Scout Champ vs SignUpGenius
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Scout Champ
This app simplifies tracking scout advancement, merit badges, and requirements. It provides visual progress reports and generates printable PDF blue cards, saving time on paperwork and helping scouts see what to work on next.
- Scout advancement tracking
- Merit badge progress
- Requirement status
- Digital signatures
- PDF blue card generation
- Visual progress charts
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Award-winning, super simple and intuitive scout advancement tracking. Designed and built by a scoutmaster specifically to help scouts advance without bogging them down with paperwork. It will quickly give you a view into the status of your troop broken down by scout, rank, merit badge, and even by each requirement. (It can be really handy for parents too) It helps answer the constant questions: "What should we work on?" "What is his status?" It can also be used by individuals to track their own progress. I have been using this for my own troop for quite some time and it was a big hit with the boys at scout camp. They earned several extra merit badges just because it was so easy to see what needed to be done and get it signed off. It also saved me hours of filling out blue cards because you can generate a double-sided pdf from within the app and then print it out. Features: - Digital signatures - Pie chart showing each boy for each rank/badge/requirement - PDF blue cards. (Huge time saver!) - Made and tested by real scoutmaster and troop
SignUpGenius
Easily create and manage event sign-ups, volunteer schedules, and group activities from your phone. Coordinate participants, track RSVPs, send automated reminders, and collect payments securely. This tool streamlines event planning for schools, nonprofits, and community groups.
- Create online sign ups
- Manage RSVPs and schedules
- Send automated reminders
- Collect payments and donations
- Organize school and nonprofit events
- Access sign ups on mobile
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The SignUpGenius app gives you instant access to the mobile SignUpGenius platform, the easiest way to create sign ups, manage volunteers, coordinate events, and collect payments from your phone. SignUpGenius helps organizers plan school events, volunteer schedules, fundraisers, group activities, and community programs in minutes. If you need a simple way to organize people, track RSVPs, and keep everyone informed, this app connects you directly to your SignUpGenius account wherever you are. Use SignUpGenius to: • Create online sign ups for events and volunteer shifts • Manage RSVPs and participant schedules • Send reminders and updates automatically • Collect payments and donations securely • Organize school, nonprofit, church, and team events • Access your sign ups anytime on mobile Trusted by millions of organizers, SignUpGenius replaces messy email chains and spreadsheets with a simple, reliable sign up system that keeps groups running smoothly. Download SignUpGenius for fast mobile access to your events, volunteers, and sign ups — and make organizing easier everywhere you go.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Scout Champ at 85% against SignUpGenius's 2%. Scout Champ also leads on rating (4.3 vs 1.3) and ads (none vs shown). SignUpGenius's advantage is update cadence (every 4 months vs every 19 months). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Scout Champ holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 1.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 53 and 156 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 85% of Scout Champ's written reviews are positive against 2% of SignUpGenius's.
Scout Champ ships an update every 19 months, SignUpGenius every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Scout Champ | SignUpGenius |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (53 ratings) — better | 1.3 (156 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 85.5% of reviews — better | 2.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 53 | 156 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 19 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mana Pass | SignUpGenius, Inc. |
Customer experience
Scout Champ
SignUpGenius
User reviews
Scout Champ
From 53 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use interface
- ✅ Tracks rank progress well
- 📚 Contains merit badge requirements
- 🎯 Helps scouts get organized
- 📱 Great for on-the-go tracking
Room to improve
- ⚠️ Missing recent badge updates
- ❌ Outdated requirements
- 🔄 Migration issues
- 🗄️ Scoutbook is a joke
- 🚫 Lacks Android support
SignUpGenius
From 156 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to view signups you've joined
- 📱 Convenient mobile access to existing signups
- ✅ Website version works well for creation
- 🎯 Useful for quick signup verification
Room to improve
- 📺 Excessive and intrusive advertisements covering screen
- 🔄 Requires re-login every time app opens
- 📝 Cannot create or edit signups in app
- 🖥️ Desktop website layout forced on mobile
- ⚠️ Blank screens and navigation failures
Bugs and requests
Scout Champ
Reported bugs
6 issues- Migration to new requirements doesn't work
- Migration took forever and didn't load
- Troop number, council, and district not populating on PDF for blue card
- Notes field does not save
- Cannot add unit or personal info for scouts
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- Cannot delete scouts
Requested features
36 requests- Update to include new badges (Citizenship in Society)
- Allow sub-points to have their own checks
- Change 'Boys' to 'Scouts' for inclusivity
- Add support for Cub Scouts
- Add yearly updates for new badges/requirements
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- Update to reflect new Eagle required badges
- Add support for signing off individual skills/tasks within a requirement
- Add an organizing tool for scouts (alphabetical, rank, age)
- Add logging for camping nights, service hours, hiking miles
- Add Order of the Arrow feature
- Add a 'report' function
- Add a sync function
- Allow data transfer to another leader
- Add cloud data development
- Ability to hide or delete scouts
- Ability to organize boys into patrols
- Link databases amongst leaders
- Communicate with Scoutbook
- Make a separate group of boys for tracking
- Include a 'parent' role
- Allow checking off partial progress on a requirement
- Add Eagle Palms
- Add a sash feature
- Allow choosing the date earned
- Print a summary for each boy
- Cloud upload
- Export report function
- Share data between devices/users
- Link accounts for syncing
- Make signature box larger
- Store database in the cloud (Dropbox)
- Add a 'settings' screen
- Tie into unit and council data for updates
- Add missing merit badges (Automotive Maintenance, Woodwork, Architecture, Animation, Exploration, Sustainability)
- Update requirements to 2016/2019 standards
- Add Android version
SignUpGenius
Reported bugs
20 issues- App crashes on startup or during use
- Login fails with correct credentials
- Blank/white screens after navigation
- Password entry causes app shutdown
- App locks out users after failed login attempts
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- Ads accumulate and cover entire screen over time
- Full-screen ads interrupt workflow constantly
- Ads reset view position, requiring re-scrolling
- App freezes when typing in text fields
- Navigation back button loops or resets to beginning
- Session not saved between app closes
- Signups disappear or don't save
- Time zone display incorrect
- Facebook login not supported in app
- Mobile browser version glitches and fails
- App doesn't show all user signups
- Clicking signup takes to wrong location
- Ad code broken, creating multiple ad rows
- Rogue ad links install tracking data
- Page turns white with blocking message
Requested features
16 requests- Create and manage signups directly in app
- Push notifications for signup changes and events
- Favorites or bookmarks for frequently used signups
- Calendar view with date filtering
- Admin tools to edit volunteer assignments
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- Share signup links directly from app
- Persistent login/session management
- Mobile-optimized interface separate from desktop
- Search functionality for finding signups
- View all signups on single page without pagination
- Collapse past dates to reduce scrolling
- Direct calendar app integration
- Ad-free premium version option
- Contact information access for signed-up users
- Report generation features
- Dark mode option
In-app purchases
Scout Champ
No in-app purchases
SignUpGenius
No in-app purchases
