Simple Arrows

Less setup.
More shooting.

Pick a face and start. Simple Arrows keeps score and works out the round as you go.

Download on the App Store

Free for iPhone and iPad.

A WA 10-Ring face with eight ends of arrows plotted; the current end reads X, 8, 8.

Tap where it landed.

Or type it on the score sheet. Whichever is quicker between ends.

A magnifier enlarges the target rings around an arrow mark.
Hold, and a magnifier opens.
The score sheet above the keypad, with an 8 being entered.
The keypad fills the sheet as you go.

On iPad, both at once.

Turn it sideways and the score sheet sits beside the target, so every end stays in view.

Simple Arrows on iPad in landscape: a ten-end score sheet on the left, the target face with every arrow on the right.

It works out the round.

No list to pick from first. Shoot a few ends and Simple Arrows suggests the round that fits. Not the right one? Change it with a tap.

Ten ends on a Vegas three-spot, with the suggestion Hold to End as Vegas 300 above the face.

The numbers
can wait.

Focus Mode hides totals and averages while you shoot. Your arrows still land where they landed. The score is waiting when you finish.

Tap the glasses at the top of the scoring screen.

The score sheet in Focus Mode, with totals and averages hidden.

Every session, kept.

Scores and notes live together in the Timeline. Insights reads them back in plain sentences.

The Timeline, opening on a target that starts a new session, above today’s WA 300 Round, 279, marked as a personal best.
Timeline
Insights: a one-line read of recent sessions, then cards for session patterns, recent trend and volume.
Insights

New in 1.1

Each bow keeps its own history.

Every session remembers which bow it used. Gear changes land on a dated list for that bow, so a new riser starts fresh instead of blending into the old one.

A bow named Indoor recurve, with its type, color, scoring defaults, and a dated list of gear changes: Robin Hooded one, a stiffer plunger, a fresh string.

Share the good ones.

Export a session as a clean scorecard and send it to a friend, your coach, or the club chat. Or save it to Photos.

Why we built
Simple Arrows.

I was waiting between ends, scrolling through six archery apps I’d downloaded. Two months into shooting, I was keen to measure something. Before I’d managed to set up a round in any of them, they called the line.

Six months later, I’d settled on one: a deliciously nerdy spreadsheet of an app that recorded everything. I wanted to track it all, but started overthinking on the line. And I still couldn’t get the one number I wanted: my average for a freeform, three-arrow end at 18 meters that wasn’t part of a WA 300.

My wife, meanwhile, scored on paper. She refused apps. Too ugly, too fiddly, she said.

So, a year on, here it is. Simple Arrows was built with the feedback and generosity of a few dozen archers, from beginners to seasoned competitors, many of them from Gotham Archery in Brooklyn. Thank you, all of you.

My wife scores with it now. She also drew the icon.

I hope it makes your time on the line a little calmer.

— David

An early icon: a yellow clay face with googly eyes and an anxious, wavy mouth on a red background.
P.S. Her first stab at the icon. The poor guy needs to work on his mind game.

A little support.
A few extras.

Every feature is free: scoring, round recognition, Timeline, Insights, bows, export and sync. Supporter is purely cosmetic: 3D arrows and a full arrow designer, alternate icons, target-face themes, mark colors, and a few more export styles.

One purchase, no subscription. It helps keep Simple Arrows going. Thank you.

The orange 3D arrow with preset and color controls in Simple Arrows.
Your arrow. Down to the fletching.
Pastel app iconSummer app icon with sunglassesJimmy app icon with a hat
A few other faces for your Home Screen.

No account. No ads. No subscription.
Sessions stay on your device and in your own iCloud.
Analytics only if you say yes.
Requires iOS or iPadOS 26 or later.
Made with ❤️ in Brooklyn, NY

Download on the App Store