College recruiting means coach emails, camp invites, "keep in touch" replies, half-remembered visit dates, and screenshots that live in the camera roll forever. Scouted puts every school, every conversation, and every decision in one place. It opens on one next move, not a wall of cards. Your athlete can focus on 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. It lives on your athlete's phone and stays current.
| 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 only remembers what you typed. Scouted reads what your athlete logs (calls, texts, coach emails, notes) and pulls out the camps, visits, and follow-ups buried in paragraph four. It notices who's gone quiet, and it keeps a one-line summary of each 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 turns into a debrief where you record what you 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.
Every sport runs on a different NCAA clock, and the windows move every year. Scouted carries the 2026-27 calendar for your sport and division (dead, quiet, evaluation, and contact periods) and lays it over your own camps, visits, and follow-ups. No more reading a PDF to find out whether silence means anything.
Your month, banded Each day is tinted with the period that governs it, and your camps, visits, and follow-ups sit on top. The banner reads the window you're in and when it turns over.
You can contact coaches at any time. These rules only limit what they can do, so a dead period is the wrong time to go quiet.
Scouted alerts you when a window changes, so you don't need to remember to check the calendar.
With Scouted Pro, your athlete runs the process and you get a quiet, read-only window into it. You see the same schools, coaches, and calendar on your phone. You can stop asking "did you hear back?" Family sharing is included with Pro at $4.99/mo or $49.99/yr, 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.
It was the first of what we both hoped would be many recruiting moments. My second thought, after the high-five, was: how is he going to keep track of this?
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 builds, or tries 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 helps much 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.
Families in every sport run into this. 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 browser tabs.
If any of that sounds like your family, I hope you'll download it and send the link down the hall.
Built from the questions that came up at my kitchen table. If a feature didn't solve a Tuesday-night problem, it didn't get built.
One sheet puts the four you use most up front: import a text, import an email, add a note, schedule a call. Five more sit behind "More options." You can also send items straight from Messages and Mail with the share sheet, without opening Scouted.
Connect Outlook, paste in a thread, or forward an email to your own capture address, and it files to the right school. Each coach message lands in that school's conversation, in order, so you can find it later.
Every official visit, camp date, and follow-up reminder sits over the 2026-27 NCAA calendar for your sport and division. D1 and D2 windows are loaded. D3 shows as open, because it is.
Each school has a Scouted-written program report covering academics, athletics, location, and culture. It refreshes when the team or roster changes and shows the date.
Position, GPA, test scores, NCAA ID, intended major. Every field your coach asks for, stored once, with a one-tap copy on each line.
Keep call notes on recruiting advisors, club coaches, and the parent of a kid who already committed, separate from your schools.
The inbox, smart follow-ups, calendar, research, and export are free forever. Pro adds unlimited schools and a read-only parent view.
Download Scouted and text the link to your athlete. The next coach email will have a place to go.
Or hand the phone over. They'll know what to do.
