A platform dedicated to providing unbiased reviews of newly launched applications, analyzing everything from their features to their full potential.
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A platform dedicated to providing unbiased reviews of newly launched applications, analyzing everything from their features to their full potential.
info@scoutforge.net© 2026 Scoutforge. All rights reserved.
Last updated 31 August 2026. These terms replace all earlier versions.
The short version
Scout Forge (“Scout Forge”, “we”, “us”) operates the website at scoutforge.net and the services offered through it (together, the “Service”). By using the Service, creating an account, or buying anything from us, you agree to these terms.
Who you contract with
Scout Forge
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If you do not agree with these terms, do not use the Service.
You need a verified email address to create an account. You are responsible for what happens under your account and for keeping your credentials safe. One person, one account: creating additional accounts to write more reviews, receive more credits, or influence any count on the site is a breach of these terms and grounds for removing the accounts and the credits attached to them.
You must be old enough to enter a contract where you live. You can close your account at any time by contacting us.
Anyone can submit an app. We review submissions before they are published and we may decline one. By submitting an app you confirm that you have the right to do so and that the app complies with applicable law.
We do not list apps that:
We may decline, unpublish or remove an app listing that breaks these rules or the law. This is about listings. Reviews are covered separately in section 5, and the rules there are deliberately narrower.
Every published app receives an editorial review and a score from 0 to 100, calculated with the same methodology for every app. These reviews are generated with the help of AI from public information about the app, and we say so on the page where they appear and on our methodology page.
The score is our opinion, formed from the evidence available to us. It is not a certification, a guarantee of quality, or advice to buy or avoid anything. It can be wrong, and it can change when we learn something new or improve the methodology.
Placement, scores and badges are never for sale. Paying us for anything described in section 8 does not change an app's score or its position in search, categories or rankings.
Members can write reviews of apps listed on Scout Forge. A developer can fund a review request with credits; a member takes the request, tries the app and writes what they found. Reviews written this way are labelled on the page as funded by the developer.
We do not verify that a reviewer bought or installed the app, and we do not claim otherwise anywhere on the Service. What we can say is what we publish: the review was written by a person, it may have been funded by the developer, and the payment did not depend on the verdict.
A review is published as soon as it is submitted, whatever it says. The developer who funded it cannot prevent that, delay it, or have it taken down afterwards. There is no code path that lets a developer remove a review of their own app, and we will not add one.
The developer's decision is about payment, not publication. After a funded review is published the developer has 48 hours to approve payment or dispute it. Silence approves it: if the developer does nothing, payment goes through automatically.
A dispute must give a reason and an explanation, and both are shown on the page next to the review. The reviewer can respond, and we decide. We keep a record of how often each developer disputes reviews and of how those disputes relate to whether a review was positive or negative. The review stays published throughout, and it stays published afterwards regardless of how the payment is decided.
We remove a published review only in these cases, and only by our own decision:
“It did not meet my requirements” is not on that list — that is a payment dispute. We do not remove a review because it is negative, and we do not remove one because the developer asks us to. Anyone can report a review to us and a person will read the report, but reporting is not the same as deciding.
When we do remove a review, the record is kept — nothing is quietly deleted — and any credits paid for it are returned to both sides: the payment is taken back from the reviewer and refunded to the developer.
Credits are an internal unit used to fund reviews on Scout Forge. They are not money, not electronic money, not a payment instrument, and not a security. Specifically:
Credits are granted for writing reviews that get published, and through occasional grants we make ourselves — for example when you first sign up or when we invite you to take part in something. We cap how many credits one person can receive in a week (300) and limit how much review work one person can take on per day. These limits exist to keep the system honest, not to withhold anything from you.
We may sell credits in the future. If we do, purchased credits are covered by section 8 and by the refund rules in section 9.
Credits granted for writing a review or given to you by us expire 180 days after they are granted. We warn you before that happens. Credits you have paid for do not expire. When you spend credits, the ones closest to expiring are used first, and credits that never expire are used last.
We can adjust, withhold or cancel credits obtained through duplicate accounts, coordinated reviewing, automated submissions, or any other attempt to work around the rules in section 5. We can change how many credits an action grants going forward; we will not retroactively cancel credits you obtained legitimately under earlier rules, other than through the ordinary expiry above.
If your account is closed — by you or by us — any remaining credits are cancelled. As they have no cash value, nothing is owed to you for them.
If something on the Service looks wrong to you — a review, a listing, a score — tell us at info@scoutforge.net and a person will read it. We explain how we handle reviews, in plain language, on this page, and that page is part of these terms.
We keep records of submitted reviews, disputes and moderation decisions, including reviews we have removed, for at least five years. That record is how we can show we did not suppress anything.
Scout Forge is free to use. Some optional paid products exist, and they are the only things we sell:
Prices are shown before you pay and include any tax we are required to charge. Payments are processed by our payment provider; we do not store your card details. Buying anything from us never affects an editorial score, a ranking, or a review.
You can ask for a refund within 14 days of your purchase, for any reason, and we will refund you. Send the request to info@scoutforge.net from the address on the account.
Two limits apply, and both are about work already done:
If you are a consumer in the EU or the UK, you have a statutory right to withdraw from a distance contract within 14 days. Where you ask us to start supplying a digital service immediately — for example a Featured placement that begins at once — that right ends once the service has been fully performed. Our own 14-day policy above applies either way, so in practice it makes no difference to you.
You keep ownership of everything you submit — app listings, images, review text. By submitting it you confirm you have the right to do so, and you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, display, reproduce and distribute it as part of the Service.
The design, code and visual identity of Scout Forge are ours. App names, logos and trademarks belong to their owners and are used to identify them. Editorial content we produce — scores, comparisons, lists — is published under CC BY-SA 4.0: you may share and adapt it, including commercially, if you credit us with a link, say what you changed, and license your version the same way. That licence does not cover our design, code or logo, and it does not cover reviews written by members, which belong to their authors.
The Service is provided as it is. We do not promise it will always be available or free of errors, and we may change or discontinue any part of it. Scores, reviews and comparisons are opinions based on the information available to us; they are not professional advice, and deciding to use an app on the strength of them is your decision.
We are not a party to anything between you and an app you find here. If you buy or install something, that is between you and its developer.
Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or under mandatory consumer protection rules.
Subject to that, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, lost profits, lost data, or loss of business opportunity. Our total liability to you for any claim is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or fifty US dollars.
We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms — in particular the account rules in section 2 and the review rules in section 5. Where it is reasonable to do so we will tell you why and give you a chance to respond. You can close your account at any time.
Reviews you have written stay published after your account closes, for the reason given in section 5: removing them would misrepresent the record for the developers who were reviewed.
We may update these terms. When a change is material we will say so on the site or by email before it takes effect, and the date at the top of this page always shows the current version. Continuing to use the Service after a change means you accept the updated terms. We keep a record of which version you accepted and when.
These terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Türkiye, and the courts of Türkiye have jurisdiction. If you are a consumer, this does not take away the protection of the mandatory consumer law of the country where you live, and you may bring proceedings there.
Questions about any of this: info@scoutforge.net.
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