# Load Book — Home Load & Shooting Diary

> Home Load & Shooting Diary (iPhone/iPad app by Dawn Works Limited.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/load-book/id6769082038 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Dawn Works Limited](https://appshunter.io/developer/382620161)
- Category: Sports, Utilities
- Price: $6.99
- Age rating: 17+
- Requires: iOS 15.6 · 46 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-05-21
- Data updated: 2026-08-14
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/load-book/id6769082038/reviews.md

## What is Load Book?

Load development, shooting diary and target analysis for precision shooters.

Quickly add your rifles and bullets, then start setting up your loads.
Add a new shooting session while at the range, retrieve the weather at your location or via your Bluetooth weather meter.
Select your load and record your velocities for a charge test, or group sizes for a seating depth test.
Close your session, enter your shot count, and graph or export your results for analysis.

Load Development
• Link bullets and accessories to multiple rifles
• Auto-complete many fields including bullet, powder, case, primers
• Store important rifle, bullet and load information
• Powder Charge tests - record velocities per charge
• Seating Depth tests - record group sizes per depth
• Load Confirmation tests - verify consistency
• Generate load strings automatically
• Visualise through interactive charts
• Tick off rounds as you load or seat each one
• Progress testing through to approved to update your bullet
• Flag loads as favourites, hot, reliable...
• Automatic sweet-spot detection with explanation
• Calculates your ES & SD and shows a precision flag
• Export full details and graph as a PDF report
• Connect your chronograph to capture velocities as you shoot:
  - FX True Ballistic
  - Athlon Rangecraft

Shooting Diary
• Quickly add a new shooting session from your location
• Retrieve the weather or connect to your weather meter
  - Kestrel
  - WeatherFlow
  - Skywatch
  - plus many environmental sensing compliant devices
• Live wind speed graph with 10 second average
• Add notes from your shooting results
• Add target photos to your shooting session
• Tracks the loads you tested
• Keep track of your rifle's shot count

Target Analysis
• Photograph your target or select existing photos
• Add bullet hole markers, fine tune with popup magnifier
• Group size calculation - MOA and MRAD
• Saves results to your shooting diary and gallery
• Zoom in, crop and share results with analysis overlay

New Additions
• Gun Safe - track all accessories and assign them to your rifles
• Extra Information - Record you rifle's full setup for reference
• Chronograph - Auto-selects first entry ready for velocities
• Added SD bell curve chart to bullet details
• Added Rifle, Bullet and Accessory popup views with Edit button

Modern, easy to use interface.
First launch tutorial and detailed help included.
Remembers your last used units - no more units settings pages.
Optionally converts values when units change.
Export your full database so you can swap phones and import later.
No account required, and no ads.


## Version history (last 4 releases)

### 2.1 — 2026-07-23

New!
• Reloading Check-sheet - tick depths and weights as you load rounds
• Weather devices - connect and refresh as you're shooting
• Live wind speed graph with 10 second average
• Approved loads now update your bullet in a smarter way
• Improvements to rifle's shot count usage
• Plus several UI enhancements

### 2.0 — 2026-07-13

New!
• Sweet-Spot - auto detect accuracy nodes
• Gun Safe - link accessories to your rifles
• Load Confirmation - new test type & graph
• Photo Gallery - Improved layout & cropping
• Target Analysis - Improved UI
• Kestrel - Improved support in diary entry
• Rifles - Record a lot more information
• Bullets - SD bell-curve chart in popup panel
• Graphs - New smoothing option
• Forms - prompt for save on return
• Form Fields - Improved lookup & validation
• UI - Dozens of improvements throughout

### 1.0.1 — 2026-05-22

• Improved connectivity and parsing of Athlon chronograph velocities

### 1.0.0 — 2026-05-21

No release notes.

## More apps by Dawn Works Limited

- [Weta Precision](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/weta-precision/id1541527860)
- [Weta Precision Pro](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/weta-precision-pro/id1564418132)
- [Group Lab](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/group-lab/id6773441791)

All apps by Dawn Works Limited: https://appshunter.io/developer/382620161

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