Rise vs Bowscore
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Bowscore
Easily score archery tournaments with this app. Archers can self-score, parents can view live results online, and directors can track event progress in real-time. It simplifies tournament management for archery clubs.
- Self-scoring for archers
- Live score viewing for parents
- Real-time event progress tracking
- Secure data storage
- Support for multiple archery organizations
- Intuitive scoring interface
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The easiest way to score archery tournaments. Archers can score themselves, parents can view scores live on our website, and tournament directors can track event progress in real-time. Event creation and registration are available through bowscore.com. Scoring is intuitive and all data is secure. Scores are saved on your device and automatically uploaded to our servers so you'll never lose a scorecard. Only archers and admin with the scoring code have access to enter scores. All score edits are visible to tournament managers so cheating is easy to spot. Bowscore is committed to helping archery clubs by simplifying tournament scoring and management. We currently support the following sports: ASA, IBO, LAS Classic, NFAA, Olympic S3DA, The Shoot-Out Series, and USA Archery. We are dedicated to providing excellent customer support and frequent app updates. Please reach out to us if you have new feature requests!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bowscore at none against Rise's 3. Bowscore also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 76%) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads 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
Both are free to download. Rise sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Bowscore asks for nothing beyond the download.
Rise ships an update every 4 weeks, Bowscore fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and June 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Rise | Bowscore |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (154 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 75.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 154 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 101 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Campbell Affleck | Scientific Toolworks, Inc. |
Customer experience
Rise
Bowscore
In-app purchases
Rise
- Rise Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
- Rise Pro Yearly$49.991 Year
- Rise Pro Lifetime$199.99
Bowscore
No in-app purchases









