Comparison

Leupold Control vs Shot Timer

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

Head to head
About

Leupold Control

This app serves as a digital command center for select Leupold optics, offering customizable ballistic and ranging tools. It provides advanced firing solutions, live wind data, and navigation features for hunters and shooters.

Highlights
  • Customizable home screen
  • Advanced ballistic calculations
  • Live wind-aware shooting data
  • Backcountry navigation
  • Firearm and ammo profiles
  • Waypoint pinning
Features
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Leupold Control is the digital command center for select Leupold optics, designed to adapt to how you shoot, hunt, and prepare in the field. The new customizable home screen lets you build your own command view, placing the tools and data you use most—ballistics, wind, ranging, weather, and device controls—exactly where you want them. Whether you’re a backcountry hunter or a precision shooter, Leupold Control now works the way you do. Advanced ballistic tools, including Hornady® 4DOF®, deliver physics-based firing solutions that account for real-world variables like wind, environmentals, and shooting angle. Create detailed firearm and ammo profiles, range and pin waypoints, and sync critical data directly to compatible Leupold devices for fast, confident decisions when it matters most. USE IT FOR: • Customizable ballistic and ranging workflows • Advanced ballistic calculations and firing solutions • Live wind-aware shooting data • Backcountry navigation and waypoint pinning • Preseason scouting and target setup USE IT WITH: • Compatible Leupold® rangefinding optics (RX-5000 & BX-6 Range HD) • Calypso™ wind device (for live wind integration)

About

Shot Timer

Features
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Measure and store your shooting practices. Reject costly gear, use your phone. Shot Timer allows your smartphone to acts as a shot timer (often unnecessarily expensive gear), measuring your training sequences, storing them, and helping you to improve your shooting skills. Unlike an old fashioned costly timer, Shot Timer is able to store and give track of your practices; Furthermore, it allows to uploading them on the cloud, keeping your training data syncronized beteewn all your devices, or sharing them with your friends. You can create and modify your own shotting sequences, measuring how many time you take to reload, to swap your weapon or displacing. Beat again and again your record and become the best shooter! Shot Timer works, as real ones, by analyzing the sound gain and registering as a shot when a volume spike ocurs.

Screenshots

Leupold Control4 screens
Shot Timer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Leupold Control at none against Shot Timer's 1. Leupold Control also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 5 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Shot Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Leupold Control asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Leupold Control ships an update every 2 months, Shot Timer every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Leupold Control versus Shot Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLeupold ControlShot Timer
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (14 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings14 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size348 MB24 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperLeupold & Stevens, Inc.Miguel Quinonero Lopez

In-app purchases

None

Leupold Control

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Shot Timer

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$2.99

Questions

Is Leupold Control free?
Leupold Control is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Shot Timer free?
Shot Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Leupold Control or Shot Timer have ads?
Neither Leupold Control nor Shot Timer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Leupold Control or Shot Timer?
Leupold Control ships an update every 2 months, and Shot Timer every 5 months. Most recently, Leupold Control was updated on November 11, 2026 and Shot Timer on November 9, 2026.

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