Ride Forces vs VRC RoboScout
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ride Forces
This app records and analyzes the g-forces experienced on roller coasters and amusement park rides using your iPhone or Apple Watch. It offers detailed graphs and statistics, with an optional subscription for advanced features like GPS tracking and weather data.
- Records g-forces on rides
- Provides 3D g-force graphs and stats
- Captures rider orientation
- Includes GPS ride mapping
- Records weather conditions
- Analyzes airtime and inversions
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Ride Forces records g-forces on roller coasters and amusement park rides with your iPhone or Apple Watch. View graphs, analyze stats, and share the forces of your favorite rides. A must have app for thrill seekers, roller coaster enthusiast, and physics nerds. Standard Recording: Captures the g-forces of rides and roller coasters. Provides stats and graphs of g-forces in three dimensions. - Records force data from accelerometer - Requires motion tracking permissions Subscribe to Ride Forces Pro to capture advanced recordings. Advanced Recording: In addition to capturing the force data of a standard recording advanced recording captures rider orientation, GPS data, and weather conditions. This reveals additional ride information including: identifying airtime/hangtime, inversions, orientation angles, a map of ride location, temperature, wind speed, and wind direction. A Ride Forces Pro subscription is required to capture advanced recordings. Advanced recordings can be viewed, edited, and shared with or without a subscription. - Records force and orientation data using multiple sensors including accelerometer and gyroscope - Records GPS data - Records weather conditions (requires internet connection) - Requires location and motion tracking permissions - Records for a maximum of 15 minutes - Advanced recording will fallback to standard recording if the app is closed while recording Privacy Policy: https://rideforces.com/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://rideforces.com/terms/
VRC RoboScout
This app revolutionizes team and event tracking for robotics competitions. It allows users to record match notes, export data, view leaderboards, and even predict match outcomes. It supports multiple competition modes and seasons, offering a comprehensive scouting solution.
- Favorite teams and events
- Universal team and event lookup
- World Skills and TrueSkill leaderboards
- In-app match notes
- Data export
- Match predictions
- Multi-season and multi-mode support
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Whether you want to keep track of all your favorite teams and events, check the World Skills leaderboard with a single tap, take in-app match notes for individual teams, export scouting spreadsheets, check the vrc-data-analysis TrueSkill leaderboard, or predict the outcome of every single match at an event, VRC RoboScout is the definitive scouting app. Open-source and community-focused, take your scouting to the next level. Features include: - Favorite teams and events - Universal team and event lookup - World Skills leaderboard - World TrueSkill leaderboard - Customizable appearance - Multi-season functionality - VEXU, VRC MS, and VRC HS modes - Event information, teams, divisions, and rankings - Excellence eligibility calculator - Match Notes - Data exporter - Match predictions Coming soon: - Cloud syncing for Match Notes between teammates - Match widgets - Match and rankings notifications
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: VRC RoboScout at none against Ride Forces's 2. VRC RoboScout also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 79%). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Ride Forces sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. VRC RoboScout asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Ride Forces against 4.9 for VRC RoboScout. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 48 and 135 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 79% of Ride Forces's written reviews are positive against 100% of VRC RoboScout's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ride Forces | VRC RoboScout |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (48 ratings) | 4.9 (135 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 78.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 48 | 135 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 95 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Stephen Dettling | William Castro |
Customer experience
Ride Forces
VRC RoboScout
In-app purchases
Ride Forces
- Ride Forces Pro (Monthly)7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Ride Forces Pro (Yearly)7 Days trial$9.991 Year
VRC RoboScout
No in-app purchases









