Drill vs VRC RoboScout
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Drill
Control your tennis ball machine remotely with this app. Duplicate all control panel functions, including oscillation and individual shot settings, to create custom drills for various brands.
- Remote control duplication
- Control oscillation
- Control individual shots
- Create custom drills
- Supports multiple brands
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The Drill Maker remote controller duplicates all the control functions of the tennis ball machine's control panel.It can control several brands of ball machine released by Spinball-Sports Industries Inc.Each oscillation feature or even every shot can be controlled through the application to make up different drills.
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 review sentiment: VRC RoboScout at 100% against Drill's 29%. VRC RoboScout also leads on rating (4.9 vs 3.1) and ratings volume (137 vs 25). Drill's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
VRC RoboScout holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: VRC RoboScout has 137 ratings behind it against 25, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 29% of Drill's written reviews are positive against 100% of VRC RoboScout's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Drill | VRC RoboScout |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (25 ratings) | 4.9 (137 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 28.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 25 | 137 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 95 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Spinshot Trading Company Ltd. | William Castro |
Customer experience
Drill
VRC RoboScout
In-app purchases
Drill
No in-app purchases
VRC RoboScout
No in-app purchases
