Range Buddy User Reviews

Name: Range Buddy - Shooting Drills
Rating: 4.84211 (19 reviews)

Range Buddy - Shooting Drills

Practical Defense Training, LLC

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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.

Vikingrage

3 months ago

Response from developer

Just submitted a pretty substantial update to the app! Shoot me an email to Jeremy@RangeBuddy.App. 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.app Users 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.

Cool resource, a few bugs

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.

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