Film Studio, a Smarter Shot Timer, and a Real Free Tier

The last few months have been the busiest in Range Buddy's history. Here's everything that's landed — and what it means for how you train.

Film Studio: your film room, in your pocket

The kind of video breakdown that used to take a coach, a laptop, and an evening now happens at the range, minutes after the run. Film Studio has four modes:

Single Video — one clip of one run. The app finds the timer beep on the waveform and gives you frame-by-frame review with times and splits attached to the footage.
Multi-Angle — filmed the same run from two phones? Every angle syncs to one master timeline automatically, aligned by the start beep and shot audio.
Compare — up to four runs side by side on a shared clock, with the splits delta right on screen. You vs. a buddy, or this week's draw vs. last month's.
Breakdown — the coaching mode. Telestrate with arrows, angles, and callouts. Tag every phase of your draw from beep to first shot. Overlay a skeleton wireframe or ghost one rep over another. Add slow-mo ranges and timeline-synced voice notes. Then export a pro-style Coach's Cut — clean run first, then the full analysis with everything baked in.

And one thing we want to be loud about: it all happens on your device. Your video is processed on your phone and never uploaded.

Every mode is open to every shooter. Free accounts include 2 finished exports; Premium makes them unlimited.

Your phone is now a shot timer

Tap start, get the beep, and the mic picks up every shot live — live fire or dry fire, complete with par times, environment presets, and a dry-fire mode that can tell a trigger click from a slide rack. No $150 timer required.

Already own a pro timer? Pair an AMG Commander, Special Pie M1A2, RangeTech, or Shooters Global over Bluetooth and stream every shot and split straight into your log. Special Pie owners even get their timer's stored history imported automatically.

Free shooters earn timer days by practicing — put in the reps and the next day is on us, with free days included every month no matter what.

Point your camera at the target. We'll do the math.

Video & Image Scoring takes a video or a photo of your target, finds every hole, and scores it by zone — USPSA, IDPA, B-8, steel, and more. Export a clip with times, splits, and scored hits burned in.

Prefer zero setup? Print a free QR-marked AIM target, point your camera at it, and scoring aligns itself. And with Live Capture, you can film a run with the timer rolling and get times and splits overlaid automatically — one button starts both.

See yourself getting better

The new My Progress dashboard opens with an accuracy heatmap of where your shots actually land, then breaks your training into Skill, Volume, Consistency, Standards, and Social — each with its own deep-dive. Pick any time window and watch the trend lines move.

On your wrist

The Apple Watch and Wear OS apps put drill control and live shot data on your wrist, so your phone stays in your bag while you shoot.

A free tier that actually lets you train

Range Buddy is now genuinely free to train with: all 160+ drills with full instructions and scoring, the training log, leaderboards, joining challenges and groups, coach booking, earned shot-timer days, free video scoring renders, and free Film Studio exports.

Premium unlocks the unlimited versions of the power tools — timer, scoring, Film Studio — plus the Virtual Instructor, training standards and regimens, the full 52-Week Program, and the watch apps. $7.99/month or $49.99/year, with a 14-day free trial.

Grab the update, film a run, and see what your draw has been hiding.