Comparison

Recoil Shot Timer vs Shot Caddy

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

Head to head
About

Recoil Shot Timer

This app uses your Apple Watch to time shooting drills and tracks your performance on your phone. It accurately times shots even in noisy environments or with suppressed firearms, providing detailed analytics on your performance.

Highlights
  • Apple Watch drill timing
  • Phone-based performance tracking
  • AI-powered recoil detection
  • Accurate timing in noisy conditions
  • Detailed shot statistics
  • Weapon type performance breakdown
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Time drills with your Apple Watch and track performance on your phone. Our recoil-driven, AI-powered app succeeds where traditional acoustic timers fail, giving you the ability to confidently time shots next to other shooters, in the rain, and with suppressed firearms. Track every shot. See every split. Your data is yours, forever. Easily view shot times from your watch as you're training. Dive deeper post-practice and view shot stats on your phone including number of rounds fired, fastest draw, and fastest split for any given day or period. You can also view stats by weapon type (pistol or rifle). Recoil Shot Timer was developed in partnership with the Office of Naval Research as part of the Joint Marksmanship Assessment Package for the Marine Corps. Trained with over 20,000 shots from hundreds of Marines and civilians, Recoil has become a fully functional shot timer with remarkable accuracy. Works best on centerfire rifles and pistols.

About

Shot Caddy

This training log simplifies recording target sports sessions, allowing users to track progress and identify trends in their performance. It consolidates data across disciplines like rifle, pistol, and shotgun, providing insights into equipment, loads, and shot consistency.

Highlights
  • Effortless session logging
  • Consolidated log for all disciplines
  • Automated performance analysis
  • Track equipment and ammunition
  • Monitor group size and trends
  • Data validation and clean logs
Features
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Shot Caddy is a training log for target sports, built on one idea: the less effort it takes to record a session, the more sessions you'll actually record — and the more you record, the more your own data can tell you. Most range notebooks die the same way. You fill in a few pages, skip a session, and never open it again. Shot Caddy is designed to survive that. Logging takes seconds, the app carries forward what it already knows, and the analysis happens whether or not you feel like doing arithmetic at the bench. MINIMUM ENTRY, MAXIMUM ANALYSIS Every screen is built to reduce typing. Shot Caddy remembers your equipment, your loads, your usual distances and your typical sessions, then offers them back instead of asking you to enter them again. What you supply is the part only you know: what actually happened downrange. ONE LOG FOR EVERY DISCIPLINE Rifle, pistol, shotgun, air. Shot Caddy keeps them together instead of scattering your history across a notebook, a scoring app and a camera roll full of targets. Move between disciplines without moving between apps, and see your whole practice history on a single timeline. SEE WHAT IS ACTUALLY CHANGING One good group tells you almost nothing. A hundred logged sessions tell you a great deal. Shot Caddy turns your entries into trends: how your groups are tightening, which distances you have quietly stopped practicing, whether that new load is genuinely better or simply had a good afternoon. These are the patterns that stay invisible in a paper log. DATA WORTH TRUSTING Analysis is only ever as good as what goes into it. Shot Caddy helps you keep the log clean while you build it, catching gaps, flagging entries that look out of place and prompting you for the details that make everything else more useful. The habits are built into the workflow, so you are never cleaning up a year of sloppy records after the fact. WHAT YOU CAN TRACK - Sessions by date, location and conditions - Equipment, optics and the exact setup you used - Ammunition and load details - Distance, target and shot count - Group size and scoring - Notes on what you were working on that day QUESTIONS IT HELPS YOU ANSWER - Is my group size actually trending down this season, or does it just feel that way? - Did that change to my setup do anything measurable, or did I imagine the difference? - Which distances and positions have I quietly stopped practicing? - Is this load genuinely better, or did it get lucky over a small number of rounds? - How does this month compare to the same month last year? BUILT FOR PEOPLE WHO PRACTICE ON PURPOSE Competitive shooters measuring progress against a scorecard. Handloaders working up a load who want evidence rather than impressions. Hunters confirming a setup before the season opens. Coaches following a student across months instead of sessions. And anyone who has ever packed up at the end of a range day thinking "I think that was better" with no way to prove it. FROM YOUR FIRST SESSION You do not need a year of history for this to be worth doing. The first session gives you a baseline, and every one after it sharpens the picture. There is no backlog to import and no setup ritual to get through — enter what you did today, and the app starts working immediately. Log the next ten sessions and you will already be seeing things you could not see before. WHY IT EXISTS There is a strange gap in this sport between how carefully we choose our equipment and how casually we record what it does. We will spend an entire season chasing a tighter group and keep the evidence on the back of a target and in memory. Shot Caddy closes that gap with the smallest amount of work it could possibly ask of you. Start with your next session. Log it in under a minute and let the picture build itself. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Shot Caddy Terms: https://www.shotcaddy.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.shotcaddy.com/privacy

Screenshots

Recoil Shot Timer4 screens
Shot Caddy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Shot Caddy at 5.0 against Recoil Shot Timer's 4.1. Shot Caddy also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 75%). Recoil Shot Timer's advantage is ratings volume (28 vs 2). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Recoil Shot Timer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Shot Caddy sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Shot Caddy holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Recoil Shot Timer has 28 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Recoil Shot Timer's written reviews are positive against 100% of Shot Caddy's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Recoil Shot Timer ships an update fortnightly, Shot Caddy every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Recoil Shot Timer versus Shot Caddy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRecoil Shot TimerShot Caddy
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (28 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings28 — better2
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size61 MB13 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperNIftyBytesPrecision Sports Ai LLC

Customer experience

Recoil Shot Timer

All ratings24 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

Shot Caddy

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Recoil Shot Timer

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly14 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Yearly14 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Recoil Pro - One Time Purchase$39.99
4 purchases

Shot Caddy

Subscriptions2
  • Shot Caddy Pro Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Shot Caddy Pro Yearly7 Days trial$99.991 Year
One-time2
  • 50 AI Credits$4.99
  • 250 AI Credits$19.99

Questions

Is Recoil Shot Timer free?
Recoil Shot Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Shot Caddy free?
Shot Caddy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Recoil Shot Timer or Shot Caddy?
Shot Caddy is rated higher. Recoil Shot Timer averages 4.1 out of 5 from 28 ratings, while Shot Caddy averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Recoil Shot Timer or Shot Caddy have ads?
Neither Recoil Shot Timer nor Shot Caddy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Recoil Shot Timer or Shot Caddy?
Recoil Shot Timer ships an update fortnightly, and Shot Caddy every 3 weeks. Most recently, Recoil Shot Timer was updated on October 30, 2026 and Shot Caddy on October 29, 2026.

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