Ballistic: Advanced Edition

This app like everything Federal touches is trash. Bullet database was probably accurate before covid, it's pathetic now. Saving settings is awkward at best and editing saved loads is also a pain. Given that our nanny state has banned Strelok, I'm still looking for an app that doesn't make me want to put a 140gr bullet through my phone.

The UI is mostly quick and easy to use. The solutions seem accurate enough. However, the latest update (6.7.1), “updated bullets and loads,” removed many common brands and loads. For example, there is no longer any 22lr CCI loads. Removing common loads really runs the app.

This app used to be excellent, I purchased it a decade ago and spent good money. Now it’s plagued with poor performance, failure to display properly on my phone and crashing. No longer reliable.

Ive tried hornady, lapua, ballistic, ballistic ae, geoballistics and a bunch of junk that wasnt even in the running. Honorable mentions go to lapua for making a fantastic user interface to a complex calculator and geoballistics for the most intuitive and user friendly ballistic calculator ( would be good for teaching or almost anyone ). But i wanted to do more and this thing does it all. Its not easy or intuitive. Its more like a nuclear submarine without a manual :) This does 3 things for me the others dont. Ive got a 556 with a bdc reticle and the cartridge ive chosen does not match up with the 300, 400, 500 yard range marks on my scope. This lets me import a picture of my reticle and overlay my cartridges ballistics on top of it. Its tricky (gotta have zero in the middle and find some vertical moa you can scale to) but i could do it. The thing i realized is this reticle is gonna be close to useless beyond 300 yd, so i wanted a zero that gave me the longest window +/- say 3 inches form line of site. This gives me a 1yd increment chart that displays inches over or under my zero and i played with crazy zeros like 219 yds to find a zero that is +/- 2.75 inches (my scope height) from 0-250 yds. Which happens to be .55 in high at 50yd, so i can aim at the bottom of a 1” sticker an zero shots to the center and not need to figure anything out except how to shoot:) up to 250yd. Thirdly, ive got this program submoa that does group analysis of my shots and im scared of it lol. It crashes randomly. This does that. Its a little clunky scaling things but it doesnt crash. It works best 1 group at time (zoomed in) but i can bring in the same pic 3 times and it works. It seems to do some kind of bulk analysis on all of em with the same cartridge or gun saved as favorites. Things to watch out for. All the diff sections like hud range trajectory seem to use their own variables in some cases even though you entered that else where. Learn to use favorites. That the key. Ive figured out how to fav a couple cartridges and that helps when you open it up and it defaults to blank. Many settings are in iphones app settings. Oh and change weather to g something. Mainly it does everything, you just gotta learn how to use it.

The latest update of this once great app refuses to run unless you tell it your name and email. There is no need for this.

App itself is great, but suddenly all the federal factory load options are gone. Even with the latest update there might be 1 federal load for a cartridge instead of all that used to be listed.

Do not waste your money on this. App is no longer updated or maintained! You have been warned

I’ve been using this app for probably 9 years and have accumulated a lot a favorites from specific loads that I had made. Up until now, it has been great. It has all of a sudden dumped all of the favorites. I’m not the only one this has happened too. They still show in the iCloud backup, but won’t return to the app. It’s worthless now since all the velocities of the hand loads and other inputs and adjustments have been lost.

The app is really great. Very slow to add factory loads to the inventory

When trying to use the target function the app crashes. Emailed support to no avail. Additionally it needs the option to upload additional loads )22 rimfire of choosing). Otherwise has possibilities.