V5RC Hub vs FTC Team Scouting
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
V5RC Hub
This app serves as a comprehensive companion for VEX V5 Robotics Competition participants. It provides easy access to the official game manual, a scoring calculator for practice, and a timer with official sounds for running matches.
- Searchable official game manual
- Intuitive scoring calculator
- Practice match timer
- Official game sounds
- Competition companion
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The V5RC Hub app is the ideal competition companion for teams, spectators, and event planners involved in the VEX V5 Robotics Competition! * Become an expert with a searchable, easy-to-use official game manual * Keep score at home with an intuitive calculator for the current game * Use the included timer to run your own practice matches (featuring official sounds!)
FTC Team Scouting
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: FTC Team Scouting at every 5 days against V5RC Hub's every 6 weeks. V5RC Hub's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
V5RC Hub ships an update every 6 weeks, FTC Team Scouting every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | V5RC Hub | FTC Team Scouting |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (36 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 61.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 36 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | VEX Robotics, Inc. | Joshua Vucelich |
In-app purchases
V5RC Hub
No in-app purchases
FTC Team Scouting
No in-app purchases








