The Quick Verdict
Honestly? These two together is the setup — the Wingman View for course awareness and music on the cart, the Tour V6 for exact pin distance when you need it. But the Tour V6 is discontinued, so if you're buying just one new today, go with the Wingman View. It's the only one you can reliably find, and for most riders it handles the majority of what you need during a round.
What They Actually Do
The Wingman View is a Bluetooth cart speaker that mounts magnetically to your cart rail and reads yardages out loud — it's a two-job device: GPS distance unit and music box. The Tour V6 is a laser rangefinder that you point at a target and it tells you exactly how far away it is. Both are Bushnell products sharing the same BITE magnet system, and both are IPX6 water-resistant. That's about where the similarities end.
The Real Tradeoffs
Precision vs. convenience
The Tour V6 gives you ±1 yard to whatever you're pointing at — a flagstick, a tree branch, the front lip of a bunker. The Wingman View gives you front/center/back of the green plus up to 6 hazard distances per hole. For approach shots where pin position is everything — tucked back-left, front-right with water — the laser wins. For tee shots, layups, and hazard avoidance, the Wingman View has the answer before you've even stepped off the cart.
Speed of use while riding
This is where the Wingman View is genuinely fast. It's already mounted, already on, and a button press (or a tap on the removable BITE remote) gets you a yardage audibly without putting a club down or reaching for anything. The Tour V6 requires you to pull it out, find the flag through the scope, hit the button, and read the display. While riding, that extra friction adds up over 18 holes.
Walking vs. riding — the hard filter
Here's the thing about the Wingman View: it's a rider's device. If you walk the course regularly, this speaker isn't your tool. It lives on the cart rail, and when you're 30 yards from your ball carrying your bag, the yardages stay behind you. The Tour V6 goes in your pocket or on a belt clip and works exactly the same whether you're walking or riding. If you walk, the laser is the more practical device — full stop.
What you actually see
The Wingman View has an LCD screen showing front/center/back distances and hazard yardages, which is more than most cart speakers offer. But there are no hole maps, no green views, no shot tracking or scoring. What you get is distance data, cleanly delivered. The Tour V6 shows you one number in the viewfinder. Neither of these is a full-featured mapping device — if you want the overhead hole view with layup markers and green contour lines, you're looking at a different category of GPS entirely.
The music angle
The Wingman View plays music. The Tour V6 does not. That's a real reason some people buy the Wingman View that has nothing to do with golf distance, and it's worth naming: if you want one device on the cart that handles both yardages and a playlist, the Wingman View does that. The laser is a distance tool and only a distance tool.
Same brand, same magnet — but no ecosystem connection
Both use Bushnell's BITE magnet system, which is a nice bit of consistency — same philosophy, same mounting approach. Both use the Bushnell Golf app. But there's no data sync between them, no Bluetooth pairing that sends a laser measurement to the speaker display. They share a brand and a magnet; they don't talk to each other.
Cost and ongoing fees
The Wingman View is $199.99 with no subscription. The Tour V6 was $299.99 and runs on CR2 batteries (cheap, but recurring). The Wingman View charges via USB-C. Neither requires any ongoing payment for full functionality, which is nice.
Who Should Get Which
Get the Wingman View if: You always ride, you want yardages and music from one thing on the cart rail, and you don't need surgical precision to the pin. Playing on 36,000+ courses with no subscription cost, audible hazard distances, and a BITE remote you can keep on the bag — it covers most of what a casual-to-mid-handicap rider needs.
Get the Tour V6 if: You find one discounted somewhere and you walk the course. It's a clean, tournament-legal laser with a 1,300-yard max range and solid pin-acquisition. No slope is a limitation for practice rounds, but tournament players who don't want to manage a slope switch will appreciate the simplicity. As a discontinued product it shouldn't be your default buy, but if you find it on clearance it's still a capable piece of kit.
Get both if: You ride, you want the Wingman View handling ambient yardages and music, and you want the laser for those approach shots where front/center/back isn't enough. Same BITE magnet system, same brand, same water rating — they pair naturally even if they don't pair digitally.
The Bottom Line
These are two different tools for two different moments in a round, and for a rider who wants the full picture, they work well together. But if you're buying one thing today, it has to be the Wingman View — the Tour V6 is discontinued and you can't count on finding it new. The Wingman View handles course navigation, hazard distances, and music from the cart without a subscription, and for most golfers playing from a cart, that's the job done.