ShotView™

Never made it past the sign in. Just keeps saying “sign in attempt failed”. Tried restarting, reinstalling and a couple of other things. Doesn’t work. Saw someone say it only works on new phones. I’m not buying a new phone….for an app.

The Garmin ShotView app has several negative aspects that have caused me to delete the app from my phone. I only use Garmin Express to keep its firmware updated. Now I use a pencil and 3x5 inch spiral notebook to record Xero C1 Pro contained data for later transfer to my computer. Here's why. 1. I have many shooting devices that offer apps for my phone as follows: 1) T1000 Tuner, 2) Labradar, 3) ATN Obsidian, 4) ATN LRF Ballistics, 5)Vortex FURY HD, 6) Kestrel Ballistics, 7) SIG BDX, 8) Longshot, and 9) PhoneSkope. NONE of these apps requires me to first log into my account. But the Garmin ShotView requires account login before being able to communicate with the Xero C1 Pro. WHY? The only reason I can see is for data logging and user profile building. This is an invasion of privacy. 2. The ShotView app only permits the transfer of Xero C1 Pro data to the app ONE TIME. WHY? Then I log out of the ShotView app and then log back in. That action erases ALL session data from the app and those sessions cannot be reimported from the Xero C1 Pro chronograph. WHY? This is very user unfriendly and I cannot understand why Garmin would do this. 3. The ShotView app permits tagging of a shot for "cold bore" and "clean bore" properties. That is nice. It then allows for the session's statistics to be updated when that shot's data is to be deleted from the statistics, also nice. However, the exported "csv" file contains ALL shot data in its statistics and no option exists for the exported data and statistics to have the deleted shots adjusted. WHY? Maybe it's because for some misguided reason Garmin chose to only allow the transfer of Xero C1 Pro data to the app only ONE TIME. WHY? In summary, the Xero C1 Pro is a great device, being smartly designed and engineered, and performs very well. The ShotView app is exactly the opposite. It was poorly thought out, requires user account login, poorly implemented, and VERY user unfriendly. I now enjoy using the Xero C1 Pro hardware, have deleted the ShotView app from my phone, and use a 3x5 inch spiral notebook and pencil for data recording and transfer to my computer. The ShotView app development team needs recalibration. Please fix the ShotView app! Thanks.

Nice app but it would be great if you could sort past sessions by a specific rifle/pistol.

Notes do not show up on the exported excel workbook.

I have only one device with the app. Shot 5 sessions today and it only uploaded 2. Tech support could not help. Extremely disappointed for the amount of money I spent.

I wish multiple sessions could be deleted at one time rather than going into each session and deleting them individually.

Competition shooters want to know power factor which the unit records however, the app does not average power factor for all shots taken. It Has to be calculated manually for all shots that are taken. Why is this so difficult as other Crono apps already do this? You have to end sessions before it is transferred to the app instead of having live transfer for each shot like other Chrono apps Add all of the above that I have listed and you’ll get a five star from me.

App seems to function 100% so far, which is great. Would love to be able to break shooting sessions down into shot strings, add a photo to each session, and plot strings on tables and graphs for analysis.

App works but needs more features. For starters need the ability to move shots between sessions.

The app could have been so much better, I’ve had the same issues pointed out in other reviews. I’m also notified there is a new version available even though I’ve already installed it. Fortunately I’ve written a utility to convert the fit files you can access by plugging it into a pc into csv files so I can bypass the app altogether.