Comparison

Rise vs BowPress

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

BowPress

This app helps archers optimize their equipment by logging every adjustment and arrow shot. It provides data-driven insights into how changes affect performance, replacing guesswork with a detailed history of configurations and results.

Highlights
  • Configuration tracking
  • Session logging with target UI
  • Mid-session change handling
  • Data-driven analytics
  • Detailed bow parameters tracked
  • Detailed arrow parameters tracked
Features
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Tune smarter. Shoot better. BowPress is for competitive and recreational archers who want data behind every adjustment they make to their bow — not just feel. THE PROBLEM Bow tuning involves dozens of interdependent variables: draw length, peep height, limb turns, cable twist, rest position, nocking height, and more. Most archers track changes through memory alone. When something stops working, it's nearly impossible to know what changed, when, or why. BowPress replaces guesswork with a logged history of every configuration state and every arrow you shoot under it. WHAT IT DOES Configuration tracking Every time you change something on your bow or arrow setup, BowPress snapshots the full configuration. Nothing is overwritten — the complete history is preserved so you can always see exactly what your bow looked like when a group of arrows was shot. Session logging When you shoot, you log arrows against the active configuration. A simple drag-to-place target UI captures where each arrow landed. You can write notes during a session — observations about hold feel, back tension, release — that travel alongside the objective data. Mid-session changes Changing something mid-session doesn't break the flow. BowPress handles the bookkeeping quietly in the background, keeping your arrows correctly attributed to the configuration they were shot under. Analytics After enough sessions, BowPress surfaces patterns: which configurations produced your tightest groups, how specific changes have affected your point of impact over time, and what your shooting data suggests you try next. The more you log, the more specific the insights. BOW PARAMETERS TRACKED Draw length, let-off %, peep height, D-loop length, top/bottom cable twists, main string twists, top and bottom limb turns, rest position (vertical, horizontal, depth), sight distance, grip angle, nocking height. ARROW PARAMETERS TRACKED Length, point weight, fletching type, length and offset, nock type, total arrow weight. Sign in with Apple, Google, or email. Optional subscription unlocks advanced analytics and unlimited session history. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS BowPress Pro — Monthly ($4.99/month) and BowPress Pro — Annual ($49.99/year). Each includes a 1-month free trial for new subscribers. Subscriptions auto-renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage from Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions on your device. Terms of Use: https://andrewnguyenn.github.io/bowpress-web/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://andrewnguyenn.github.io/bowpress-web/privacy.html

Screenshots

Rise4 screens
BowPress4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: BowPress at every 2 days against Rise's every 3 weeks. BowPress also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 76%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Rise's advantage is monetization model (free vs freemium) and ratings volume (155 vs 5). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Rise sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and BowPress sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

BowPress holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Rise has 155 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 76% of Rise's written reviews are positive against 100% of BowPress's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Rise ships an update every 3 weeks, BowPress every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Rise versus BowPress: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRiseBowPress
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (155 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings155 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size102 MB37 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCampbell AffleckAndrew Nguyen

Customer experience

Rise

All ratings154 ratings
Positive94.8%
Neutral1.9%
Negative3.2%
Written reviews37 reviews
Positive75.7%
Neutral2.7%
Negative21.6%

BowPress

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 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
2 purchases

BowPress

Subscriptions2
  • BowPress Pro — Monthly1 Month trial$4.991 Month
  • BowPress Pro — Annual1 Month trial$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Rise free?
Rise is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BowPress free?
BowPress is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Rise or BowPress?
BowPress is rated higher. Rise averages 4.8 out of 5 from 155 ratings, while BowPress averages 5.0 from 5 ratings.
Do Rise or BowPress have ads?
Neither Rise nor BowPress shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Rise or BowPress?
Rise ships an update every 3 weeks, and BowPress every 2 days. Most recently, Rise was updated on October 24, 2026 and BowPress on October 16, 2026.

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