Opening the doors
Fast has been developed and used at The Bowmen of Darenteford for years now. Club mates have been generous with their feedback, and the app has grown around the things they actually needed at the range. But a club is a small sample size, and I always knew the app would need to meet a much wider set of archers before it was ready for the Play Store.
On 14 March 2026, I opened it up to a broader group of testers. The idea was simple: let people use it, see what confuses them, see what's missing, and fix things quickly.
It's been one week. Here's what changed.
Equipment Sets
Biggest addition
This was the most requested feature by a distance. Archers want to record their bow setup: riser, limbs, string, stabilisers, arrows, sight. Some archers have different setups for indoor and outdoor seasons, and keeping track of what's on the bow matters more than you'd think.
An equipment set with sections for every part of your setup. Everything autosaves as you type.
Equipment sets link to your sight marks, so when you switch setups the app knows which sight marks belong to which bow. The measurements section auto-calculates tiller from your limb bolt positions, which saves a bit of mental arithmetic at the range.
Full details in the help guide.
Blank Boss
I've come to appreciate the importance of blank boss training as of late, and several testers asked for Fast to include something around it. You're not scoring, but you still want to count how many arrows you've shot.
Blank Boss: tap to count arrows, nothing else. It's deliberately simple.
Blank Boss gives you two buttons: "Add 1" and "Add 6". That's it. No score entry, no end totals, just an arrow count. There are even achievements for it, because everything in this app needs achievements. If only you could put them on your quiver.
Favourite Rounds
Fast has always made it easy to find rounds, but a tester had an idea having a favourites feature. Now you can pin your regulars to the top of the round selector. I've already found this useful in the transition from indoor to outdoor, where we start shooting different rounds all of a sudden.
The round card now shows the score you need for your next classification: "232 for B3". Tap the star to pin it as a favourite.
Which brings us to the next thing.
Target Classification Scores
When you're looking at rounds to shoot, one of the first questions is "what do I need to score for my next classification?" Previously you had to start the round and check the classification tab. Now it's right there on the round card before you even begin.
See the "232 for B3" badge on the Bray I card above? My current indoor classification is A1, the app tells me the exact score I need to achieve B3 on that round. The card also shows the maximum classification available for the round ("GMB Max"), in case you want to have the fun of deluding yourself at the start of a round.
The smaller things that add up
Not everything needs its own section, but these all came from real feedback:
- Average score per arrow in the scorecard top bar. Tap the arrows-left counter to cycle through the stats. Useful for tracking consistency across different rounds.
- Standalone diary notes. Thoughts that don't belong to a specific shoot: equipment changes, form observations, things your coach said that you'll forget by Tuesday. See the diary section in the help guide.
- Auto-save toggle. The app used to save your shoot automatically when you finished. Some archers prefer to review first, so now it's optional. You'll find it in settings.
- Arrows graph grouped by date. The x-axis on the arrows-over-time graph now groups by date instead of per session, which makes more sense when you shoot multiple sessions in a day.
The top bar cycles through stats: arrows remaining, max possible score, and average per arrow.
Bug fixes
The kind of things you only find when the app gets into the hands of more users:
- Sight mark estimates were returning infinity in certain edge cases. Turns out there isn't an infinity setting on my Shibuya Ultima RC 3
- Dark mode colour scheme wasn't applying properly on some Android phones.
- The sign-in modal wasn't hiding after Google sign-in on the round selection page.
- Round units weren't displaying correctly in some score tables.
What's next
More of the same, really. More feedback, more fixes, more features driven by what archers actually need. The app gets better every time someone tells me what's not working for them.
Two things already on the list from tester feedback:
- Target face scoring. There's an experimental mode where you tap the target face to score instead of using the keypad. It needs polishing up and making into a proper feature.
- Field archery. A few people have asked about support for field rounds. I've only done one field shoot in my life, so I've got some homework to do on that one.
I am always looking for more testers, if you're interested, reach out to me, my email is "quii" at "hey.com" - or if you're viewing this from my spam in facebook, just reach out to me there.
Thanks to everyone who's been testing so far. The feedback has been brilliant.