Comparison

VEX TM Mobile vs FTC Team Scouting

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

VEX TM Mobile

This app serves as a companion for managing robotics competitions. Referees can submit scores directly from their device, while announcers can view match information, control displays, and start matches. It streamlines event operations by reducing paper and transcription errors.

Highlights
  • Submit match and skills scores
  • View upcoming match information
  • Control audience display
  • Start matches
  • Conduct alliance selection
  • Eliminate paper scoresheets
Features
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VEX TM Mobile is the official companion app to the VEX Tournament Manager software for VEX Robotics Competition, VEX IQ Robotics Competition, and VEX U events. Referees can use TM Mobile to submit match and skills scores right from the device, eliminating paper scoresheet waste and transcription errors and speeding up your events. Announcers and emcees can use TM Mobile to see information for upcoming matches and recent scores, control the audience display, start matches, and conduct alliance selection.

About

FTC Team Scouting

Features
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FTC Team Scouting is a free scouting app for FIRST Tech Challenge teams. Coaches and scouts keep match, pit and pre-tournament notes in one shared team. A coach creates an account, starts a team and shares a join code. Scouts join with that code and don't need an account. Everyone on the team sees the same reports. Coaches can manage members, promote scouts to coach and reset the join code. Scout during the event: - Match scouting with auto, teleop and endgame points - Pit interviews with a robot rating and notes - Pre-tournament notes, with team stats pulled from FIRST: OPR, average score without penalties, RP average and event rank. Stats refresh once a day, and values you change by hand are kept. - Pull your event's match schedule from FIRST, and pick the season when you browse events or pull stats - Rank alliance picks from your reports - Export your team's data as CSV or JSON Organize by meet: Home splits teams into Current and Old. Current means a team has a report at this meet or is on its loaded schedule. One Meets list has a folder for each FIRST meet, plus any scouting day outside a meet, and a past meet looks just like home. A team's page shows this meet's reports, with its past meets at the bottom. Coaches can rename and merge scouting days. At the meet: - Compare 2 or 3 teams side by side, or compare both alliances in a scheduled match with each alliance's average - Live alliance selection: coaches mark picks and captains, and everyone on the team sees who is taken - Fill from FIRST loads the posted alliances in one tap - Scout assignments: coaches assign teams to scouts for each meet, and scouts filter by Unscouted, Mine or All Join with a QR code: Coaches can show the team's join code as a QR code, and scouts scan it with the camera to join. Typing the code still works. Join codes are 12 characters and expire after 7 days. After 3 wrong codes, joining is locked for 24 hours, so codes can't be guessed. Undo mistakes: Coaches can open History in Settings to see every change to reports and team tiles: what changed, who made it and when. Restore a deleted report or team, undo an edit, or undo Delete All Team Tiles for every team at once. Works offline: Reports save on your device first, so you can keep scouting with weak or no internet. They upload to your team on their own when you're back online, and a small status chip shows how many are waiting. After the first sync, only changed reports are downloaded. In 11 languages: English, Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Dutch, French, Hebrew, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian and Spanish (Latin America). Arabic and Hebrew use right-to-left layouts. Works on iPhone and iPad with iOS 18 or later. No ads, no fee and nothing to buy. Send us feedback any time from Settings. You can delete your account in the app. Team stats and match schedules come from the FIRST Tech Challenge Events API. FTC Team Scouting is not affiliated with FIRST or FIRST Tech Challenge.

Screenshots

VEX TM Mobile4 screens
FTC Team Scouting4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: FTC Team Scouting at every 5 days against VEX TM Mobile's every 2 months. VEX TM Mobile's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

VEX TM Mobile ships an update every 2 months, FTC Team Scouting every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
VEX TM Mobile versus FTC Team Scouting: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVEX TM MobileFTC Team Scouting
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (10 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings10 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB24 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDWAB Technology, LLCJoshua Vucelich

In-app purchases

None

VEX TM Mobile

No in-app purchases

None

FTC Team Scouting

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is VEX TM Mobile free?
VEX TM Mobile is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is FTC Team Scouting free?
FTC Team Scouting is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do VEX TM Mobile or FTC Team Scouting have ads?
Neither VEX TM Mobile nor FTC Team Scouting shows ads.
Which is updated more often, VEX TM Mobile or FTC Team Scouting?
VEX TM Mobile ships an update every 2 months, and FTC Team Scouting every 5 days. Most recently, VEX TM Mobile was updated on November 8, 2026 and FTC Team Scouting on November 9, 2026.

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