The college recruiting process is a tidal wave of coach emails, camp invites, "keep in touch" replies, half-remembered visit dates, and screenshots that live in the camera roll forever. Scouted is the calm, complete, in-the-pocket home for every school, every conversation, every decision. Your athlete focuses on the part that matters: their game.
Most recruiting journeys start on a spreadsheet. Ours did too. It gets color-coded, then half-abandoned, and then impossible to keep current when a coach replies at 10:41 p.m. on a Tuesday. Scouted is what that spreadsheet wanted to be: on your athlete's phone, quietly up to date.
| School | Coach ?? | Last Contact | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana | Miller?? or Millar | 3/12 (check email) | interested?? |
| Duke | Thompson | 3/29 | sent film |
| Stanford | Davis | ?? April camp?? | REPLY!! |
| Iowa St. | Garcia | 7/7 visit | moved · aug? |
| Ohio | · ? · | 2/14 | cold |
| rest of list in Notes app + screenshots folder | |||
A spreadsheet remembers what you wrote. Scouted goes a step further. It reads what your athlete logs (calls, texts, coach emails, notes) and pulls out the camps, the visits, and the follow-ups buried in paragraph four. It watches who's gone quiet. It keeps a one-line take on every relationship at the top of every school.
Most recruiting calls start with the athlete fumbling for what they wanted to ask. With Scouted, every call, camp, and visit gets a prep workspace. Your notes go in, your questions get tagged, and the app suggests follow-ups drawn from every conversation you've already had with that school. After it's over, the same screen flips to debrief and captures what was learned.
Tag what you'll ask Your own questions, plus suggestions Scouted built from prior calls and emails with this school. Each one comes with a category, a priority, and the reason it surfaced. Tap "Bring it" to add.
Capture what they said Mark each question asked or skipped, jot answers while they're fresh, and Scouted writes a one-line read on the conversation (warm, cool, neutral) plus the open items it caught.
With Scouted Pro, your athlete runs the process and you get a quiet, read-only window into it: same schools, same coaches, same calendar, on your phone. No guessing, no nagging, no asking "did you hear back?" ever again. Family sharing is included with Pro at $4.99/mo, with a one-week free trial.
What they do Reply, log calls, plan visits, save film links, build a commitment case.
What you see Every milestone, every coach, every visit, without being in their inbox.
We were somewhere on a family vacation when my son got a text from our recruiting advisor. He'd sent my son's video to a college coach, and the coach wanted to schedule a call.
A natural recruiting moment. The first of what we both hoped would be many. My second thought, after the high-five, was: how is he going to keep track of this?
Here's the thing. My son is, like every kid his age, completely certain he can hold it all in his head. The names of the coaches. Who said what at which camp. When to follow up with whom. What film he sent and when. Every parent of a teenager knows how that sentence ends.
So my instinct was the same as everyone else's. I started thinking through a shared Google sheet. Maybe an Apple note. Some columns: school, coach, last contact, next step. The same thing every recruiting family in America has built, or tried to.
And then, being a software developer by day, I knew it wouldn't scale. A spreadsheet doesn't text him the morning of a camp deposit. A Notes doc doesn't notice when a coach has gone quiet. Neither becomes a real assistant when the list grows from four schools to twenty.
What if, I thought, all of this lived in one place, and the place was smart enough to read the conversation back to him? "Hey, the coach mentioned a camp in that text. Want to add a reminder to sign up?" Or: "Here's a one-line read on where you stand with this program, refreshed every time something new happens." Or: "Here's the research on this school, so you can ask better questions on the call instead of doing it at 11 p.m. the night before."
That's the app I wished my son had. So I built it.
It turns out this isn't just my son's problem, or even just baseball. Every high school athlete trying to play at the next level, and every parent helping them get there, is fighting the same losing battle with sticky notes and tab-overflow. So Scouted was born.
If any of that sounds like your family, I hope you'll download it and send the link down the hall.
Built from the real questions that came up at my kitchen table, not a focus group. If a feature didn't solve a Tuesday-night problem, it didn't get built.
One sheet captures it all: text, email, note, call, visit, camp, reminder. Tap, type, done. The conversation is on the right school's timeline before practice ends.
Connect Outlook or paste in a thread, and every coach message lands on the right school's conversation, in order, where you'll actually find it again.
A season-wide map with every official visit, camp date, follow-up reminder, and the NCAA contact and dead periods baked in for your sport and division.
Each school carries a Scouted-written research dossier covering academics, athletics, location, and culture, refreshed when the team or roster changes. Updated dates shown.
Position, GPA, test scores, NCAA ID, intended major. Every field your coach asks for, stored once, with a one-tap copy on each line.
Recruiting advisors, club coaches, the parent of a kid who already committed. Keep the call notes for the people who help you most, separate from the schools.
Everything important is free, forever: the inbox, the smart follow-ups, the calendar, the research, the export. Pro unlocks the two things big families need: unlimited schools and a read-only parent view.
Download Scouted, then text it to your athlete. The next coach email lands in a calmer house.
Or hand the phone over. They'll know what to do.
