ShotView™

As far as the app doing its primary job in syncing sessions from the device to the app, it does that fine with no issues although I don’t understand why an account needs to be made…Competition Electronics doesn’t require this with their app. But there are so many optimizations and bugs that could be addressed. The most recent version has a major issue with copy/paste functionality where you rename sessions. It highlights all text by default and you end up having to drag the text into Notes and paste then re-copy into the next session and make edits. Also, if shots are excluded from a string, the velocity updates but the standard deviation does not. So then I have to go to an external source to enter in all my shot data for that string and recalculate standard deviation. The app badly needs a sort and search function as it’d be nice to organize strings with common components next to each other for quick comparisons. The app also needs a way to notify the user that a firmware update is available so that those updates can be performed prior to a range trip rather than at random times during a shooting session causing lost data. This happened to me so I’m always having to remind myself to check for updates before I head to the range. App also needs an “export all” option badly. Within each string column, it also should let you sort each column by shot number, velocity, SD, KE, etc for easier analysis from within the app instead of needing to dump everything into Excel for basic sorting.

The chrono works very well, but the app is insanely rudimentary. Many of us who purchased this reload and the lack of available fields to enter reloading data (bullet, powder, powder charge, primer, brass, number of times brass fired, CBTO, which firearm, etc.) and some self configuring data fields and a photo of the targets is more than disappointing. This app needs a major update or the people in charge of app development should be replaced. I’m not sure who they spoke to when developing the app, but it wasn’t the right people. As I said, the chrono has worked flawlessly, but it’s only as good as the means to review and document the data. Even my old Caldwell app had far more fields 😱. I have reached out by email to the development team, but haven’t heard a word from them. It’s truly disappointing considering the cost. Buyers remorse? Maybe, we will see what Garmin does to improve the product. Poor execution with the app Garmin!

App is improving. Keep on going Garmin. Love the XLS multi session export. Don’t need to export sessions individually as CSV to retain notes. Aesthetics are also improving.

It just does not work or connect at all.

All the effort to take notes for each session but the only way to view them is to export each session one by one..

This is still a basic app with some features that do not work for me (iPhone 16 Pro). For instance exporting sessions must be done one-by-one, from inside the display of each session’s details. If you select all sessions from the home screen, it will not work. In fact the radio buttons to select individual sessions on that screen do not function correctly. The app does the job and will allow you to export to Excel, however that’s about all I use it for. Once your session is in Excel, it’s simple to edit it however you like.

The Garmin Xero is excellent but the app falls well below expectations. A few simple improvements, starting with sort and search functions, would make this a five star app.

So you pay $600 for a nice radar unit. In the old days, Garmin might have been happy with that, and a happy customer. But in the brave new world of endless monetization no, they require an online account for simple purely local data sync so that they can harvest your data for themselves and add subscriptions later. Scum.

Great easy to use app but lacks the features to delete all sessions, or manually select and delete. Very time consuming.

The Garmin Xero chronograph is a phenomenal instrument. After buying my Xero and shooting my first sessions, I literally took five other chronograph from my shooting room and threw them in the trash…… The Xero has never failed to accurately record the 500 or so rounds it has been used for. Well …. Then I started using the shotview software ! What a piece of garbage software. It has a multitude of problems that I am not even going to begin to list. With the revenue that garmin gets from the Xero, one would think that they could spend a little money on a software developer to fix this app. I don’t know if some of the anti-gun idiots at Apple have attacked this technology to render it demasculated. My hope is that some day shotview will get fixed….. until then, I will just limp along with the Garmin Xero.