Shooter Make Ready vs DryFireOnline
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shooter Make Ready
Practice shooting skills at home with laser targets and a companion app. Track speed and accuracy with detailed hit analysis and various training scenarios. Enhances decision-making and firearm handling without live ammunition.
- Laser targets simulating steel plates, poppers, and silhouettes
- Wireless hit detection and scoring
- Up to eight targets with 50-foot radius
- Five pre-set Courses of Fire
- Shot Timer with split times and scoring
- Sight picture visualization and shot correction analysis
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Practice shooting in the comfort of your own home, anytime and as often as you like. Our laser targets and RedShot laser cartridges, or a SIRT training pistol from NextLevel Training, make it possible to do just that LASER TARGETS Imagine having laser targets that simulate steel plates, poppers, and silhouettes. Targets that show your hits as you shoot, and clang with the gratifying sound of 9mm striking steel. Targets that wirelessly send your hits to the Shooter Make Ready app on your smartphone or tablet so you can actually see and evaluate your speed and accuracy. You can keep it simple with one or two laser targets a short distance away. As your skills improve, add more targets and mix up the course of fire for more challenging scenarios. Up to eight laser targets can be arranged anywhere within a 50 foot radius, in the same room or throughout a building, for full 360 degree training scenarios not possible with camera and video based systems. A built-in rechargeable battery provides up to 36 continuous hours on a single charge, and will fully recharge in under 2 hours using a Mini-USB cable and charge adapter. REDSHOT LASER CARTRIDGE Our RedShot laser cartridges feature a bright red laser housed in a high quality brass casing with an activation pad designed to absorb the impact of the firing/striker pin for safe, dependable operation in your firearm. The cartridge is rimless so it isn’t ejected during normal use. The laser has a wavelength of 635 nm which is designed specifically for consistent, reliable operation with the widest range of dry fire target systems that use visible red light, including our Shooter Make Ready laser targets. SHOOTER MAKE READY APP The Shooter Make Ready app automatically connects to up to eight laser targets. Choose a Course Of Fire (COF) from five available in the app: Steel Training, Saturday Steel, React, Practical Shooting, and Friend Or Foe. Each COF is designed to help you develop specific skills to hone your speed, accuracy, and decision making. Range Officer commands can be enabled to direct the start of the Course Of Fire: “Are you ready?” “Standby!” followed by a 300ms start signal “Beeeep!”. Press the Start button on the Shot Timer screen and begin shooting at the start signal. Even a par time stop signal can be configured for time-limited shot strings. A Shot Timer view captures and displays target hits, cumulative times, split times, and overall scoring for each Course Of Fire. A Targets view shows target hit locations and features a sight picture visualization tool and shot correction chart overlays for analyzing shot groups. WHAT IS DRY FIRE PRACTICE? Dry fire practice is the activity of practicing firearm handling skills for training purposes, without the use of live ammunition. It is widely recognized by shooting enthusiasts, shooting competitors, law enforcement and military trainers, and firearm instructors as an extremely effective means for learning and improving firearm handling skills. Dry fire practice develops muscle memory through repetition, allowing the shooter to learn how to act and react safely, rapidly and instinctively while manipulating a firearm. It is proven to be extremely effective for developing and honing skills such as proper grip, stance, draw, presentation, ready position, target acquisition, natural point of aim, sight alignment, sight picture, trigger control, follow through, reloading, target discrimination, and movement and cover. Many firearm trainers suggest that dry fire practice should constitute 70-80 percent of your overall firearm training. The usual recommendation is to train for about 20 minutes 3-5 days a week, but practicing just 15 minutes twice a week will still greatly improve your shooting skills and build your confidence. Visit our website at acceleratedfirearmtraining.com to learn more about how Shooter Make Ready will accelerate your firearm training!
DryFireOnline
Enhance your competitive shooting skills with this training tool. It simulates realistic targets and provides instant feedback on shot placement, time, and score when used with the companion website and a laser training cartridge. Create custom drills for personalized practice.
- Realistic static and moving target silhouettes
- Custom drill creation
- Instant shot placement feedback
- Score and time tracking
- Red laser training cartridge support
- Companion website integration
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Dry Fire Online is a training tool that helps you become a better competitive IPSC / IDPA / USPSA / GSSF / Steel Challenge shooter. It supports your dry fire training sessions by displaying realistically scaled static and moving target silhouettes and you can even create your own drills. This app can be used together with the DryFireOnline.com website to get instant feedback about your shot placement, time and score. The app connects to the website and using the device camera it can detect the red dot of common laser training cartridges. Your hits are displayed in the browser. IMPORTANT: - Requires a red laser training cartridge. Infrared cartridges are not supported. - Requires an additional notebook or tablet with a browser that can display the dryfireonline.com website. - Projector is recommended. EULA and Privacy Policy: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ https://dryfireonline.com/index.php?wf_mode=wf_mode_value_navigate_manual#terms_of_use
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Shooter Make Ready at none against DryFireOnline's 3. Shooter Make Ready also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 70%). DryFireOnline's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 11 months) and rating (4.6 vs 4.3). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. DryFireOnline sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Shooter Make Ready asks for nothing beyond the download.
DryFireOnline holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DryFireOnline has 27 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Shooter Make Ready's written reviews are positive against 70% of DryFireOnline's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Shooter Make Ready ships an update every 11 months, DryFireOnline every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shooter Make Ready | DryFireOnline |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (4 ratings) | 4.6 (27 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 70.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 27 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Accelerated Firearm Training, LLC | Gabor Szigeti |
Customer experience
Shooter Make Ready
DryFireOnline
In-app purchases
Shooter Make Ready
No in-app purchases
DryFireOnline
- Beginner Subscription7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Advanced Subscription7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Expert Subscription7 Days trial$6.991 Month








