Nothing on your bow.
No weight added and no mount. Your balance and your stabilizers stay exactly as you tuned them, and nothing sits in your sight picture.
XTuned Band · In development
Every arrow. No watch needed.
A motion band for your bow arm, with its own app. It measures every shot with the same engine as XTuned for Apple Watch, and your phone shows each arrow's aim replay, numbers and a plain-words note.
For compound and recurve archers, on iPhone and Android.
Renders of the current design.
Why your arm
The shot starts in your arm.
Your bow only shows what your arm did. XTuned Band measures the source: your bow arm, from the draw to the follow-through.
One band, every bow.
Recurve today, compound tomorrow, a friend's bow at the range. Each bow calibrates in its first 5 shots, and the band moves with you.
Worn on your wrist, like a smartwatch.
Nothing on your bow. Smartwatches and wrist-worn trackers are allowed under World Archery's target rules, so check your event's rules and shoot your tournaments with it.
How it works
- 1
Wear it on your bow arm
Snug on the wrist of the hand that holds the bow, where a watch would sit. Each bow you set up has its hand, and the band goes on that wrist.
- 2
Shoot
Start a session on your phone and shoot the way you always do, with the phone on a stand or locked in your pocket. A new bow calibrates in its first session: a short arm check with your bow arm hanging down, then its first 5 shots.
- 3
See every arrow
Each arrow shows up on your phone right after the shot: its replay, its numbers and a short note. Mark where it hit on the replay, or mark the whole end at the target.
The numbers
Eight numbers on every arrow, each in plain words.
The same numbers as XTuned on Apple Watch. In the app, tap any number to read what it means.
Float
How far your pin typically wandered from the middle as you aimed. Lower is steadier.
Aim radius
The farthest your pin got from the middle of your aim. One big wobble raises it.
Break
How far your pin moved in the last 0.2 s before the release. Lower is a cleaner break.
Follow-through
How far the band moved in the 0.2 s after the shot. It's mostly the bow jumping as it fires, or a recurve rolling forward.
Execution
How long you aimed: the seconds from when your pin settled onto the target to the shot.
Hold
Seconds from when your raised bow arm went still to the shot. That's often during the draw, or a recurve's raise, so it's longer than execution.
Wrist turn (torque)
Your bow hand's twist around your forearm as you aimed, read as steady, slight or turned.
Steady under 0.25°, slight from 0.25°, turned from 0.5°.
Arm drift
How fast your bow arm crept as you aimed, often with the pin still on target. Shown on its own, not in the replay, float or aim radius.
MOA is an angle: 1/60 of a degree. On a farther target, 1 MOA is bigger. Arm drift can read "Measuring" for the first arrows of a session.
Shot notes
Every arrow also gets a sentence or two of notes from its numbers, compared with your usual. They say what the band saw, not why.
The XTuned Band app
Its own app. iPhone and Android.
XTuned Band is a separate app from XTuned, made for the band, with the same screens, words and numbers on iPhone and Android. Its tabs cover shooting, your sessions, trends, bows and settings.
- One live screen: the newest arrow's looping aim replay, its score and numbers, and a note or two.
- Pinch to zoom the replay. Tap it to mark where the arrow hit, or mark the whole end at the target.
- The screen never jumps while you aim. If you're looking back at an earlier arrow, a New arrow button appears instead.
- Every arrow is saved as it lands, with shot maps, replays and trends for each bow.
- Compound or recurve, left or right hand. A new bow stays calibrated until you recalibrate it.
- If the band seems to be on the other arm, the app tells you once.
- Distances in meters or yards. Export every session as a CSV spreadsheet.
- Walk to the target and back. The band is designed to reconnect on its own when you come back, even with your phone locked.
No band yet? There's a sample session.
Once the app is out, you can try it with no band. It plays a real recorded session from our own shooting as if it were live. It's labelled Sample and never counts toward your own numbers.
The band
One sealed pod. Your frame.
The sealed pod is the same in every band: matte black, with the XTuned logo engraved on top. You pick the frame around it.
Frames swap in seconds.
Press the small tab under the frame, slide the pod out, and slide it into another frame until it clicks. Each strap stays on its own frame.
Grip texture on every frame.
Fine vertical grooves run along the outer side of every frame.
Magnetic charging.
A magnetic cable snaps onto the back of the pod. Its magnets only let it on the right way round, and it charges with the pod in its frame.
Fits one way only.
The pod only fits its frame one way round, so the frame sets which way it sits. Nothing to set in the app.
Updates over Bluetooth.
New band software comes from your phone over Bluetooth, with no cable needed.
Matte all over.
No gloss anywhere, made for the range.
Renders of the current design. Details may change before release.
Apple Watch or band? Same engine.
XTuned for Apple Watch
For archers with an Apple Watch Series 8 or later, or an Apple Watch Ultra, paired with an iPhone. The watch counts every arrow, with heart rate and Coaching View.
See XTuned →
XTuned Band for everyone
No watch needed. The band measures, and your phone is the screen.
In developmentBoth use the same XTuned shot engine, the same numbers and the same plain-word explanations. Watch sessions stay in XTuned, and band sessions stay in XTuned Band.
In development. XTuned Band is at the prototype stage, and we're testing prototypes at the range.
Want to know when it's ready?
Email us and we'll write when there's news about XTuned Band.
Email me updatesOr write to eliasarchery@gmail.com
XTuned Band is in development. The pictures are renders of the current design, and details may change before release.