Range Buddy - Shooting Drills
Shot Timer, Dry Fire & Scoring
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Range Buddy is the all-in-one firearms training app for shooters who want better drills, on-video shot scoring, video coaching, a smarter training tracker, and real competition. Connect a shot timer, record and score your shooting on video, break a run down frame by frame, build training regimens, follow standards, and compete in head-to-head duels or group challenges. Browse a drill library sorted by target type, category, and skill focus so you can train with purpose and measure progress over time.
Record, Score, and Share Your Shooting
Hit record and Range Buddy captures your run, then overlays your shot times, splits, and scored hits onto the clip—save to your camera roll and share in seconds. Score against 12 targets including B-8, IPSC, USPSA, IDPA, steel, the FBI QIT and Rangemaster Q quals, and Dot Torture—or free-shoot with no target at all.
Film Studio—Review, Sync, and Compare
Turn range footage into training video. Review a single run, sync multiple camera angles, or compare up to four runs side by side with frame-by-frame stepping. Waveform editing lines up the beep and every shot, captions generate automatically, and exports come out landscape, square, or vertical.
Breakdown—Coach the Video
Markup and annotate on the video. Drop callouts on exact frames, tag steps of the draw, set slow-motion sections, and overlay a skeletal wireframe to show body position through the run. Record a voiceover/picture-in-picture, then export a Coach's Cut—the clean run first, then your analysis with markups, slow motion, and narration baked in.
Performance Lab—Analyze Your Draw
Record or upload a draw and every rep is measured, graded, and replayed with a skeleton overlay. You get one specific thing to fix, plus phase trends over time.
Shot Timer—Bluetooth or Your Phone
Pair a Bluetooth shot timer—AMG Commander, Special Pie, RangeTech, Shooters Global, or Kestrel KST1000—to pull live shot data into your drills and videos. With the Kestrel KST1000, Range Buddy also starts and stops the timer and sets par times from your phone. No timer? Range Buddy detects shots from your phone's mic for live or dry fire, with adjustable sensitivity for quiet trigger presses and shots on screen in real time.
Train From Your Wrist
Pair an Apple Watch or Wear OS smartwatch to start drills, advance steps, and see shots hands-free.
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Features:
-Works with AMG Commander, Special Pie, RangeTech, Shooters Global, and Kestrel KST1000 shot timers—or just your phone's mic.
-Multi-angle sync and four-run compare with frame-by-frame stepping and auto captions.
-Telestration—draw, callouts, slow motion, voiceover, and picture-in-picture coaching.
-Coach's Cut export that pairs the clean run with your coached analysis.
-Pose analysis that grades every draw rep and names the one thing to fix.
-160+ shooting drills for handgun, rifle, and shotgun, searchable and sorted by required target.
-Skill filters including draw to first shot, reloads, movement, and more.
-Step-by-step drill breakdowns with requirements and stage setup.
-Training tracker with target-specific scoring to measure improvement over time.
-Training regimens for repeatable practice plans, and standards to benchmark progress.
-Head-to-head duels and group challenges that make practice competitive and social.
-Drill leaderboards, a shot calling tool, and a random drill picker.
-Training log with session notes, time, date, and location.
-Favorites, community drills, and a Dry Fire Tool and Tracker.
Dry fire, live fire, standards, or match prep—train with structure and keep improving.
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Kestrel KST1000 shot timer support
Range Buddy now works with the Kestrel KST1000. It reads your shot times live, and it's the first timer Range Buddy can drive both ways — start it, stop it, and set par times right from your phone.
*Fixed a bug that was causing some users to not be able to communicate to and from their Kestrel shot timer.
Breakdown: a wireframe you can actually coach from
The skeletal overlay now sits on the joints instead of near them, and it stays on screen for the whole first playback instead of dropping out partway. It also renders into Coach's Cut exports, so the analysis you see is the analysis you share.
Smoother video work
Scrubbing is steadier in both directions, playback no longer stalls after you switch away and come back, and the picture-in-picture tile renders correctly.
Plus a batch of smaller fixes across Film Studio and Breakdown.
The developer, Practical Defense Training, LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Identifiers
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Purchases
- Location
- Contact Info
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Practical Defense Training, LLC
- Size
- 208.4 MB
- Category
- Sports
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.6 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.6 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.6 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.5 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later. - Apple Watch
Requires watchOS 10.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
9+
- 9+
- Infrequent
Contests
Guns or Other Weapons
Contains
Messaging and Chat
User-Generated Content
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Range Buddy Pro Monthly $7.99
- Range Buddy 12mo Subscription $49.99
- MonthlyTwo $2.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Range Buddy, LLC

