What’s next
The LoadNode roadmap
LoadNode is built by handloaders and shaped by what the community asks for. Here’s what’s live, what’s next, and what we’re exploring. Plans can shift: this isn’t a promise of dates.
Logging is free for up to two firearms of any type. Items marked Pro are included in the one-time Pro purchase, not a subscription.
Live now
- Logbook: firearms, barrels, recipes & load jobs (free for two firearms of any type and one barrel each; more is Pro)
- Charge ladders with live SD, ES & average
- Garmin Xero C1 & C2 Bluetooth sync (Pro; on a C2 each shot lands live as you fire)
- Athlon Rangecraft Velocity Pro Bluetooth sync (Pro; each shot lands live while a session runs on the radar), on Android and iPhone
- Group measurement from a photo (MOA/MIL, mean radius, scope clicks) with a movable, resizable on-photo data box: measuring is free; saving the group, and exporting or sharing the annotated target, are Pro
- AI group analysis (Pro, and it spends credits)
- Neck tension & shoulder bump tracking, plus a neck-tension test (Pro)
- Cost & ROI tracking (Pro)
- Cloud sync & cloud photo backup (Pro), plus free password-encrypted local backup & restore (photos optional)
- Haptic feedback & color-blind mode (free, for everyone)
- 192 cartridges & 198 bullets on the device, and you can add a chambering of your own with its bullet diameter (free)
- A barrel chambered differently from its firearm, with its own bullets, brass, primers and hole size (Pro, with multi-barrel profiles)
- Groups from an electronic target: type the size in and the angular size is worked out from your range
- Compare sessions across different load jobs, with the uncertainty on each (Pro)
- CSV export of your whole logbook (Pro; the encrypted backup stays free)
- Your units everywhere: MOA or MIL, inches or centimetres, fps or m/s, through the charts, the PDFs and the widget
- Edit a session after you create it: its name, goal, notes, and a jam measured afterwards, dated as measured rather than as typed
- The jam, the jump and the loaded CBTO as one fact: type either the jump or the CBTO and the other fills in, seeded from the recipe
- The rounds your chronograph missed: log what you actually fired at a step, so component stock, brass, barrel life and cost are right, without touching any velocity statistic
- Compare whole loads side by side, each built from every group ever measured on it, with a confidence interval on each and no winner declared (Pro)
- Primer seating depth ladders, charted against depth the way a charge ladder is (Pro)
- Charts for every ladder type in the exported PDF, not only charge ladders: seating, tuner, neck tension and primer seating each chart against what they stepped
- Copy a recipe, free, with no version link and none of the results it did not earn
- Notes on firearms, loads and equipment, each box saying where its note will appear
- Statuses that do something: an archived or retired load leaves the rounds-you-can-load figure, and an archived session leaves the pickers and comparisons
- Every load in one list, across every firearm, each row naming the firearm it belongs to
- Prices stay in the currency you entered them in: nothing converts, and a part-priced load is marked partial rather than printing at half price
- One recipe on several firearms of the same cartridge, with each firearm’s results kept apart (free)
- A parts and setup list for each firearm, with suggestions that fit the kind of firearm it is, and a copy kept with every new session (Pro)
- Build a ladder at the bench: add several rungs in a row before you shoot, on every ladder type
- Factory ammunition logged as a load from what is on the box, compared with your handloads, and kept out of your inventory (free; Compare loads is Pro)
- Group test sessions: strings of one load with no ladder, pooled and compared by Group Analysis (Pro)
- Factory box pricing: cost per round, per 100 and per session (Pro)
Coming next
- More chronograph models
- A growing component catalog (more cartridges, bullets, powders, primers)
- Quality-of-life improvements driven by your feedback
Exploring
- More ways to visualise your load development over time
- Deeper barrel-life & component insights
- Your ideas: tell us what would help most
Want something on this list? We build LoadNode around real handloaders. Email [email protected] with the feature you want: it genuinely shapes what we work on next.
This roadmap is informational and may change. LoadNode is a logbook and analysis tool: it never provides load data.