Go see the world.
Earn the patch.
Keep the journey.
Scout turns real travel into a collection. Visit a place in person to earn its patch, then carry home an embroidered reminder of where you've been.
Track the parks. And the states.
And everything in between.
Most trackers stop at the national parks. Scout counts the states you have crossed, plus the monuments, battlefields, forests, zoos and roadside oddities in between — then draws it as something worth posting.
Fifty states, shaded by how deep you went
Not a checklist of ticks. States you have barely entered sit pale; the ones you have worked through go rich.
The national parks, as dots on the country
The two a flat US map cannot place — American Samoa and the Virgin Islands — get their own box in the margin instead of being dropped.
Both export as a single image
Made to be posted, not buried in a settings screen.
The patch unlocks when you cross the real boundary.
No points for driving past. No check-in from the couch. Scout stores the true outline of every place — the actual polygon, not a circle drawn around a pin — and you have to be inside it.
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Find it
Browse more than 2,000 real places — Yellowstone, Gettysburg, Alcatraz, Cadillac Ranch, and the rest.
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Go there
Follow the in-app compass as it counts down the distance, or plan the whole drive around what is worth stopping for.
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It unlocks
Step inside the boundary and the patch is yours, on the spot.
One stop can earn several patches at once. Standing in the Saint Louis Zoo puts you inside the zoo, Forest Park, Saint Louis and Missouri — four patches, one afternoon.
The trips you already took still count.
Your camera already wrote down where you were. Scout reads those location stamps and shows you the places you have been standing in for years, so a collection does not start empty.
The whole roll, or just an album
Scan everything, one album, or a handful of photos you pick yourself.
You choose what to keep
Nothing joins your collection until you say so.
No photo ever leaves your phone. Only a coordinate and a timestamp are sent.
Plan the day around what is worth stopping for.
Swipe a deck of what is near you and Scout builds the itinerary. Or give it a start and a destination, and it asks a real routing service for the drive, then finds every place worth a detour along the way.
A day out
Swipe yes or no on what is nearby; Scout works out the order.
Or a whole route
Real driving directions between any two points, with the stops folded in.
Eyes on the road
Big type, one instruction at a time, built to be glanced at.
About 140 achievements, and none of them are free.
Place types, volume milestones, geographic feats, habits, and a set of odd ones you only find by doing something unusual. Every collection has a real finish line.
Only patches earned in person count toward an achievement. A camera-roll import fills your map; it will not win you a badge.
Earn it on your phone. Wear it for real.
Every patch you earn can be ordered as a real embroidered iron-on for $8, with free shipping in the US. You cannot buy one you have not earned, which is the entire point of it.
Questions people actually ask.
Scout is free on iPhone and Android, and tracking is the whole point. The national parks are in the catalogue, and stepping inside one unlocks its patch. There is no subscription, no premium tier and nothing to buy inside the app.
Yes, and that is the part most trackers miss. States carry real boundary shapes like everywhere else, so crossing into one earns it. Scout draws your fifty states as a shaded map and the national parks as dots on the country, and both export as an image you can post.
Monuments, memorials, battlefields, national forests, state parks, zoos, stadiums, cemeteries and the roadside oddities along Route 66 — more than 2,000 places in all.
Scout stores the true outline of every place and checks whether your position falls inside it. Not a circle drawn around a pin, and not a check-in you can tap from home. One stop can earn several patches at once: standing in the Saint Louis Zoo puts you inside the zoo, Forest Park, Saint Louis and Missouri.
Retrace my steps reads the location stamps your camera already wrote on your photos and shows you which places you have been. No photo ever leaves your phone — only a coordinate and a timestamp are sent.
Yes, and it takes one tap — Apple, Google, or a six-digit code sent to your email. Signing in is what creates the account, and it is what keeps your collection when you change phones.
No. A patch becomes orderable only after you have earned it by being there. That is the whole idea — it is proof you went, not a souvenir anyone can pick up. Earned patches are $8 embroidered, and shipping in the US is free.