Range Drills vs Alpha Charlie
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Range Drills
This app offers tools for shooters to enhance their skills, precision, and safety. It helps users refine technique, develop safe firearm handling, monitor progress, and achieve shooting objectives. Suitable for both novice and experienced marksmen.
- Skill improvement tools
- Precision enhancement
- Safety habit building
- Performance tracking
- Goal achievement support
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Range Drills is a powerful training app designed to help shooters improve their skills, precision, and safety. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced marksman, Range Drills provides simple, effective tools to refine your technique, build safe firearm-handling habits, track your performance, and achieve your shooting goals. Train smarter. Shoot better. Hit your mark. Terms of Use: https://rangedrills.io/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://rangedrills.io/privacy-policy
Alpha Charlie
Analyze your performance in competitive shooting matches like USPSA and IDPA. Get detailed breakdowns of each stage, compare your scores to other shooters, and track your progress over time. Understand where you're losing points and how to improve your accuracy and speed.
- Match result analysis
- Stage breakdown and comparison
- Head-to-head shooter comparison
- Performance trend tracking
- Offline data storage
- Optional iCloud Sync
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Alpha Charlie is THE performance analytics app for USPSA, IDPA, PCSL, GPA and IPSC competitive shooters. Stop guessing where you're losing — start knowing. Capture your match results directly from the match results page and get instant, deep analysis of your performance. Alpha Charlie breaks down every stage, compares you to the field, and shows you exactly what's costing you places. MATCH ANALYTICS See your overall and division rank, match percentage, hit factor, and points down at a glance. Track how you're improving across every match you've shot. STAGE BREAKDOWN Review every stage in detail — your time, points, hit breakdown, and rank on each stage. Swipe through stage cards and spot where you gained or lost ground. HEAD-TO-HEAD COMPARISON Compare yourself directly to any shooter in the field. See how your time, points, alphas, charlies, deltas, and misses stack up against any competitor. MATCH ANALYSIS Get smart insights that tell you whether speed or accuracy is costing you more places. See how many positions you'd gain with a 10% faster time, a clean run, or better hit quality. Find your best and worst stages relative to your average. TREND TRACKING Charts track your rank, match percentage, and hit factor over time so you can see your improvement arc across your full match history. YOUR DATA, YOUR DEVICE All match data is stored privately on your device. Nothing is sent to any server. Enable optional iCloud Sync to keep your data in sync across your iPhone and iPad. Supports USPSA, IDPA, GPA, PCSL and IPSC Matches Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Alpha Charlie at weekly against Range Drills's every 2 months. Alpha Charlie also leads on monetization model (free vs freemium) and ratings volume (31 vs 3). Range Drills's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and review sentiment (100% vs 88%). 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. Range Drills sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Alpha Charlie sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Range Drills holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Alpha Charlie has 31 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Range Drills's written reviews are positive against 88% of Alpha Charlie's.
Range Drills ships an update every 2 months, Alpha Charlie weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Range Drills | Alpha Charlie |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 4.7 (31 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 87.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 31 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | IDODEV.IO LLC | RICHARD DAVID SILBER |
Customer experience
Range Drills
Alpha Charlie
In-app purchases
Range Drills
- Range Drills Monthly Premium7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Range Drills Annual Premium7 Days trial$100.001 Year
Alpha Charlie
- Alpha Charlie Monthly$4.991 Month
- Alpha Charlie Yearly$49.991 Year
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