From the first call to the next focus.

ACCOUNT, HOME, AND THE CORE FLOW

Getting started

DrawForge is designed around a repeating loop: make an intentional call, record the result honestly, reflect, and use the accumulated evidence to choose the next focus.

1. 01

   Create or restore an account

   Use Sign in with Apple or Google. DrawForge never asks for or stores the password for either provider. New eligible members review the membership disclosure, Terms, and Privacy Policy before entering the app.

2. 02

   Set up the range

   Create a Range Profile or choose the safe minimum and maximum yardage available today. Exact-station mode includes 10-yard increments from 10 through 100, plus up to five custom stations from 5 through 150 yards.

3. 03

   Add equipment if useful

   Equipment Profiles let Insights compare results for a particular bow or setup. Equipment is optional when beginning a session.

4. 04

   Choose the right forge

   Start the One Shot Challenge before Practice if you intend to do both that day. Otherwise, begin Practice manually or launch the Recommended Forge shown on Home.

ONE ARROW. ONE OPPORTUNITY.

One Shot Challenge

The One Shot Challenge is a cold-arrow exercise. It records a single pressure-style arrow before warm-up or other shooting that day. Members receive one challenge per calendar week.

1. 01

   Open One Shot before Practice

   If a Practice session begins first, One Shot is intentionally unavailable for the remainder of the local calendar day.

2. 02

   Choose the safe possibilities

   Select a continuous range or exact stations. If stance calls are enabled, select every stance that is safe and genuinely available.

3. 03

   Make the commitment

   At final confirmation, acknowledge that you have not already shot arrows that day and are ready for a no-reroll call.

4. 04

   Receive the call

   DrawForge independently randomizes the distance and, when enabled, the stance from the complete selected set. True randomness can produce the same option on consecutive calls in Practice.

5. 05

   Shoot once and report honestly

   Secure the phone before handling the bow. After the arrow, report Heart, Lungs, or Miss and add optional miss direction.

CONTROLLED VARIETY INSIDE SAFE LIMITS

Practice Mode

Practice Mode creates one call at a time from the choices the archer has approved. A result must be recorded before the next call appears.

Practice programs

THE RECORD IS ONLY AS USEFUL AS IT IS HONEST

Recording results

DrawForge uses simple outcome zones so every result can be recorded quickly before the next call.

Misses may include High, Low, Left, and Right annotations. These directions help identify repeatable patterns without changing the underlying Miss result. Use Undo Last Result immediately if the wrong outcome was entered.

The first recorded Practice arrow is also marked as the Cold Arrow for session-level analysis. Ending a session without any recorded arrows does not create a saved Practice session.

THE PART NUMBERS CANNOT CAPTURE

Coach’s Eye and Forge Journal

Coach’s Eye appears after Practice so the archer can capture mental clarity, observations, and a next-session commitment while the details are fresh.

1. 01

   Rate the mental picture

   Record how clear and controlled the session felt rather than allowing the final arrow alone to define it.

2. 02

   Write what mattered

   Note execution cues, equipment observations, conditions, or patterns that the result buttons could not express.

3. 03

   Make one commitment

   Choose a specific focus that can be carried into the next session.

4. 04

   Return through Forge Journal

   Saved reflections are organized by month and remain connected to the session that produced them.

PATTERNS, NOT PROMISES

Understanding Insights

Insights summarizes the history you recorded. Filters can scope the view to 30 days, 90 days, or all time and to all equipment or a specific Equipment Profile.

MAKE THE APP MATCH THE ARCHER

Profiles, accessibility, and settings

Profiles preserve the context needed for repeatable setup and useful comparisons. Settings control readability and the range experience.

LOCAL FIRST, CLOUD CONNECTED

Offline use and synchronization

After a member signs in while connected, DrawForge is designed to remain useful at ranges with unreliable or unavailable service.

1. 01

   Authenticate while online

   The account session must first be established with Apple or Google and Supabase while service is available.

2. 02

   Use DrawForge at the range

   Open the app and record supported Practice, One Shot, profiles, settings, and reflections even if service is unavailable.

3. 03

   Watch the sync status

   DrawForge identifies whether changes are saved locally, waiting for service, retrying, synchronizing, or synchronized.

4. 04

   Reconnect

   Queued account changes replay automatically when a usable connection returns. Keep the app installed and avoid clearing its local data until synchronization completes.

Guest activation is different: each free guest sample needs connectivity when it begins. Once activated, the active session can continue if the connection drops.

A LIMITED WAY TO EXPERIENCE THE FORGE

Guest access

Guest mode provides one free Practice session and one free One Shot Challenge per protected device/install identity.

• Complete One Shot before starting Practice if both samples will be used on the same day.
• DrawForge privately remembers when each sample begins, so reinstalling the app does not ordinarily reset guest access.
• Guest results and Insights remain separate and do not transfer into an account created later.
• An internet connection is required when each guest sample begins.
• Creating an eligible account provides the full 30-day trial and account-based cloud history.

READ BEFORE USING DRAWFORGE AT A RANGE

Safety and limitations

DrawForge is a training log, practice-planning tool, and rules-based information service. It cannot observe the range, inspect equipment, or make a shot safe.

• Archery can cause serious injury, death, or property damage. Use qualified instruction and follow every applicable law, range rule, and property restriction.
• Never hold or operate the phone while drawing, aiming, or releasing. Set or secure the device safely before handling the bow.
• Only select distances and stances that are safe, clear, physically available, and supported by an adequate target and backstop.
• A generated call is not a hunting recommendation, an ethical-shot judgment, or confirmation that the shot is safe. Decline any unsafe call.
• DrawForge does not replace professional bow setup, equipment inspection, medical advice, legal advice, hunting regulations, or emergency services.
• Insights depend on accurate user-entered data and may be affected by small samples, scoring judgment, equipment changes, weather, fatigue, or mistakes.
• Recommendations identify patterns in the recorded history; they do not guarantee improvement, accuracy, safety, or a particular outcome.
• Service, synchronization, speech, notifications, and third-party sign-in may be interrupted by device settings, connectivity, or provider availability.