See where your shots land: the heat map beside the target
Scores say how many points a session gave. They do not say where the holes were. The Shooter app draws a heat map beside the target on a saved session, so you can see where the holes are and how they are spread.
The map is built from shot positions, so it needs a scanned target. See scoring a target from a photo. A session typed on the keypad has no positions and no map, see logging shots by hand.
Where to find it
On the saved session screen
Open a saved scanned session from History, or save a scan. On the overview, the target with all the series’ shots is on the left and the heat map on the right, each taking half the row. On a session with two or more series, each series slide has the same pair for that series alone.
Tap either drawing to open it full screen. Tap anywhere or use the X to close it. The map is not on the result screen before you save, and it is no longer a page or a card of its own.
What is drawn
Cool where sparse, hot where dense
Each shot adds a soft round spot. Where spots overlap they add up, and the colour runs from cool in sparse areas to hot in dense ones. Over it there is a thin crosshair through the centre of the target and one faint ring for the aiming mark, at the target’s own scale, so the map lines up with the paper next to it.
There are no shot dots, numbers or legend on the map. The group figures are in the summary card, see statistics.
How to read the colours
Hot means densest in this picture
The colours are rescaled for each picture, so the densest spot gets the warmest colour, unless the picture has only a few shots, in which case it stays cooler. Hot therefore means the densest part of this map, not a fixed number of shots, and two maps cannot be compared by colour.
The map keeps a floor so that a single shot is never drawn as hot. The more shots land close together, the warmer the spot gets, and a spot of a few shots can already show warm colours.
One session or one series
No all-time map
The overview pools every series of the session. A series slide shows that series only. There is no map over all your sessions, for one gun or for a period, and no filter on it. The History filter does not affect it. If some series were shot on the full paper and some on a smaller practice paper of the same card, the overview still draws them on one target.
What it does not do
A picture, not a diagnosis
- It does not say why the shots sit where they do. For hints about the pattern see the analysis of your shooting.
- It is not in the share image, the PDF or the CSV. The analysis report has its own shot pattern plot, which is a different drawing.
- It is not available for typed sessions, which have no positions.
Cost, account and internet
On the phone, no account
The map is drawn on your phone from the saved shots, with no account and no internet needed. There is no Pro check on it. The only limit that reaches it is indirect: the first 10 scans are free, and typed sessions are free and unlimited but have no map.
Frequently asked questions
4 questions
Why does my session have no heat map?
A session typed on the keypad has no shot positions, so it gets no map. A scanned session that is saved has one, on its overview and on each series slide.
Does red mean a lot of shots?
It means the densest part of that picture. The colours are scaled to each map, so the same colour on two maps does not mean the same number of shots.
Can I see one map for all my sessions with a gun?
No. The app draws the map for one session or one series. It has no all-time map and no filter for it.
Can I share the heat map?
Not as part of the share image, the PDF or the CSV. They do not include it.