AmmoDB vs BenchLog
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AmmoDB
Track your ammunition inventory and storage with detailed statistics. Record information like rounds, cost, and maker, then view averages and totals for your collection. Share your stats or export data to CSV.
- Track ammunition inventory and storage
- Detailed statistics (averages and totals)
- Sort records by name, location, and date
- Record date, maker, rounds, cost, and more
- Export data to CSV
- Share stats via social media or email
- Works offline
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Thank you for using AmmoDB. Your care with ammunition and equipment deserves credit. Whether you shoot, hunt, or collect, AmmoDB gives your records a practical home on iPhone and iPad. Keep an ammo inventory, firearm log, range journal, and reloading notebook together. Check stock, storage, costs, and ammunition use. Records work offline, with no app account required. AMMUNITION INVENTORY - Record ammo names, manufacturers, caliber details, grain weights, containers, dates, status, and notes. - Track boxes, rounds per box, loose rounds, rounds used, and rounds remaining. - Review purchase costs, total cost, cost per round, and percentages used or remaining. - Add photos to identify a box, batch, or storage location. - Organize stock by safes, shelves, cabinets, ammo cans, or range bags. - Search your inventory, reuse saved ammo-name presets, and duplicate similar records. - Keep dated usage history with notes for practice, training, testing, or field use. FIREARMS AND STARTER MODELS - Keep firearm identification, serial numbers, measurements, purchase details, notes, and photos. - Start with 169 model entries covering 61 firearm models and 67 calibers and gauges. - Choose from several models for popular calibers, or enter your own details. - Search models at the top of the chooser, filter by firearm type or caliber, and sort by name, type, or caliber. - Link firearms to your ammo records, range sessions, and ladder tests. - Review and edit starter details against your own firearm. Templates fill identification fields only. RANGE JOURNAL AND CHRONOGRAPH - Log ammunition used in named range or field sessions and keep round counts current. - Enter or paste chronograph readings in feet per second or meters per second. - Review average velocity, minimum, maximum, extreme spread, and standard deviation. - See shot-by-shot velocity graphs and daily ammunition use. - Save target photos, measure groups, and compare group sizes in MOA. - Keep session notes and return to the firearm and ammo records behind them. HANDLOADING RECORDS - Track powder, primers, and brass with dated stock additions and use. - Record brass firing counts and preparation stages by batch. - Save ladder test observations, measured charge weights, velocities, groups, and notes. - Review component history and graphs of your recorded test results. COUNTS, COSTS, AND REPORTS - Review inventory stats by ammunition and storage location. - Compare counted rounds with your chosen allowance maximum. - Open readable ammo records and share a PDF report of matching records. - Browse and sort a spreadsheet-style inventory with Ammo+ Pro. CALCULATORS AND REFERENCE - Estimate trajectory, wind drift, velocity, and energy with the ballistic calculator. - Use twist rate and recoil calculators, plus an MOA and mil converter. - Save ballistic results and share calculations when you choose. - Browse a searchable ammunition reference with identification notes and source links. Choose optional startup protection with an app PIN, or supported Face ID or Touch ID with PIN fallback. Inventory and photos stay in local app storage unless you share them. Free access includes three ammo records and three locations. Ammo+ Pro offers unlimited records, locations, and calculator use, plus Spreadsheet and CSV/JSON inventory sharing. Choose monthly or lifetime access. Inventory exports exclude photos and separate firearm, range, and reloading records. Calculators provide estimates, and references are for identification. Verify ammunition compatibility, specifications, and load data with current manufacturer sources. Handloading records document your observations and do not recommend loads. For monthly subscriptions: Monthly Pro is a 1-month auto-renewable subscription. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://verosocial.com/privacy/
BenchLog
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BenchLog is a reloading journal built for handloaders who take load development seriously — and who want their data to stay on their own device. Log every load, track what each charge actually does downrange, and work up to the load your rifle likes best. No account. No cloud. No subscription. ALREADY KEEP A SPREADSHEET? BRING IT. Import your load log from CSV. Map the columns yourself — BenchLog shows sample values from each one so you can tell them apart — and check the preview before anything is saved. Headers split across two rows are handled. Columns it has no field for go into the load's notes instead of being dropped. Nothing is written until you say so. LOG YOUR LOADS • Record caliber, bullet, powder, charge, primer, brass, OAL, CBTO and notes • Duplicate a load to work up the next charge in one tap • Version history keeps every step of a workup • Yellow flag when a charge tops your own logged max TRACK EVERY RANGE SESSION • Enter velocities by hand or import a chronograph CSV • No chronograph? Enter the number of rounds fired — inventory and barrel round count follow it • Live average, SD and ES as you go • Group size, MOA, distance, weather and a keeper / retest / reject verdict • Photo of the group KNOW YOUR BARREL • Round count for every barrel, built from the sessions you already log — free • Started mid-life? Enter what the barrel had on it before BenchLog • Sessions on loads without a barrel are never folded into the count • Sessions with no round count are marked, not silently counted as zero • PRO: cleaning log — set "clean at N rounds", see the count since the last cleaning, and keep every cleaning with the round count it was done at SEE YOUR LADDER • Charge vs. velocity chart across a workup • Seating depth test: switch the axis to CBTO and chart group size against cartridge length • Tap any point for its MOA and distance • SD at a glance to spot the flat spots KNOW YOUR INVENTORY • Track powder, bullets, primers and brass with cost • "Rounds left" forecast from your average charge • Low-stock flags EXPORT & BACK UP • Printable PDF load book • CSV export of loads, sessions, components and barrel cleanings • Full backup to a single file — and restore it anytime BUILT RIGHT • 100% offline — everything works at the range with no signal • No account, no tracking, your data never leaves the device unless YOU export it • Free forever: your range log, group measurement, ladder charts, inventory, barrel round count, import and export, and your first 10 loads • One-time purchase — BenchLog Pro — unlocks unlimited loads, the barrel cleaning log, the season summary and the result card, with more Pro tools as they land. No subscription, ever. BenchLog stores YOUR records only. It is not load data. Always verify charges against a current published reloading manual. Start low and work up. You are responsible for your loads.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: BenchLog at every 3 days against AmmoDB's every 2 weeks. BenchLog also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.6). 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
Both are free to download. AmmoDB sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and BenchLog sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
AmmoDB ships an update every 2 weeks, BenchLog every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AmmoDB | BenchLog |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 53.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Verosocial Studio | Oleg Nemna |
In-app purchases
AmmoDB
- Ammo Pro Unlock$1.991 Month
- Lifetime Pro Unlock$14.99
BenchLog
- BenchLog Pro$9.99









