Scouting vs Hape Junior Inventor
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Scouting
This app helps parents and Scouts track their journey from Lion to Eagle Scout. It focuses on individual progress and requires a my.scouting.org login for parents or youth accounts.
- Track progress from Lion to Eagle Scout
- Parent and youth account support
- Individual experience tracking
- Requires my.scouting.org login
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For parents and Scouts to track the Scouting Experience from Lion to Eagle Scout This app is for parents and scouts only, it is not for adult leaders to track scouts. A http://my.scouting.org/ log in is required and your account must either be connected to a Scout as a parent or be a youth account.
Hape Junior Inventor
This app guides children aged four and up in building various STEAM-focused toys. It provides detailed instructions and a sample display to help young inventors create diggers, mechanical arms, and more, fostering logical thinking and creativity.
- Builds STEAM toys
- Detailed instructions
- Sample experiment display
- Develops logical thinking
- Encourages creativity
- In-app sharing gallery
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To be a scientist is the ambition many children embrace while they are young. With sophisticated research and design, our Junior Inventor series of toys are capable of giving children as young as four the chance to interact with physical world. With well-crafted components, your little inventor will create a digger, a mechanical arm, a gravity vehicle, a crane, a rotating light, and much more. All tools and parts are designed for children's hands and skill levels and it’s great for developing children’s logical thinking and an understanding of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics (STEAM) principles. The completed experiments offer children great fun to operate and interact with friends – wave “hands” to say “hello”, drag a frog crossing between tables, or watch a moving picture through the zoetrope. How about inventing a never-tried gadget using your imagination? To help you start, Hape releases this "Know-how" APP with a finished sample display and detailed instructions teaching you how to build the experiments. Once your junior inventor become “senior”, they can always get full use of the components and tools to create wonders like a real inventor. Use the in-App sharing functions to upload your masterpieces in the GALLERY or post on social media. For safety reasons this product is not recommended for children under the age of three as it contains small components.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Hape Junior Inventor at 5.0 against Scouting's 2.0. Scouting's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (936 vs 5). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Hape Junior Inventor holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Scouting has 936 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Scouting ships an update fortnightly, Hape Junior Inventor every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Scouting | Hape Junior Inventor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (936 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 12.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 936 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 114 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Boy Scouts of America | Hape |
Customer experience
Scouting
Hape Junior Inventor
Bugs and requests
Scouting
Reported bugs
5 issues- Incorrect rank and requirement completion tracking
- Unable to submit advancement requirements
- Inability to remove guardians
- Outdated merit badge listings
- Inconsistent app behavior across devices
Requested features
5 requests- PDF version of scout handbook
- Integration with device calendar
- Ability to add photos and comments
- Better notifications and alerts
- Improved tracking for merit badges and advancements
Hape Junior Inventor
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Scouting
No in-app purchases
Hape Junior Inventor
No in-app purchases









