Does Not Work Correctly
If you want to link your account with your youth scout and see their calendar for meetings days then you’re in luck. Otherwise, the app is mostly functionless. You can’t add service work or activities or any other projects. You can enter all the information but it won’t save. You’ll just receive an error message. You can update the app or uninstall and redownload it. It doesn’t fix anything. Menus pop up at odd screen locations when typing making it difficult to read what is being entered. I can only guess that this app was developed as a service project by a scout. It looks great but needs a lot of professional repair to make it a useful app.
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UPDATE: Good option for tracking Scout progress.
As a parent this app provides an easy way to view my Scout’s progress. I wish the notifications would work for calendar events on iOS but with notifications on I have yet to see this work. One issue that makes this app difficult to use is the social login (Google) hangs at a screen “We are loading your experience” and the only way to get past this is to close and reopen the app. Not a great login experience but since I need to use the same account for the other Scouting apps as Cubmaster I cannot change it. **** Please fix the login issue. ***** Otherwise the app seems to have improved over time and many of stability issues have been resolved. UPDATE: the “We are loading your…” seems to be resolved and I am seeing more improvements. I like the attendance feature but I wish the Event Details were compatible with the rich text formatting of Scoutbook Plus.
UPDATE: Subscribe option in the Calendar similar to SportsEngine would be a great feature to add events to the device calendar.
UPDATE: Subscribe option in the Calendar similar to SportsEngine would be a great feature to add events to the device calendar.
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Please remove discontinued merit badges
I would request that you remove the following discontinued merit badges from your listing within the Advancement section: carpentry, computers, medicine, pathfinding, signaling, and tracking. One of our scouts started working on Tracking without checking with the Troop leadership because it was in the app. We had to tell him he could not earn it, and he was disappointed because he had already done a lot of the requirements.
It would eliminate confusion for those scouts who use the app for most of their scouting activities. Thank you.
It would eliminate confusion for those scouts who use the app for most of their scouting activities. Thank you.
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UPDATE: Good option for tracking Scout progress.
As a parent this app provides an easy way to view my Scout’s progress. I wish the notifications would work for calendar events on iOS but with notifications on I have yet to see this work. One issue that makes this app difficult to use is the social login (Google) hangs at a screen “We are loading your experience” and the only way to get past this is to close and reopen the app. Not a great login experience but since I need to use the same account for the other Scouting apps as Cubmaster I cannot change it. **** Please fix the login issue. ***** Otherwise the app seems to have improved over time and many of stability issues have been resolved. UPDATE: the “We are loading your…” seems to be resolved and I am seeing more improvements. I like the attendance feature but I wish the Event Details were compatible with the rich text formatting of Scoutbook Plus.
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Useful app - scouts like it!
As a scouter with two scouts, I find this app reliable, attractive, and useful. It’s easy to navigate and the look and feel is consistent with the newer Scoutbook+Internet Advancement.
I mostly use the calendar rsvp to events (it’s so quick and easy) and to see where my scouts are at in their merit badge or rank work. Our troop relies on the hard copy Scout Handbook as primary record and my scouts are responsible for those, but having an electronic copy for me is quite useful in having conversations with my scouts about what they want to pursue next.
Some of our older scouts with smartphones use this app often. I have observed them at meetings or in the car going to a camp out to verify the specific details of a requirement to ensure they follow it. I also like that they use the app to augment their scout handbook rather than to replace it.
I have had this app for some years now and find it has come a long way since the earlier versions.
I mostly use the calendar rsvp to events (it’s so quick and easy) and to see where my scouts are at in their merit badge or rank work. Our troop relies on the hard copy Scout Handbook as primary record and my scouts are responsible for those, but having an electronic copy for me is quite useful in having conversations with my scouts about what they want to pursue next.
Some of our older scouts with smartphones use this app often. I have observed them at meetings or in the car going to a camp out to verify the specific details of a requirement to ensure they follow it. I also like that they use the app to augment their scout handbook rather than to replace it.
I have had this app for some years now and find it has come a long way since the earlier versions.
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Good option for tracking Scout progress.
As a parent this app provides an easy way to view my Scout’s progress.
I wish the notifications would work for calendar events on iOS but with notifications on I have yet to see this work.
One issue that makes this app difficult to use is the social login (Google) hangs at a screen “We are loading your experience” and the only way to get past this is to close and reopen the app. Not a great login experience but since I need to use the same account for the other Scouting apps as Cubmaster I cannot change it.
**** Please fix the login issue. *****
Otherwise the app seems to have improved over time and many of stability issues have been resolved.
I wish the notifications would work for calendar events on iOS but with notifications on I have yet to see this work.
One issue that makes this app difficult to use is the social login (Google) hangs at a screen “We are loading your experience” and the only way to get past this is to close and reopen the app. Not a great login experience but since I need to use the same account for the other Scouting apps as Cubmaster I cannot change it.
**** Please fix the login issue. *****
Otherwise the app seems to have improved over time and many of stability issues have been resolved.
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Not even functional
Love scouts and understand development takes money, but come on. Scouts rely on this for tracking achievements, but most users can’t even use it.* About everything in this app doesn’t work out has significant issues. Usually it’s been login broken. Years of that, now I can get in if I login then force quit. Now I can’t read anything because it’s dark text on dark background. RSVP gone. List goes on.
* I say this from talking to the parents in our Troops over the years so it’s not just me. Many have given up trying. Most report achievements to the scout master so he can do it. That’s the only way.
* I say this from talking to the parents in our Troops over the years so it’s not just me. Many have given up trying. Most report achievements to the scout master so he can do it. That’s the only way.
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Not efficient or updated
Recently, I downloaded this app because I believed it would work to solve all my online scouting record issues. I got things fixed, but this app is very slow, and worst of all is not updated. I was trying to get my Eagle application printed, and this had nothing filled out automatically. I thought, “Huh, weird. Must be an error on my end.” Then, I filled the whole form. Went down to the council office today, and turns out it’s the WRONG FORM. They updated it for June 2022, and I had to go to My Scouting, and Internet Advancements 2.0. Please fix this, it’ll save other scouts time and money. But, if things work faster I think this would genuinely be such a convenient app to use and super helpful for all scouts.
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Lacks Basic Functionality
The idea of this app is excellent. However, each update seems to randomly break bits and pieces of its basic functionality. The latest update (2.5.20) will not allow you to scroll down on an individual Scout’s profile, advancement, activities, or payment log, and it is pulling unit data (e.g. charter org, unit POC, address, etc.) from an obsolete database. This makes the app relatively useless and issues like this have been par for the course since it’s introduction. These very basic issues make this app almost feel like a port of an app that was originally built for some other OS. Better to just use the Scoutbook website - it’s infinitely more reliable and definitely more accurate.
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Recent update broke the app
There was room for improvement before, but it was useable and we could track our progress. Now, every time I try to add achievements for my son it tells me I can’t add them as a youth. I also can’t turn on notifications. I tried to submit feedback through the app, but when it opened my email and auto filled the information in, I was unable to send because the email address entered by the app was wrong. I’m hopeful the team is working on a number of bug fixes that will be released soon.
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