Comparison

Simple Arrows vs Archery Scoring Helper

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

Head to head
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.

About

Archery Scoring Helper

Features
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Yumiya is a fast, focused archery scoring app for the range and the field. Tap the target face to record every arrow, or use the number pad — then watch your average, X-count and totals update live. SCORE THE WAY YOU SHOOT - Tap-the-target input with a magnifier loupe for precise arrow placement - Or score quickly with the number keypad - Full World Archery 10-zone scoring (X, 10-1, M) - Set arrows per end and number of ends for any round SEE YOUR PROGRESS - Daily average and totals at a glance - Calendar view of every session - Trends by day, week, month or year - Score distribution and personal records - Compare periods to see if you're improving BUILT FOR ARCHERS - Save loadouts (recurve, compound, barebow) and filter stats by gear - Set goals and track them - Round history with notes and tags - Arrow grouping visualization for every round ON YOUR DEVICE - Your scores stay on your device - Optional iCloud sync across your own Apple devices Clean, dark and distraction-free. Just you, your bow and the numbers.

Screenshots

Simple Arrows4 screens
Archery Scoring Helper4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Archery Scoring Helper at none against Simple Arrows's 1. Archery Scoring Helper also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). Simple Arrows's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Simple Arrows sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Archery Scoring Helper asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Simple Arrows ships an update weekly, Archery Scoring Helper fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Simple Arrows versus Archery Scoring Helper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimple ArrowsArchery Scoring Helper
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (8 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings8 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB48 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDLXR LLCMuhammed Mustafa Demir

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Simple Arrows

One-time1
  • Supporter Edition$6.99
None

Archery Scoring Helper

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Simple Arrows free?
Simple Arrows is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Archery Scoring Helper free?
Archery Scoring Helper is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Simple Arrows or Archery Scoring Helper have ads?
Neither Simple Arrows nor Archery Scoring Helper shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Simple Arrows or Archery Scoring Helper?
Simple Arrows ships an update weekly, and Archery Scoring Helper fortnightly. Most recently, Simple Arrows was updated on October 31, 2026 and Archery Scoring Helper on October 28, 2026.

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