Golf Nearby vs scoutSMART Basic
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Golf Nearby
Discover golf courses worldwide with this app. It provides directions, contact information, street views, and links to Foursquare for detailed venue information. Share course details easily via email or text.
- Find golf courses worldwide
- Get directions to courses
- View course pictures
- View street view of property
- Access Foursquare venue details
- Get contact phone numbers
- Share course information
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Golf Nearby helps you find golf courses nearby, anywhere in the world. We get our data from Foursquare. Features Include pictures of golf course where available get directions to place view property from the street view venue in foursquare app get phone number of place if listed view home page of place if available share a selected place with email or text message
scoutSMART Basic
This app streamlines the college sports recruiting process by delivering potential recruits directly to your phone weekly. Review detailed player profiles, stats, and scores to identify and track athletes for your team.
- Weekly recruit delivery
- Full recruit profiles
- Stats and scores
- Player analysis and tracking
- Streamlined recruiting
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We help teams win by taking the guess work and the hard work out of recruiting. We’ll deliver 11 recruits directly to you on your phone each week. You can review the full recruit profiles including stats and scores and select the players that you want to analyze and track.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: scoutSMART Basic at 5.0 against Golf Nearby's 2.3. scoutSMART Basic also leads on update cadence (every 3 months vs every 26 months). Golf Nearby's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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.
scoutSMART Basic holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 5 respectively.
Golf Nearby ships an update every 26 months, scoutSMART Basic every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Golf Nearby | scoutSMART Basic |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 26 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | stephen feggeler | Competitive Sports Analysis |
Customer experience
Golf Nearby
scoutSMART Basic
In-app purchases
Golf Nearby
No in-app purchases
scoutSMART Basic
No in-app purchases
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