow the map in real time with powerful filters. Search by architect, rating, year opened, guest policy, major tournaments, and more. Draw a custom boundary, search along a route, or import a Google Maps trip to find courses wherever you are headed. Turn discovered courses into organized golf trips. Add courses, set dates, arrange each day, map driving routes, include accommodations, invite participants, and share your trip. Log courses you have played, rate each round, write reviews, and add photos. Build a golfer profile, follow other golfers, explore their course histories and public trips, and find ideas for your next destination. golfhawk is free, with no subscriptions or in-app purchases. Explore the full experience at https://www.golfhawk.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: golfhawk at none against Loop Golf's 3. golfhawk also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (6 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and device support 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. golfhawk asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Loop Golf against 5.0 for golfhawk. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: golfhawk has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Loop Golf ships an update every 2 months, golfhawk every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Loop Golf | golfhawk |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Loop Technologies LLC (Arizona) | GolfMap LLc |
Customer experience
Loop Golf
golfhawk
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
golfhawk
No in-app purchases
