MantisX - Archery

★★★★★ Truly great app to improve archery skills for newbs like me. It gives me detailed result for each shot I take, how was my hold movement, trigger press movement, and trigger breaks movement, so I can analyze what mistake I make

★★★★★ Great app to identify any issues you may have whilst shooting. However, there are a few niggles, one of which is having to reconnect before every end! Surely it would be better to have some form of storage in the device which would then transfer the data after the session, which is limiting if shooting outdoor rounds. Another issue is that it only does metric rounds and a third is inputting where the arrow hit is overly awkward! But it's still early in development and works well enough!

★★★★★ Great app, I use X8 Archery. It is like a $50 per hour coach. It needs a few additional functions which I hope are in future upgrades. You get millisecond movements of your bow, stability of each shot in % a consistent low 90% is pretty steady. Difficulty is, you are the one to figure out exactly what you are doing wrong. Mantis gives the raw data it might be one possible reason or 10. I paid $200 for Mantis8. The app n hardware has paid for itself 10 times over in first week. Buy one!!!

★★☆☆☆ App & device usually work well, but are limited. 1) The biggest flaw, I think, is that if Android ever shuts down the app mid-session, the entire session is lost. So, if you switch apps and Android wants to free up memory, the session is toast. 2) The app doesn't always sync up quite right, sometimes it will say that it's ready to record and then doesn't catch the shot(s) until you back out and re-connect. 3) The app doesn't sync the display until you interact with it - so once shots are taken you have to select a new shot or cycle to the history and back to get the screen to update. *** What would really make the entire system more functional is to have a means of exporting the data. Right now, if I want to compare against any other information I have, I can only do so by viewing my past shots in the app, so I'm doing visual correlation which is quite slow and limited. Visual correlation is also limited because every shot I call up has the same default zoom, so I have to spend time zooming in to about 1 degree of angle. This makes it painfully slow to review results for an entire shooting session (limited to 40 arrows). *** Without being able to get data out of the system, it's hard to really make use of the information, and thus it boils down to just a bunch of neat pictures. The shot review and recording needs refinement. With a target compound bow, I only am about approximately plus or minus 1 degree of movement right before and after the shot. If my "shot score" is based on anything else, it's meaningless. I have "shot scores" from 97% to 99% but since I don't know and can't control what is used to compute those values, I can't really assign any meaning to the number. *** The shot placement section of the app could do with some more target faces, arrow diameter settings and the addition of distances that aren't in even 10 m increments.