Comparison

Shooter Make Ready vs Virtual

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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!

About

Virtual

Transform your phone into a portable shooting range with this app. Practice marksmanship using professional lessons and AI coaching, all without ammunition. Engage in multiplayer duels and mini-games with leaderboards.

Highlights
  • Portable shooting range simulation
  • Professional shooting lessons
  • AI coaching and analytics
  • Customizable target range
  • 1v1 multiplayer duels
  • Mini-games with leaderboards
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NOTE: This app will only work with a Virtual-Shot phone mount. Go to www.virtual-shot.com to get your mount. Virtual-Shot turns your phone into a portable shooting range when attached to any real rifle/pistol, Airsoft or training replica. Now you can learn and practice shooting in the comfort of your own home without ammunition. Built by a team of military veterans from backgrounds in Infantry and Special Forces, the app includes: - Professional shooting lessons: learn the techniques the military has refined over hundreds of years to train soldiers to shoot - Professional shooting analytics: Access advanced shooting analytics tools an AI coaching - Customizable range: Where you control target distance, wind speed and direction and even have the ability to practice shooting at moving targets. - 1v1 Multiplayer - Duel Tree level - Mini Games with leader boards so you can finally decide if you are a better shot than you buddies while shooting Zombies, hunting deer, neutralizing insurgents and shooting bottles and steel targets at the range. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://virtual-shot.com/privacy-policy/

Screenshots

Shooter Make Ready4 screens
Virtual4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Shooter Make Ready at 100% against Virtual's 50%. Shooter Make Ready also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and rating (4.4 vs 4.1). Virtual's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 10 months) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0). On price, ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Virtual sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Shooter Make Ready asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Shooter Make Ready holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 14 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Shooter Make Ready's written reviews are positive against 50% of Virtual's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Shooter Make Ready ships an update every 10 months, Virtual every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and August 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Shooter Make Ready versus Virtual: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShooter Make ReadyVirtual
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (5 ratings) — better4.1 (14 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings514 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB987 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperAccelerated Firearm Training, LLCSimulation Training Group

Customer experience

Shooter Make Ready

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Virtual

All ratings14 ratings
Positive71.4%
Neutral7.1%
Negative21.4%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative40.0%

In-app purchases

None

Shooter Make Ready

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Virtual

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly subscriptions$9.991 Month
  • Annual subscriptions$99.991 Year

Questions

Is Shooter Make Ready free?
Shooter Make Ready is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Virtual free?
Virtual is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Shooter Make Ready or Virtual?
Shooter Make Ready is rated higher. Shooter Make Ready averages 4.4 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Virtual averages 4.1 from 14 ratings.
Do Shooter Make Ready or Virtual have ads?
Neither Shooter Make Ready nor Virtual shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Shooter Make Ready or Virtual?
Shooter Make Ready ships an update every 10 months, and Virtual every 2 months. Most recently, Shooter Make Ready was updated on June 1, 2026 and Virtual on August 27, 2026.

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