QuickDOPE vs Loadscope Ballistics
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
QuickDOPE
This app simplifies ballistic calculations for range sessions by providing a practical, range-first workflow. It allows real-time wind adjustments, condition updates, and generates clear dope cards. Manage ballistic profiles for different rifles and ammunition to ensure quick and consistent setup.
- Real-time wind adjustments
- Update temperature, altitude, humidity
- Generate clear dope cards
- Manage ballistic profiles
- Range-first workflow
- Organized data management
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Subscription required. QuickDOPE streamlines ballistic calculations and range sessions with a practical, range-first workflow. An active subscription is required to access ballistic solver features. Subscription options include Monthly and Annual plans with automatic renewal. Input real-time wind for live wind adjustments, update conditions like temperature/altitude/humidity, and generate clear dope cards with the holdover and windage you need. Create and manage ballistic profiles for different rifles and ammunition so setup is quick and consistent across sessions. The interface is designed to reduce reliance on spreadsheets and scattered notes. Get to a usable solution faster and keep your data organized. Ballistic outputs depend on your inputs, equipment, and real-world conditions. Always verify results on your range and follow safe firearms practices.
Loadscope Ballistics
This app helps shooters analyze load development data from a desktop application and carry confirmed loads to the range. It provides live DOPE re-solves, measures shot groups from photos, and performs real wind calculations. It also includes a DOPE card library and recipe cards for easy reference.
- Live DOPE re-solve with automatic local condition pull
- Measure shot groups from photos
- Real wind math with gust range calculation
- DOPE card library
- Recipe cards for component reference
- Offline-first operation
- Metric and imperial unit support
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Load development runs in Loadscope for Mac or Windows. This app carries your load to the range. Loadscope scores every powder charge and seating depth you tested -- across four metrics that show up on target -- and picks your winning load automatically. No squinting at a ladder graph to call it by eye. This companion carries that exact load to the range and keeps it honest in the field. It is not another ballistic calculator fed with guesses. It runs the confirmed load you built in Loadscope on Mac or Windows -- your bullet and your velocity -- and re-solves it live as conditions change. At the line, in seconds: - Live DOPE re-solve. Pull current local conditions automatically, powered by Apple Weather -- density altitude, temperature, and pressure re-solve your dial on the spot. The number you dial is for your load, not a library average. - Measure shot groups from a photo. Photograph your target, set the scale, and mark each shot -- Loadscope reads group size and mean radius in inches, MOA, and mil, plus your dial-to-center. Powder or seating-depth ladders, several targets a session, custom calibers. Pull them into your working load on the desktop over Wi-Fi, each target matched to its charge or seating depth. - Real wind math. Enter speed and direction on a glove-friendly wind rose; the app computes the actual crosswind component for you -- full-value trig, no eyeballing "half value." Enter a gust range (say 8-12 mph) and see your windage spread. - DOPE card library. Every confirmed load, sorted by rifle and recent, searchable. - Recipe cards. Your components -- bullet, powder and charge, primer, brass, CBTO -- as a clean read-only reference at the bench. - Round count. Tap "+N" for the rounds you just ran; it syncs back to that barrel's count on the desktop. - Metric or imperial. Yards or metres, °F or °C, inHg or mbar, wind in mph, m/s or km/h -- each is one switch in Settings. - Works with zero signal. Offline-first. Loads sync from your computer over Wi-Fi -- no account, no backend. - iPhone and iPad, one app. iPad opens to a wider layout -- load list, DOPE, and recipe side by side. Get Loadscope for Mac or Windows at loadscope.app. Free to download. A one-time $9.99 unlock adds phone-side load entry -- and it's free if you own Loadscope on Mac or Windows (just enter your license key). No subscription. No ads. No data collected.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Loadscope Ballistics at 5.0 against QuickDOPE's 4.4. Loadscope Ballistics also leads on monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs subscription). QuickDOPE's advantage is ratings volume (7 vs 1) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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. QuickDOPE sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Loadscope Ballistics sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Loadscope Ballistics holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: QuickDOPE has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
QuickDOPE ships an update weekly, Loadscope Ballistics every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | QuickDOPE | Loadscope Ballistics |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Crosswind Dynamics LLC | Loadscope LLC |
Customer experience
QuickDOPE
Loadscope Ballistics
In-app purchases
QuickDOPE
- Monthly Access7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Annual Access$29.991 Year
Loadscope Ballistics
- Create Your Own Loads$9.99
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