ShotView™

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.

Has no use for user, only spyware for Garmin, used gather info so they can market more stuff to you. It’s a shame the chronograph is great, best shooting tool I have bought in 30 plus years, the shot view app is like a after though dreamed up by marketing, glad I didn’t use my email address to sign in.

Really need a way to create sub-sessions for reloading, e.g. when moving through a ladder of powder charges

When I export the sessions all at once it does not show the notes. But if I export the individual sessions it does.

The app is really lacking compared to other chrono apps, like Digital Link for the CED chronos for example. It doesn’t want to import all of my shot lists so it’s hard to know which shot string I’m looking at, and the Xero unit doesn’t display the bullet weight that was recorded. No shot updates in real time as others mentioned, and the app freezes up every time I try to force another sync. Pretty subpar user interface all around for what would otherwise be an excellent chronograph. It’s really too bad Garmin didn’t put more effort into making this user friendly and useful.

Solid start to a companion app for a stellar piece of kit for reloading. If the devs read this, some sort of “copy-paste” or “duplicate” functionality for sessions would be great. My use case: I want to separate out shots from a session, WITHOUT simply deleting them. If I could copy a session, then delete the unwanted shots from the copy, I could analyze the remaining shots separate from the parent session. Other app (not hardware) wish list items: - Automatically pulling temp/pressure/elevation data to add to sessions - location and firearm profiles, ways to add them to sessions - Additional fields of metadata to add to sessions, such as powder selection, and more ways to sort sessions by metadata (for example, all sessions with X bullet weight) - Graphs and charts of data Keep up the good work, you guys are awesome

The app is very basic, I think there is actually more data displayed in the Xero C1 than is in the app. It’s basically just a place to store your shooting for future reference. What the call cloud sync I wouldn’t, for instance I have my Xero C1 paired with my iPad mini. When I end the session the info is then transferred to the mini & I assume at that time it syncs with the cloud. Well when the session has ended on the mini I like to rename the session to the weapon & ammo being used, plus make any notes that I deem necessary. Later I like to review the sessions on my iPad Pro, problem being it only gets the session(s) as the came from the Xero C1 not the edited version. I would call this syncing. The other chronographs that I’ve had costing much less than the Xero C1 transferred the shot data as the shot was made & even announcing the speed. With a little work on the app Garmin could take a great product & make it better. One would expect the app to be the same caliber as the unit itself, but it’s not