Robotics Scouting Tool vs OpenScout
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Robotics Scouting Tool
This app helps robotics competitors track team statistics and competition details. Users can view registered competitions, see competing teams, and record notes on individual teams. All notes are synced across an organization for easy collaboration.
- View registered competitions
- See competing teams
- View team stats and skills scores
- Add and sync personal notes
- Organization-wide note syncing
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An app created by a robotics competitor for robotic competitors. Just enter your name and team number. You will automatically see all the competitions you have signed up for. Click one to view all the teams competing in that comp. Click the team to see stats like skills scores, and add your own notes. Any notes you take will automatically be synced with the rest of your school/organization. Scouting has never been so easy.
OpenScout
Follow VEX Robotics tournaments, track teams, and scout competitors. Features include live event updates, match notes, picklists, and practice tools. Sync data across devices with optional account sign-in.
- Follow VEX Robotics teams and events
- Real-time rankings and match results
- Scout teams and build picklists
- Sync notes and picklists across devices
- Tournament mode for quick event access
- World Skills rankings
- Practice field and timer tools
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OpenScout helps you follow your VEX Robotics team through an entire tournament. OpenScout is an independent app from RoboSTEM Foundation, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by VEX Robotics, Innovation First International, or the Global Robotics & Science Foundation. Competition data comes from public event and team information on events.vex.com. FOLLOW YOUR TEAM Set your team number once. Home shows their next match, current ranking, and skills scores, and you arrange it from blocks for the events and teams you follow. SEARCH ACROSS VEX Explore searches across the entire program instead of just the page you're viewing. It understands common terms like sig, states, champs, and worlds. Search a full team number to see the events that team has competed at. FOLLOW A LIVE EVENT Open an event to see rankings, match results, elimination brackets, division standings, skills rankings, awards, and the venue agenda. Results update as the event runs. If a match has video, you can watch it inside OpenScout. Turn on predictions to see the win chances for each unplayed match, from OpenScout Score. SCOUT TEAMS Compare teams side by side, take match notes, build a picklist, work through alliance selection, and follow the bracket. Export an event to CSV, or save it to read offline. Make a Cloud team with your scouting group, and everyone's favorites, notes, and picklists stay in sync. TOURNAMENT MODE A single screen for the event you're attending. See your next match, which field you're on, and your current standing without digging through event pages. WORLD SKILLS STANDINGS View full-season World Skills rankings across every supported program and grade level. FIELD AND TIMER TOOLS Use the built-in match timer, score calculator, and whiteboard for practice and strategy. NOTIFICATIONS AND LIVE ACTIVITIES Get match results for the teams you favorite, and follow your team's matches on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. TRANSLATION Event and team names appear in the language entered by the event organizer. OpenScout can translate them automatically or whenever you request it. ACCOUNT OPTIONAL You don't need an account to use OpenScout. Signing in with Apple, Google, or Discord lets you sync your followed team, favorites, notes, and picklists across devices, and join Cloud teams. You can delete your account directly inside the app at any time. FREE, NO ADS, NO TRACKING OpenScout is free. There are no ads, no subscription, no third-party analytics, and no tracking across other apps and websites. Terms of Service: https://openscout.ing/terms Privacy Policy: https://openscout.ing/privacy Questions: contact@robostem.org
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: OpenScout at 4.8 against Robotics Scouting Tool's 3.4. Robotics Scouting Tool's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and ratings volume (15 vs 4). 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.
OpenScout holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 4 respectively.
| Parameter | Robotics Scouting Tool | OpenScout |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (15 ratings) | 4.8 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 84 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Karthik Sankar | ROBOSTEM FOUNDATION INC |
Customer experience
Robotics Scouting Tool
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In-app purchases
Robotics Scouting Tool
No in-app purchases
OpenScout
No in-app purchases
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