Podly vs FTC Team Scouting
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Podly
Learn key insights from non-fiction podcasts in bite-sized chunks. Replace endless scrolling with daily micro-learning sessions tailored to your goals. Read or listen on the go, anytime, anywhere.
- Podcast summaries
- Bite-sized learning
- Personalized suggestions
- Daily learning streaks
- Read or listen on the go
- 7-day free trial
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Too busy to listen to 3 hour long podcast episodes? Still want to get all the key insights to improve yourself? Podly summarises all the key insights from your favourite non fiction podcasts so you can learn with bite sized chunks. Stop doomscrolling Take back control of your time and replace the endless social media scrolling with micro learning sessions filled with bite sized ideas on topics you want to learn more about. Level Up Learn key ideas from a range of topics you're interested in and get personalised suggestions tailored to your goals. Keep the streak alive Stay on track to reach your goals by spending less than 5 minutes each day learning new ideas. Read or listen on the go Take Podly with you on your morning commute, a walk or even just when you get some down time. HOW IT WORKS: To get started is simple. Download the Podly app and sign up for a 7 day free trial where you'll get access to all our content. Unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of your free trial, you will automatically be charged the price indicated on the subscription screen for the period of time outlined. The Podly premium subscription renews automatically at the end of the period. Cancelling your subscription means the automatic renewal will be disabled but you will still have access to all of our content for the remainder of your subscription period. Want to speak to a real person? Our support team is just an email away, contact us at info@thepodlyapp.com Terms & Conditions: https://matt-horton.github.io/podly-legal/eula Privacy Policy: https://matt-horton.github.io/podly-legal/privacy
FTC Team Scouting
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FTC Team Scouting is a free scouting app for FIRST Tech Challenge teams. Coaches and scouts keep match, pit and pre-tournament notes in one shared team. A coach creates an account, starts a team and shares a join code. Scouts join with that code and don't need an account. Everyone on the team sees the same reports. Coaches can manage members, promote scouts to coach and reset the join code. Scout during the event: - Match scouting with auto, teleop and endgame points - Pit interviews with a robot rating and notes - Pre-tournament notes, with team stats pulled from FIRST: OPR, average score without penalties, RP average and event rank. Stats refresh once a day, and values you change by hand are kept. - Pull your event's match schedule from FIRST, and pick the season when you browse events or pull stats - Rank alliance picks from your reports - Export your team's data as CSV or JSON Organize by meet: Home splits teams into Current and Old. Current means a team has a report at this meet or is on its loaded schedule. One Meets list has a folder for each FIRST meet, plus any scouting day outside a meet, and a past meet looks just like home. A team's page shows this meet's reports, with its past meets at the bottom. Coaches can rename and merge scouting days. At the meet: - Compare 2 or 3 teams side by side, or compare both alliances in a scheduled match with each alliance's average - Live alliance selection: coaches mark picks and captains, and everyone on the team sees who is taken - Fill from FIRST loads the posted alliances in one tap - Scout assignments: coaches assign teams to scouts for each meet, and scouts filter by Unscouted, Mine or All Join with a QR code: Coaches can show the team's join code as a QR code, and scouts scan it with the camera to join. Typing the code still works. Join codes are 12 characters and expire after 7 days. After 3 wrong codes, joining is locked for 24 hours, so codes can't be guessed. Undo mistakes: Coaches can open History in Settings to see every change to reports and team tiles: what changed, who made it and when. Restore a deleted report or team, undo an edit, or undo Delete All Team Tiles for every team at once. Works offline: Reports save on your device first, so you can keep scouting with weak or no internet. They upload to your team on their own when you're back online, and a small status chip shows how many are waiting. After the first sync, only changed reports are downloaded. In 11 languages: English, Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Dutch, French, Hebrew, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian and Spanish (Latin America). Arabic and Hebrew use right-to-left layouts. Works on iPhone and iPad with iOS 18 or later. No ads, no fee and nothing to buy. Send us feedback any time from Settings. You can delete your account in the app. Team stats and match schedules come from the FIRST Tech Challenge Events API. FTC Team Scouting is not affiliated with FIRST or FIRST Tech Challenge.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: FTC Team Scouting at none against Podly's 3. FTC Team Scouting also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 10 days). Podly's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, ads and device support 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. Podly sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. FTC Team Scouting asks for nothing beyond the download.
Podly ships an update every 10 days, FTC Team Scouting every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Podly | FTC Team Scouting |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (39 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 39 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The Podly App Ltd | Joshua Vucelich |
In-app purchases
Podly
- Podly Premium Monthly$9.991 Month
- Podly Premium Yearly7 Days trial$34.991 Year
- Podly Premium Lifetime$99.99
FTC Team Scouting
No in-app purchases









