Lovat Dashboard vs VRC RoboScout
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lovat Dashboard
This app facilitates collaborative strategy for FIRST Robotics Competition teams by providing team-specific metrics, predictions, and customizable picklists. It allows users to share data, analyze team performance, and optimize alliance strategies for matches.
- Collaborative strategy planning
- Team-specific metrics and predictions
- Picklist generation and sharing
- Alliance and match level analysis
- Auto path collision avoidance
- Customizable team weighting sliders
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Lovat Dashboard makes it easy to collaboratively strategize in the FIRST Robotics Competition using a variety of statistics and predictions. Lovat Dashboard users can share picklists, notes and scouter schedules with others on their team. However, users not currently affiliated with an FRC team are also able to use Lovat Dashboard. The app uses data recorded on Lovat Collection to make a set of 22 team-specific metrics. Each team specific metric features an average, a graph, and comparison to the average of all teams. Beyond looking at individual teams analytics, you can view the data on the alliance or match level through the My Alliance and Match Prediction pages. Test out different combinations of auto paths on the My Alliance page to avoid collisions and score the most points. Easily flip between the red and blue alliances, and view the likelihood an alliance will win on the Match Prediction page. When it’s time to pick alliance partners, generate a picklist by adjusting the weights of the 11+ sliders. Once the picklist has been calculated, share it with others on your team and convert it to a mutable picklist to fine-tune the order.
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 ads: VRC RoboScout at none against Lovat Dashboard's shown. VRC RoboScout also leads on ratings volume (135 vs 11) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Lovat Dashboard's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 6 weeks). On price, rating, review sentiment 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Lovat Dashboard against 4.9 for VRC RoboScout. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: VRC RoboScout has 135 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Lovat Dashboard ships an update every 8 days, VRC RoboScout every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 5, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lovat Dashboard | VRC RoboScout |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (11 ratings) — better | 4.9 (135 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 11 | 135 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 95 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Piedmont Makers | William Castro |
Customer experience
Lovat Dashboard
VRC RoboScout
In-app purchases
Lovat Dashboard
No in-app purchases
VRC RoboScout
No in-app purchases
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