Comparison

Arcus Archery Scoring vs Simple Arrows

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

Head to head
About

Arcus Archery Scoring

Easily record your archery scores with this app. Select the number of arrows and scoring method before starting. Tag sessions with details like bow, discipline, and distance for comprehensive tracking.

Highlights
  • Quick score recording
  • Select arrow count (3 or 5)
  • Choose scoring method
  • Tag sessions with custom info
  • Track bow, discipline, distance
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Arcus Archery Scoring is an app designed to quickly and easily start recording your scores. Select how many arrows you are shooting (right now, 3 or 5, cannot be changed after you start scoring) and choose your scoring method (can be changed after you start scoring). When you save your session, you can tag the session with the information you care about (bow, discipline, distance, etc).

About

Simple Arrows

This app simplifies archery scoring by automatically recognizing rounds and tracking practice sessions. It offers a clean timeline of your progress and provides calm insights into your training, with options to share your achievements. Your data remains private and on your device.

Highlights
  • Automatic round recognition
  • Practice timeline
  • Calm training insights
  • Scorecard export
  • Private data storage
  • Multiple target faces
Features
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Simple Arrows is a small, quiet archery companion for iPhone and iPad. Pick a target face, place your arrows, and it works out which round you're in on its own. It keeps a calm timeline of your practice and, over time, helps you notice what's changing. There are no knobs to set up before your first arrow, no stats you didn't ask for, and nothing to configure between you and the next end. LESS SETUP, MORE SHOOTING Choose a face and start. Simple Arrows watches how you score and recognizes the round for you, from Portsmouth to the WA 1440 to the imperial rounds and plenty more, without asking you to pick from a list first. It knows the rounds you actually practice, and you stay in control the whole way. Score on the target face or the scoresheet, whichever feels right to you. On iPad in landscape, or iPhone Duo opened up, you get both side by side. Every tap is instant. THE FACES WA full face, 6-ring, vertical 3-spot and 5-spot. Vegas 3-spot. NFAA single spot and 5-spot. Worcester and Worcester 5-spot. And a blank bale for form work. DELIGHT IN THE DETAILS We spent a long time on the small things. Arrows land with a little settle. Hold your finger down and a magnifier opens so you can place a mark exactly where the arrow went. The Finish button gently fills beneath your thumb. None of it is necessary. All of it, we hope, makes scoring a pleasure rather than a chore. We couldn't find the archery app we wanted for ourselves, so we built it. A TIMELINE OF YOUR PRACTICE Every session, note, and milestone lives in a clean, filterable timeline you can revisit years from now. Personal bests appear quietly as you go. ALL YOUR BEAUTIFUL BOWS Keep a profile for each bow you own. Every session remembers which bow it used, gear changes land on a dated history for that bow, and Insights keeps each bow's trend separate, so a new riser starts its own story instead of blending into the old one. JUST ENOUGH INSIGHTS Lightweight, honest reads on your training: trend, consistency, and volume, with enough context to notice what changed after a new string, a new tab, or simply a good week. One clear picture instead of a wall of charts. SHARE THE GOOD ONES Had a round you're proud of? Export it as a clean scorecard image and send it to a friend, your coach, or the club chat. It looks like something you'd want to share, because who wants to share a screenshot of a spreadsheet? The card is free for everyone; Supporters get a few extra styles to play with. YOURS, AND PRIVATE Your training data stays on your device and, if you choose, in your own private iCloud account. Anonymous analytics are off by default, and if you turn them on, they help improve the app and nothing else. Export your whole archive as CSV whenever you like. It's your data. FREE, WITH AN OPTIONAL THANK YOU The entire app, and every core feature, is free for everyone, forever. Scoring, automatic round recognition, your timeline, insights, import, export, and sync. If Simple Arrows earns a place in your quiver, you can become a Supporter and pick up a handful of cosmetic extras: 3D arrows that catch the light when you tilt your phone, alternate target-face themes, arrow mark colors, and extra export styles. It's simply a way to say thanks. Nothing about how the app works is ever locked behind it. Made by Dabblings, a small studio of archers.

Screenshots

Arcus Archery Scoring4 screens
Simple Arrows4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Simple Arrows at Free against Arcus Archery Scoring's $5.00. Simple Arrows also leads on ratings volume (8 vs 1). Arcus Archery Scoring's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 26.0). On rating, ads 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

Simple Arrows is free to download; Arcus Archery Scoring costs $5.00 up front. Simple Arrows sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Arcus Archery Scoring asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Arcus Archery Scoring against 5.0 for Simple Arrows. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Simple Arrows has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Arcus Archery Scoring versus Simple Arrows: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterArcus Archery ScoringSimple Arrows
Price$5.00Free — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (8 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings18 — better
Update frequency—Weekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developersarah benalene kittingerDLXR LLC

Customer experience

Arcus Archery Scoring

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Simple Arrows

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Arcus Archery Scoring

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Simple Arrows

One-time1
  • Supporter Edition$6.99

Questions

Is Arcus Archery Scoring free?
Arcus Archery Scoring costs $5.00, with no in-app purchases.
Is Simple Arrows free?
Simple Arrows is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Arcus Archery Scoring or Simple Arrows?
Arcus Archery Scoring and Simple Arrows are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 8 ratings respectively.
Do Arcus Archery Scoring or Simple Arrows have ads?
Neither Arcus Archery Scoring nor Simple Arrows shows ads.

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