Apple Sports Reviews

Looks great. Missing key data and desired features. For instance in any NHL game there is no easy way to see who scored a goal, the time of the goal, the assist or any penalties. AppleSports should also show when a team is on a power play. A countdown to the next period would be a good addition as well. The standings do not show wild card standings and who is in /out of the playoffs. There should be a way to select a league to see standings, upcoming games and stats. There should also be a way to see stats for favorite teams and the upcoming schedule. I get not having news/articles but these are all things you would want to see at a glance. Also having the ability to turn on a life activity in AppleSports would be great. NHL is currently missing live activity capability.

As a typical Cishet white man I love sports. I keep track of my chosen teams religiously, and I will defend them to the death. Naturally, when I saw AppleSports on my page I immediately downloaded it.

The premise was illustrious: a single place to keep track of all my teams. I opened AppleSports and found my favorite Hockey and Baseball teams already set. Alas, crushing disappointment ensued. The NBA, the NHL, MLS, The Premiere League, MLB. All American,* all the best leagues in their sport. Yet one of the biggest names is missing.
Where, oh Apple gods on high, where is the NFL? The National Football League is the single biggest sport in America. Yet still there is no way to track or watch her games in Apple’s apps. Should the NFL be added to AppleSports’s repertoire of leagues, then AppleSports will be 5 stars. Until then, i must leave it with only 3.

Hi Apple Sports staff👋 It would be nice to have more 🇪🇺European⚽️Leagues🏆 Such as: UEFA-Champions🏆League, UEFA-Europa🏆League, UEFA-Conference🏆League, UEFA Super🏆Cup & UEFA Nations🏆League⚽️ Maybe in the near future you guys could also add all of the Major European National Cups, such as: 🇬🇧FA CUP & EFL CUP, 🇪🇸COPA DEL REY & SUPERCOPA, 🇮🇹COPPA ITALIA, 🇫🇷COUPE DE FRANCE & COUPE LA LIGUE, 🇩🇪DFB POKAL✅ and perhaps even FIFA WORLD🌎CUP since the next one is going to be played in the US 🇺🇸 as well💡Bonus: FIFA CLUB WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP🔥✌️😎 Now, about the iOS app:📍FIX Soccer Match Lineup, it needs the Soccer Field Graphic with the players on their positions.📍ADD Players Profiles(with Players photo).📍ADD Teams Profiles.📍ADD Leagues Profiles.📍FIX the -Standing- section(Its too JAMED), take out the Clubs name and leave just the Clubs Badges icons✅ 📍ADD UFC.📍ADD F1. Please consider adding Main WIDGETS and Todays view Widgets, like AppleSports SOFASCORE🔍📝🍎have😉

For Apple to finally release a dedicated app for all that’s sports is probably the best thing coming in the future for just how much they can do with this but.. as this is the beginning I’m not expecting for them to go crazy feature packed but there a bunch of missing leagues including NFL which is surprising why? And like this is very very barebones which could be a good thing in a sense but you don’t have to give up on all the features for simplicity.

P.S if your going to be growing in leagues Apple I’m letting you know now if you could build with the esports scene it would be big there’s no dedicated app for esports and if they do have an app it’s only limited to one or two esports Apple could join all esports and make a big impact in the space

AppleSports looks great but severely lacking in information. I’m sure more will be added down the road leading up to iOS 18, but right now it seems more geared towards casual fans only interested in seeing what games are in progress and upcoming matchups.

Missing: team schedules and season results by game.

Would be made even better by: adding historical schedules for each team by year, or even an option to see a series history between the two teams.

Also missing: AP top 25 rankings next to the teams in the scores view, it’s harder to tell what the high impact games are for the day unless you’re a hardcore fan who just happens to know the info off-hand.

Would be made even better by: allowing us to change the visibility of these rankings in the scores view, for example, a toggle that allows us to change between the AP Top 25 to something like the NET ranking (or even Kenpom!) — too many teams just barely outside the Top 25 lose out on recognition just because they don’t place within the top 25 out of 300+ Div 1 teams.

Apple's decision to offer a dedicated app for football fans is an exciting development. The initial version of AppleSports reflects Apple's elegant design language and is incredibly easy to use. With some potential improvements added to this solid foundation, AppleSports can become an indispensable tool for football enthusiasts.

Suggestions:

Including Europe's most prestigious cups, the Champions League, Europa League, and Conference League, as well as rising leagues like the Turkish Super League, will provide football fans with a broader scope.
Organizing player squads by position and presenting them in a stadium format will allow users to access the information they need more easily.
Displaying the live status of teams currently playing in the standings will take the excitement to the next level.
A rating system from a reliable platform like SofaScore and detailed statistics provided by Opta will further enrich AppleSports .
Overall Assessment:

Apple's Football App has immense potential. While there are some areas that need improvement, Apple's vision and dedication in this space are commendable. AppleSports is on the right track to becoming an excellent resource for football fans.

It’s a good idea. Looks cool and all but there’s some changes that need to be made.
1. Needs more leagues; I should not have to add every single college basketball conference to see every game. I should just be able to follow the league itself. Also add college hockey, college lacrosse, the champions league, Europa league, etc. basically add every sport that exists.
2. Stats; I should be able to click on a teams logo and view their roster, player stats, team stats, standings, and other news about the team.
There’s are some big changes that need to happen immediately to improve AppleSports .

Great to have a sports app that just gives you scores and game information, without larding it with ads and videos, which make most sports apps terrible. But the design of AppleSports is odd. You have to pick your leagues rather than their being a menu and you just tap a league and see what happened that day. Then, the scores from the leagues that you have selected are jumbled together. It’s as though a software engineer who was not a sports fan designed AppleSports : in someways clever, and aesthetically pleasing, but not all that useful to a sports fan who wants to browse and see scores organized by league. Not sure that I will use AppleSports very much. And, of course, the big dog, the NFL, is not included for reasons we can only imagine.

NO Champions League, Europa League, Conference league , World Cup, World Cup qualifications and much more not gonna name all I believe the message has been received.
For the development team need to look at FotMob app that I have been using for so many years and make apple sport app same idea and better.
Add widgets and Dynamic Island support, live notifications for favorites team scores.
If I’m gonna continue name all the things it needs I won’t be done writing for few hours
It just need a lot of things to be added. But good start. Thanks!

The UI is beautiful. You can select your favorite leagues and teams, and their games for today or upcoming will appear on a main dashboard conveniently for you. Stats are also shown for the game you select. For soccer specific, I like that it shows me the current team standings, the play-by-play, and lineups for a game.

I’ll add more stars to my review once I see, and like, a section for stats on professional players, news specific to a league, and media. I would assume media right now would be exclusive to MLS since Apple holds the rights, but that will likely expand into other sports / leagues. Apple, you have my attention. What’s next?

The UI is AppleSports’s saving grace, and with the right improvements it could maybe be a go-to scores app in the future given it’s part of Apple’s ecosystem.

But there’s no semblance of organization to the home page, it’s just a mix of all the different leagues you follow jumbled together.

The biggest flaw is it doesn’t list the channels anywhere… probably a top 3 most crucial feature to any sports app is telling you where to watch the game, so the lack of this makes it unusable in its current state.

Also, where is the NFL??? The largest sports league in Apple’s home country doesn’t even have its existence acknowledged. Granted the season just ended, but it doesn’t entice most average Americans who love football most to keep AppleSports .

A smaller personal annoyance is they use the outdated Twins logo from two years ago.. How does Apple not have access to the latest official branding of MLB?

Just add a few important things, allow people to sort by league and scroll all on one screen and it could be a nice app eventually. Hope to come back when that happens.

This is great for an MVP sports app. Extremely clean and fast. Most sports score apps take a long time to load. I also love the standings connected to the games.

It’s missing some of the obvious features that would make me delete my other score apps.

1) Notifications
2) Live scores in the Dynamic Island
3) Home Screen widgets

I’m sure those are coming. A few minor enhancements I’d love to see.

1) Be able to jump from “yesterday” “today” “upcoming” with a swipe left and right instead of having to hit the words.
2) play by play having just the scoring plays. I want to be able to quickly see goals and who scored them.
3) In the upcoming section some of the far out games are hidden behind a click when there is plenty of room. If you’re showing games through next Wednesday, show all the games even if it means scrolling.

Good start, can’t wait for the updates.

Doesn’t have many features yet, interface feels unpolished but I am hoping this is the worst it ever is and that they keep working on it. Would love to see not just scores and schedule but standings, news and more. Also, any sports app requires the NFL, which I will assume is coming but as of this review is not here. Also, Motorsport’s coverage, specifically NASCAR and F1 would be great for those of us that enjoy it. In the end, I would very much love a great sports app that didn’t constantly bombard me with either advertisements or an attempt to get me to use their Sportsbook or daily fantasy, so I am pretty hopeful for this.

Thank you for providing the option to hide betting odds. I’m a fan of the games themselves and the recent years trends towards an obsession with placing bets on games has been frustrating for fans like me (and perhaps those with gambling addictions too). Having a place to check scores without all the fantasy and gambling noise is so refreshing.

For future updates, would love to also see league standings and perhaps some motorsports categories (IMSA, FIAWEC, and NASCAR in particular!) but this is a wonderful start.

It is obvious this is not a finished product quite yet. There are minimal features compared to competitors, and even those features are limited. For example, you cannot select NCAAB or NCAAWB as a league to follow. You can only select a specific conference. There is also no way to get more details about a team other than their schedule. This means we cannot view team rosters.

The design is very “Apple” which is great. But it also feels like this was released too soon. I’ll eagerly be awaiting updates to it as I am sure once Apple invests more into it, it could easily blow past the competition.

I love how minimal AppleSports feels, however for apple it feels super underwhelming. This really come from the lack of a live activities feature. There are several other sports apps that have the ability to keep your favorite teams score on the Dynamic Island or pinned to the Home Screen, so why is it absent here? This would be passable for a smaller dev but apple makes the kit for developers to integrate these features so how are they missing a core feature like that. I have no doubt they’ll add it later but until then I don’t know how much I will really be using AppleSports.

I was very excited when I heard about AppleSports. I love the simplicity of it and how it shows the information up front without bogging things down and making it hard to find what I am looking for. I am not sure if AppleSports will offer live activities or play by play abilities within. However, it is still limited with the number of teams available to follow. I know things such as the NFL isn’t available yet, but I wish it had even more teams (or leagues) such as the Champions League or US Men’s Soccer Team etc.

When you open a matchup and look at the matchup odds and details, below you see standings. Instead of seeing the overall standings of both teams within their respective conference (both could be within conference), you see the standings of every team under the same conference type. For example, under Charlotte/Memphis matchup, you see the standings of every single western conference rather than the two teams in the matchup you are viewing.
American conference has a west and east division. And instead of showing both or even the overall standings across the conference l, I am seeing the western division standings of every conference.

I can’t say that AppleSports is ready for launch. First off, you shouldn’t HAVE to pick leagues or teams. Just display the most popular games for the day. If you want to pick leagues/teams, then show those. The fact that you have to pick specific college conferences is not a good route to go either. Give us the AP25 or the whole NCAA.

Lastly, I know it’s out of season, but why in the world is there no American football on there? NFL and College is non existent. That should be a priority from here!

I would take this off and do a complete redesign. This is not ready at all.

This isn’t a bad idea, other sports apps lack the live features that iPhone supports. This seems like this is a beta product. There is no widget, which seem like a glaring omission. The way the menu works, having to select favorite leagues and favorite teams and not just seeing it all together is odd. Not filling the screen with other information leaves a lot of empty space. Limited number of leagues and sports is disappointing. Has potential to be great but needs a lot of work.

AppleSports overall is a great start. Fresh, clean UI, smooth movement, and stats galore. There are a bunch of features missing, but other than that, solid. First off, life activities. It would be amazing if we could follow any game within AppleSports to show as a live activity. To increase the UX of AppleSports , I would like to see the ability to swipe between “Yesterday,” “Today,” and “Upcoming” on the main screen for a sports league. It would be much easier to navigate, removing the need for excessive tapping. I would assume that NFL is coming soon, but I would also like to see stats for that, as well as NFL for live activities. Another feature that would be cool to see is possibly a little box on the game page that says “Ways to watch” or something, possibly then expanding full screen into a list of radio channels as well as TV channels that you can watch the game with. Finally, the last thing I would love to see would be a widget for AppleSports . That widget would be great to use for standby mode, etc!! For me, at the time, this feels somewhat bare bones compared to the competition, but I’m curious to see how AppleSports develops, & I will definitely keep it installed :)

I love that AppleSports is very stripped down and basic. It has great aesthetics. But it’s arrangements seem haphazard, and I wish I could have some control of it. Like, basically at this point in the year, I’m only following college basketball, and I follow a lot if leagues(rather than just a couple of teams. I wish I could group these games by league. Like all Big 10 games grouped, all SEC games grouped, etc. And have those groups collapsible. I understand that the default is that the games are arranged by start time(which would great for the post-season), but in the regular season games usually start in blocks, and this makes the arrangement something that users have to search and scroll through.
Additionally, when looking at the box scores. Advanced stats like ‘Player +/-‘ are fine, but it’s probably only worthwhile for fantasy basketball fans(and fantasy college basketball is pretty rare). Instead, tracking ‘Personal Fouls’ would be better and more informative.

Using current NCAA Men’s Basketball, for my example, all it shows is scores. No info as to ranking (USA, AP, Coaches, power rating), the conference the team is in, conference tourney match-ups, no bracketology, no conference power rating, no player roster & player status (active, injured, suspended, arrested, dismissed), home vs. away win-loss, line chart showing team ranking across the season (was team ranked #1 at start of season and across time dropped to #15?).
For supposedly living in the age of information, all this shows is scores (and for some reason the betting line).
This product comes real close to what used to be referred to as shovelware: just throw something out there to make it look like we’re working hard when we’re just collecting a paycheck and benefits. And I don’t really blame the grunts but some managers and their bosses heads should get chopped PUBLICLY as a warning to other managerial types just sliding by.
Steve Jobs would be ashamed (and Tim Cook should be) that this was put out by Apple.

AppleSports idea is great, but the execution is poor. You can pick your teams / leagues you want to follow. I chose to follow the Premier League and my supporting team, yet I’m unable to see past or upcoming matches for my supporting team or the Premier League teams. The option is there to select the Premier League and subsequent specific team, yet no data inputted to actually see the matches played or upcoming matches. ALSO, AppleSports doesn’t support Barclays WSL which is the women’s equivalent of the Premier League. Women’s football is on the up and is watched globally, yet there’s not even an option to select this league? Only men’s football is able to be selected.

AppleSports has a great idea, just poor execution. I hope they’ll implement these necessary updates and make the effort to input the data for matches. If that were to happen, this would be a 5 star app easily. Sadly, it’s one that’s getting removed from my phone at this time due to reasons stated above.

Great app. Give me just the scores and basic information without ads and a bunch of opinion pieces dressed up as “news”. I can’t believe how many reviewers are completely missing the point with AppleSports. It’s not trying to compete with ESPN but rather offer basic in-game scores and info without all the other distractions. If you want more than scores use a different app.

I get that Apple will add more sports as those league begin play but where’s the international soccer and cup competitions? We’re heading into an international break from club soccer and we’ve got nothing. Same thing for Champions league and Europa league. Not to mention CONCACAF Nations league and the Copa - both completions the US is playing in.

Given how basic AppleSports is, I can’t imagine it’s that hard or resource intensive to add new sports and competitions.

If there’s one thing that I love about about Apple, is they care about aesthetics. I was looking forward to Apple creating their very own sports app. I knew it would be aesthetically pleasing with minimal clutter (which I’m a sucker for). This is like the beginning stages of the “Maps” app. It doesn’t quite hit the mark right off the bat, but it’s a start. There is a ton more that needs to be improved, as when AppleSports is open some of my other apps crash; no live playback; no NFL/College football or baseball (yet) which is why I have it only at 3 stars. Another reviewer mentioned it, but it’s a great start to AppleSports , and has endless possibilities and can’t wait to ditch ESPN’s cluttered app and this be my main domain.

Good idea for an easy access, lightning fast way to check sports scores but it’s missing a bit too much information that other apps do with ease. I don’t want the kitchen sink but I would definitely love to have a scoring summary. As is, there’s no easy and quick way to see who scored and when in the summary of an NHL game. Looking for that in the play by play takes too long. This is a feature that literally every other sports app I’ve used has and gives a quick snapshot of how the game has gone in terms of scoring, which is something I really want to know! Add that and live activities support and this will be excellent. (And I don’t really need to see the standings in every game summary. Move that elsewhere?)

Vey nice and clean interface. Lots of good info such as records, spread, ranks, and others. If you click to open a particular entry you get more info on betting odds, conference records and standings, and physical game location.

One thing I’d like to request is the addition of the TV network on each game entry. It would be great to scroll through a list of games and see quickly which networks they are on.

I haven’t used this to track of a live game yet, but I’ll have plenty of opportunities for that this week with March Madness starting. If the scores keep up and are accurate, I’d say I’ve found a new favorite Sports app!

I rarely if ever write a review but AppleSports seems like nothing but an engagement grab. Apple debuts a new sports app, of course I’ll check it out! Although it offers no value add whatsoever. Maybe if you’re into the sports they have contacts with with the MLS it would, but for the others, it’s just basic box scores and annoying alerts you probably already get from ESPN. ESPN isn’t perfect but at least they have news articles and post game features. This seems like purely an effort to get data on users, and is not what I expect from a Apple as a company. Some half-baked at best app with no purpose to get data. I deleted it and then am still stuck with the alerts. So have to redownload and delete my teams from it to stop it.

How did a room full of people decide this was worth it? Wild.

Not sure why AppleSports was released in its current state. I was excited for an Apple Sports app that could replace the ESPN app for me to keep track of the teams I care about. But AppleSports currently available feels incomplete. It’s missing NCAA Football, and NFL among others. It lacks any real stats or easy ways to explore other teams outside of your chosen teams. It also doesn’t include rankings for college basketball which is a huge part of the sport. AppleSports just doesn’t seem to offer much in its current state that wouldn’t be better served through the ESPN app. It looks a little nicer and doesn’t have the extra annoyances that come with the ESPN app, but the missing features and information make it an easy pass right now unless things are improved.

The Apple Sports App offers a visually appealing interface that catches the eye, but its functionality leaves something to be desired. While it provides basic sports updates, it falls short in key areas.

On the positive side, AppleSports 's design is sleek and modern, making it easy to navigate. Its clean layout ensures users can quickly access scores and game schedules. Despite these strengths, AppleSports lacks several features found in its competitors. Notably, the absence of channel listings for games makes it difficult for users to find where to watch their favorite matches. Moreover, AppleSports 's coverage of the National Football League (NFL) and its teams is limited, leaving football enthusiasts wanting more comprehensive updates and analysis. Furthermore, the lack of live activities and notifications for close games or upcoming matches is disappointing. Many users rely on such features to stay engaged and informed about the sports they love. Additionally, the inability to customize the interface color and the absence of a dedicated sports news section based on leagues or teams further detract from the overall user experience.

While AppleSports has potential, it currently falls short of delivering a truly immersive sports experience. With some enhancements, particularly in terms of content coverage and additional features like live activities and customization options, it could better compete with leading sports apps in the market.

AppleSports in its current form shows a lot of promise. Sleek, modern, simple fits right into the Apple brand seamlessly. Please devs, as soon as possible though, can we get LOCKscreen widget support for select games.

The synergy with Apple Watch is great out the box. It just leaves more to be desired which is a great thing, AppleSports is young. I just feel like the next impactful low hanging fruit would be that lock screen support the Apple way.

Great job so far devs, for users don't except too much at this time and you'll be okay to possibly happy with the results. This isn't replacing your ESPN app on day one though. Bluntly.

I’ve been using AppleSports everyday to regularly keep up with my favorite teams and leagues. Initially I realized that there was leagues missing from AppleSports . For instance at the time I started using it I was unable to follow teams or games from the NFL. Now I can follow the NFL but other leagues and associations are still missing notably the UEFA champions league or UFC and MMA. With the teams and info that is available , AppleSports works really well in organizing it in a modern interface allowing to choose to have the home page be organized by the teams or leagues you follow. I do wish that the upcoming games tab is easier to see your teams schedule. If you follow more than one team and you attempt to look at their upcoming schedule it will stack the games kind of like how they stack notifications in notifications center. If you don’t click on the team you wouldn’t realize that your other team necessarily played that day. AppleSports displays odds for betting and what not but they don’t actually show what networks or apps to go to to watch these games . You would have to go to the Apple TV app to then see what networks are hosting the game. I also would like to see them just incorporated into the sports app directly.

I like the simple approach to AppleSports , much less congested feeling than ESPN and other sports apps. You don’t have to scroll by half a dozen stories you don’t care about to see the scores. However, I would like to see some basic features added. The main thing I’d like to see is a tab to look at standings in each league without having to click into a game and then scrolling to the bottom of that score - it’s a little counterintuitive to hide the standings there. I’d also like to see it expanded so you can view overall standings and wild card standings for sports that use that system. The Apple TV feature could be slightly improved as well by just including all the stations that a game is on. I don’t have Sling, but could watch the game on my RSN however when you open the tab the only option shown for a particular game is Sling. If I also see the station listed I have others ways to watch the game that I’d miss out on if I just closed it after realizing I don’t have Sling.

Sorting upcoming by sport would be helpful as well instead of just sorting by start time.

As I see it’s an apple app , this is THE reason to make this review. AppleSports has ,a very pleasant interface for sure and great potential too ..! The first time I installed it I was truly amazed and excited to use it , however what I was searching for in particular … I didn’t find it . I was After an international app that can relate most of the leagues out there, better than other app like sofa score ,also with an amazing speed and precision . I was totally disappointed when I found that it has only few leagues and details about the matches .
! As it is a little bit new I can say , I think apple can work to make a wonderful app for sport 🏀 ⚽️ and keep it free please !!!!!!!!!
We know apple can pull off this !

Disappointed that the soccer lineups are just a list. I don’t care to see the betting odds and would like to turn that off. Looking forward to rapid improvements. Lol yah right. Edit: Apple sports app doesn’t appear to have enabled Apple sports widgets?! Really?! Infinite resources and it seem you all didn’t even scan the best sports apps on AppleSports Store and copy their best features.

Edit: you can turn off the betting odds in settings, which didn’t appear immediately after installing AppleSports . Also, where are the push notifications?!

Edit2: AppleSports is not good, going to drop to one star. Please Apple - get you developers to download any other sports app. Take some hints from what they offer. Also add more leagues and push notifications and widgets and … OMG