Blackhole is a mobile target-evaluation and shooting-log application for sport shooters on iOS and Android.
Product velocity
Dormant
Daily rank 🇺🇸
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Sports
Sentiment
3.0
2 reviews
Nemesis
Fragmented field
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
The app removes the manual friction of scoring ring targets and archiving session data, allowing shooters to track performance trends without paper logs.
For Competitive and recreational sport shooters requiring digital logging and precision analysis.
What does it look like?
Key features
Uses phone camera to evaluate ring targets to the 10th of a ring.
Archives training sessions and competition data for historical tracking.
Tracks weapons and ammunition, linking items to specific shooting results.
How much does it cost?
The app operates as a free tool with no visible subscription or IAP gates, likely supported by public funding.
Velocity
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Blackhole - Shooting Sports has been inactive for over two years, with the latest release dating back to August 2024. The development trend is stagnant, showing no signs of recent feature updates or maintenance patches. The last recorded activity focused on platform compatibility and minor feature additions, but the lack of updates since mid-2024 indicates the project is no longer under active development.
Who built it?
9oClock Software
2 apps tracked · Sports
Blackhole - Shooting SportsUser Sentiment
What do users think recently?
Fresh user feedback skews excited. Users appreciate the automated target recognition and shot analysis provide high precision for training sessions and the free tier offers a generous feature set that impresses new users during initial sessions.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- The automated target recognition and shot analysis provide high precision for training sessions
- The free tier offers a generous feature set that impresses new users during initial sessions
- Random app exits and crashes during use disrupt the training workflow for active shooters
13 of 13 recent reviews analyzed · moderate confidence · Excited overall
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Competitive landscape for Blackhole - Shooting Sports
How's the Sports market?
Blackhole occupies a niche in the Sports category with limited public visibility, evidenced by a 3-star rating across a small sample of reviews. The lack of updates for over 700 days signals a maintenance-only posture that limits competitive growth.
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Key takeaways for Blackhole - Shooting Sports
Where is it heading?
Users report: The shooting sports app market is consolidating around tools that offer seamless data synchronization and active equipment databases. Blackhole remains exposed due to its stalled development cadence, which means it cannot respond to the competitive pressure of newer, more stable alternatives.
- The 700-day update gap suggests the product is in maintenance mode, which prevents it from addressing the stability issues that drive churn.
- Persistent user reports of random crashes during training sessions erode trust, which will likely lead to further rating compression on the Android platform.
The SWOT
- Optical target evaluation provides high-precision training data
- Expanding the ammunition database would address top user requests
Next best moves
Audit stability and crash logs because random exits disrupt training sessions → reduce churn
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
The lack of monetization is a strategic liability rather than a benefit…
Read the full takeSince the last report: The product outlook has shifted from stable to declining, reflecting the impact of a 700-day development hiatus on user stability and feature parity.
Bottom line
Blackhole provides high-precision target evaluation that retains core users, but persistent stability issues and a stagnant database limit its growth. Addressing the crash rate would stabilize the current user base, while expanding the equipment library would unlock higher engagement for competitive shooters.
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