Comparison

QMD3 Stroke Trainer/Analyzer vs Billiards Aiming Assistant

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

QMD3 Stroke Trainer/Analyzer

This app analyzes your pool stroke using a Bluetooth-enabled device attached to your cue. It provides detailed 3D data, graphical playback, and audible alerts to help identify and correct flaws, improving your game.

Highlights
  • Bluetooth cue device integration
  • 3D stroke data transmission
  • Automatic shot recording
  • Graphical stroke playback
  • Stroke velocity charts
  • Audible 'as you stroke' alerts
  • Comprehensive practice shot metrics
Features
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The QMD3 Billiards Stroke Trainer/Analyzer is an innovative billiards training aid designed to help you find and fix the flaws in your pool stroke. A new way to practice, let QMD3's precision and accuracy take your game to the next level. The highly sensitive QMD3 Bluetooth 4.2 enabled device is attached to your pool cue and transmits detailed 3-D information about your stroke to the free QMD3 app on your iPhone or iPad. QMD3 features automatic shot recording/graphical playback with a stroke velocity chart and cue tip view. Instant, audible 'as you stroke' alerts pinpoint problem areas in your stroke. Comprehensive metrics are generated for each practice shot allowing in-depth analysis to identify flaws, tendencies and to compare your progress with prior practice sessions. The QMD3 device may be ordered from www.Cue-MD.com.

About

Billiards Aiming Assistant

This tool helps 3-cushion billiards players improve their aiming by providing a realistic visual representation of aiming lines and ball systems. It guides users through a simplified aiming process, accounting for cue ball position, ball thickness, and english.

Highlights
  • Realistic aiming line visualization
  • 3-cushion billiards aiming theory
  • Personalized cueing parameter setup
  • Dummy ball simulation for aiming
  • Estimates english and deflection
  • Step-by-step aiming guidance
Features
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Do you want to improve your game in Carom Billiards? Then you need to improve your aiming. Designed and visually presented as an assistant for your practice, Billiards Aiming Assistant utilizes the theory of Tome di Bola and takes it from plan view to the way you will see the balls when actually playing. Striving to create a more realistic representation of your aiming lines, it will always be at hand during your practice, be it on your mobile or your tablet. ‍ ‍ Billiards Aiming Assistant is the tool that will help you understand the way to aim when playing with ball systems in 3 cushion billiards. Incorporating all aspects of aiming every player should take into consideration in order to deliver an accurate hit, this app turns a complex thinking and assessing process into a series of easy and comprehensive steps. ‍ With 5 easy steps you can: 1. Setup the application as per your current cueing action results and relevant deflection. You will always bill able to re-setup your personal cueing parameters, should you change cue, cue tip, shaft or even cueing action. Therefore it will always assist you with your current player characteristics, thus helping you to incorporate any change in style or gear and improve faster. 2. Position the cue ball according to the desired thickness against the first object ball and estimate your aiming in relevance to the tips of english of your choice for every point. By simulating the produced deflection, based on tips of english and distance between cue ball/object ball, Billiards Aiming Assistant will create a dummy ball, always locked on the cue ball, representing the cue ball's deflection augmented position, prior to contacting the object ball. Slide the dummy ball to the desired thickness and you will get the simulated true cue ball position for your aim. ‍ Billiards Aiming Assistant is the tool that will actively help you to create a mental mapping of all relevant aiming ball thickness' you mostly use as a player.

Screenshots

QMD3 Stroke Trainer/Analyzer4 screens
Billiards Aiming Assistant4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Billiards Aiming Assistant at 100% against QMD3 Stroke Trainer/Analyzer's 50%. QMD3 Stroke Trainer/Analyzer's advantage is price (Free vs $1.99) and rating (4.5 vs 3.0). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

QMD3 Stroke Trainer/Analyzer is free to download; Billiards Aiming Assistant costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

QMD3 Stroke Trainer/Analyzer holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of QMD3 Stroke Trainer/Analyzer's written reviews are positive against 100% of Billiards Aiming Assistant's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

QMD3 Stroke Trainer/Analyzer ships an update monthly, Billiards Aiming Assistant every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
QMD3 Stroke Trainer/Analyzer versus Billiards Aiming Assistant: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQMD3 Stroke Trainer/AnalyzerBilliards Aiming Assistant
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating4.5 (4 ratings) — better3.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings4 — better2
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.012.0
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB145 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMosens LLCEFSTRATIOS KANTZELIS

Customer experience

QMD3 Stroke Trainer/Analyzer

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Billiards Aiming Assistant

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

QMD3 Stroke Trainer/Analyzer

No in-app purchases

None

Billiards Aiming Assistant

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is QMD3 Stroke Trainer/Analyzer free?
QMD3 Stroke Trainer/Analyzer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Billiards Aiming Assistant free?
Billiards Aiming Assistant costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, QMD3 Stroke Trainer/Analyzer or Billiards Aiming Assistant?
QMD3 Stroke Trainer/Analyzer is rated higher. QMD3 Stroke Trainer/Analyzer averages 4.5 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Billiards Aiming Assistant averages 3.0 from 2 ratings.
Do QMD3 Stroke Trainer/Analyzer or Billiards Aiming Assistant have ads?
Neither QMD3 Stroke Trainer/Analyzer nor Billiards Aiming Assistant shows ads.
Which is updated more often, QMD3 Stroke Trainer/Analyzer or Billiards Aiming Assistant?
QMD3 Stroke Trainer/Analyzer ships an update monthly, and Billiards Aiming Assistant every 5 months. Most recently, QMD3 Stroke Trainer/Analyzer was updated on October 6, 2026 and Billiards Aiming Assistant on October 2, 2026.

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