Last year, I made a scouting app using
https://www.appsheet.com/. Basically its google forms on steroids. It allows you to easily make input fields and quickly files information in a google sheets. In addition it runs on both iOS and Android. The students mainly used their own phones to scout. (A few used a couple of tablets we had lying around because of the "bigger screen experience". They simply just tethered their tablets to their phones in order to use the app).
The benefits of this approach are:
- It can run on both iOS and Android, so students can just their own phones keeping cost at $0
- The data is uploaded to a google sheets, and data analysis on google sheets is very easy and can be as extensive as you want
- Live updating data allows the drive team to have access to the latest data, that is potentially useful in making sstrategy decisions for matches
- Scouters dont have to worry about having to sync every phone to a "master phone" before the data is uploaded. Each phone uploads data automatically and individually for ease of access
- All the other tools of google sheets are useable, along with a vast number of other easy to use features. For example, I used google sheets' JSON import function to import match data and team data from The Blue Alliance.