Scouting User Reviews

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Ineligibility/Issues for Ranks

It would be nice if the most recent update for ineligibility of age wasn’t all blacked out. The cub scouts have to do not only their age, but if they haven’t done Bobcat, they have to get that too! Trying to work on my children’s Bear, Tiger, & both on Bobcat and now I can’t pull it up. Ridiculous.
My older Scout’s rank percentage is never accurate. 1 day it will say 68% complete the next it will say only 13% complete. And it almost never shows what she has pending or complete. This is such a handy tool for parents & Scouts it’s a shame it isn’t smoother running.
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Possible bug?

Hey Guys, thanks for putting the app together. It really helps to have info accessible via phone.
Quick callout, not sure if it’s just me, but when I go to upgrade the app, it takes me to AppStore and unlike other apps , there is no upgrade button. only open button is visible. When I click on open , it takes to app and asks to upgrade sending back to AppStore. It’s kind of infinite loop.
So the only way to upgrade is to delete existing app and install fresh and re enter all the credentials and settings manually each time I upgrade.
Hopefully others are facing this issue as well and it’s not just me.
Hoping to get it fixed.
Thanks.
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Missing the most basic things

Missing the most basic things, like calendar integration or an 'add to calendar' button. I shouldn't have to copy paste all the details of an event to my calendar when they're already in the app. 'Subscribe to notifications' is broken. 'Send feedback' is broken - it tries to use the Apple email app (which I don't use) to send feedback, instead of sending it natively or using the phone default (Gmail in my case).

Overall needs a lot of work and devs should prioritize making the basics work well -- help parents and scouts stay up to date and organized for things like meetings and events.
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Works great

If you have a scout, give this app a try. There are a lot of bad reviews. Maybe they have resolved all of those issues but I haven’t experienced any problems yet. Was able to login, view upcoming events, and track my scouts progress.

Crashes

App hangs. When I go to the Advancement -> See All, this brings up the Ranks page and when I click on one of the ranks to see details, it hangs when I try and see details on current or future ranks. It’s to bad, as this is the most interesting feature of the app for me. I guess I will stick to the paper book.
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Can’t update

I have ver .11 it’s showing an update is available I’m using an iPhone 8 Plus when I click on update it just takes me to App Store where it shows open but when I reload it it says update to ver .12 there’s glitches in the app on iphone when I enter certain screens like add parent when I enter info and do search for my older scout daughter and click on search I get blank screen and when I try to back out of it the text at top of screen superimposes on top of itself and I have to quit and reload
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Doesn’t work

Not sure what the point of this app it. Calendar is blank. Despite update notes saying they fixed the “gets stuck on we are loading your experience” bug, it always gets stuck there. Not sure what the point of the app is, as I can’t get it to display any useful info. I just go to the scoutbook site instead. (Wish that came as an app!)
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Abysmal

I hate to do it but I’m writing an honest review here. i’m on a new iOS device and this app is almost completely unusable. It either crashes or perpetually loads every time I try to use it. mandatory den leader training heavily pushes using this app and actually poses reinforcement questions at the end of each training session that force you to acknowledge that this is the best way to track your scout’s progress. It is not. I would be better served with a pen and paper.
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Worst app ever

In addition to the myriad of regular issues I experience with this app, it is currently stuck in a loop where it won’t open because an update is apparently needed, but when you click on the button to do so, there is no update available in the iTunes Store — only the option to open the app, which, of course, takes you back to the app landing page that says “update application.” If only 0 stars were an option.
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Worthless

I’ve been trying to connect to my grandson who is a Cub Scout in a local Pack. It keeps telling me there’s a problem even though they do recognize that he is in Scouting. Additionally it does not show any events for our Pack and I know the Pack’s calendar is updated with all the events that are going to take place here in the next two months.
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