I have made a new app: Inner Ten.
It is an iPhone app for structured mental training in precision pistol shooting. The name comes from the innermost scoring ring. At a certain level, the difference between a good match and a great one is rarely raw technique alone. It is the ability to stay present, regulate pressure, recover from mistakes, and execute the next shot with a clear mind.
That is what I wanted this app to train.
Why I built it
There are excellent apps for score tracking, technical analysis, and dry-fire support.
There are also plenty of general mindfulness and breathing apps.
What I could not find was a tool built specifically for the mental side of pistol shooting:
- breathing protocols that make sense before and during a match
- visualization that sounds like the range, not a yoga studio
- practical pressure tools for bad shots, nerves, and match-day focus
- routines and debriefs that fit the reality of competition
Inner Ten is my attempt to fill that gap.
What Inner Ten does
The app is built around guided, audio-first training that you can actually use in a shooting context:
- Breathing with specific protocols for activation, relaxation, focus, and reset
- Visualization for real match situations like first shot, setbacks, recovery, and closing the match
- Mindfulness adapted to shooters, including presence, body awareness, and task-focused attention
- Pre-shot routine training where you build and rehearse your own cue-based routine
- Pressure tools and self-talk for handling nerves, elevated activation, and internal noise
- Match Day preparation with full and reduced timed preparation flows
- Debrief and journal tools for reflecting on training and competition and spotting patterns over time
The goal is simple: make mental training more concrete, more repeatable, and easier to bring into everyday practice.
What makes it different
The main difference is that this app was designed for the firing line, not for generic wellness.
Generic apps teach you to calm down in the abstract. Inner Ten is built around the situations shooters actually face: shaky starts, rising pulse, overthinking, hesitation, the need to reset after a bad shot, and the need to stay disciplined through a full match.
It is also designed to be practical and private:
- guided onboarding, but no account sign-up required
- training data stored locally on the device
- optional analytics only if the user explicitly enables it
I wanted the app to feel like a training tool, not a platform.
Built the way I wanted to use it
From a product and engineering perspective, I wanted something native, focused, and quiet.
So I built Inner Ten as a focused iPhone app, with guided audio and a widget. The content is structured in a way that makes it easier to keep improving the coaching side of the app over time.
This is also why the app feels very opinionated: it is not trying to do everything for every shooter. It is trying to do one thing well for a very specific kind of athlete.
What comes next
This is version 1, not the finished story.
I already have more ideas around trends, insights, and deeper feedback based on training history. But the core product is there now: a structured mental training system that lives in your pocket and speaks the language of pistol shooting.
If you want the full overview, I have a dedicated Inner Ten page. If you want to try it, it is available on the App Store.
