LoadOut Ballistics & Reloading vs Freebore
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LoadOut Ballistics & Reloading
This app is a comprehensive tool for shooters, offering ballistics solving, reloading management, and range day assistance. It caters to beginners and experienced users alike with guided lessons and advanced features. Track your performance, develop loads, and manage your shooting data securely.
- G1/G7 ballistics solver
- Reloading data management
- Beginner Mode with guided lessons
- Load development methods
- Range and match day tracking
- Data import and export
- Optional AI features
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LoadOut takes you from the bench to the target. It is a ballistics solver, a reloading workspace, and a range day companion in one app, built for three kinds of shooters: the one picking up a rifle for the first time, the reloader chasing single digit SDs, and the competitor who wants a better score next month than last. DIAL A SOLUTION YOU CAN TRUST A free G1/G7 ballistics solver on industry standard exterior ballistics math, with spin drift, aerodynamic jump, and Coriolis when you want them. Measured drag curves (CDM/DSF) ship free for hundreds of factory bullets and apply the moment you pick a factory load. Get your holds in MOA, mils, or clicks, build a DOPE card, and read your holdovers straight off your own reticle in the Scope View, with 55 reticles in the library. LEARN IT PROPERLY New to precision shooting, or to reloading? Beginner Mode hides the advanced fields and walks you through the process. Learn has step by step lessons, guided walk-throughs on the real screens, a searchable reloading glossary, and plain language guides to every tool in the app. Nobody is assumed to know what CBTO means on day one. WORK UP A LOAD LIKE A PRO Five load development methods, including OCW, ladder, and velocity node tests, with per charge statistics that tell you what your chronograph string actually means. Track velocity over time and see which load earned its place in your match ammo. (Pro) RANGE DAY AND MATCH DAY Plot your groups on the target, get group statistics, and keep every session tied to the rifle and the load. On match day, stage cards carry your holds per target, and the Apple Watch, Wear OS, and Garmin companions put them on your wrist. BRING YOUR DATA WITH YOU Import a notebook page by photo (the on device reader does the work, and no image leaves your phone), spreadsheets by CSV or Excel, chronograph sessions from a Garmin Xero, and share a load with a friend by QR code. Reference catalogs for cartridges, powders, bullets, primers, brass, and firearms ship in the app and update over the air. VOICE AND AI, ON YOUR TERMS Ask Siri for your next hold with the phone in your bag. iPhone and Apple Watch read your firing solution out loud, in a Standard voice you can download and that runs on your device. AI Smart Import cleans up a messy photo import and semantic search finds a load by what you mean, not the exact words (Pro). Every AI feature is off until you turn it on. In 15 languages. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS Everything lives on your device. No LoadOut server ever sees your reloading data, we don't sell it, and we don't train on it. Sign in is optional. Cloud backup and sync (Pro) go to your own iCloud Drive, Google Drive, or OneDrive, encrypted on your device with a passphrase LoadOut never sees. SAFETY LoadOut's ballistics and pressure predictions are estimates, not load data. Always work up from a current published load manual and verify against your own rifle. No calculator — ours included — can tell you what is safe in your chamber. PRO Free covers the tracker and the whole base ballistics workflow: the solver, measured drag curves, the Scope View, cartridge dimension diagrams, Match Day, spoken firing solutions, and every import path. Pro adds live weather, hit probability and full analytics, Garmin chronograph import, the pressure and velocity predictor, structured load development, AI Smart Import, encrypted cloud backup and sync, photorealistic scope backdrops, connected weather meters and shot timers, and no limit on rifles and profiles. 14 day free trial, then a subscription or a one time lifetime purchase. The LoadOut team support@johnsondigitalsystems.com Terms of Use: https://loadout-precision-reloading.web.app/legal/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://loadout-precision-reloading.web.app/legal/privacy.html
Freebore
This app is a comprehensive tool for firearm enthusiasts, offering ballistic calculations, load workups, group measurements, and range trip notes. It integrates with various devices for real-time data and provides detailed reloading information from published sources.
- Ballistic calculations with real-time wind and air data
- Load workup and reloading data from published sources
- Group measurement and target analysis
- Gun and ammo library with extensive data
- Match day stage setup and timing
- Notes and log for range trips and tests
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Freebore is one app for the whole job: a ballistic calculator, load workup, group measurement, notes and loads for every gun and range trip, and your match dope on an Apple Watch or a Garmin. One subscription instead of four apps. DOPE Range it, make your wind call off the clock, and get the come-up and the wind hold in mils, MOA, inches or clicks, however your turrets read. Flip to the reticle view and see the hold on your own reticle at whatever power you're on, drawn from the scope maker's own sheet. The range card shades the transonic rows, the compass sets your direction of fire, and hit chance gives you your odds before you send it. The stage or the range card goes to your Apple Watch. Ask Siri for your dope at 600 and it reads it back. TRUE IT Mark where they landed and it corrects the speed or the drag to your own impacts. LIVE AIR AND WIND Pair whatever device you own: Kestrel, Tempest weathermeter, or Calypso and the data is fed to the ballistic calculator for real time dope and wind holds. MATCH DAY Load the match book as PDFs, or take photos of the stage sheets at the briefing, and Freebore AI builds the stages. Send the stage to your Apple Watch or your SG Pulse Pro, time limit and warning beeps included. Log time and hits on each stage and share the match with your squad. LOAD WORKUP Reloading: work up loads for your rifle. Throw away the old program on your windows computer. Now you can build loads from your app. Put in the cartridge, bullet and powder, your barrel length, case capacity and seating depth, and you get peak pressure, velocity and case fill at every charge weight. You can view load tables with your case and bullet or powder selection to find what might work best for your cartridge. FREEBORE RELOADING ENGINE & PUBLISHED DATA Freebore has an internal reloading engine that helps you build the next perfect load. It also pulls from 263,000+ lines of published load data, from Hodgdon, Vihtavuori, Alliant, Western, Lyman and more. NOTEBOOK Log a ladder, an OCW, a Satterlee or a seating depth test shot by shot, with ES and SD for every charge. It even charts your ladder and OCW tests for you so you can find that perfect node. Pull a chrono string in off a Garmin ShotView. Notes for every rifle: round count on the barrel, and when you last cleaned it. No more notebooks and hand writing all your load data. Even attach your measured target to each group of a ladder, OCW, or range trip for reference later. TARGETS Photograph the target, tap the holes, get group size, mean radius and the clicks to zero. GUNS AND LIBRARY Photograph a box of factory ammo and it pulls the cartridge, bullet and box velocity. 576 cartridges, 4,200+ bullets, 234 powders, and 162 airgun pellets and slugs with BCs Hard Air Magazine measured. Load data and reticles live on the phone, so it works with no signal. SUBSCRIPTION $5.99 a month or $54 a year (US prices; the App Store shows your local price), with a 7-day free trial for eligible new subscribers. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. One subscription covers iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and freebore.app. If it lapses, the app goes read-only; nothing you've saved is deleted. Terms of Use: https://freebore.app/terms License (Apple's standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/appstore/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://freebore.app/privacy SAFETY Pressure, velocity, drop and wind holds are estimates from a model, not readings off a pressure gauge. Start at the published starting load where there is one, work up, and watch for pressure signs. You're responsible for every round you load and fire.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: LoadOut Ballistics & Reloading at freemium against Freebore's subscription. LoadOut Ballistics & Reloading also leads on ratings volume (8 vs 2). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. LoadOut Ballistics & Reloading sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Freebore sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 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 LoadOut Ballistics & Reloading against 5.0 for Freebore. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
LoadOut Ballistics & Reloading ships an update every 2 days, Freebore every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | LoadOut Ballistics & Reloading | Freebore |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 3 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 218 MB | 118 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Johnson Digital Systems LLC | Datum Works LLC |
Customer experience
LoadOut Ballistics & Reloading
Freebore
In-app purchases
LoadOut Ballistics & Reloading
- LoadOut Pro – Monthly14 Days trial$4.991 Month
- LoadOut Pro – Yearly14 Days trial$34.991 Year
- LoadOut Pro – Lifetime Founder$89.99
- LoadOut Pro – Lifetime$119.99
Freebore
- Freebore Monthly7 Days trial$5.991 Month
- Freebore Yearly7 Days trial$54.001 Year
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