VRC RoboScout vs Scoutly
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
Scoutly
This app streamlines VEX Robotics event scouting and performance analysis. It allows teams to record match data, track robot capabilities, and review competition trends with an intuitive interface. Designed for offline use and cross-device compatibility, it helps teams organize and analyze their performance effectively.
- Record match performance by team and alliance
- Capture structured notes during live competition
- Track robot capabilities and configuration
- Browse events, matches, and schedules
- Compare team performance summaries
- Organize scouting data by team and season
- Work with or without an internet connection
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Scoutly is built for VEX V5RC teams who need the right information quickly on competition day. Search current-season teams and events, then open schedules, results, rankings, skills scores, elimination brackets, and event agendas. Follow your team's next matches from Home. Open Match Prep to compare the teams in an upcoming match, and use ScoutScore-based predictions when enough data is available. Whiteboard gives you Match and Skills field layouts for planning routes and autonomous runs. Draw on the field, add labels, zoom and pan to inspect a section, save a preferred orientation, and share the finished plan as an image. The built-in calculator, official game manual, and Q&A keep common event-day tools in one place. Watch teams, review team statistics, compare alliances, filter leaderboards, and create a Tournament Recap after an event. Contact QR cards let you share only the details you choose to enter. Scoutly uses public competition data. Schedules, rankings, team details, and predictions can be delayed or unavailable. Predictions are estimates, not official results. Scoutly marks stale or unavailable data when it can. Scoutly is made by Control Studios. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by VEX Robotics, RECF, RobotEvents, or any event partner.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Scoutly at every 4 days against VRC RoboScout's every 6 weeks. VRC RoboScout's advantage is ratings volume (137 vs 22). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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 4.8 for Scoutly. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: VRC RoboScout has 137 ratings behind it against 22, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
VRC RoboScout ships an update every 6 weeks, Scoutly every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | VRC RoboScout | Scoutly |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (137 ratings) — better | 4.8 (22 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 137 — better | 22 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 95 MB | 177 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | William Castro | Control Studios |
Customer experience
VRC RoboScout
Scoutly
In-app purchases
VRC RoboScout
No in-app purchases
Scoutly
No in-app purchases







