CourseForge vs Cavaletti
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CourseForge
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Turn your next training idea into a clear course plan. CourseForge is a show-jumping course planner for riders, trainers and course designers. Build and edit arena layouts on your iPhone or iPad, keep your ideas organized, and share them with others. DESIGN YOUR COURSE Place, rotate and arrange obstacles in a visual editor. Set the jumping order, adjust your layout, and use grid and snapping controls to position elements. SAVE YOUR IDEAS Keep multiple courses ready to revisit and refine. Core course creation and editing work offline, so you can plan wherever inspiration strikes. SHARE YOUR PLANS Export courses as images or PDFs, or share editable CourseForge files so another CourseForge user can open and work with your layout. START FOR FREE Create courses in a 50 × 60 m arena with the default sand footing. Use basic jumps, course ordering, saving, import and export. EXPAND WITH COURSEFORGE PRO Unlock Pro with a one-time in-app purchase: • Remove ads. • Choose custom arena dimensions and footing options when creating a course. • Change an existing arena’s footing. • Add cross rails, cavaletti, flower boxes, flowers, bushes, trees, cones and flags. Pro is a permanent upgrade, with no subscription. MAKE IT YOURS Choose English or Hungarian, metric or imperial units, and your preferred grid settings.
Cavaletti
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Cavaletti is a course planner for show-jumping trainers and riders. Plan training courses with confidence. Fine-tune distances and turns, and get a feel for how the course will ride. Then share your courses with your riders so they arrive at the lesson fully prepared. FREE: • Open any course shared with you with one tap on the link • View the plan with distances and strides • Walk the course step by step, as you would in the arena • Test yourself: learn the order of the fences • Print the plan and the sheet, or share them on COURSE AUTHORING (one-time purchase) • Build as many courses as you like, with any number of fences • Shape the arena, set the rules and the speed, bend every line All courses & data stay on your device: No account, no server connection, no tracking, no subscription.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Cavaletti at none against CourseForge's shown. On price, update cadence, in-app purchases 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. CourseForge sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Cavaletti sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
CourseForge ships an update every 4 days, Cavaletti every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | CourseForge | Cavaletti |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gergely Baba | Christian Knoflach |
In-app purchases
CourseForge
- Course Forge Pro$6.99
Cavaletti
- Course authoring$44.99









