Comparison

Rise vs Steady Aim

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

Head to head
About

Rise

This app helps archers track their progress with detailed scoring, advanced statistics, and goal setting. Connect with a community of archers, join groups, and compete on leaderboards. It supports various scoring systems and offers tools for form analysis and practice.

Highlights
  • Text and target face score recording
  • Support for multiple scoring systems (USAA, NFAA, 3D)
  • Advanced statistics and charts
  • Goal setting and tracking
  • Connect with other archers and join groups
  • Customizable rounds and loadouts
  • Form analysis tools
Features
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The cleanest and most intuitive archery tracking app on the App Store, and the only place to track your development and connect with other archers. Rise is an archery scoring app designed to help you to track your archery development with advanced charts and statistics. Whether you’re shooting at your local range for fun or gearing up for international competitions, Rise makes it easy to save your sessions, set goals, and get instant statistics each time you practice. FEATURES • NEW! Tournament Simulations: Simulate hundreds of real USA Archery, World Archery, and Korea Archery Association tournaments, including National Team qualifiers, World Cups, Indoor World Series events, National Championships, collegiate competitions, and the Olympic Games. Shoot qualification and elimination rounds, compete against real historical results, and see how you rank against real competitors • Text and target face score recording options • Target faces for USA Archery, World Archery, NFAA, 3D (ASA/IBO/OPA), and Imperial scoring • Practice, scoring, arrow counter, and Olympic Round modes • Create an account and access your archery data from any supported device • Profile customization with name, division, and profile photo • Connect with other archers and share your recent sessions • Join and create groups for archery ranges, teams, JOAD clubs, and more • Join a group to compete in monthly leaderboards with other group members • Preloaded with USAA indoor and outdoor rounds — or create your own custom rounds! • Autosave feature that lets you pick up where you left off • Number your arrows and see how different arrows group • Advanced statistics for every saved scoring and practice session • Group scoring rounds together when they’re part of a tournament or to view group statistics • Add notes or tags to each session to track form changes, shooting conditions, injuries, etc. • Filter by distance, loadout, date, and tags • Create multiple loadouts for your different setups or bows, apply them to history items, and view loadout-specific statistics • Track your set up tuning details for each loadout, including brace height, nock height, poundage, arrow spine, sight settings, and more • Save and track your goals • Delayed camera feed for viewing your form as you shoot • Built in Countdown timer to help practice shot timing • Simulate a competition environment by scoring against Rise Bot, whose scores are based off your own recent performance • Support for metric and imperial distances • Support for light and dark modes • Export a saved scoring round as a CSV or PDF • Export your entire shooting history as a CSV Rise is constantly growing, and new updates are always in the works! If you have any questions or want to suggest a feature, please email us at support@risearchery.com, or follow the Facebook page, Rise - Archery Scoring.

About

Steady Aim

This application connects to a specialized device to capture and analyze archery motion data. It provides archers and coaches with quantitative feedback for informed decisions on form and equipment setup.

Highlights
  • Connects to Steady Aim device
  • Streams motion data
  • Provides quantitative feedback
  • Analyzes archer form
  • Informs setup decisions
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The app is designed to connect to a Steady Aim device which can be purchased on our website. The device attaches to your bow and streams motion data to the app. The app will give you quantitative feedback which can be analysed and interpreted by the archer or coach resulting in informed decision making to ones set-up and form.

Screenshots

Rise4 screens
Steady Aim4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Steady Aim at none against Rise's 5. Steady Aim also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 76%) and device support (3 vs 1). Rise's advantage is ratings volume (155 vs 11). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Rise sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Steady Aim asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Rise against 4.9 for Steady Aim. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Rise has 155 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 76% of Rise's written reviews are positive against 100% of Steady Aim's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Rise ships an update every 4 weeks, Steady Aim monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Rise versus Steady Aim: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRiseSteady Aim
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (155 ratings)4.9 (11 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings155 — better11
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size104 MB37 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCampbell AffleckSteady Aim Technologies (Pty) Ltd

Customer experience

Rise

All ratings155 ratings
Positive94.8%
Neutral1.9%
Negative3.2%
Written reviews37 reviews
Positive75.7%
Neutral2.7%
Negative21.6%

Steady Aim

All ratings11 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Rise

Subscriptions4
  • Rise Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Rise Coach Monthly$14.991 Month
  • Rise Pro Yearly$49.991 Year
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  • Rise Coach Yearly$149.991 Year
One-time1
  • Rise Pro Lifetime$199.99
None

Steady Aim

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Rise free?
Rise is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Steady Aim free?
Steady Aim is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Rise or Steady Aim?
Steady Aim is rated higher. Rise averages 4.8 out of 5 from 155 ratings, while Steady Aim averages 4.9 from 11 ratings.
Do Rise or Steady Aim have ads?
Neither Rise nor Steady Aim shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Rise or Steady Aim?
Rise ships an update every 4 weeks, and Steady Aim monthly. Most recently, Rise was updated on October 27, 2026 and Steady Aim on October 14, 2026.

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