VRC RoboScout vs Max's Calculator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
Max's Calculator
This utility app offers four distinct calculator functions: standard, currency conversion, restaurant tax/tip calculation, and grocery price comparison. Users can also personalize the app's background.
- Standard calculator
- Currency converter
- Restaurant tax and tip calculator
- Grocery food price calculator
- Customizable background
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Max's Calculator is a 4 in 1 calculator. A normal calculator, a currency converter calculator, a restaurant tax and tip calculator, and a grocery food price calculator. It is also possible to customize the background.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: VRC RoboScout at 137 against Max's Calculator's 1. Max's Calculator's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 weeks) and iOS requirement (13.4 vs 16.0). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for VRC RoboScout against 5.0 for Max's Calculator. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: VRC RoboScout has 137 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
VRC RoboScout ships an update every 6 weeks, Max's Calculator every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | VRC RoboScout | Max's Calculator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (137 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 137 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 13.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 95 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | William Castro | Anthony Seung |
Customer experience
VRC RoboScout
Max's Calculator
In-app purchases
VRC RoboScout
No in-app purchases
Max's Calculator
No in-app purchases
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