Diligent Boards vs Scout
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Diligent Boards
This app provides a secure and intuitive platform for board members to access meeting materials, review documents, and collaborate. It offers tools for voting, questionnaires, and digital signatures, ensuring efficient decision-making and governance.
- Secure access to board books and meeting materials
- Tools for review, discussion, and collaboration
- Streamlined voting and questionnaire features
- Digital signature approvals
- Annotation and note-taking tools
- Offline access to materials
- 24/7 concierge-level support
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DILIGENT BOARDS – iPHONE and iPAD The most intuitive and secure way to improve communications and decision-making, Diligent Boards gives you immediate access to board books and meeting materials, along with the tools to review, discuss and collaborate on them. You’ll find streamlined voting, questionnaire tools and signature approvals with features that can be enabled or disabled to meet your organization’s governance and security requirements. Features: • Access current agendas and meeting materials, or archives from previous meeting • Protect all of your data with world-class security and encryption • Annotate any page using a suite of markup, bookmarking and note-taking tools • Collaborate with groups or select individuals by sharing comments, right on the page • Transition seamlessly between online and offline to access the app anywhere, even when Internet connectivity is unavailable • Keep up-to-date with built-in contact list and meeting calendar functions • Vote on motions and directives with instant digital signatures • Respond to questionnaires that save your responses as you go • Review your organization’s repository of governance information • Use side-by-side with Diligent Messenger to enable secure messaging and real-time collaboration. • Get assistance any time with award-winning 24/7/365 concierge-level support Experience a streamlined Diligent Boards on iPhone, with only essential features for on-the-go reading, annotation and more. Additional information: Over 4,700 organizations and 140,000 executives and board members trust Diligent with their most confidential board meeting materials. The Diligent Boards solution meets or exceeds the standards of the most security-conscious IT departments. Diligent’s information management security is ISO 27001 certified and our internal control processes have received clean SSAE 16/ISAE 3402 (SOC 1 Type 2) audits for nine consecutive years. You can count on unlimited training via one-on-one personal or group sessions, delivered either in person or online and including board presentations. We also provide regular webinar tutorials to keep you up-to-date about product features from Diligent and in-person seminars where you can compare notes with your peers. Ninety-nine percent of all support calls are answered immediately by our deeply knowledgeable employees. In addition to 24/7/365 support in English, our own employees also provide coverage during specified times in French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Polish, and select Indian and Sri Lankan dialects.
Scout
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Scout is a safety reporting app. Capture incidents, near misses, and observations the moment they happen, online or offline. Why teams use Scout: - Capture in seconds. Type, dictate, or snap a photo — Scout structures everything for you so you can get back to your job. - Offline by default. No signal where you're working? Capture now. Scout queues your report and submits the moment you reconnect. - Confidential where it matters. Protected reports follow your organization's confidentiality rules end-to-end. Your identity doesn't go where it shouldn't. - Track every report. Get a tracking number instantly and a heads-up when someone picks it up. - Built for real work. One-handed flows. Glove-friendly buttons. Works in the noise of operations. Privacy and security Reports are encrypted in transit and at rest. Scout uses your organization's identity provider for sign-in. Access follows least-privilege rules. Only the people who need to see your report can.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Scout at every 4 days against Diligent Boards's monthly. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.
Diligent Boards ships an update monthly, Scout every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Diligent Boards | Scout |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (55 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 27.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 55 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 426 MB | 72 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Diligent Corporation | ScoutEHS |
In-app purchases
Diligent Boards
No in-app purchases
Scout
No in-app purchases








