MLS: Live Soccer Scores & News Reviews

by CastleLeafTomato

I use the this app app every week to watch game highlights. The most recent update can only be described with the word atrocious (and every single synonym relating to the word atrocious). It’s as if they fired their entire IT staff and hired middle-schoolers to design this new update. MLS has font the same color as the background and is virtually impossible to see. The media player has no exit button so when your highlights end you have to exit out of MLS and launch it again to get to another video. When I press the maximize/minimize icon in the media player it rotates my screen! I could go on and on. If you haven’t updated your app in a while, don’t! Just keep using the old version. Complete amateur hour.

by PA Sports Fanatic

I’ve used various iterations of MLS for many years and while I’ve appreciated the content, the quality control has been plagued by frustratingly persistent problems for the past few years. Updates don’t seem to fix the many glitches, either. Instead the user gets annoying and constant “megged” messages as MLS crashes and requires restarts. All I really want is to get some latest news on my team (Go Union!), check scores, and keep tabs on the table. Please, this app, fire the people at the top who are running this hot mess and get it right. We shouldn’t be using Google to get the basic information we want but I feel like you leave us no choice, so I’ve deleted MLS and will wait until next season to try again. You must be turning off scores of potential users and fans because of the remarkably poor quality of your app.

by Gep1421

The this app app is the most frustrating app on my iPad. Just updated and went to read an article with 4 different attempts. When I scrolled down as I was reading, I was taken into a media player that had no content and wouldn’t let me escape. Closed down app, and repeated. And repeated. And repeated. These problems are just a different variety of the issues with the prior version. Too often had to shut app down and re-open to be able to get to a different article. It shouldn’t be that hard to get a decent performing app out there. You want to be major league? You need an app that at least works. Too many problems for too long.

by Jakemac637

2016 version
This is a great way to keep track of this app news, team updates, and alerts; but I've found it to be frustratingly slow to load it's pages. There have been many times when I've closed MLS and gone to a web browser instead, bypassing the apps purpose.

2017 Update
The new app is worse than the 2016 version. Numerous alerts that don't respond and don't exist on MLS . This needs a major update to be even marginally useful. Will be turning off the annoying alerts until fixed. A very sad start to the 2017 this app season.

2018 - Another broken/useless Update
It took them almost a year to fix last year's version. Now that they got it working, mostly, they toss it and start from scratch.
This version crashes more than Wile E. Coyote. Then, when you get it to start up, the articles won't load. I'm getting tired of watching the blinking this app logo while the article doesn't appear, then finally MLS crashes and I have to start over again.
As usual, it's easier to just go to the website and ignore this annoying app.

by RidgefieldBob

This is my second +? Review. I can not open the this app app because it states a update is required but I can not find a update when I look for the update?! So what does one do when your locked out because a update is needed but there is no update waiting at MLS Store? My rating of one star is there for a reason.

Terrible upgrade! If a video is played and I try to go anywhere else on MLS I receive a black screen I have to close MLS and restart to see any content. I am often confronted with freezes and have to restart also when I try to access a module within a article I will get dropped completely from MLS !? Old system of organization was much better as well.

MLS continues to be the worst sports app I use. I can not start to watch a video without MLS closing completely?! I can not begin to read an article walk away for minute return to continue as soon as I open the page MLS restarts and takes me back to the home site?! Terrible app.

by Sean Baird

They obviously rushed to launch this new version, and it shows. It looks attractive and may still have potential, but there are so many problems: the navigation is confusing, it crashes frequently, has serious navigation issues, takes forever to load new content, lacks AirPlay and Chromecast support, requires me to watch ads constantly, ugh. It’s a completely frustrating experience.

Want an example? I was playing a video, mirrored my screen to watch on my Apple TV. When I was done, MLS ’s navigation controls were gone. Had to force quit MLS and relaunch to get back to the home screen. These types of issues just demonstrate a complete lack of quality assurance.

It’s disappointing, but like others, I’ll have to rely on other sources until this app gets its act together.

by Prof_cc

What did you guys do? Currently the Apple TV app doesn't show highlights and now the iPad app was updated to this? First the font color on the game recaps...did you actually test it? It's a light grey on whiteish-grey background? For a long time I just thought you had taken away items like lineup or highlights till I tilted the iPad enough to see a faint hint of words. I just sort of guessed where things were. Very bad design. And then when I went to play a highlight, the video would not stay in portrait, sideways view but flipped to the narrow tall view. When I restarted to try it again, it started to play sideways, but never would go full screen. Finally, MLS has quit at least three times while trying to view info. Someone needed to do some serious quality control.

by Ncraximus

UPDATE: Latest update still has not corrected issue of stories on iPad crashing or going to black non-playable/non-closing video screen when wanting to read stories with imbedded videos. I would laugh if it wasn’t so sad you all cannot seem to fix this issue or listen to your multiple reviewers who have complained about the same issue. Good grief!

MLS works good on my iPhone but absolutely terrible on my iPad. Stories won’t open and if they do, a black video screen suddenly pops open and MLS freezes. I simply cannot believe your app technicians are this bad at their job. This has been going on for months. Come on this is grade school stuff! SMH…

by Pasha Antipov

It seems the “hide scores” feature is gone. Since this app Live is gone as well and moved to the immature ESPN+ platform, there is less reason for me to access MLS. When I attempted to use it again today, I chose one article about my favorite team (which shadows out all other news) and the latest Power Rankings (which was rather difficult to find). Both articles showed no text but one showed it briefly. To where I could see that something had been written there.

For me, these are the features I used MLS for: this app Live, schedules with “hide scores”, and power rankings.

MLS is unusable for me. I will wait a month before deleting it.

by Hamish56

I have been using MLS since it first came out, and I loved all of it. Information was easy to find, game lineups posted as soon as they were given (before announced in stadium). The new design is fancier and prettier but far, far less useful. Some areas are far too touch sensitive - you accidentally open stories when you just try to scroll thru - or not nearly sensitive enough. Some areas are very difficult to open at times. For design, the redesign gets an A, for utility and ease of use, a D+.

For those lamenting about blackouts, it’s the broadcast rules. The games are controlled by the broadcasters (and that includes your local affiliate) for a period (usually 48 hours). That gives them the right to replay if they want. The reason local games are blacked out is because someone has paid for the right to broadcast and they deserve to get their money’s worth. With this app Live (I can’t speak to ESPN+ because I haven’t tried it yet) I have never found a game I couldn’t watch or rewatch after the 48 hour window, even with my local team.

by Arawynn

I was a daily user of MLS. Schedules, features, highlights, team news, all easy to find and use. Since the update I often try to use MLS , but end up in chrome instead because what I want just will not load, or won't stay open, or just doesn't exist anymore. Today I just wanted the tv schedule for the playoff weekend. But I can only find the schedule for my favorite team. Highlights are annoying to navigate to. Requiring several attempts. Videos rarely load when requested. And when it finally does load it's very tiny and requires another half dozen tries to make full screen. Please revert or try again. This is not good software.

by Travis

Some weeks they are on top and updating in real time, others weeks it takes days.

The this app Fantasy feature is a joke. Looking at stats are extremely difficult when it could be so simple with customizable fields and settings selection by a user.

The stats are good but are overly complicated to review side by side. There is no key for all their abbreviations which could be a real turn off for those new to soccer and I would think making new fans less likely to download and interact with.

this app Live: Seriously Garber with your insane television black outs either this price needs to come down, or those who are season ticket members for any/all clubs should at the very least get replay ability on their games free or offer a sizeable discount for a full subscription. You have a monopoly on all phases of this app and I am not sure how much you expect us to pay for League wide interest when it's already making homophobes like Anschutz richer with secret deals while promoting an this app motto of "Don't Cross The Line"

Needs to be reformatted for iPhone X. And where did the Apple Watch app go? 😔. So much for checking the scores on the go.

by G8briel

This year’s app design stinks. It takes twice as many clicks to do what you used to be able to do in the old app. Plus, the buttons are poorly designed. It is easy to click the wrong thing or have trouble opening something. For example, when watching a video you get a thumbnail video by default, which of course no one wants, so you have to click the tiny expand button. But if you miss you have to click it again. Also when expanding the video it displays wrong for a few seconds.

Basically, they lost functionality with MLS redesign. They should ditch this version, fire the company that developed it, and develop one with usability testing as part of the process. The only reason I still use MLS is for the content.

by Hypnogun

I’m giving 3 stars because I love this app and I want MLS to MLS it deserves to be. But lately it has become a terrible mess of bugs on the iPad. Opening MLS always takes two tries, as the first will freeze on the loading screen and eventually crash.

Also, lately, trying to read anything on the site for the first time, the article will freeze from scrolling and then load an empty full screen video that takes from 5 to 15 clicks on the cancel button to get it to close. After that, you’re able to scroll the article again.

by MLS Fan 123

The content is great, but MLS itself has some issues. My first complaint is that the navigation is less intuitive than past designs. I’d prefer to open into a feed of headlines and then navigate to highlights or team headlines. Instead all three feeds are crammed into the home page.
My second complaint is worse although it doesn’t sound like many other people experience this: the audio doesn’t play through my phone’s speakers. Headphones or external speakers are fine. All of my other apps are fine. I’ve racked my brain trying to figure out why MLS misbehaves but I can’t figure it out.
I’d give it four stars if the audio bug was fixed and the design was tweaked a bit. I’d give it five if there was some search capability on the news feed.

by PureRobux🙂

I have to start off with saying that MLS is great for keeping up with this app news, this app games, and keeping track with your favorite team. But there is just a major pain with the ads. Usually the ads are short and sometimes entertaining. But now SeatGeek has a stupid ad taking over and now there are 30 second ads for a freaking car. No one cares about Lexus and the SeatGeek ad almost got my phone confiscated in school. SeatGeek needs better ideas while 30 second ads aren’t short. Please fix these and keep ONLY 15 second ads, or better yet, no ads.

by KyleF94

I like the way it set up with my headlines in the front and the ability to navigate to other things pretty easy.

My main complaint is that after a few days it forgets all of my preferences. Then every time I open MLS back up I have to select my favorite team, if I want international updates and then updates about my team to my email or whatever else. I then have to uninstall MLS and download it again. It’ll work well for about a week, then it starts all over again.

by Cancerofthebone

I used to enjoy MLS. After upgrading my phone I went to open MLS for the first time on the new phone and it asked for permission to access my local network. There is no clear reason for this access so I denied it, and MLS subsequently will not function at all—it just stays at the loading screen with the this app logo forever. Very disappointing, I guess I won’t be using MLS anymore until they change this.

by BigGame1986

1) firestick app is garbage. It’s like they don’t even care. Moreover, the firestick app has the potential to be really good and filled with great this app content but they don’t care.

2) MLS on your phone is crap. I don’t care about reading about the latest highlights and transfers and goals. I can do that on a dozen other websites.

3) give me updated video content, videos that will actually play and the latest episodes of ETR radio for god sakes. You don’t even charge people to watch this show.

by Golden Olive

The this app app is a must have for all this app and USMNT fans! You pick your favorite teams, players, create a fantasy team in MLS and can even purchase tickets from MLS . You see the whole this app and usmnt schedule and you can customize MLS any way you would like. It tells you stats, tv broadcasters, kickoff times and has table standings.

by Nixzusehen

The 9.x rewrite is a huge step backwards, and is basically useless.

Everything is slow to load, but that’s fine, I guess, because MLS is so totally counterintuitive that you can’t find anything to load.

Want to see the upcoming schedule? Look under “scores” — because that makes sense as a place to look for games that haven’t happened yet. Pretty much all content is under “latest” — which isn’t searchable and heavily favors videos over written content. Even those are not in fact the “latest”. They may be days old.

Matchcenter has been neutered and is now pointless. But at least it takes up a lot of space.

On the iPad, the video starts in not full screen, but is, nonetheless, the only thing on the screen. Why?

And contrast — have your designers heard of it? Dark grey on black text? I didn’t even realize tabs were there for a week because they are almost indistinguishable from the background.

One has to wonder if they even did user testing — it seems unlikely.

by CollegeStudent54@DU

When opening the this app Live app on Apple TV, it simply displays a screen saying that this app Live games and coverage is now available on ESPN app with ESPN+. But that’s not what the entire this app app is or was about. It also had game highlights, scores, schedules, standings, news, and more. I really miss using the tvOS app.

Is this intentional? Is the this app dropping support for its own official native Apple TV app? If that’s not the case (and I’m hoping it isn’t...), please issue an update to resolve said issues. Because currently, I can’t use MLS at all. It simply doesn’t do anything other than display the aforementioned message to go to ESPN. it doesn’t even have more than 1 screen UI.

PLEASE PLEASE fix this! Thank you!

by Dkydkdhfxhc

The this app app fields in the primary role that the league app should fulfill: providing the schedule upcoming games and scores and standings. That isn't easily available you find it under the other menu items we in the bottom corner. Instead with MLS does is try to be ESPN. Front and center in MLS is nonsense like the latest stories from the media and videos and that's not why anybody uses the this app app that's what ESPN or local news apps are for the league app should be about the teams in the league of the standings the schedule that's what the league is about.

by Cryogen

Some things I would like to see with the this app app, is better consistency across desktop, mobile and AppleTV. I'd like more explanation as to why games are or are not viewable as a subscriber. The schedule screen does not always show the times and dates of matches. And you shouldn't have to have a Wi-Fi connection to see standings or scores-that's ridiculous.

New version is a massive step backward. Standings no longer are one page and dont clearly show the teams above the line and below. Typical overactive UI change for no clear reason other than trying to look new