Black Star Dynamics is an independent software studio building precision tools for the people who actually use them.
Most shooting apps are either bloated consumer products plastered with ads and "premium" gates, or thin wrappers around a calculator someone wrote in 2008. Neither one earns a spot on a working shooter's home screen.
We started Black Star Dynamics to build the apps we wanted ourselves — quiet, fast, native, and honest about the numbers. Tools that load instantly, work without signal, and respect the fact that your data is yours.
Three apps shipped so far, with more in the pipeline. Each one started as a problem we hit in the field and couldn't find a clean answer to.
Black Star Dynamics is founded and run by veterans, headquartered in Montana. The work reflects both — quiet discipline, accountability to the people who use the tools, and a deep respect for the country these apps were built to serve in.
Founded by veterans. We carry the standards we held in service into every release: do the work right, own the outcome, and don't ship something you wouldn't trust yourself.
Headquartered under big sky, with the kind of testing grounds you can't manufacture — open country, real distances, and weather that doesn't care about your spec sheet. Our software is sharpened in the field, not a conference room.
Every design decision starts with a question: does this work in the dark, in the rain, with cold hands and a shot clock running? If not, it gets cut.
Local-first storage. No analytics SDKs. No "anonymous" telemetry. If we ever add sync, it's opt-in, end-to-end encrypted, and clearly labeled.
We use real drag models, real atmospherics, and document every approximation. Where a number is uncertain, the UI says so.
We stay small on purpose. Every app we ship is something at least one person on the team uses every week. That's the only way we know it's actually good.
Features come from real range sessions, real cleaning jobs, real inventory headaches. If we can't picture using it, we don't build it.
SwiftUI on iOS for the things that need to feel like the OS. React Native + Expo when sharing logic across iOS, Android, and web is the right call.
Get a working version into hands quickly, then iterate based on what actually breaks in the field. We'd rather ship a tight 1.0 than a bloated 0.4.
We read every message. If you've found something broken or have a feature request, we want to hear it.
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