Simple Arrows vs BowPress
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simple Arrows
This archery companion automatically recognizes rounds and tracks your practice sessions. It offers detailed insights into your performance and allows you to manage your bows and share your scores. The app prioritizes a clean, user-friendly experience with minimal setup.
- Automatic round recognition
- Practice timeline
- Bow profiles
- Performance insights
- Scorecard export
- Target face selection
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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.
BowPress
This app helps archers track bow and arrow configurations and shooting sessions with detailed data. It analyzes adjustments to improve accuracy and provides insights into performance patterns. Log every change and arrow shot to understand your equipment's impact on your shooting.
- Configuration tracking
- Session logging with target UI
- Mid-session change handling
- Performance analytics
- Detailed bow parameters tracked
- Detailed arrow parameters tracked
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Tune smarter. Shoot better. BowPress is for competitive and recreational archers who want data behind every adjustment they make to their bow — not just feel. THE PROBLEM Bow tuning involves dozens of interdependent variables: draw length, peep height, limb turns, cable twist, rest position, nocking height, and more. Most archers track changes through memory alone. When something stops working, it's nearly impossible to know what changed, when, or why. BowPress replaces guesswork with a logged history of every configuration state and every arrow you shoot under it. WHAT IT DOES Configuration tracking Every time you change something on your bow or arrow setup, BowPress snapshots the full configuration. Nothing is overwritten — the complete history is preserved so you can always see exactly what your bow looked like when a group of arrows was shot. Session logging When you shoot, you log arrows against the active configuration. A simple drag-to-place target UI captures where each arrow landed. You can write notes during a session — observations about hold feel, back tension, release — that travel alongside the objective data. Mid-session changes Changing something mid-session doesn't break the flow. BowPress handles the bookkeeping quietly in the background, keeping your arrows correctly attributed to the configuration they were shot under. Analytics After enough sessions, BowPress surfaces patterns: which configurations produced your tightest groups, how specific changes have affected your point of impact over time, and what your shooting data suggests you try next. The more you log, the more specific the insights. BOW PARAMETERS TRACKED Draw length, let-off %, peep height, D-loop length, top/bottom cable twists, main string twists, top and bottom limb turns, rest position (vertical, horizontal, depth), sight distance, grip angle, nocking height. ARROW PARAMETERS TRACKED Length, point weight, fletching type, length and offset, nock type, total arrow weight. Sign in with Apple, Google, or email. Optional subscription unlocks advanced analytics and unlimited session history. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS BowPress Pro — Monthly ($4.99/month) and BowPress Pro — Annual ($49.99/year). Each includes a 1-month free trial for new subscribers. Subscriptions auto-renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage from Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions on your device. Terms of Use: https://andrewnguyenn.github.io/bowpress-web/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://andrewnguyenn.github.io/bowpress-web/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Simple Arrows at free against BowPress's freemium. BowPress's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Simple Arrows sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and BowPress sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Simple Arrows against 5.0 for BowPress. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 5 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Simple Arrows ships an update weekly, BowPress every 3 days. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.
| Parameter | Simple Arrows | BowPress |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 106 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DLXR LLC | Andrew Nguyen |
Customer experience
Simple Arrows
BowPress
In-app purchases
Simple Arrows
- Supporter Edition$6.99
BowPress
- BowPress Pro — Monthly1 Month trial$4.991 Month
- BowPress Pro — Annual1 Month trial$49.991 Year









