iPhone users, this ones for you. We've built an iOS app for scouting locations.

Throughout our 100s of conversations with location scouts & managers last year, we were shocked by how much time is spent at the end of a day of scouting, organising everything manually into your database from different sources: photos, notes, and addresses, even if all your scouting is done on your phone. 

We've been working on a companion iPhone app to save you all this time at the end of your day, and help you get scouted locations in front of clients / directors / colleagues faster.

We recently launched the first version and we'd love to hear what you think. It’s a FREE addition to your SuperScout subscription. 

How the SuperScout app works

The iOS app for scouting locations is purely for taking photos & uploading to your SuperScout account. It is designed to work offline and allows you to quickly capture scouting information on your phone or iPad and then upload it when you have suitable connectivity.  With it you can:

• create locations using your GPS location or location data embedded in existing photos
• capture images from the iPhone camera from within the application
• add notes to the images
• and upload all the above directly into a selected SuperScout workspace

If you give the app full access to your photo library, it will also save all your photos to your camera roll for backup. 

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Note: The app is NOT a way to view your full SuperScout account. To use your SuperScout account in full, please continue to use your web browser.

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See the iOS scouting app in action

Here's a quick video of how to create a location, add photos & notes, and upload:

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Don't have an iPhone?

What type of camera do you use when scouting? Let us know!

Don't have a SuperScout account yet?

You'll have to start a free trial on the website, before uploads on the app will work. But you can start taking photos and organising them into locations, without a SuperScout subscription. 

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Want to learn more?

We've started building a list of FAQs and tutorials to help you use SuperScout. Have a look here.

But if your question isn't answered above, we're always here to help. You can contact us by email or WhatsApp 

There's a lot more exciting updates coming soon, so stay tuned!

Best, 
Gabriel & the team at SuperScout

Account wide share links

We will add more share link defaults in the future, but today there are 2: 

• Download toggle
• Key text

Download toggle

If you turn this on, the clients you send your share link to will be able to download the content you share with them, directly to their computer. 

They will receive a zip file which will contain a series of folders mimicking the layout of your share link. 

To keep your location data secure, all the files are compressed to remove any EXIF (identifying) data, and the file names are replaced with random characters. Only the collections, locations, and photos that you set to 'visible' in your share link, will be added to this download. 

Key text

We've had a number of requests from users, who have asked for the ability to add text under their share link logo. Some people want to add their contact details. Some people have asked for a place to put a copyright notice. 

So we created a customisable text field here that allows you to put whatever you want, with a max of 200 characters. You can also add links to make it easy for people to get in touch with you. 

This text will show up on every page of your share link except gallery view, right under your logo/name. 

See these updates in action, in the demo below

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Not a SuperScout user yet?
Learn how you can manage your locations database here.

Editable photo tags

Another highly requested feature, was the ability to tweak the automatically generated tags. Both by removing ones that are less relevant, as well as adding your own custom ones.

With this new system, you can remove any irrelevant tags with a simple click of a button, or easily add new ones. IF you try and add a tag that's already there, it won't work - it doesn't accept duplicates.

If for some reason your photo did not get tagged (as can happen occasionally) you also have the ability to add it back in to the tagging queue manually. You don't have to stay on the image for this to work - keep working and the next time you look at that image, it'll probably be tagged.

Smaller updates

• Updated share links to publish immediately when you create
• stopped automatic tagging on guest locations, until approved
• Removed "Timeline" from location view
• Added a list of locations to each contact in contact list
• Added "Hide all" in share link setup
• Added the ability for users to edit their workspace slug (or not) in workspace settings

That sums up our update of account wide share link defaults and editable photo tags.
While that's all we have for today, there's a lot more coming in the next few weeks!

And if you want to learn about more systems within SuperScout, you can always check our brand new FAQs

Gabriel & the Team at SuperScout