Range Buddy is the all-in-one firearms training app for shooters who want better shooting drills, a smarter training tracker, and real competition. Discover drills, track scores, build training regimens, follow training standards, and compete in head-to-head duels or group challenges—all in one app built for serious practice.
Range Buddy helps firearms enthusiasts and shooters find the right shooting drills fast. Browse a comprehensive drill library sorted by target type, drill category, and skill focus so you can train with purpose, measure progress, and improve performance over time.
Instructor Marketplace
Connect responsible gun owners with reputable instructors. Users can post custom training requests and invite instructors to apply directly with them.
First and Only Virtual Instructor - randomize your training, keep it fun and upbeat.
Features:
-160+ shooting drills, searchable and sorted by required target.
-Skill filters for focused practice, including draw to first shot, reloads, movement, and more.
-Step-by-step drill breakdowns with requirements and stage setup.
-Integrated practice and training tracker with target-specific scoring systems.
-Shooting drill performance tracking to measure improvement over time.
-Training regimens to help structure repeatable practice plans.
-Training standards to benchmark progress and performance.
-Head-to-head duels for direct competitive training.
-Group challenges that make practice more social and motivating.
-Shot calling tool to support better analysis and feedback during training.
-Random drill picker based on your selected target.
-Drill-specific leaderboards so you can compare scores with other shooters.
-Individual training log with session details, notes, time, date, and location.
-Favorites list for quick access to your go-to drills.
-Community drills so users can add and share their own drills.
-Dry Fire Tool and Tracker for structured dry-fire practice.
Range Buddy combines shooting drills, scorekeeping, leaderboards, training logs, training regimens, and competitive features into one focused firearms training app. Whether you are working on dry fire, live fire, standards, or match prep, Range Buddy gives you the tools to train with structure, compete with purpose, and keep improving.
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Most shooters know there are many, many drills available to aid their development or test their abilities but most tend to stick to the same few out of convenience. This makes accessing a huge variety of drills as well as tracking progress exceptionally easy and adds to a list of available tools for self evaluation and advancement. A completely worthwhile purchase for any shooter wanting to improve.
Developer Response
Thank you so much for the great review and for using Range Buddy. We are adding new drills and continue to improve the app.
Subscription base
Vikingrage
UPDATE. I would like to update my review. Apparently the developers took note of the issues and found a problem which they have acknowledged and updated. Update 5.2.5 appears to solve the problem with being unable to access drills and other content without a paid subscription. I have checked and can personally access these things now. I will give credit where credit is due. The developers apparently take this app seriously and want to make sure it offers what they promise. I would say at this time the free app is definitely worth it, however, I have not tested any of the subscription based services. To the developers, I’d like to say thank you for listening, and proving that your customer base matters!———————————Despite their claims, you have to pay a $2.99 monthly subscription to have access to any drills (except for 4 ASP drills and a monthly drill). Multiple sections always say “coming soon”, and I can find no “groups” despite multiple searches. Really the only free content is the ability to search for some instructors contact info, but nothing else. I suppose It may be a nice app if you buy into yet another subscription plan. But not enough free content to even make a good judgement call on that. Plenty of free drills can be found elsewhere, so I’ll be moving on from this app.
Developer Response
I appreciate the updated review and hope we can get it to 5-Stars soon! Shoot me an email, we are actively working on integrating with several popular Bluetooth shot timers.Update your app to version 5.2.5 - the paywall was triggering on the drills in 5.2.4 and has been resolved in the latest update. All drills are now accessible without enrolling in a subscription plan.SEND AN EMAIL to Jeremy@RangeBuddy.appUsers can access all of the drills for free, and there are several other FREE features of the app.There are costs associated with maintaining the database of drills, users, user generated content, the virtual instructor, the instructor marketplace, the head-to-head duels, the groups, the group challenges, the shot calling tool, the dry-fire tracker, the collection of community generated drills, the training requests, and a few other behind the scenes things, not to mention the time and development costs of putting it all together.
I wish I had this years ago.
Memphis Kidneys
This app is such a great resource! I wish I had something like this when I first got into this. Please support Jeremy and his work!! His contributions to our community are driving us forward.
Developer Response
Thank you so much for the great review and for using Range Buddy!!!
Cool resource, a few bugs
ARU Nerd
It’s a great library but the logging functions could use some work. Some drills don’t include penalties when ranking on the leader board. Others don’t seem to have “submit” buttons. And I submitted one community drill that I’d like to edit, but it seems to be out of my hands.
Bluetooth Shot Timer Integration!
-Range Buddy now integrates with your Special Pie Timer, AMG Commander Timer, Shooters Global Timer, and RangeTech Timer!
-Pull in your shot data for personalized analytics and tracking
Audio Talk Through w/ Shot Timer Control!*
-Range Buddy can control the start time beep and par time buzz for Shooters Global Shot Timers and the RangeTech Shot Timer
Smart Watch Integration
-Control the Audio Talk Through progression with your smart watch
Version 5.4.0
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 .
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Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
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Information
Seller
Practical Defense Training, LLC
Size
169.6 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.
