Frequently asked questions.

LoadOut is a reloading workspace and a ballistics solver in the same app. Your recipes, firearms, batches, brass lots and component inventory live in it, and those same records feed a Modified Point-Mass solver that returns a firing solution, a DOPE table and a Target Card for the load you actually built. Everything you enter is stored in a database on the device; there is no LoadOut server that holds it. It runs on iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac and in a browser, with companion apps for Apple Watch, Wear OS and Garmin.

Handloaders who want the loads they develop and the numbers they shoot kept in one place. That covers the precision-rifle competitor tracking charge nodes and stage plans, the hunter who wants an honest hold at 400 yards, and the reloader who has kept a paper notebook for twenty years and wants it searchable.

You do not have to be technical to start. Quick Add takes a load the way you would write it on paper (caliber, powder and charge, bullet and weight, overall length), and Beginner Mode hides every advanced field until you switch it off in Settings › General.

No. LoadOut opens straight into the app as a guest, and recipes, firearms, batches, brass logs, the ballistics solver, Range Day, Cartridge Specs and JSON export all work without ever signing in. An account buys exactly two things: Cloud Sync and Cloud Backup. You can sign in with Google, Apple or Microsoft whenever you want one of those, and stop at any time.

Pro is a store purchase and is independent of all of this. Restore Purchases works while signed out.

No, and it is built not to behave like one. LoadOut ships no manufacturer load tables, mirrors none on a server and inserts none into your database. When you want published data it opens the manufacturer's own page in your browser and you read it at the source.

Charge weight is the one field the app will leave blank rather than guess, including on a photo import of your own handwriting, because that number belongs to your manual and your rifle.

LoadOut seeds five example rows so the app is not an empty grid the first time you open it: a sample rifle, a sample recipe, a ballistic profile binding the two, a Target Card and a stage plan. The base set is a .308 Winchester bolt gun with a 168 gr match load, and the firing solution you see on the Ballistics page is computed live from those inputs rather than stored.

Each one carries a Sample badge that clears the first time you save an edit, so editing one adopts it as your own. Delete them if you would rather start clean; the recipes list offers Restore the Sample if you change your mind. Sample rows never count against the free-tier limits.

iPhone and iPad from the App Store, Android from Google Play, a Mac app, and in a browser. Three companion apps ride alongside the phone: Apple Watch, Wear OS and Garmin Connect IQ.

The features that need hardware (the camera, the motion sensors behind cant correction, and watch pairing) are phone and tablet features; Bluetooth weather meters and the shot timer pair on the phone, the tablet, and the Mac. The Mac app runs the workspace and the solver without them. The web app runs the workspace but not LoadOut's full solver: firing solutions are computed in the phone, tablet, and Mac apps, and the web app says so on the screens it affects.

Both. The Mac app runs the same workspace and the same solver as the phone: recipes, firearms, batches, brass, ballistics and Cartridge Specs are all there, and at desktop widths the layout switches from a bottom bar to a side navigation rail with a master-detail list. The web app runs the same workspace in your browser, with one deliberate difference: it does not carry LoadOut's full solver. Firing solutions are computed in the phone, tablet, and Mac apps, and the web app says so plainly on the screens it affects instead of showing a lesser number.

What neither does is the device-bound half of the app. There is no camera import, no motion sensors and no watch pairing, because each of those needs a phone or tablet; the Mac does pair Bluetooth weather meters and the shot timer, the browser does not. Use the phone or tablet app for anything that reaches hardware, and let Cloud Sync keep the devices in step.

Fifteen languages across sixteen locales, chosen in Settings › General: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Russian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Hungarian, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese and Swedish. Portuguese ships as both European and Brazilian, which is the sixteenth locale. Every one of them ships in the app, so you never download a language to use it. LoadOut does fetch published wording corrections for them in the background when it cold-starts.

Units are a separate setting, so you can read the app in German and still work in yards, grains and MOA.

Yes. Your data lives in a database on the device, and every reference catalog is bundled with the app for offline browsing, including cartridges, powders, bullets, primers, brass, firearms, parts, scopes, reticles, targets and factory ammunition. Recipes, firearms, the solver, Range Day, Cartridge Specs and the glossary all work with no signal at all.

What needs a connection is the Pro live weather pull, AI Smart Import, Cloud Sync and Cloud Backup, and the occasional reference-catalog update. A range with no bars costs you nothing that matters at the line.

More than most people expect. Recipes, batches, brass logs and Component Inventory with no ceiling on any of them; up to two firearms and two saved ballistic profiles; the full external ballistics solver and the standalone Ballistics Calculator; measured custom drag curves; Cartridge Specs with the cartridge and chamber drawings; cant correction; True DOPE truing; the Stylized Scope View with all 55 reticles and target selection; Range Day and Match Day; group measurement; on-device photo OCR and every free import route; CSV and Excel import; local JSON export; every reference catalog; the 157-term glossary; the 34 Learn walk-throughs; Spoken Output; and all three companion watch apps.

Nothing about the free tier is time-limited or a trial. It is the app, with three counted limits and a set of analysis and cloud features held back.

One tier and one entitlement, and the Pro screen groups what it unlocks into five sets:

• Ballistics and Analysis: Full Analytics, the Hit Probability Map, the Internal Ballistics Estimator, Load Development, Full Group Analysis, Shooter Stats.
• Range Day and Field: Photorealistic Backdrops, the Moving Target Trainer, Live Weather Pull, Automatic Altitude.
• Devices and Import: Weather Meter Capture, Shot Timer Capture, Garmin Xero Import, Cloud Sync and Backup.
• AI and Search: AI Smart Import, Search by Meaning, Your Own Voice Commands, Voice Speed and Blending.
• Your Data, Your Way: Unlimited Firearms, Unlimited Ballistic Profiles, Unlimited Custom Fields, Custom Layouts, Photos on Everything.

There is no tier above Pro and no plan to add one. The Free vs Pro page is generated from the app's own gate table, so it is the list that cannot drift.

Four ways to buy one tier. Pro Monthly is $4.99 a month and Pro Yearly is $34.99 a year, both with a free trial. Pro Lifetime is a single payment: $89.99 as the Founder price during the launch window, and $119.99 once that window closes.

See the app for the current price in your store, since your currency and any local tax are set there rather than here.

Three counted limits: two firearms, two saved ballistic profiles, and three custom fields per record type. Everything else on the free tier is uncapped: recipes, batches, brass lots and inventory rows have no ceiling.

Sample rows never count against any of them. A restore or a Cloud Sync pull is allowed to exceed the cap freely, so a backup holding twenty rifles comes back with twenty rifles; what you cannot do is add a twenty-first until you upgrade. A row sitting in Recently Deleted still holds its slot for the 30 days it remains restorable, so permanently deleting it is how you reclaim one.

Founder is the launch-window price for Pro Lifetime: $89.99 once, against the $119.99 it becomes afterwards. It is a capped window rather than a standing discount, and the two are separate products rather than one price that moves. When the window closes the app simply offers the standard one instead.

Either way a lifetime purchase is a single payment with nothing to renew and nothing to cancel, and it carries the same entitlement the subscriptions do.

Not in LoadOut, because LoadOut never handles the money. Subscriptions are billed by Apple or Google and are cancelled in the store that billed you: in your Apple account's subscription settings on iPhone or iPad, and in the Play Store's subscription settings on Android. Both stores move those screens from time to time, so follow your store's own current instructions rather than a path we wrote down.

Refunds are the store's to give. Use Apple's Report a Problem page or your Play order history. Cancelling stops the renewal and leaves Pro running to the end of the period you already paid for. Pro Lifetime is a one-time purchase, so there is nothing to cancel.

Tap Restore Purchases. It sits on Settings › Account and again at the foot of the Pro screen. It reads the purchase back from the store you bought it in, needs no LoadOut account, and works while you are signed out.

If it comes back with nothing found, check that the device is signed into the same Apple or Google account that made the purchase. The store holds the receipt, and LoadOut only asks it.

On the same platform, yes, and automatically: the store restores it to anything signed into the same Apple or Google account, so an iPhone purchase is already live on your iPad.

Across platforms it needs a LoadOut sign-in. Pro is linked to the account you sign in with, so buying on iOS and then signing into the same Google, Apple or Microsoft account on Android carries it over. Tap Restore Purchases on the new device if it has not noticed yet.

Your reloading data lives on your device. We run no server that stores your recipes, firearms, or range-day sessions. We don't track what you do in the app, and there is no analytics SDK in it. The features that send anything of yours are opt-in, each behind its own switch: Cloud Sync, Cloud Backup, AI Smart Import, Siri Voice Commands and the Live Weather Pull.

Several connections run with no switch at all, and none of them carries a record of yours: the anonymous sign-in handshake and the app-integrity check at launch, the purchase check with the store, reference-catalog updates, a background fetch of published wording corrections for the languages the app ships, and crash reports, which are on by default and are the one of these you can switch off. The Privacy Reference lists every one of them beside the switch that governs it, where there is one.

Yes, and this is the one thing that arrives switched on rather than off. When the app hits an unhandled error it sends the stack trace with privacy-scrubbed context: the screen you were on, the schema and app version, the platform, whether you are signed in, and row identifiers.

It never carries anything you typed: no recipe names, firearm names, notes or brass-log labels, and no row contents. Switch it off under Settings › Privacy & Data and the reporter goes silent for good. It exists because red screens are hard to fix from a description, and it is the only telemetry in the app.

It can, and when it does the coordinates are stored rather than read and discarded, which is worth saying plainly. Three things ask for a fix: the Pro live weather pull, capturing altitude and conditions on Range Day, and the magnetic-declination correction when you capture from a weather meter, which never prompts and stores nothing.

Latitude and longitude are real columns on range-day sessions, atmosphere presets and DOPE ranges, and latitude alone on a ballistic profile for the Coriolis term. They therefore ride your JSON export and your encrypted cloud copy like any other field. Coordinates leave the device by exactly two routes: the weather request, which carries a position and no identity, and the encrypted backup you choose to make.

Deny the permission and every one of those fields stays yours to type by hand; nothing else in the app changes.

No. There is no analytics SDK in LoadOut (no product analytics, no advertising SDK, no attribution SDK), and Firebase Analytics is explicitly disabled in the app's own configuration file. Nothing counts which screens you open, how long you spend on them, or which features you use.

Crash reporting is the single exception, it carries no content you typed, and you can switch it off. Even anonymised event analytics would break the promise, so it is not there.

No, and it is excluded on purpose. LoadOut keeps its database out of iCloud Backup and Android Auto Backup, because those are cloud copies made without your passphrase, and we would rather your reloading data not sit on Apple's or Google's servers at all. Your ordinary settings (units, language, theme) do ride the platform backup; your loads, firearms and sessions do not.

So keep a copy yourself. Export All Data (JSON) from Import & Export is free, ungated and takes seconds, and Pro Cloud Backup writes an encrypted restore point into your own iCloud Drive, Google Drive or OneDrive. The app says the same thing in Settings › Privacy & Data under Keep a Copy of Your Data.

Two operations, both under Settings › Privacy & Data, and they are deliberately not the same thing. Reset This Device wipes the local database and scrubs stray on-device secrets (your AI provider key, the OneDrive token) and starts you fresh, while your account and any cloud backup stay put so you can restore later. Your cloud passphrase is deliberately kept, because it is what decrypts the backup you are keeping.

Delete My Account & All Data is irreversible: it removes the account, the encrypted blobs in every cloud provider you configured, the store entitlement association and everything on the device. It re-authenticates you first, so a failed credential aborts cleanly before anything is destroyed. Paired watches are told to discard any shots they have not sent yet.

It keeps every device you own in step, and LoadOut is not in the middle of it. Your rows are encrypted on the device with a passphrase you choose (AES-256-GCM, with the key derived by PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 over 600,000 iterations), and the encrypted blob is written to your own iCloud Drive, Google Drive or OneDrive.

It pushes a few seconds after each auto-save and pulls on launch, with a Sync Now button for when you want it immediately. We never see the blob and we never see the passphrase; there is no LoadOut server anywhere in the path. Pro

The encrypted copy cannot be opened, and we cannot open it for you. That is the design rather than a gap: a passphrase we could recover is a passphrase we would have to hold.

LoadOut does save it to your own platform account, so on another device of yours it can often come back on its own, and it will offer to generate one and put it on the clipboard when you first set sync up. Put it wherever you keep passwords. If it is genuinely gone, the data on your device is untouched. Set a new passphrase, and the next upload replaces the blob you can no longer read.

Sign into the same cloud provider on both, turn Cloud Sync on, and enter the same passphrase. The passphrase is the pairing step: it is what makes two devices one library, and a wrong one comes back as a mismatch rather than quietly merging nothing.

On a second device of your own LoadOut tries to recover the saved passphrase from the account first, so it often fills itself in. Rows merge last-writer-wins per row, so editing the same recipe in two places keeps the newer edit rather than duplicating it.

Yes: free, in plain JSON, with no upgrade and no account. Import & Export › Export All Data (JSON) writes the whole database and hands it to the share sheet, so you choose where it lands.

Free users export exactly what Pro users do. There is no export gate anywhere in the app, deliberately. Being able to walk away with everything is part of the promise. Individual recipes also export as a QR code, a one-page PDF or plain text.

Backup is a restore point you make; sync is continuous. Cloud Backup & Restore writes an encrypted snapshot when you ask for one, and you restore from it after a wipe or onto a new phone. Cloud Sync pushes changes a few seconds after each auto-save and pulls them everywhere, so your devices stay level without you thinking about it.

Both use the same encryption and the same passphrase, both land in your own iCloud Drive, Google Drive or OneDrive, and both are Pro. Free users are not stranded: the JSON export is the free way to keep a copy, and it restores into a fresh install.

LoadOut solves the trajectory rather than looking it up. The engine is a Modified Point-Mass solver with adaptive step control: it integrates the whole flight from your inputs every time one of them changes, including spin drift, Coriolis, aerodynamic jump and the air you entered. Nothing on the screen is a stored table.

Drag comes from the six standard tables (G1, G2, G5, G6, G7 and G8), or from a measured drag curve where one exists for your bullet. The solver is validated against published reference trajectories.

Where the answer is least certain the app says so instead of rounding it away: holds carry a confidence flag through the transonic and subsonic bands, and again past the range the model has been validated over, so a lower-confidence number arrives labelled as one.

All six standard tables (G1, G2, G5, G6, G7 and G8), smoothly interpolated rather than stepped. G1 is the flat-base reference most published BCs are still quoted against and is the safe default; G7 tracks a long boat-tail match bullet far more honestly at distance, and the other four cover shapes those two describe badly.

Pick the model your bullet's BC was published against. A G7 BC entered against a G1 model is the most common way to get a wrong answer that looks entirely reasonable. The drag model lives on the profile with the bullet, so changing it re-solves every distance at once.

It is measured drag data for one specific bullet (drag coefficient against Mach number across the whole flight) instead of scaling a standard table by a single BC. It is more accurate at long range than a published BC, and it is free: measured curves ship with the bullets that have them, and the solver uses one automatically when your bullet is one of those.

You cannot author your own. What LoadOut ships is measured data on specific bullets, not an import format. If your bullet has no curve, choose the standard table its BC was published against and true the profile against your own observed drops.

The solver falls back to the ICAO standard atmosphere (59 °F, 29.92 inHg, 0% humidity, sea level), and every surface that uses it says so on its face, each in its own words. You will see a stated ICAO-standard-atmosphere note on the solution, on the Target Card, in the Range Day environment summary, on the Hit Probability Map, in True DOPE and on an exported DOPE table.

That is the shape of the whole app in one behaviour: it will not invent your conditions, so it uses a stated reference and tells you it did. Real conditions can move a 1,000-yard hold by half a mil or more, so enter what you actually have. Even temperature and station pressure alone are a large improvement.

True DOPE, and it is free. You choose one axis (Muzzle Velocity, Drag Scale or the DSF Table) and enter a few pairs of range and observed come-up from real fire. The app solves the correction and saves it on the ballistic profile, so a profile trued once is trued everywhere it is used.

Muzzle Velocity is the axis when the model is off at every distance, usually a chronograph reading running a little high or low. Drag Scale is the one when it tracks well up close and drifts only far out, and the DSF Table is the per-Mach-band refinement when one correction across the whole flight is not enough. Your published BC is never overwritten, and every correction is reversible from the solve screen's Clear actions.

3,500 yards, a little under two miles. Type a larger distance and the field refuses it rather than quietly substituting a number you did not enter; a saved profile carrying a longer range is clamped to the cap when it opens, so an old profile always opens.

The cap is deliberately generous, because "trustworthy" is a property of your bullet rather than a single distance: a .308 match load is subsonic well inside 1,500 yards while a high-BC magnum stays supersonic far past it. The honest limit is the per-load confidence flag on the solution, not the cap.

Whichever you set. The Angle row is its own control in Settings › General, separate from the imperial-and-metric switch, so you can read holds in mils while working in yards and grains.

One MOA is about 1.047 inches at 100 yards; one mil is about 3.6 inches at 100 yards, or 10 cm at 100 m. They differ by roughly three and a half to one, which is why mixing them up is expensive. Set it to match your turrets and your reticle, and use the MOA ↔ MIL Converter under Tools & Resources when you have to talk to someone shooting the other one.

Because a number you did not enter is not your number. Anything that feeds a firing solution (bullet, rifle or conditions) starts empty, and the app would rather show you a list of exactly what is missing than a hold computed from a default you cannot see. Where a value is missing on a card or a table you get a dash, never a zero standing in for one.

The field it is strictest about is charge weight. A photo import leaves it blank even when the page it read was your own handwriting, because a charge written as 41.5 reads just as easily as 415, and a misread charge is the one mistake on that page that can hurt you.

They are the two visual tiers of the Range Day scope view. Stylized is a clean geometric scope picture (the ring, your reticle, the target at its real distance, the firing solution applied), and it is free, along with all 55 reticles and target selection.

Scenic replaces the geometry with a photo backdrop at the distance you set, and it is Pro. Free users are not shut out of it: Scenic renders live behind a blur with the controls still working, so you can see the thing you would be buying rather than a lock icon.

It has an equivalent. LoadOut ships 55 LoadOut-original reticles, calibrated for interoperability with major scope manufacturers, alongside a catalog of 257 scopes from 31 makers. Each reticle carries a caption stating whether it is a LoadOut original, a traditional public-domain pattern, or one calibrated to a published manufacturer specification.

If your scope ships with a brand-specific reticle, Find by My Scope recommends the closest LoadOut archetype with the same hold-off math. Reticle selection is free on every tier. For precision work, verify subtensions against your own scope's specification sheet.

Three things on Range Day, all of them phone and tablet only. The gyro reads cant, how far the rifle is rolled around the bore axis, and warns past about two degrees, because dialing elevation on a canted rifle moves the impact sideways as well as up. Cant correction is free.

The magnetometer reads your firing azimuth for the Coriolis term at long range, converting the compass bearing to true north with the local declination. Location gives you station altitude and, with the Pro live weather pull, your conditions. Every one of those fields can be typed by hand instead, and the solution is identical either way.

The measurement is. Photograph a target, mark the impacts, and you get extreme spread, mean radius, group MOA, the centroid and the zero correction it implies, plus a confidence meter and a share card, all free, because the accuracy and the honesty of a group are not things to put behind a paywall.

What Pro adds is the statistics layer on top: CEP, per-axis standard deviation, the confidence band, the oriented dispersion ellipse, and the shot-order replay that reveals impacts one at a time in the order they were fired. The statistics panel renders live behind a blur rather than a lock, so you can see what you would be buying; two things behave differently: the dispersion ellipse is simply not drawn, and the replay opens the paywall when you tap it.

A Monte-Carlo run of your shot against your own uncertainties. It opens on a stated 1.0 MOA starting group, disclosed on the card and yours to change, and asks you for how wrong your range estimate could plausibly be and how wrong your wind call could be. It then fires the shot thousands of times against random samples of those and reports the share that hit, as a curve across distance.

That curve is where you read the honest answer to "is this still a first-round hit?". It is Pro, and it refuses to plot without the load, the target and those two uncertainties, naming whichever is missing, rather than drawing an optimistic line.

Three, all shipping: Apple Watch, Wear OS and Garmin. Apple Watch needs watchOS 10 or newer; Wear OS needs Wear OS 3 (Android 11) or newer; the Garmin app covers 31 Connect IQ products across the fenix 6, 7 and 8 families, epix, Forerunner and Instinct 2 and 3.

The co-branded tactix and quatix watches are supported by riding their fenix and epix twins, so they do not appear separately in the device list. The watch apps are companions to the phone: an iPhone pairs an Apple Watch, an Android phone pairs a Wear OS watch, and Garmin pairs from either.

Apple Watch and Wear OS each carry up to eight pages: a stage timer, your DOPE, a hit tally, the shot log, the firearm and its barrel life, settings and about, plus session stats while that watch is holding a Pro look-back; without one the stats page is absent from the deck rather than locked. You log shots from the wrist (by recoil detection or a button), run the timer with a par time and warning beeps, call your own hits, and read your holds without reaching for the phone. Both of those watches also speak your next target aloud after each shot, so you never look down.

Garmin carries seven of them (every one except the firearm page, which no Garmin has), and the Instinct 2 family runs six, without stats. It shows the next target on screen instead of speaking it: Connect IQ ships no text-to-speech, so that is a platform limit rather than something unbuilt.

Kestrel 5-series and the WeatherFlow WEATHERmeter work today; Calypso support is coming, with no date yet. A Kestrel reads temperature, station pressure, humidity, wind speed and true wind direction straight into your ballistics inputs over Bluetooth.

The WEATHERmeter does the same with two differences worth knowing: it has no altimeter, so density altitude read off the meter is a Kestrel claim rather than a general one, and its wind direction is magnetic rather than true.

One Pro unlock covers every meter you own, of any brand. Entering the same conditions by hand stays free, so what the purchase buys is the convenience, never access to the solver.

Yes, the Shooters Global SG Timer, over Bluetooth. Splits land in your record as you fire them, at the timer's own millisecond times with nothing rounded on the way, joined to the firearm and load you are shooting. You can start, suspend and stop the timer's session from the phone, and import strings the timer already stored.

The first row reads Draw rather than a split, and when a shot does not arrive the gap and the count difference are named rather than smoothed over. Live capture is Pro; reviewing and reconciling your strings stays free.

The Garmin Xero C1 Pro, three ways, and none of them is Bluetooth: Garmin does not let other apps talk to the Xero, so this is a file or a photograph rather than a radio link.

Export a .fit session from Garmin Connect and pick the file, or export the session from ShotView as a CSV or Excel file and pick that. Either way per-shot velocities land in a per-rifle log you can push into a profile as muzzle velocity. The third route is Velocity Check: photograph the Xero screen and your phone reads the numbers off it, showing where each value came from and asking rather than guessing when it is unsure. All three are Pro, and all three land in the same log.

Other chronographs have no integration today. Type the average and the SD into the profile by hand, or bring a CSV in through the spreadsheet import.

Mostly. The watch holds the card it was last sent, so your holds, the stage timer and the hit tally keep working with the phone in a bag. An Apple Watch or Wear OS watch takes about 33 targets and a Garmin about 53; a card longer than that is not sent at all rather than sent truncated, so you are never reading half a plan.

Shots logged on any of the three watches queue durably and land when the phone wakes; each watch shows how many are still waiting to be sent. With nothing sent at all, the watch reports that too instead of inventing a solution.

Yes, and it is free. Photograph a page or pick several out of your camera roll. The reading happens on the phone with nothing uploaded, and you land on a review screen before anything is saved.

Every field shows the scrap of the page it came from, a coloured bar marks the ones it had to reach or guess for, and the raw text is dropped into the notes verbatim so the original is never lost. Charge weight comes back blank on purpose. There is also a guided Capture From Paper mode that coaches the framing and shoots when the page is steady.

Yes, free, with column mapping. Import & Export › Import Recipes › Choose a File takes CSV, Excel, LoadOut JSON, plain text and PDF, and there is a Quick CSV Import (No Mapping) that skips the mapping step when your columns are already recognisable.

You review every row before anything is written, and a row missing something the solver needs (a ballistic coefficient, say) is left out rather than filled with a plausible value. Paste From Clipboard covers the case where the loads are in an email or a forum post rather than a file.

Import & Export › Export a Recipe (QR / PDF / Text), then pick the shape. Share via QR scans straight into another LoadOut install on a nearby phone; Share as PDF makes a one-page printout; Share as Text is a plain, copy-pasteable record for a message.

On the receiving side, Import a Shared Item and Scan a Recipe QR take it back in, and the recipient reviews it before anything is saved. Sharing is free on both ends. Recipes are uncapped on the free tier, though a shared ballistic profile arrives as a new record and counts against the two-profile limit.

No, and that is a design decision rather than a gap. LoadOut ships no manufacturer load tables, mirrors none on a server and inserts none into your database. What it does instead is take you to the source: tap through to Hodgdon's Reloading Data Center, Hornady Load Data, Sierra Load Data or the Vihtavuori Reloading Data Tool and read it on the manufacturer's own page.

Your recipes are yours, theirs are theirs, and LoadOut hosts neither. What the app stores is the load you chose to write down.

It is already off. AI Features is a master switch in Settings › Voice & AI and it ships switched off. Every feature underneath it has its own switch as well, so turning the master on turns nothing else on by itself.

With it off nothing runs. There is one deliberate exception, and it is bounded: the first time a screen would have spoken to you, LoadOut asks once whether to switch the voice on, and if you answer Not Now it asks again at most once more, no sooner than two weeks later. Nothing else offers, no button appears asking to improve anything, and nothing runs until you say yes. Several of the features under the master switch never leave the phone even once you do enable them, and each row states which. Nothing else in the app depends on any of them.

Exactly two things, and only when you tap the button on that particular import: either the text your phone has already read off a page you just photographed, or, when the on-device reader and a re-shoot have both failed on a chronograph import, the cropped picture of the chronograph screen, not the whole photograph, together with one line summarising what that import has read so far, which can include values off the other screens you added. Never your recipes, your firearms, your notes, or anything else in your library.

It is a translation tool that tidies up a reading you are about to review line by line. It gives no reloading advice, never runs on its own, shows you what it would send before it sends it, and stops after two attempts on a single import. It is Pro, off by default, and asks per use; Pro users can route it through their own provider key instead.

Not yet. The Reloading Assistant is Coming Soon: its page is in the app and open to everyone, and it says so rather than pretending otherwise.

When it ships it will answer questions about the craft (terminology, workflow, the things a manual assumes you already know), and it will refuse to give you a load: no charge weight, no seating depth, no primer pick, no pressure number, and never that a book maximum is safe to pass. It will send you to a manual instead.

In the meantime the Glossary defines 157 terms, many with worked examples, and the Learn hub carries 34 walk-throughs you follow inside the real screens.

Ten commands on iPhone and iPad, over the data you already keep in the app: your firing solution, the next target on your card, a holdover, a wind call, group analysis, adding a note, opening a record by name, cartridge specs, a mil-and-MOA conversion, and editing a Target Card. All ten answer out loud, and eight of them never open the app at all, including adding a note, which Siri queues for you to file later, and editing a Target Card, which is applied straight away. Only group analysis and opening a record by name bring LoadOut to the front, because both of those are asking to look at something. A hold is spoken with its caveats in the same breath as the number.

It is free and off until you turn it on in Settings › Voice & AI › Siri Voice Commands; switching it off again erases the summary LoadOut published for Siri to read. LoadOut never asks for your microphone (Siri does the listening, under Apple's terms), and answers are spoken where you asked, so whoever is beside you hears your dope too. Pro adds your own words for the commands you use most.

Yes, and it is free. Spoken Output has two switches (read the Target Card row as you swipe to it, and read the next target after the watch logs a shot), and either can run without the other.

It arrives set to speak on the watch, so if you do not wear one you will hear nothing until you move it to Phone or Both; that is the first setting to check. The after-shot readout is kept deliberately short: the hold, and whether the round has gone transonic. Pro adds the speed dial and voice blending, but the voices themselves, including the on-device Standard voice, are free.

Not yet. On Android the row is called simply Voice Commands, it is Coming Soon and it is not built, so there is no switch and nothing running. If a spoken command does nothing on your phone, nothing is broken.

Nothing else about the Android app is missing: the phone app, the Wear OS watch, shot logging, the stage timer, the holds and the readout are all there and working. When voice ships it will be the same ten commands the iPhone has, with its own switch and its own decision, so your answer for Siri is never read as your answer for it. Your phone's keyboard dictation works today anywhere you type.

A second pass over your own records that matches what you meant rather than the words you typed, so "bolt gun in six five" finds your 6.5 Creedmoor rifle. It covers loads, rifles, batches, brass, Component Inventory, load development, profiles, range days and your general notes.

It runs entirely on the phone: a small model downloads once, and nothing about your rows is uploaded to search them. Results appear under a heading of their own beneath the ordinary keyword results. It finds, it does not answer, and it will not work out a charge or write anything. It is Pro and off until you turn it on; ordinary keyword search stays free and unchanged.