Introducing Zephyr

Built by shooters,
for the way you shoot.

The full physics stack — Coriolis, Eötvös, spindrift, aerodynamic jump, true-curve drag modeling on G1 and G7 standards. In a pocket-sized handheld that's weather-sealed, USB-C rechargeable, and runs for hundreds of hours per charge. No phone, no cloud, no subscription.

Beta · Designed and assembled in America. · Pre-launch — final UI & ergonomics polish in progress.

Full

Physics stack

Coriolis, Eötvös, spindrift, aerodynamic jump, true-curve drag modeling on G1 and G7. Running today on the demo above — try it.

Hundredsof hours

Field endurance

Hundreds of hours of practical field use per charge, with two-stage sleep that drops standby to micro-amps between shots. USB-C rechargeable from anything.

Byshooters

Made to use

Designed by people who actually work a rifle. Sunlight-readable display, glove-friendly buttons, weather-sealed housing. Reservations open while we finish the ergonomics pass — your feedback shapes the production unit.

The problem

Serious solvers exist. They're just not built for shooters.

The math has been there for decades. The problem is everything around it. Dated screens that wash out at noon. Menus designed in the 90s. Devices tethered to a phone, or worse, a phone pretending to be a device. Batteries that die when the temperature drops. And price tags that assume you have an expense account.

Zephyr is a serious solver in a handheld that respects your time, your hands, and the conditions you actually shoot in.

Capabilities

Engineering, not approximation.

The full physics stack

Coriolis. Eötvös. Spindrift. Aerodynamic jump. Each one is a real correction shooters at the top end run. Zephyr runs all of them, every shot — not buried in a fudge factor, not optional, not a paid upgrade.

True-curve drag modeling

G1 and G7 standards out of the box, plus up to five user-calibrated true-BC points across the velocity envelope — the drag curve bends to match how your bullet actually flies. The same approach the elite solvers charge a subscription for.

Atmosphere along the flight

Air temperature comes from an isolated probe — not a sensor warming up inside the housing. Pressure and humidity sample continuously. The solver advances air density along the trajectory, so the drag at apex matches the air the bullet is actually in, not the air at your boots.

Wind truing

Take the wind read, take the shot, see where it actually went. Zephyr back-calculates what the wind actually did and offers the correction — so the next call is informed by reality, not just by what the meter said.

Powder-temp compensation

Velocity changes with temperature. Zephyr knows. Sight in once, log a chrono read on a different day, and the live muzzle velocity follows the temperature. No more 50 fps surprises at first light.

New rifle, new ammo, no zero?

Switching to a different load you haven't shot before? Take a few rounds at any known distance — Zephyr captures the environment per shot and figures out where you actually need to be zeroed. No load development trip, no guesswork.

Built for the field

Hardware that doesn't quit on you.

A solver is only as good as the device you can actually pull out of your pack at first light. Zephyr's hardware is engineered to live in the truck, ride in the pack, and be the part of your kit you stop thinking about.

Designed and assembled in America.

Hundreds

Of hours per charge

Practical field use sees the device sleeping between shots and waking instantly when you reach for it — hundreds of hours of mixed-use endurance per charge. USB-C rechargeable from any phone charger, power bank, or vehicle port.

~30 hours of continuous always-on operation with power savings disabled.

Years

In the safe between seasons

Two-stage sleep with a peripheral FET cut drops standby draw to micro-amps. Throw it in the safe over the off-season, pick it up next year, take a shot.

Sealed

Rain, snow, dust, creek

Weather-sealed housing engineered to shrug off the conditions you actually shoot in — pouring rain, blowing snow, a brief plunge in a creek crossing. Drop-resistant chassis, glove-friendly buttons, no fragile knobs.

Offline

No phone, no cloud, no account

Everything happens on the device. Profiles, stages, calibration data, and shot log all live in on-device storage. No subscription, no telemetry, no internet required.

See it run

The actual firmware. In your browser.

Every screen, every menu, every solver — the same code that ships on the device, running live on our server and streamed to your screen. Click around, try a long shot, sweep the wind slider. If something in the flow could be tighter, the reserve form has a feedback field that lands in our inbox.

Open the live demo

Specifications

What's in the box.

Sensors

Anemometer
On-board wind cup, 0 – 60 mph, 0.1 mph resolution
Ambient temperature probe
External thermistor on a lead — thermally isolated from the device so a hot pocket or direct sun doesn't bias the reading. The atmospheric model and powder-temp compensation both pull from here.
Pressure & humidity
On-board barometric and humidity sensor, sampled continuously and fed into the atmospheric model along with the probe's temperature.
Inertial reference
9-axis (accelerometer + gyro + compass) — shot angle, heading, and level.

Display & controls

Screen
320 × 240 sunlight-readable IPS LCD
Input
5-button D-pad — full menu navigation with gloves on
UI
Pixel-art aesthetic, designed for one-hand operation

Solver

Range
25 – 4000 yd
Drag models
G1, G7, plus user-calibrated true-curve (up to 5 BC points)
Profiles
10 rifles, 10 stages, 5 targets per stage
Per-profile data
BC, muzzle velocity, sight height, twist, zero range, zero temp, MV-per-°F slope

Build

Origin
Designed and assembled in America
Housing
Weather-sealed against rain, snow, dust, and a brief drop in a creek
Operating temp
−15 °F to 130 °F field, deep sleep tolerates broader range
Pocket size
Fits in a chest pocket, a pack pouch, or alongside your range card

Power

Field battery life
Hundreds of hours per charge in practical use
Always-on
~30 hours screen-lit at full brightness, power savings off
Deep-sleep
Years — micro-amp standby, peripherals power-cut
Charging
USB-C, internal lithium pack, no proprietary cables

Firmware & data

Updates
Pick any version you want, anytime — install latest, downgrade, or pin a release. Updates are optional, never automatic.
Storage
Profiles, stages, calibration, shot log — all on-device
No cloud
No account, no telemetry, no internet required to use the device
Custom features
Got a workflow we should add? Tell us — we ship.

Use cases

Built for shots that have to count.

Long range

Target & competition

PRS, NRL, F-class, ELR — the disciplines where the wind call is the match. Zephyr's per-stage scenario builder lets you pre-load every target on a course, with target-specific range and angle, then step through them shot-by-shot. The solver's output is a single dial value plus a wind hold. Nothing else to do under time pressure.

Field

Hunting

Mountain hunts at altitudes the bench-zero never sees. Pre-dawn cold that drops MV by 50 fps. Long days where the last thing you want is a dead phone or a clunky menu. Zephyr's atmospheric correction, per-profile MV-temp slope, and field battery life are built around exactly these shots — the ones that don't get a second try.

In development

Military & LE

The firmware is being hardened for institutional deployment: ruggedized housing options, expanded profile capacity, secure firmware signing, and integration paths with rangefinders and laser-marker systems. Partnerships welcomed — get in touch via the contact link below.

How it's different

Not another wind meter. Not another solver.

Phone solver app
Pro wind-meter solver
Zephyr
Drag model
G1 or G7, single BC
True-curve, paid subscription
G1, G7, true-curve (5 BC points) — included
Atmosphere along flight
Usually constant
Yes
Yes — altitude-rescaled per step
Spin drift & Coriolis
Sometimes
Yes
Yes — per shot, per profile
Per-rifle MV temp comp
Rare
Sometimes
Yes — per-profile slope
Form factor
Phone screen
Standalone meter
Purpose-built handheld
Battery in the field
Hours — phone-dependent
AA cells, ~hundreds of hours
USB-C rechargeable, hundreds of hours practical / ~30 hr always-on
Cloud / telemetry
Often required
Optional
None — fully offline

Comparison is for clarity, not endorsement. We respect the instruments shooters already trust — Zephyr exists because we think pro-grade physics deserves better hardware around it.

Where we are

Production roadmap.

  1. Done

    Hardware MK2 — working prototype

    Custom PCB, sensor stack, anemometer assembly, display rotation, button geometry. The MK2 board is the working unit you see in the demo render. Final tooling locks after one more pass on case ergonomics.

  2. Done

    Firmware feature-complete

    The full physics stack, profile manager, scenario builder, zero calculator, sleep system, and OTA pipeline are all running. The solver is validated against published Applied Ballistics reference data. What you click in the live demo is the same code that ships.

  3. Now

    Final UI polish · taking reservations

    Last pass on menu flow, footer hints, and a few button-mapping refinements before production. Reserve a unit; no payment required at this stage. Every form submission lands directly in the founder's inbox — feedback from the demo genuinely shapes what ships.

  4. Soon

    First production run

    Limited initial run for early reservation holders. Pricing and ship dates confirmed when manufacturing locks in.

  5. Beyond

    Bluetooth rangefinder integration · suppressor models · institutional partnerships

    The firmware is built so future capability arrives as OTA updates to existing devices, not as new hardware you have to buy.

Reserve · Feedback

Be early. Help shape it.

Target price $349.99 final pricing set at production launch

The firmware is feature-complete and validated against the same reference data the elite solvers publish. The hardware is on its second board revision and works. What's left before launch is UI polish and a final ergonomic pass on the buttons and case — small stuff, and the kind of thing that benefits from real-shooter feedback before the production run goes out.

No charge today. No spam. Email goes straight to the founder — every submission comes through to a real inbox, every feature request and bug report gets a reply.

Want to reach us directly instead of using the form? Drop your address in the email field below and check the "Just want to talk" use-case option — we'll reach out.

Frequently asked

Questions, answered.

What's the price?

We're finalizing the production-run cost and will publish a price the moment we open orders. Reserving doesn't lock you in — it just gets you the email first.

When will it ship?

The first production run is targeted within ~2 months of order open. Reservations will be filled in the order they were submitted.

How does the wind workflow work?

Same shape as the workflow you already use: capture a wind read, take the shot. Where Zephyr differs is the truing tool — observe your impact, and the device back-calculates the wind that actually moved the bullet. Over a few shots the device learns the difference between what the meter reads at the bench and what the air is doing along the flight path. We don't claim to magically measure complex valley winds in real time; we claim to give you a tool that makes your wind calls measurably better, shot to shot.

How long does the battery actually last?

Hundreds of hours of practical field use per charge — the device sleeps between shots and wakes instantly when you reach for it, so a typical hunt or match weekend doesn't come close to draining it.

If you keep it screen-on at full brightness with all sensors active and power savings disabled, you'll get around 30 hours of continuous always-on time. Deep-sleep runs for seasons; throw it in the safe and pick it back up next year. USB-C charging from any phone charger, power bank, or vehicle USB port.

Does it work without internet?

Yes. WiFi is only used for optional OTA firmware updates, and is off by default. No telemetry, no cloud, no account. All profiles, stages, and calibrations live in on-device NVS storage.

Can I use my own custom drag function?

Yes. Each profile supports up to 5 user-calibrated true-BC points across the velocity envelope. The solver interpolates between them by Mach number, so the drag the bullet sees at every point in flight matches what you've measured at the range.

How accurate is the solver at extreme range?

Validated against published reference data and live chronograph drops well past 2000 yd. No solver replaces honest inputs — your velocity, your BC, your zero — but given honest inputs, Zephyr's outputs match the elite solvers. That's the point.

I just got a new rifle / new ammo. How do I zero it without a load development trip?

Set up the profile with whatever ammo info you have, take a few rounds at any distance you can measure, and Zephyr captures the environment per shot and back-solves the actual zero. Faster than a chrono, and works with factory ammo where the box specs lie.

Can I install whatever firmware version I want?

Yes. Updates are optional, never automatic, never forced. Pick the latest, downgrade to a previous version, pin a release you trust — whatever you want. Updates arrive over WiFi when you ask the device to check; never when you don't.

I have a feature idea. Will you actually listen?

Yes — that's not boilerplate. We've shipped features that started as customer messages within a week of getting them. Drop your suggestion in the reserve form's feedback field, or hit the contact link in the footer. We read every one.

Will it integrate with my rangefinder?

BLE integration with several common rangefinders is on the near roadmap, delivered as a firmware update to existing devices. The hardware is provisioned for it.

Can I see the source?

The firmware is closed-source — that's the IP that makes Zephyr what it is. The live demo on this site runs the actual firmware on our server, so you can evaluate every screen and every solver path before you commit. Source access is negotiable for institutional partners.