Comparison

Dry Fire Timer & Par Drills vs Golden Delta

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

Head to head
About

Dry Fire Timer & Par Drills

This app provides a standalone dry fire training experience on Apple Watch, allowing users to run drills, customize sounds, and track progress. It features pause and resume functionality, drill sharing, and a library of competition drills for pistol training.

Highlights
  • Standalone Apple Watch functionality
  • Pause and resume mid-drill
  • Customizable sounds and signals
  • Drill export and import
  • Training log and progress charts
  • 23 built-in competition drills
  • Par time shifting
Features
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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.

About

Golden Delta

Features
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Golden Delta helps practical shooters train at home and see on video where a stage loses time. SHADOW STAGE: DRY-FIRE TRAINING • A generated home stage: targets, movement and reloads against the clock. • Single drills on a par time: draw, target transitions, reload, strong-hand and support-hand shooting. • Your own drills: a name, a description and your own par time. • After each block you mark the clean reps, and the app picks your next par time. • Handgun or rifle. • Progress: your par time by week and every block you shot. STAGE VIDEO • Two cameras of one run, head cam and phone, sync automatically by the sound of the shots into one frame. • The auto timer finds the start beep and every shot. You can adjust the marks by hand. • Two runs of the same stage side by side: splits, first shot and the delta on every shot. • A stage results card from a PractiScore or WinMSS match export (.cab): time, hits, placing. • Export a vertical 9:16 video for social media, or at full resolution. PRIVACY Videos are processed on your device and never uploaded. No account needed. Anonymous usage statistics can be turned off in Settings. Golden Delta is made for sport shooters. Dry-fire only with an unloaded firearm and follow the safety rules.

Screenshots

Dry Fire Timer & Par Drills4 screens
Golden Delta4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Golden Delta at Free against Dry Fire Timer & Par Drills's $8.99. Golden Delta also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 5 weeks). Dry Fire Timer & Par Drills's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On 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

Golden Delta is free to download; Dry Fire Timer & Par Drills costs $8.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dry Fire Timer & Par Drills ships an update every 5 weeks, Golden Delta every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Dry Fire Timer & Par Drills versus Golden Delta: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDry Fire Timer & Par DrillsGolden Delta
Price$8.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (9 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews30.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings9 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB77 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperKonstantin KuriloNikita Lapin

In-app purchases

None

Dry Fire Timer & Par Drills

No in-app purchases

None

Golden Delta

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Dry Fire Timer & Par Drills free?
Dry Fire Timer & Par Drills costs $8.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Golden Delta free?
Golden Delta is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Dry Fire Timer & Par Drills or Golden Delta have ads?
Neither Dry Fire Timer & Par Drills nor Golden Delta shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Dry Fire Timer & Par Drills or Golden Delta?
Dry Fire Timer & Par Drills ships an update every 5 weeks, and Golden Delta every 5 days. Most recently, Dry Fire Timer & Par Drills was updated on November 9, 2026 and Golden Delta on November 1, 2026.

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