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Every feature of ArrowNotes in order, from your first round to the analysis.
On first launch ArrowNotes creates distances and round templates so you can start right away. No account required.
For open training the Training template works well: it does not create ends in advance, you add them as you shoot.
The overview shows your last three rounds, the arrow count and the trends. Tap a round to open it; “Show all” leads to the full list.
The arrow count combines arrows recorded in rounds and arrows counted manually; you can page through all time, the current year and the current month. The trends compare the past three months with the three months before, separately for indoor and outdoor, because target faces and distances differ too much; a small line shows the history of the last twelve months. Shown are average points per arrow and per end, gold and X rate, and arrows per month; the ⓘ in the card explains every figure and the notes “no comparison” and “few data”.
The Personal bests card keeps two kinds of records, decided by the mark set when creating the round: under Competition the best total per round type (template rounds are named e.g. “WA 70 m”, other formats carry their structure as the name; the type is recognised from the structure, i.e. distances, faces, ends and arrows, not the name), under Practice the best average points per arrow per distance, face and size from 30 arrows, regardless of length or template. With several bow types, records are kept per bow type. Tap it for all records with date, previous best, distance to the next pin, best end and best average; a record from the last 30 days is marked “New”. The Awards card leads to the grid of all awards: target pins (white to purple following the World Archery thresholds, outdoor and indoor, with a separate table for barebow and longbow), stars for WA 1440, milestones for arrows and rounds, special hits (first 10, first X, perfect end) and consistency (week streak, training days per year). Open awards are grey with a progress ring, earned ones coloured with a date. Only fully shot rounds count, practice and competition alike; duels do not count. A new award is celebrated right after the end is saved. The Awards page lists every award with its threshold.
The avatar at the top right opens your profile.
The rounds list shows all rounds in reverse chronological order, grouped by month. Each row shows the target face, name, date, total score and average, plus icons for training or competition and for indoor or outdoor. For match play rounds the set point score appears in the row as well.
Tap to open a round, swipe left to delete it, swipe right to open its statistics.
A round consists of one or more sections. Each section has its own target face, size, distance and a planned number of ends and arrows per end. That covers a WA 1440 with four distances just as well as an indoor round. In the round details you switch between sections using the bar; below it you can see which target face the selected section uses.
Planned ends are already in the list and open with a tap. In rounds without a fixed plan you add an end with the plus button. The checkmark at the top right saves, the X discards.
If a round was set up incorrectly (wrong distance preselected, all ends recorded in the first section, or an open section without a fixed number of ends), you can fix it afterwards. Enable “Advanced round editing” in Settings under “System”; the tools then appear in the round detail.
“Change distance” (at the bottom of the round detail) sets a new distance for the selected section; all its ends take it over, while scores, hit patterns and photos stay unchanged.
“Move end”: swipe a shot end to the right or long-press it and choose another section of the same round or “New section (copy of current)”. With “Also all following ends” the remaining ends move along. Empty placeholders in the target are filled.
“Fix section” takes the ends shot so far and the arrows per end as the fixed plan for open sections (“No limit”) or sections whose plan no longer matches. Only then does the round count as complete for personal bests and awards. A confirmation shows what will be set.
There are three ways to record an end; the switch at the bottom right cycles through them. Which one is active when you open an end is set in Settings.
Tap the point of impact directly on the target. A loupe shows the spot your finger covers. Markers can be moved; the score follows from the position. The zoom button enlarges the face, two fingers move the visible area.
Tap the scores one after another, fast and without aiming. X is the inner ten, M is a miss.
See target photos.
Recorded arrows appear as coloured rings in the header of the end; tapping one deletes that arrow. The header also shows the total, the average, the arrow count and the distance.
You can take a photo of the target face for every end, using the camera icon at the top right. The photo stays with the end, can be viewed full screen, shared and deleted. In the list of ends a small camera icon marks the ends that have one.
Open the photo and tap the ring value in the palette at the bottom. The marker appears in the centre of the view; press and hold to lift it, then drag it onto the arrow. A loupe shows the spot beneath your finger. A short tap on a marker deletes it after a confirmation.
Photos are rarely taken square to the target. The crosshair icon puts a template over the photo: five green handles on a reference circle of the face, an orange cross on the centre. An automatic detection fills the template in, and the ring preview shows immediately whether the correction fits.
If the outer edge is cropped, pick a different colour boundary as the reference; on field faces the white lines between the black rings are available as well. With the correction confirmed, photo markers feed the hit pattern as real positions on the target face. If the angle is too steep the app declines instead of producing inaccurate values.
For 3-spot faces one calibration is enough: the handles go on one spot, two extra crosses mark the centres of the other two. Hits are assigned to the right spot automatically.
When creating a round, switch Competition from Normal to Match play and pick one of six World Archery formats:
The format determines the number of sets and arrows; target face, size and distance stay up to you. While recording you also enter your opponent's total for each set. The round then shows the set point score, the list of all sets with their results and the winner.
If it is level after all sets, Record shoot-off appears. If the scores tie there as well, the app asks who was closer to the centre; it cannot derive that from the data.
Match play rounds count normally in the statistics: all figures are normalised per arrow.
The statistics tab analyses all rounds, filtered by period, type (training or competition) and place. You get score shares in percent, the distribution by arrows per ring, the average per end, round and distance, and the arrow count.
The statistics of a single round open with a swipe to the right in the rounds list. There the hit pattern is added: it shows all hits of the round on the target face, together with the group centre and the average spread in centimetres and inches. If the round uses several target faces, each gets its own hit pattern to page through; otherwise the values would refer to the wrong diameter.
The arrow counter records arrows shot outside of a round. Use +1, −1, +5 and +10 to count up or down; the reset button clears the day. Values are stored per day; the list icon at the top right opens the history, where single days can be deleted.
Under Settings > Timer you set the preparation, shooting and warning times. At the start, on phase changes and at the end the app can play a sound and give haptic feedback. The timer also runs from the Apple Watch.
Under Settings > Bows, the plus button creates a bow: name, type, length and, depending on the type, limbs and sight. For every bow you can store several setups (draw weight, upper and lower tiller, brace height) and mark one as active. A notes field takes whatever does not fit anywhere else.
Under Settings > Limbs you add limbs with name, length and draw weight. They are required for recurve and barebow.
Under Settings > Sights you enter your sight with the ends of its scales: up and down for elevation, left and right for windage, front and back for the extension. If windage is normally centred, enter one of the two values as a negative number. If the extension bar has no printed scale, simply count the detents.
Under Settings > Arrows you add arrows with spine, length, diameter and weight. When you create a round, the arrow you used last is preselected.
Under Settings > Sight settings you store the values per bow/sight combination and distance. One entry per distance is possible; to change it, delete the old one and add it again. All lists can be edited or deleted with a swipe to the left.
The avatar at the top right of the overview holds your first name, last name, club and a profile picture, taken with the camera or picked from your library. You can zoom and move the crop before saving.
If a first name is set, it replaces “Me” in match play, including the question of who was closer to the centre in a shoot-off. The profile syncs to your devices via iCloud and survives restoring a backup: it belongs to the person, not to the rounds.
The watch app is a remote control for the iPhone, which needs to be in range.
Match play rounds currently appear on the watch like normal rounds.
All data is stored on your device first. In Settings you can turn iCloud sync on and off; while it is on, your devices stay in step through your private iCloud account. Turn it off and the data stays local; when you turn it back on, the app asks which state should win.
You can also export your data as a file and import it again. Note that an import replaces all locally stored data. Target photos are deliberately not part of that file, as it would grow unwieldy. They do sync via iCloud.