Shooter Make Ready vs MatchDirector
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!
MatchDirector
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MatchDirector is the stage design and match-day scoring tool built for competitive shooting match directors and range officers. DESIGN STAGES ON THE CANVAS Drag-and-drop stage designer with USPSA, IDPA and Steel Challenge props: paper targets, no-shoots, poppers, plates, walls, barricades, barrels, fault lines and shooting boxes. Grid snap, rotation, real bay dimensions in feet, undo and redo. WRITTEN STAGE BRIEFINGS, AUTOMATICALLY Round counts and target counts are calculated from what you placed on the canvas. Add the start position, procedure and scoring type, and export the finished stage brief as a PDF or image straight from the share sheet. SCORE MATCH DAY AT THE BAY Download a match pack once, then run the whole match with no signal: stages, squads and competitors are on the device. Score each shooter with a fast, purpose-built score sheet — hits, misses, no-shoots, procedurals and time — with auto-advance to the next shooter in the squad. Steel Challenge and multi-string stages are supported. HAND THE DEVICE TO A RANGE OFFICER Scoring mode locks the app to the score sheet so a shared tablet cannot wander; leaving it takes Face ID or your passcode. SYNC BETWEEN DEVICES WITHOUT INTERNET Several devices scoring the same match sync peer to peer over the local network, with conflict review when two officers scored the same shooter. REGISTRATION AND RESULTS Import your registration roster from CSV, manage squads and shoot order, and review standings, hit factors and stage percentages in the results and matrix views. BUILT FOR THE RANGE Works on iPhone and iPad, offline first, with your work auto-saved as you go. Free to use. Made by match directors, for match directors.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: MatchDirector at every 2 days against Shooter Make Ready's every 11 months. Shooter Make Ready's advantage is iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Shooter Make Ready ships an update every 11 months, MatchDirector every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shooter Make Ready | MatchDirector |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (5 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Accelerated Firearm Training, LLC | COMPETITIVE METRICS LLC |
In-app purchases
Shooter Make Ready
No in-app purchases
MatchDirector
No in-app purchases
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