It's been a while since I posted that last top 10 and quite a lot has changed, and there are more apps available since then so it's time for an update.
Although the top 10 are still for iPhone (which is the best smart phone by the way) I have included a few at the bottom in the 'other to consider' section for Android and Windows Mobile etc.
The top 10 apps for shooters:
10. BulletFlight - Another ballistic app. Nice user interface and uses once of the most accurate ballistic calculators available but the high cost keeps it down at number 10 because it doesn't offer anything more than some of the cheaper ballistic apps.
9. Modern Weapons Small Arms - An encyclopedia of guns. Useful facts about most firearms that you never needed to know. Has come in useful for settling debates at the range a few times though. Only really covers military firearms. Would be better if it covered sporting firearms too.
8. Army Sniper - The U.S. Army’s official field manual in an app. Army Sniper includes over 800 pages of content.
7. Measure Map Lite - This is another non shooting app that can be used as a GPS range finder. Simply better and more user friendly than Histance and measures not just distance but area too. It allows up to 6 pins to be dropped simultaneously, if you need more than that you can upgrade to the paid version. There are no adds in the lite version the only difference being the limitation on umber of pins that can be dropped.
6. Shot Group Calculator - Take a pic of your group and then with a bit of drop and drag it will work out your group size and other useful statistics. A little bit expensive for what it is at £5.99 but still a nice app.
5. Wind Meter - This app works by directly measuring the volume of wind flowing over your iPhone microphone and converting it into an effective wind speed reading. Although it will never be as good as a dedicated anemometer, it is fairly accurate based on the comparisons I've done so far.
4. Density Altitude Calculator - The name pretty much says it all. Doesn't automatically get the information needed which would be a nice feature, so you need to have it all before and enter it manually, and doesn't accept humidity. Otherwise a great app for shooters, even without humidity it will get you reasonably close and hopefully the next update will correct for this.
3. ShotPlot - From the producers of iSnipe. A way of recording your shots/scores on a variety of different targets. It will also work out statistics, do mil-dot ranging and unit conversions. There are similar apps that do this but this one is by far the easiest to use.
2. Ballistic FTE - Has a good calculator and features. Once you get used to how it works, it is easy and quick to use. Has all the features (and more) of BulletFlight but at nearly half the price. Make sure you get the Field and Tactical Edition (FTE) with the HUD though.
1. Shooter - Simply the best ballistic app for the iPhone. The most user friendly. It's just so simple and nice to use, that why it gets the top spot. Doesn't have all the features of Ballistic FTE such as the range score cards which would be nice but does have a Ballistic Truing feature which non of the others do and is incredibly useful. This is also available for Android. I have used it on both IOS and Android and I have to say it is much better on IOS.
Others to Consider
Applied Ballistics Mobile Application - From the brains behind Shooter. Soon to be number one I think but since it's only available for Android at the moment I haven't had chance to try it. iPhone app coming soon. Watch this space.
Target Calculator - Measures your group by taking a picture of your target. For Android.
iDataBook - I've wanted an app like this for ages. A sort of target/sniper/shooter log book for your phone. You can log shots and range cards etc and has some nice features. However, I've heard it's very buggy and I'm not sure it is worth the price at about £20. I shan't be downloading it until I see some positive reviews or the price comes down.
Why They Were removed
iSnipe - The user interface is one of the best and it has some nice features as well as being very accurate at predicting elevation and windage out to long ranges. The latest updates have produced a bug that gives erroneous results when certain parameters are entered which makes it next to useless and why I have removed it.
Histance - Not really a shooting app but it can be used as a GPS range finder. Select a "New Location", choose the location on the map, drop the pin and it will tell you the straight line distance between you and the pin. And its free. Removed because Measure Map Lite is so much better in every way.
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