Comparison

DragonScout vs CSA Buddy

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

DragonScout

Streamline your FRC scouting process with this app. Quickly scout pits and matches, analyze data, and gain insights into team performance. Features include team autofill, objective/subjective modes, photo uploads, and Google Sheets integration.

Highlights
  • Pit and match scouting
  • Google Sheets integration
  • Team number autofill
  • Objective/subjective scouting modes
  • Robot photo uploads
  • Data analysis and statistics
  • Scouting pools for coordination
Features
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The FRC scouting app by ARC#6014, DragonScout, is entering its second season! With the help of DragonScout, quickly and effectively scout pits and matches to a google sheet and analyse your data during FRC regionals! Here at ARC, we have designed DragonScout through our teams 10 years of experience with 1 single goal: to make scouting as streamlined as possible. Featuring team number autofill, objective/subjective scouting modes, photo uploads for robots and the choice to write data directly to a google sheet alongside the traditional approach of generating QR codes, DragonScout makes the scouting process as effective possible. It doesn't end there. Once you are done scouting, head over to the Data Screen, where you can see statistics about your scouting data, and answers to common problems during scouting: How many of the pits have we scouted? Which team's pits are we yet to scout? Have we missed and forgotten to scout teams during any matches? Want to know more about a team? You can use the team lookup feature to get an in depth overview of a teams data & performance at an event, including match metrics, comments and photos. One of the biggest problems for scouters is coordination. Who will be scouting who? Through Scouting Pools, scouters can see the status of their fellow scouters, when they were last online, who they are scouting or who they are about to scout. Scouting pools also synchronize with the built-in scouting rotation system, allowing for an even easier time keeping track of who is scouting who. Developed by Eren Kural and Mehmet Reşat Halıcı

About

CSA Buddy

Features
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This app is for volunteers at FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) and FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) events in the CSA (Control System Advisor) role. It's a small app that shows a quick reference page with some helpful technical tidbits.

Screenshots

DragonScout4 screens
CSA Buddy3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: DragonScout at 15.1 against CSA Buddy's 17.0. On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DragonScout ships an update every 2 weeks, CSA Buddy weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
DragonScout versus CSA Buddy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDragonScoutCSA Buddy
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEren KuralKen Schenke

In-app purchases

None

DragonScout

No in-app purchases

None

CSA Buddy

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is DragonScout free?
DragonScout is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is CSA Buddy free?
CSA Buddy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do DragonScout or CSA Buddy have ads?
Neither DragonScout nor CSA Buddy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DragonScout or CSA Buddy?
DragonScout ships an update every 2 weeks, and CSA Buddy weekly. Most recently, DragonScout was updated on October 13, 2026 and CSA Buddy on October 12, 2026.

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