Hobby Box App vs UrScout
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hobby Box App
Discover local card shows and manage your collection's inventory. Easily import your graded cards to make them visible to other attendees and connect with collectors to facilitate deals.
- Discover nearby card shows
- Import graded card inventory
- Make collection visible to attendees
- Connect with other collectors
- Facilitate card deals
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HobbyBox App makes it easy to find a card show near you! Search by location, radius and date range to see which shows are happening in your area, nationwide. HobbyBox is the best and easiest way to make sure you never miss a show! Join +24,000 HobbyBox Collectors and Vendors today! HobbyPay is now live for card show vendors who track every deal! Log sales, trades, percentage buyouts, split payments and more. Accept CC payments directly through your HobbyPay account. Download a spreadsheet of all your deals after the show to make managing your vendor business easy.
UrScout
This app acts as your personal scout for sports card shows, autograph signings, and athlete appearances. Set your preferences for athletes, teams, and location, and receive instant alerts for upcoming events before they sell out. It's designed specifically for collectors to streamline the search for memorabilia and appearances.
- Personalized event alerts
- Set athletes, teams, and radius
- Real-time notifications
- Focus on collectors
- No feed scrolling
- Privacy-focused
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URSCOUT is your personal scout for sports card shows, autograph signings, and athlete appearances. Set your athletes, teams, and radius once. URSCOUT watches every shop, signing company, and show, and tells you about the next one before it sells out. THE CHASE, MADE EASY URSCOUT pushes the alert to your lock screen the second something matches your collection. A signing 18 miles away, the Saturday card show at the convention center, a mail-in that closes in two days. No feed scrolling, no calendar tracking. The chase comes to you. BUILT FOR COLLECTORS This is not a generic events app. URSCOUT is dialed for collectors who chase signed memorabilia and player appearances. Pick the athletes you collect, pick the teams you follow, and set your search radius. We do the rest. REAL-TIME, NOT YESTERDAY'S NEWS URSCOUT watches verified sources continuously: card shows, autograph signings, mail-in deadlines, and surprise appearances. You get the alert when it lands, not a week later in a digest. PRIVATE AND FOCUSED Your athletes, teams, and grail are yours. We do not sell or share your data, and we do not bury you in noise. URSCOUT only pings you when it is worth opening the app. FREE TO USE UrScout is free. Create your profile, follow your athletes and teams, and get alerts. No subscription required. Terms of Use: https://www.urscout.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.urscout.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: UrScout at 100% against Hobby Box App's 67%. UrScout also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.3) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks). Hobby Box App's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, 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.
UrScout holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 18 and 15 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Hobby Box App's written reviews are positive against 100% of UrScout's.
Hobby Box App ships an update every 3 weeks, UrScout every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Hobby Box App | UrScout |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (18 ratings) | 4.7 (15 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 18 — better | 15 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hobby Box, Inc. | Trov Ventures LLC |
Customer experience
Hobby Box App
UrScout
In-app purchases
Hobby Box App
No in-app purchases
UrScout
No in-app purchases
