LabRadar 4+

Ongoing issues getting into the setting of my LabRadar through the app. Even with the latest firmware which took forever to come out with, the app still continues to freeze at the loading screen while trying to change/update settings. The LabRadar also has a lot of functionality problems when it comes to subsonic ammo and shooting suppressed where velocities are a huge factor in achieving the correct loads.

While the LabRadar unit itself is nice when you can get it to consistently acquire each shot, the app is just horrible. You can’t do anything without being connected to the unit. So, you’re burning battery while you’re setting up strings, etc. It also disconnects constantly. The only thing you can edit per string is it’s name. Forgot to change the bullet weight in settings? Well, you’re stuck and can’t do a simple edit. For weather conditions, you have to enter manually whereas other apps pull the data from your phone. Switching back and forth between strings fails. When I change back to a prior string on the app, the unit still records to the existing string. For the price of the unit, they really need to fire their app designer and hire someone who knows what they are doing. They need to look to their competitors for good app function. I’m honestly thinking of selling my LabRadar and going back to my ProChrono because Digital Link’s app is light years ahead of LabRadar and was I intuitive and a joy to use. Labradar’s app is just trash and turns a day at the range into a chore.

The annotation functionality is a great implementation. That should have been there from the beginning. Option to ask for bullet weight was good for me. If you could set up a connection to the kestrel Drop or similar that would be icing on the cake…..and then the good times end. It constantly dropped offline, I would create a new series on the phone but it would not take on the unit. I ran 3 sets of the shots all on the phone. On the unit, I had one set of 9. There is no Refresh button at the series level. Trying to find the Arm button was an Easter egg hunt and is not intuitive nor easy to get to even if you know where it is. Pages used to be nested in each other and you could drill down and back. Now they are all separate and it’s annoying to navigate. I gave 1 star because ultimately I put the phone away and just ran everything from the unit. So annoying.