Dry Fire Timer vs Hit Factor Calculator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dry Fire Timer
This app provides a versatile dry fire training experience with a comprehensive drill library and a precision timer. It offers unique features like standalone Apple Watch operation, pause and resume functionality, and customizable sound alerts for enhanced training sessions.
- Standalone Apple Watch app
- Pause and resume drills
- Customizable sounds and signals
- Drill sharing via export/import
- Training log and progress charts
- 23 built-in competition drills
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The dry fire timer other apps wish they were. Dry Fire Timer is the only dry fire trainer with standalone Apple Watch, pause & resume, fully customizable sounds, and drill sharing — features you won't find anywhere else. 23 built-in competition drills. Progress charts. One-time purchase. APPLE WATCH — STANDALONE Run drills from your wrist without your phone. Browse by category, start with one tap, feel haptic signals — Stand By tap, Go buzz, Par Time pulse. Logs sync back to iPhone automatically. PAUSE & RESUME MID-DRILL Paused on rep 23 of 50? Resume from rep 24. Your session isn't lost because life interrupted. CUSTOMIZABLE SOUNDS 4 presets — Default, Tactical, Soft, Classic — or build your own. Assign a different tone to each of the 5 signals from 8 tone types. Preview before you train. EXPORT & IMPORT DRILLS Share your entire training program. Export drills as JSON, send to your squad via AirDrop or text. They import and run your exact drills with your exact par times. TRAINING LOG & PROGRESS CHARTS Every session logged with time, par times, notes, and target photos. Charts track your improvement over weeks. Export logs as CSV with photos for your coach. DRILL LIBRARY 23 built-in competition drills — Core, Match, and all 8 Steel Challenge stages. Build unlimited custom drills with multiple strings and individual par times per string. PAR SHIFT One tap shifts every par time across all strings by 1/100s. Tiny increments that compound into real speed. Perfect for Steve Anderson's "Refinement and Repetition." PRECISION TIMER Hardware-scheduled beeps — millisecond accuracy. Random or fixed start delay. Visual flash signals work with ear pro. AirPods and Bluetooth speaker support. No subscriptions. No ads. No account. Works offline. On the App Store since 2013.
Hit Factor Calculator
Calculate your potential shooting competition scores with "What If" scenarios for misses, no-shoots, and penalties. Explore different scoring possibilities to visualize your "Dream Score" and optimize performance.
- Calculate Hit Factor with "What If" scenarios
- Simulate scores without misses
- Simulate scores without no-shoots
- Simulate scores without procedural penalties
- Explore "Dream Score" possibilities
- Free to use
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Hit Factor Calculator for IPSC and USPSA, offering the "What If..." feature which quickly calculates your possible Hit Factor without misses, without no-shoots and without procedural penalties and the "Dream Score" feature allowing you to play with different values free-style to see what your possible Hit Factor could be.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Hit Factor Calculator at 100% against Dry Fire Timer's 31%. Hit Factor Calculator also leads on price (Free vs $8.99) and rating (5.0 vs 4.2). On ratings volume, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Hit Factor Calculator is free to download; Dry Fire Timer costs $8.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Hit Factor Calculator holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 31% of Dry Fire Timer's written reviews are positive against 100% of Hit Factor Calculator's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dry Fire Timer | Hit Factor Calculator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $8.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.2 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 30.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Konstantin Kurilo | Melmac Network |
Customer experience
Dry Fire Timer
Hit Factor Calculator
In-app purchases
Dry Fire Timer
No in-app purchases
Hit Factor Calculator
No in-app purchases
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