scoutSMART Basic vs Catapult Scout
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
scoutSMART Basic
This app streamlines the college sports recruiting process by delivering potential recruits directly to your phone weekly. Review detailed player profiles, stats, and scores to identify and track athletes for your team.
- Weekly recruit delivery
- Full recruit profiles
- Stats and scores
- Player analysis and tracking
- Streamlined recruiting
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We help teams win by taking the guess work and the hard work out of recruiting. We’ll deliver 11 recruits directly to you on your phone each week. You can review the full recruit profiles including stats and scores and select the players that you want to analyze and track.
Catapult Scout
Access extensive biographical and talent data for over 100,000 high school and JUCO athletes. Organize and search for prospects to streamline recruiting, campus visits, and travel periods.
- Comprehensive athlete data
- High School & JUCO coverage
- Prospect search and organization
- Recruiting trip planning
- Campus visit management
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Catapult Scout contains the most comprehensive coverage of biographical and talent information on over 100,000 active High School and JUCO athletes. Search for and organize prospects to facilitate travel periods, recruiting meetings and organize campus visits.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: scoutSMART Basic at 5 against Catapult Scout's 1. Catapult Scout's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for scoutSMART Basic against 5.0 for Catapult Scout. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: scoutSMART Basic has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | scoutSMART Basic | Catapult Scout |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Competitive Sports Analysis | Catapult Sports Pty Ltd |
In-app purchases
scoutSMART Basic
No in-app purchases
Catapult Scout
No in-app purchases
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