Comparison

Shooter Make Ready vs ShootOnTime

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

ShootOnTime

This app provides a simple and efficient par timer for shooting practice, suitable for both dry firing at home and live fire at the range. It focuses on tracking par times to help users improve their performance without collecting any user data.

Highlights
  • Par time tracking
  • Dry fire training
  • Live fire practice
  • Performance enhancement
  • Simple interface
  • Privacy focused
Features
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ShootOnTime is an entirely free and easy-to-use par timer application. Whether you're dry firing at home or honing your skills at the range, our app is designed to serve you as an efficient tool for increasing your performance. With an emphasis on simplicity and functionality, ShootOnTime eliminates the complexities found in many timer apps, making it an ideal companion for both novice and experienced shooters alike. PRIVACY: We Respect Your Data At ShootOnTime, we hold your privacy in the highest regard. Rest assured, we do not collect or store any data input by users within the app. Your trust is important to us, and we are committed to ensuring a secure user experience. NOTE:  Please be aware that ShootOnTime does NOT register or detect the audible firing of firearms. The app focuses solely on par time tracking for your shooting practices.

Screenshots

Shooter Make Ready4 screens
ShootOnTime4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: ShootOnTime at 4.9 against Shooter Make Ready's 4.4. ShootOnTime also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 10 months) and ratings volume (1.1K vs 5). Shooter Make Ready's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 90%) and device support (3 vs 1). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ShootOnTime holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ShootOnTime has 1.1K ratings behind it against 5, 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 90% of ShootOnTime's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Shooter Make Ready ships an update every 10 months, ShootOnTime weekly. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Shooter Make Ready versus ShootOnTime: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShooter Make ReadyShootOnTime
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (5 ratings)4.9 (1.1K ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better90.5% of reviews
Number of ratings51.1K — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB9 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperAccelerated Firearm Training, LLCLiberApps

Customer experience

Shooter Make Ready

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

ShootOnTime

All ratings1,092 ratings
Positive98.5%
Neutral0.7%
Negative0.7%
Written reviews84 reviews
Positive90.5%
Neutral4.8%
Negative4.8%

Bugs and requests

Shooter Make Ready

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

ShootOnTime

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Unable to enter decimal values for par times
  • Forced updates at inconvenient times

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to measure split times
  • Option to set more than 5 par times
  • Ability to adjust tone volume or use custom sounds
  • Ability to export/import settings between devices
  • Option to count up instead of count down

In-app purchases

None

Shooter Make Ready

No in-app purchases

None

ShootOnTime

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Shooter Make Ready free?
Shooter Make Ready is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ShootOnTime free?
ShootOnTime is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Shooter Make Ready or ShootOnTime?
ShootOnTime is rated higher. Shooter Make Ready averages 4.4 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while ShootOnTime averages 4.9 from 1.1K ratings.
Do Shooter Make Ready or ShootOnTime have ads?
Neither Shooter Make Ready nor ShootOnTime shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Shooter Make Ready or ShootOnTime?
Shooter Make Ready ships an update every 10 months, and ShootOnTime weekly. Most recently, Shooter Make Ready was updated on June 1, 2026 and ShootOnTime on September 22, 2026.

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