Flash Maker vs Scoutly
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Flash Maker
Manage your 3D printers remotely with this app. Monitor printer status, view live video feeds, and organize multiple devices into groups for a streamlined printing experience.
- Remote printer status check
- Live video monitoring
- Group management for multiple printers
- Convenient 3D printing control
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Flash Maker is a mobile app by Flashforge for easy 3D printer management. Check printer status anytime, monitor with remote video, and manage multiple printers in groups—making 3D printing smarter and more convenient.
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 review sentiment: Scoutly at 100% against Flash Maker's 17%. Scoutly also leads on rating (4.9 vs 1.9) and update cadence (every 4 days vs monthly). Flash Maker's advantage is ratings volume (453 vs 17) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Scoutly holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 1.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Flash Maker has 453 ratings behind it against 17, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 17% of Flash Maker's written reviews are positive against 100% of Scoutly's.
Flash Maker ships an update monthly, Scoutly every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Flash Maker | Scoutly |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.9 (453 ratings) | 4.9 (17 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 16.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 453 — better | 17 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 109 MB | 177 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 浙江闪铸三维科技有限公司 | Control Studios |
Customer experience
Flash Maker
Scoutly
Bugs and requests
Flash Maker
Reported bugs
6 issues- Can't connect device
- Can't register account
- Printer always shows as offline
- Camera feed doesn't work
- Frequent crashes
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- Logging in and connecting issues
Requested features
5 requests- Add ability to switch between local network and cloud
- More control over printer (advanced hidden menu, more temps, ability to cancel one model if printing multiple)
- Add AI control of failed prints
- Add slicer functionality
- Add iPad support
Scoutly
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Flash Maker
No in-app purchases
Scoutly
No in-app purchases
