GunVault vs Guns Locker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GunVault
Manage your firearm collection privately and securely. Track firearms, accessories, and ammunition with detailed records and photos. Includes service history, range sessions, and kit creation.
- Firearm tracking by make, model, serial number
- Service and range session records
- Attach photos to firearms
- Accessory and ammunition tracking
- Combine guns and accessories into kits
- iCloud sync (premium)
- Data export and PDF reports (premium)
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Gun Vault is the original and completely private app for firearm owners, collectors, hunters, and shooting enthusiasts. With GunVault you can: - Keep track of firearms by make, model, serial number, caliber, finish, and more. - Store service records. - Keep record of range sessions - Attach photos to each firearm. - Keep track of accessories by name, quantity etc. - keep track of ammo by caliber, grain, make, model, number of rounds and more as well as individual ammo transactions - combine guns and accessories into kits The premium features unlock: - iCloud sync - cross device data sync using your own private iCloud account - Export data - various exports in CSV format - Reports - various reports in PDF format - Analytics - User, collection, and firearm-level analytics on volume, frequency, intensity, reliability etc. - Dashboards - Maintenance dashboards showing collection and gun health along with maintenance work queue.
Guns Locker
Manage your firearm collection, including guns, ammunition, and accessories. Track range sessions, maintenance, permits, and spending with detailed reports and automatic reminders.
- Detailed gun inventory
- Accessory tracking
- Ammo database and usage tracking
- Range session logging
- Gun cleaning reminders
- CCW permit management
- Spending reports
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Guns Locker helps you keep track of your Firearms, Ammo, Accessories, Range Sessions, CCW Permits — and more. GUNS LOCKER FEATURES ** Gun Inventory keeps detailed inventory data about each gun. Includes multiple filtering, sorting and reporting options. Also provides the ability to keep track of sold guns. ** Accessories are tracked for each gun and include purchase info such as where purchased, date purchased, cost, value, and photo options. ** Unattached Accessories for tracking shared gun equipment (tools, safes, range gear). ** Notes provide a place where you can keep various records about events related to your gun, such as cleaning and maintenance records, receipts and general information. ** Photo Gallery lets you keep an unlimited number of photos for each inventory gun. The photo viewer lets you swipe through your photos with ease. You may also share your photos with others (text, email, print, etc). ** Ammo database keeps track of your ammo by caliber and gun type. It automatically tracks ammo usage and costs while providing accurate and up to date quantity-on-hand totals. When used with the Range Sessions feature, the ammo database is automatically updated with the ammo used and rounds spent, thus providing accurate Qty-On-Hand totals. The ammo database can also be used as a stand-alone database without using the Range Sessions feature. ** Range Sessions & the Range Analysis Tool helps you keep track of your range visits, range costs, which guns were used, and what ammunition was used for each gun. You can save and share multiple photos of your targets for each range gun. The Range Analysis Tool digs even deeper to show all ammo used by a specific range gun as well as show all range guns that used specific ammo. ** Gun Cleaning List & Automatic Gun Cleaning Notifications. Each gun has a "Needs Cleaning" flag that gets updated when a gun is added to a range session (you can also manually add a gun to the Gun Cleaning List). The number of guns on the Cleaning List appears on the Dashboard under “Alerts” & Reminders”. You can access the Cleaning List from the Dashboard to mark guns as Cleaned. Automatic cleaning notifications are also sent to your phone and/or watch. ** Conceal Carry Permits allow you to keep all your CCW permit and related information safe and secure in one place. The CCW database includes front and back photos of your permit, date issued and expiration date, and comments. Gun Locker will automatically remind you when the CCW expiration date is approaching using Notifications and appearing on the Dashboard screen. ** War Chest provides a place to store information about non-firearm related items. Keep records for your knives, swords, axes, non-lethal defensive items, tools, etc.. Keeps track of the total count and value for all items. ** Spending Report allows you to see where and how much spending has occurred for any date range by Guns, Ammo, Accessories, Range costs, War Chest. SUBSCRIPTIONS PRICING & TERMS Guns Locker is FREE to Download and Try for 7-Days. If you cancel before the end of the 7-Day Free Trial, nothing will be billed. After the 7-Day Free Trial, you'll automatically be charged each renewal period which will be on a monthly, 6-month, or yearly basis, depending on the subscription terms chosen, unless you cancel at least 24 hours prior to the renewal date. Subscriptions can be managed in your Account Settings after purchase. CUSTOMER SUPPORT Contact us at info@AlpineSoftwareCreations.com if you have any questions, issues, likes and dis-likes. Your feedback is appreciated! TERMS OF USE https://www.alpinesoftwarecreations.com/gun-locker-tos PRIVACY POLICY https://www.alpinesoftwarecreations.com/gun-locker-privacy-policy We take your privacy and security seriously!!! All the data you enter into the app is ONLY stored on your device. We do not collect or store any of the information you add to the app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Guns Locker at 100% against GunVault's 55%. Guns Locker also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). GunVault's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks) and ratings volume (26 vs 8). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. GunVault sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Guns Locker sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Guns Locker holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 26 and 8 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 55% of GunVault's written reviews are positive against 100% of Guns Locker's.
GunVault ships an update every 3 days, Guns Locker every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and August 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GunVault | Guns Locker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (26 ratings) | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 54.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 26 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 16.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Veliyan Georgiev | George M Jones |
Customer experience
GunVault
Guns Locker
In-app purchases
GunVault
- Dashboards and Analytics$2.99
- iCloud Sync, Export, Reports$2.99
Guns Locker
- Guns Locker Pro7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Guns Locker Pro7 Days trial$12.996 Months
- Guns Locker Pro7 Days trial$19.991 Year








