Bally Sports Reviews

I love BallySports to death! I’m a huge Timberwolves fan. Well, at one point in time that wasn’t the case. I would follow the Timberwolves, you know, check the box scores and ask real fans how they would do on any given night. I was that “fan”... until BallySports came stumbling into my life. Now I can watch and do watch them on a very regular basis due to the notifications and the overall ease of use of BallySports. Now, I’m not sure how you feel about Fox as a whole, but they do sports and they do it well. Especially, in the new era. Where other companies, not to name any names *coughs NBC* have struggled in this area Fox has embraced it and did the ground work necessary to make it work. A lesson to every one out there nothing good comes without hard work. Another side note I love the World Cup and BallySports kept me so stupidly connected to the World Cup that all my soccer fan friends couldn’t believe the amount of ridiculous info I would spit at them. In an age where you can feel so easily left out because you didn’t catch this or didn’t catch that. BallySports eases the FOMO that we all hatefully and in my opinion unnecessarily experience on a daily basis. Thank you Fox or what ever third party you hired. Keep up the good work, who knows maybe I’ll give Fox News a chance. Hmm... Maybe I’ll just stick to sports for now!

By far the worst of the sports viewing apps. It’s great if it is working, but that is usually around only 25% of the time. The other 75% is a mixture of black screens, frozen screens, and video quality that is so pixilated you can’t even tell what type of sport you’re even watching, let alone what is happening. BallySports will seemingly randomly drop resolution from normal to unwatchable when there is absolutely no change in connectivity and even regularly when your connection increases (i.e. from 3 bars to 5). It’s almost as if they put in the rewind function because they know that you’ll never be watching a game live if you actually want to see it. Don’t be fooled by the relatively high rating (3.1 stars as of this writing) the only positive reviews are about the quality of the content of BallySports (the amount of games and sports available to watch on FS go) and not the quality of BallySports itself, which is horrendous. Maybe they just don’t care because they know they have exclusive TV rights to most of their content so you physically can’t go elsewhere to watch games, because BallySports is atrocious. Sometimes my iPhone will even lock in BallySports as it freezes for so long and doesn’t make any attempt to unfreeze itself lest you exit out and start the video again. Please make changes soon as I pay for the ability to watch the World Cup but can usually only get about 20-30 minutes of a 90+ minute match.

I LOVE the Fox Sports Go App! I’m a huge Atlanta Braves fan. Last season (2019), I watched most of the Braves baseball and other MLB games on the Fox Sports Go app with access from my cable TV provider, WOW. I loved being able to stream a live game wherever I was, instead of being stuck in front of a TV screen! I never had a problem streaming games, never had any glitches, or app crashes. If you aren’t able to start watching a live game at the beginning, you can join in and start watching live, then go back and watch the beginning after game is over.
For example, if the game is in 3rd inning when you start watching, you can watch live from that point. Then, when game is over, you can watch the beginning of game. Or, you can choose to start watching at the beginning of game, even though the game is already in play. You can pause, rewind, then fast forward to present time in the game. I also streamed college football games on BallySports . ESPN’s sports app often lags and freezes up. But I haven’t yet experienced any lags, glitches, app crashes with Fox Sports Go app! 👍

We pay for Directv which h Carries the brewers and buck. We are away and trying to stream the game. It keeps coming up that and error occurred and please contact Bally sports if it’s wrong. I have now three times. They told me the weather is impacting my ability to stream from wifi and cellular. I replied saying that is impossible as it was sunny and 75 and that doesn’t impact wifi and cellular in the first place.. they proceeded to ignore my follow up. I submitted a request the next day asking as I still had the same response when trying to watch. They told me it must not be the right package (I’ve been using BallySports for months on my phone to watch so clearly I have the right package) or to try a different device. In my request I said I tried to use multiple devices, brewers, laptop and phone, and nothing works. I responded telling them this and again received no response. I have now submitted a third response in hopes they finally listen when I tell them there is something wrong on their end giving us access to the content. Really wish they could have fixed this long ago. They charge and arm and a leg for the content we love and can’t even fix it when something goes wrong. I am extremely disappointed in this interaction and service. This is unacceptable.

This is the best T.V. App I’ve ever used and I’ve used a lot of them. It’s better than NBC’s, CBS’s, ABC’s and History Channel’s. I used it to watch the ALDS while walking outside. I was able to rewind and pause the game. The closed captioning worked well and my favorite thing was being able to pause the game to let it get ahead and then skip past the commercials (please don’t change this option, I HATE that on the bigger stations apps you have to sit through the commercials and if you try to skip ahead then you have to watch another set of commercials!!!) The only negative was that sometimes it would stop sometimes or get fuzzy occasionally but I don’t know if that was BallySports or my network buffering. But I do recommend BallySports. You do need to log in with your cable provider or buy a subscription (if this is an option) though to use BallySports.

In the last two to three weeks the FOX SPORTS GO app has left the building. I watch baseball on an iPhone. About every 15 minutes the control screen pops up(start over, resume live, go back/forward 10 sec, pause/start button, volume setting). At the same time the screen darkens so the game activity can barely be seen. If I touch the screen then it freezes the action, but the audio continues or it stops too. Tapping the pause/play button in the center of the screen does nothing to resume the action.
Close it out and wait for it to warm up again, then wait for the game I was watching to fully open, taking 2-5 minutes. Doing all this I miss the game action while I am trying to get back to the game. Then other times the video gets so blurred that I can barely make out the human figures. That goes on for different amounts of time.
I have sent about a half dozen emails to iPhone support with as much detail I can think of that might help them ID the problem. THE ONLY RESPONSE IN A WEEK HAVE BEEN THEM ASKING ME FOR 2 PIECES OF INFO. IHAVE ASKED FOR SOME KIND OF RESPONSE. NOTHING.
THIS IS THE ONLY SPORTS APP THAT I HAVE SO MUCH TROUBLE TRYING GO WATCH A SPORTS EVENT.
Like I told them I have another FOX app that I have no problems with.

BallySports was fantastic when it was Fox Sports Go. Since the transition to Balley's Sports, it has become hot trash. 1. They removed the ability to watch two games at once. 2. You used to be able to seamlessly switch back and forth between two different games, but now you’re forced to watch commercials every time you switch to a different game, regardless of whether or not there is a break in play. 3. The game randomly converts to a small screen in the upper right corner right in the middle of a game, forcing you to click on it in order to return to full screen. 4. Half the time during commercial breaks, you're forced to stare at a static Balley's home screen for 2-3 minutes. 5. The stream freezes ALL the time! You generally need to restart BallySports to get it going again. 6. Like a lot of people have already mentioned, the feed randomly transitions from high resolution to hardly watchable resolution for no apparent reason.
This new app is an absolute joke. A complete embarrassment compared to the previous version. This company should be ashamed at what they’ve tried to pull on their viewers. Pathetic.

Watching opening day 2022, Wow, worst commercial break music ever. Fox Sports never had unsold commercial breaks, Bally seems to have constant unsold ad time, giving a loud obnoxious short loop of noise. Even the advertisers know BallySports is Horrible.

BallySports constantly freezes, pixelates, lurches fast-forward. What a terrible app.

Come on Bally, give us multi-tasking! Don't leave BallySports open in the background, it will chew right through your battery. It must be forced closed, which is another strike against it. Well coded iOS apps won't do that. My iPhone battery went from 100% to 11% overnight, because I didn't force close it. Still no PIP. 4-5 taps to get a live stream to play. Just a terrible app. No Picture in Picture? How outdated is BallySports? That's an option that iOS users want. Apple gave us multitasking several years ago, get with the program. What a terrible app. Obnoxious ads, don't let the kids watch. Still no PIP. App functions are very outdated when compared with other sports apps. Time to come into the 21st century Bally, BallySports is awful. Laggy, drops out for no reason, then you can't get back to the game. No excuse for such a bad app.

Congrats to the geniuses brought on to take over Fox Sports and find a way to put out THE WORST app and service ever seen in sporting history! The ONLY thing that works consistently are the ads. I have to reboot my Apple TVs whenever I want to watch a new game the next day or switch to something else, BallySports randomly becomes unresponsive regularly, the sound is extremely low EXCEPT for ads, the layout is horrendous, left and right selection often stops working which requires a reboot, starting games from beginning NEVER works so I end up seeing the score late in the game despite my selection, the ability to forward or rewind often stops working, and somehow it will double the audio feed creating an echo that also requires a full reboot of my device. So seriously, congratulations for making history. Your dev team should all be banned from ever publishing any apps or web services again. Clean house. Do it immediately and hire actual professionals ASAP. It’s infuriating that these people make millions of dollars and cannot put out a basic functioning app in 2022. Jesus Christ.

This is by far the worst tv and sports app out there. For starters, it has all the sudden just stopped working on my Apple TV. It won’t even open the program I try to watch. It flashes a loading screen for half a second and goes back to the home screen. Have tried everything I can to fix this including resetting the Apple TV, deleting and reinstalling BallySports , and everything in between. Contacted customer support about it and they were useless. Tried having me answering tech questions that I didn’t even understand and I am a tech savvy guy. It is there job to figure out the deeply technical stuff, not mine. Otherwise why would I contact you? Now, for viewing on the iPhone, oh boy. It constantly freezes, usually in the middle of the biggest plays/moments, and doesn’t work with air play no matter how you try it. This is just the worst app I have ever used. You would think for such a large broadcast corporation, Fox would get this figured out. And yes, this all still happens no matter what my internet speed is or if I’m using WiFi or LTE. I have tried everything and nothing makes a difference. It truly is a joke of an app.

The only reason it gets 2 stars is because once you find the game you want, BallySports is actually doing what it should. Countless issues with the biggest being the navigation or layout of BallySports in finding games... it should be extremely easy to fire up BallySports and click the game to watch I know is about to start. But no. I spend at least a few very frustrating minutes searching for the game that starts right now only to find it 3/4 down the page and after many clips or games that aren’t starting for hours or even days or even replays. Very unorganized layout. Apps and TV networks have been making guides for decades and it should be very simple to make BallySports functionally to find games as good if not better then the former Fox. Or at the very least, anything starting in the next hour should be at the immediate forefront of BallySports when you fire it up. PLEASE FIX THIS!!! Also BallySports is very buggy still and games just go black in error at least a couple times each time

After 70 minutes, working on 3 different platforms, managed to create an account and get my cable provider signed in. I am not an app developer, but I am an IT professional and this experience was awful. Unresponsive and not intuitive. (Checked my WiFi speed several times during this and it was consistently over 200 Mbps)
After that it still wasn’t easy to find the game I wanted to watch or to load it once I found it. Once that was all completed, the game stream was consistent and clear, no problems with display or inserts blocking my view of the game. Really, the actual viewing experience was great, so there’s hope that they’ll continue to improve BallySports .

Next season I’d like to contract with MLB to broadcast some games some of the time, using my iPhone 6s. I can promise better coverage and better functionality, and a better roll-out. And I’ll promise not to use a previous app’s reviews and rating to bolster my app.

I’ve never written a review before, but I felt obligated after my ongoing experience with Bally Sports. Since they took over for Fox Sports, I’ve seen a cataclysmic decline in service, connectivity, customer service, and overall viewing experience. BallySports didn’t work on my XBox One (I logged out and logged in 3 times, uninstalled BallySports , powered off, and every other problem solving solution I could think of, and customer service was no help either). I was finally able to access it on my Roku and when there was 4 seconds left of the Pacer game tonight, it cut out because the program had a run time from 7:00-9:30. Mins you, this is not the first time Bally’s has left a bitter taste in my moth. As I mentioned before, ever since they took over for Fox Spirts last year, this kind of situation has happened more often than not. If anyone from Bally’s happens to read this, I implore you, take the time to put out a quality product, instead of this haphazard app that leaves myself, and countless friends and family members scratching their heads and asking, why!?

Thank you for being there for us sports fans who want just sports unlike ESPN who wants to inject politics as I’m one of those who has deleted everything and I refuse to support them in any way. I really wasn’t spending much time on your app but what a mistake and same with radio and TV I have grown to love your work, your mindset and the men and women you have working for your company. Again, thank you for sports and if I g those of us a break from all the real stuff in life and just sports and some fun to get away from life’s real things. No deal with dying human beings everyday and so when I say what I say it’s as real as anything, I work with ALS human beings daily and for all of you who do not appreciate or understand how lucky we all are with our health and the gift of life, trust me it is hardcore and at times I have no words for how blessed we all are.
Thank you Fox for everything

I primarily use the FOXSports App to watch Yankee Games. Unlike some other sports app FOXSports App allows u to pause, rewind n Fast Fwd live TV, which I like a lot. It is also very quick to load n I’ve never experienced buffering or any sort of server overload. I also like that u can access all 3 FOXSports Apps via the drop down menu n all FOXSports channels within BallySports . Transferring back n forth is quick n easy. The highlights tab is great n covers everything I want with ease. The future TV/App listings built into the home page is perfect.

All-in-all the functionality of BallySports is better than most n super easy to use. I rate BallySports overall with a 5/5 stars by itself n in comparison to all other sports apps it’s definitely one of the best! I highly recommend it for watching Yankee games live and replays from the past. -r

BallySports is filled with bugs. It seems to constantly rewind and then replay content I’ve already seen while watching a live stream. I have to close and re-open BallySports to get close to live content, and then this issue commonly comes up yet again. It happens so often it makes BallySports almost unusable to watch my favorite sports teams. The live steaming feed also freezes often. It randomly lost the mini-screen feature, which was very helpful for multitasking while using my phone. When I read an article about one of my teams in BallySports , it frequently brings me back to the top of the article, forcing me to scroll back down to find my spot, only to have this happen multiple times again before I can finally finish the article. It’s obvious that Bally Sports doesn’t have the relationships that Fox Sports had, as the same ads come up every time I watch my favorite team. These ads have not changed during the entire MLB season, thus far. The Fox Sports app was a greatly superior experience.

I had to make this 5 stars because my 1 star review wouldn’t go through. Hmm
1. Lately I’ve been having to sign in again almost every time I open BallySports .
2. An old problem that seemed to be solved with a previous update has once again started with the latest update: when signing in with DirectTV, it won’t accept a userID. It will only accept an email address, which DirectTV doesn’t use anymore. Again, this very annoying problem from last year seemed to be fixed but has started again. Last year it was only a problem on BallySports and would work on the website on a pc, but I haven’t checked the website yet this time around.

Please fix this, as this is the only way I get to watch the Cardinals!!

BallySports has been complete trash ever since the switch over. I miss a good half of the games I’m trying to see. As soon as it goes to commercial I know I’ll be missing at least 3 min of anything after the commercial and it comes back 5 min late so I am 5 min behind on the “Live” feed. I will have to close it completely, restart it, go through the mandatory 30 seconds of commercials to start again, reset the cast then try to get the stream to start all to be behind again in the live action. Any freeze during the game and I have to manually slide the progress bar forward to “go live” to only maybe be 3 minutes behind if I’m lucky. I’m trying to stick with it because I want to be able to “watch” my team but I’m just about done messing with it. I’ll just stick to radio and Bally’s has lost a consumer. Tried to get technical support and it took days of time to tell me to turn it off and back on and see if that works. Thanks but I’ll just stick to radio I think. Thanks for nothing Bally’s.

I like Fox Sports so don’t get me wrong that I am a Pro ESPN guy; I’m not. I watch and listen to more sports talk on Fox than any other station. It’s just that BallySports is so buggy. The videos don’t play about 25% of the time. I had full bars today for WiFi and with my wireless provider but it kept popping up network error. Then it finally went thru and I clicked to watch the 1 highlight of the 1 goal in the World Cup game and it wouldn’t load, no error message, nothing. This has happened numerous times. Also, I have Directv and Sports package with all Fox sports channels but when I got on their website to watch a World Cup match it said it wasn’t in my package. That’s funny because when I turn on my TV it comes right up. Maybe they can’t handle the traffic of the WC right now IDK. Plus BallySports doesn’t have a friendly schedule browser, no scores, no sports schedules, it’s just strictly a video app. That is fine if the VIDEOS ACTUALLY WORK!😩

I never leave reviews, but BallySports is so bad that something has to be done. I used the FoxSportGo app for years with almost no issues. It worked great. The redesign and launch as the Bally Sports app has been awful. It is now the absolute worst streaming app of any kind. It never works on the Apple TV. After logging in successfully with my provider, it gives an error that there is an issue playing this video or that I’m not entitled to the context, which is not correct. On the rare occasion that it will actually load the video, it usually will not play the audio to my external speakers. And this doesn’t even get into how terrible the navigation is in BallySports or how it launches an ad EVERY time you try to start a video, even if you just watched the same video 30 seconds ago and had to close the stream because it froze, and the video stream freezes ALL THE TIME! It’s terrible!! You took a really solid app and ruined it!! It is now one of the worst apps in BallySports Store.

Commercials are short!

I really like how you can join an event live or watch from the beginning an event that’s already started. However, sometimes the audio gets mixed up and you hear both the beginning audio and current audio at the same time. Exiting out of the video player and restarting usually fixes the problem.

I mainly use this for the World Cup, and appreciate the highlights in addition to live play. However, several of the highlights (over half!) don’t work when you hit play - neither the video or audio, even though it shows it’s playing in the progress bar.

BallySports is a steaming pile of garbage that has been set on fire then dedicated on by 1,000 stray cats with intestinal issues. I do not own a cable box nor satellite or anything of that sort. I have always streamed TV, mainly live sports, using different streaming apps.

Everyone of my apps works fine and has been working fine for over a year, except this piece of landfill waste put out by the Fox developers. 85% of the time the chrome cast option doesn’t even appear, and yes I reset my TV and redownload BallySports and check the internet connection and even turn my phone on and off, when the option works for literally 7 other streaming apps I have! Then if by some miracle this hot mess of an app lets me chrome cast the connection is jumpy and fuzzy and just a terrible overall experience.

If I could create a perfect world the first thing I would do is destroy fox and BallySports they have created and never allow them to broadcast another sporting event!

I would like an explanation from Fox Sports why a positive “customer service” dispute with Dish TV cannot be reached? I have spoken to Dish on many occasions regarding the inability of both Dish and Fox Sports not being able to reach an agreement regarding money. Do you both honestly think this is fair to the patrons and customers who are powerless to do anything? They say they have offered a compromise that Fox will not accept. So far in Oklahoma, we have missed the whole Thunder season of viewing. A Dish tech told me Dish thought the Thunder season was going to be a bust and they did not want to subscribe any longer, just like they did with HBO. All we want are answers and to know whether there are even any negotiations going on or not to resolve this and resume coverage of our sports events!

Overall, I enjoy BallySports . It’s definitely nice being able to watch my local teams when I’m away from the house. A couple of things I wish they would add/fix. 1) They need to add the setting to stream HD only on WiFi. BallySports will run up your data pretty quickly if you have a strong cellular connection and your able to stream HD quality. It would be nice to stream at 480p when on cellular to cut down on my data use. 2) It’s annoying that I have to renter my satellite provider credentials almost every week. I’m not sure why it doesn’t retain my information, or utilize the single sign on ability that I should have from entering my credentials in the TV Provider settings of my iPhone. I thought the whole purpose of entering your credentials there was to prevent from having to resign into other apps every time.

I must not be watching the same sports as the people who think BallySports is amazing. I have tried multiple times on multiple occasions to watch a game they advertise as having available and I have yet to have success watching anything. Either it cannot authenticate my service provider or it gives me a black screen.
One person who left a review said that all the haters are spoiled. Sorry. If an app promises to do one job and can’t manage to do that one job then I don’t think we are all spoiled. It would be perfectly understandable if there were a few glitches during a game. Frustrating sure, but understandable considering this is a live stream. But when you can never get BallySports to do the one job it is supposed to do (show you a live feed of the sporting event you want to watch), then that is a problem.
I think it’s time for some major updates and improvements to BallySports.

I didn’t expect much from BallySports, just wanted to be able to catch my regional NHL team’s games while away from home. They are always available and I’ve never had a problem with connection or quality with a good data or wi-fi source. I can even cast from BallySports to my TV which is a great plus. Allows me to also catch regional NBA games and college basketball. Occasionally I will get a black screen when pressing play after pausing or losing signal, but it is easily fixed by completely closing out and restarting BallySports and doesn’t happen enough to bother me. None of the issues with blackouts that you get with ESPN either.

Update: either they fixed the prior issue with an “all team” dropdown on college football, or else I found it finally (at the very bottom). Regardless, I found it and it’s working great. I’m finding this to be the best sports APP of all. So much so that I have eliminated the ESPN APP from my iPhone.

I'm new to your App. I'm wondering why there isn't a drop down menu that lets you select ALL teams when looking at scores, rather than Top 25 and Conference. For example, I want to see who's playing tonight. If they aren't Too 25, then I have to search every conference. Please fix this ASAP.

BallySports is working well for MLB and I'm enjoying the way your alerts work.