I got the app because of the implicit endorsement from
PrecisionRifleBlog.com — that guy's obsession with data and objectivity is phenomenal!
And I'm willing to spend 10 or
20 dollars on this app. Sure. Maybe even a bit more.
But a subscription?!? ➔ No way! Range Buddy / Sub Moa does this for free, with cloud support and better customization!
Well, if we're talking
50 cents or less per month — I might consider a subscription.
And I might be willing to spend
a dollar or two a month — if Ballistic-X was a
WOW—app like Strelok Pro for shooting, or like Poweramp for a music player:
▪Those apps have literally
hundreds of functions and formulas.
▪And they allow the user to
customize most of these functions
granularly. So far, Ballistic-X is both very narrow in functionality and it customizing user experience.
(Despite of that, they still don't require a subscription.)
What functions would get me to pay for a subscription? (1) I would expect a similar function like
Litz's WEZ and
hit probability calculator to be included in the app.
➔ The app
Exterior Ballistics already does that with some limitations, and it does not require a subscription.
Link:
Access Google Sites with a personal Google account or Google Workspace account (for business use).
sites.google.com
(2) I would expect that shot group photos can be scored not just by manually tapping the screen and placing our hits. Instead, I would like to choose common competition paper targets and that
the app scores them automatically:
Like this: Set the paper target — Take a photo — click "Score" — and the app places the hits automatically on the target — and measures
various types of precision measurements — and counts the scores, including X's and all. And keeps stats on your scores. And prepares a PDF with a summary report.
That's at least what the
TargetShootingApp does, and it does not require a subscription. On the contrary, it keeps adding more paper targets from all over the world! (They are in the hundreds now.)
Link:
https://targetshootingapp.com/ (3) I would expect that shot group analysis is not just limited to two measures, e.g.:
extreme group size and
mean radius (MR).
The Ballistipedia lists several
other good models. And it seems reasonable to expect that the app user could configure the statistic hit probability of measures like CEP or MR (e.g., the app does not limit CEP to 50% of the shots within the circle, and MR could be configured to show mean
diameter rather than
radius, with a user defined percentage).
This would allow us to adapt the shot analysis to our particular size targets/ kill zones to get meaningful results without additional calculations.
Link:
ballistipedia.com
ballistipedia.com
(4) I would expect that the app allows the user
a highly customizable system of files, folders, and sorting mechanisms, that can be named and organized without character restrictions of folder/file names and other unnecessary limitation.
For load developing and other tests, we need to keep things organized
in our own way — not in one standard way....
In summary There are so many different types of shooters and shooting scenarios — the "one size fits all" approach will not get my money.
A highly customized approach and a number of top notch functions will get my money. And gladly!! Matthias