Comparison

ShotMarker vs Par Timer

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

Head to head
About

ShotMarker

Features
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ShotMarker helps basketball players turn training videos into highlight clips. During a shooting workout, use the Apple Watch app to mark the moments you want to keep. After training, the session syncs to iPhone. Select the matching training videos from Photos, review the clips around your marker times, and generate a highlight video to save to Photos. Features: - Mark training moments quickly from Apple Watch - Sync completed training sessions to iPhone - Select videos from Photos and align markers with video timestamps - Preview and adjust each clip's start and end times, and choose which clips to keep - Customize clip number labels, including position, size, and opacity - Save highlight tasks and return to edit videos, settings, and clips - Keep your previous highlight until a new video is generated successfully - Generate highlights with original audio and save them to Photos - Export diagnostic logs for troubleshooting Keep ShotMarker in the foreground while generating a video. If generation stops, you can restart it manually. No account or sign-in is required. Training records and video processing stay on your devices. The iPhone app sends limited usage analytics and error/crash diagnostics as described in the Privacy Policy. The current app interface is in Simplified Chinese.

About

Par Timer

This app provides a customizable par timer for dry-fire practice, allowing users to set voice commands, delays, par times, and shot cues. It helps build speed and consistency through structured drills, with options for display, sound, and vibration cues. The pro upgrade unlocks advanced features like preset management and run history.

Highlights
  • Customizable voice commands and delays
  • Adjustable par times and string progression
  • In-string shot cue integration
  • Reholster time options
  • Display, audio, and vibration cues
  • Training activity history and map
  • Save, load, and edit drill presets (Pro)
Features
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The most advanced par timer for dry-fire practice — you control the voice commands, delays, par times, shot cues, and progression, and drill against the beep to build speed and consistency from home. Par Timer delivers the timing cues you configure through on-screen display, sound, and vibration, so you can run structured dry-fire drills anywhere. Every part of the sequence is yours to set, from the delay before the start signal to how your par times tighten across sets. Note: this is a par timer, not a shot timer. It plays the timing cues you set and you train against them — it does NOT listen for or detect your shots, in dry-fire or live fire. There is no microphone-based shot detection. Key features: • Turn voice commands on or off — hear "Are you ready? Stand by" before each string, or run beeps only • Set the delay before each string of fire to a fixed time, a random range so you can't anticipate the start, or turn it off • Set the par time for the string and the number of strings in a run • Progressively decrease par time across sets with acceleration — either reaching a target time by the final set, or reducing by a fixed amount each set • Add shot cues within the string to practice splits and specific shot cadence • Add or disable reholster time between strings to set your own pace between reps • Get every cue by display, audio, and vibration — toggle audio and haptic cues independently for quiet or vibration-only practice • Review a full history of every run, with a training activity map showing how consistently you practice over time Pro upgrade (one-time purchase): • Save, load, edit, rename, and delete presets for your drill setups • Reload and repeat any past run straight from your history Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://gunzncoffee.com/partimer/privacy-policy/

Screenshots

ShotMarker4 screens
Par Timer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ShotMarker at none against Par Timer's 1. Par Timer's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs monthly) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.4). 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. Par Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. ShotMarker asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ShotMarker ships an update monthly, Par Timer every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
ShotMarker versus Par Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShotMarkerPar Timer
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.416.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB77 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer静 何David Asatrian

In-app purchases

None

ShotMarker

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Par Timer

One-time1
  • Par Timer Pro$9.99

Questions

Is ShotMarker free?
ShotMarker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Par Timer free?
Par Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ShotMarker or Par Timer have ads?
Neither ShotMarker nor Par Timer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ShotMarker or Par Timer?
ShotMarker ships an update monthly, and Par Timer every 6 days. Most recently, ShotMarker was updated on September 30, 2026 and Par Timer on October 13, 2026.

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